that she too was about to buckle on the armour of a young soldier of Christ, and fight bravely for a heavenly crown.

Here I will leave our "Two Roses." You have seen them faulty, you would see them faulty still, I daresay, if we continued their history; only now there would be this great change-both striving to overcome sin by the grace of God.

Young readers, you whom I do not know, whom I shall never see, will you listen to me as I plead with you, "Oh, give your hearts to God!" Now perhaps life may be bright and happy enough; but clouds will come, perhaps great storms of trouble such as in your early days you cannot so much as guess at, and what will you do then without God?

You can seek Him when you are sad, when you are old, and He is so very, very merciful that He will not turn away because you have waited so long before you thought of Him; but the time when He loves to accept service is in childhood and youth, when a long future stretches before you, in which He is wishing to give you His protection and care in return hearts.

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en that the little girl we called

White Rose, was not unhappy and grave and mournful when she rose up from her sick bed with a purpose of being a

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in Christ-a young Christian; nor will you find that you lose one real good, one real pleasure by turning heart and soul to God.

And you know what we mean by a real turning to God. It is not a passing desire, the wish of a moment, my little readers, the goodness which is described in Scripture as the "morning dew." Ask God to give you the longing to be His; ask Him earnestly, and His Holy Spirit working within your hearts will show you how you need a Saviour. You know who that Saviour must be-the gentle loving Jesus who died that men and women and little children might be forgiven every sin! He will not turn away, He will not refuse your petition, for He has bidden you trust in that promise, "Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out." For Christ's sake, God will pardon all your sins; for Christ's sake, God will strengthen you by His grace to resist temptation; for Christ's sake, God will let you live for ever in that home where only those can enter who are washed in the Saviour's blood.

And if but one of my readers is led to turn "heart and soul to God," to accept Christ as a Saviour, and start bravely on the heavenward path, this little story of the "Two Roses" will not have been written in vain.