Morning Star

THE DELIGHTED LITTLE BOY.

"Mother," said Charles, "there is going to be a temperance meeting this evening, and father has had an invitation to go; and I want to go too. May I, mother?"

Mother: "Yes, my child, you may go if your father does."

Charles: "Mother, you look very sick; but I guess you will be well when father comes home, for he has been talking with a gentleman about drinking rum; and father almost cried, and I think they are going to do something. I mean to make father go, may'nt I, mother?"

Mother: "If you think it will make him better, you may."

Charles: "You need not be afraid about that, mother, for the gentleman said it would make him a great deal better."

So little Charles went to the meeting. About 9 o'clock the door opened, and in run the little boy almost out of breath, exclaiming "Mother! Mother! father is going to be a good man; he is, mother! They have made him write his name on a piece of paper, which they call the Temperance Pledge. Now, mother, I guess he won't be so cross nights, and break all the cups and saucers, and behave so like a mad man. A'nt you better, mother?"

Mother: "Yes, my child if this be true I am well."

Charles: "If he acts like my little brother,—be good a little while, and then be bad—I mean to go and find that gentleman, and ask him to come and see him, and talk to him, and make him a good man."

Mother: "Well, my child, I hope with all my heart that you will succeed."

And he did succeed, and may the Lord bless him.

S. S. Visitor.