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 putting her arm round him, "O my child! my dear, dear child!" she said, "I cannot bear it! I cannot part with you yet!"

The poor little boy was affected: but he gently reproved her, saying, "If you love me, you will rejoice, because I go to my Father." John xiv. 28.

There was a considerable change in the child during the night; and all the next day till evening he lay in a