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Four times the strongth of Cocoas THICKE*ED yet WEAREMED with Stareh, etc. and in reality cheaper than such Mixturer. Cocoa TINA A LA VANILLE is the most delicate digestible, cheapest Wanilla Chocolate, and may be taken when richer Chocolate is prohibited, Charitable Institutions supplied on Special Terms by the Sous Proprietors: H. SCHWEITZS:R and Co., 10, Adam Street. Adelphi, London, W.o. Sold by Chemists and Grocers in Air-tight Tin Canisters, at 1s. Ba.8s., 5s. 6d.,etc. o HE autumn found Annie preparing with the greatest on earnestness and humility for her Christmas Communion. She was to be confirmed in the early spring, and was not to become a regular communicant till after that ; but she had had leave given her to come to the Altar on Christmas day, and Mr. Akroyd was showing her how to get ready, by prayer and self-examination, and humble confession of sin. She was very distrustful of self, and very grieved about the errors which a careful survey of the past had brought to her mind, especially for the want of thought with which she had received the Blessed Sacrament during her husband's illness, and the mistakes she had made about her sons' bringing up. And yet she was full of a new joy, a new hope ; her face had lost its anxious and forlorn expression, and she seemed more able to enter into the boys' me 'riment than of old, less disposed to cut short Isaac's flow of questions by a wearied, “There, dear, don't bother, do hold your tongue if you can.” She now made to a certain extent a confidante of Isaac, because he was more sympathetic than his elder brother, and understood her more readily than the little ones; but she was careful to avoid anything like favouritism, and looked upon her four sons as a charge from God for which she would have to give strict account. It was a great comfort to her that Isaac and little Will took so readily to their new teaching ; but she could see that after the first novelty was over, Church-going was almost as wearisome to Frank as chapel-going had been before, and Dick maintained a tacit resistance to all that he was taught, and resented the discipline of his new school-master, as he had not resented that of the master WOL. XI. L at the Hall. Annie could not discover that he was treated with harshness, or that he had any real grievance except that he was not the master's pet in the new school, as he had been in the old; but it was a great sorrow to her to find that he no longer liked his tasks, and once or twice he actually played truant, a thing which had never happened in his life before. She was very tender and patient with him, and took the trouble he gave her as fitting punishment for having allowed him so long to go to a school where false teaching prevailed; and so, too, she forbore to scold Frank when he came back from Sunday morning Service, yawning and sighing, and wishing he had not to go again in the afternoon. She tried to cheer and encourage him, and rouse him up to a real interest in holy things, and now and then she succeeded; but he had a very indolent mind, and though he did his routine schoolwork pretty well, he shrank from the more voluntary learning which was expected of him on Sundays, and would not give himself the trouble of thinking, or of trying really to enter into the catechising or the prayers. He had no wish to return to the Hall, for the sermons at S. Mary's were short, and Mr. Tom Paynter's Sunday-school teaching was more lively and interesting than that of his former teacher; but he scarcely appreciated his new privileges, though he told Annie he was glad to grow up a churchman, because his father had been one. Isaac was glad too, but in a much more thorough way, and for much deeper reasons. His mother never knew all that he really felt about it till one day when she asked him to explain to Mary Mesham why it was best to belong to the Church, and then she was astonished not merely at the amount of knowledge, but at the depth of conviction which he displayed. “You see,” said the child, “our Lord Jesus Christ knew what was necessary for us, and He didn't say that all we had got to do was to read the Bible, and go and hear what preaching we liked. He said we must be made part of His Body by Baptism, and we must be taught, and we must have life kept up in us by receiving his very own Self in Holy Communion, and He left His Apostles to see to all this, and showed them how to make other Bishops and Priests to carry on the work when they were dead.” “But the Apostles haven't anything to do with us, they never came to England,” objected Mary Mesham. “No ; Mr. Paynter says that some people think S. Paul did, but it isn't proved; but very soon after the Apostles died missionaries came from Churches that had been founded by them; and in Ireland and in Wales there were great saints even when most of England was still heathen. And the good Irish people used to come and preach over in England, and made many converts; and then more than twelve hundred years ago, the Bishop of Rome sent a great missionary from abroad called Augustine, and he landed in Kent where the people were all heathen, (except the Queen, who had come from France); and the King of Kent became converted, and very |