Self-denial of a Child.
By Young Pilgrim
LITTLE HENRY had been quite sick. When he was slowly recovering, and just able to be up and about the room, he was left alone a short time, when his sister came in eating a piece of cake. Henry's mother had told him he must eat nothing but what she gave him, and that it would not be safe for him to have what the other children did till he was stronger. His appetite was coming back; the cake looked inviting; he wanted very much to take a bite of it, and his kind sister would gladly have given it to him. What did he do? “Jennie,” said he, “you must run right out of the room away from me with that cake, and I'll keep my eyes shut while you go, so that I shan't want it.” Wasn't that a good way for a little boy of seven years to get out of temptation? I think so. And when I heard of it, I thought that there are a great many times when children, and grown people too, if they would remember little Henry's way, would escape from sin and trouble. “Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in thy way,” was the Psalmist's prayer, and it is a good one for each of us.—Young Pilgrim.