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 THE SONG OF THE ANGELS. 223 yet joyful notes of that poor bird, which had been brought back from the wintry wood and saved from such a miserable death. Such, dear children, is a picture, and a true picture of all of us. The wood is this world, the birds are the children and people in it, the aviary is the church of God, the keepers are your ministers or Sunday-school teachers, kind parents or religious friends, and the owner of all is Christ, who, whenever any of us brought back to him, confessing and repenting of our sins, "sees of the trav- ail of his soul and is satisfied," and Digitized by Google