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 are a partaker of the blessing. The family of God s named after him, and he is the first-born of many brethren. Do you know what the 'kingdom of heaven' means? Just at that instant her mother entered the house below, and began to speak to a younger child in a passionate scolding one of voice, accompanied by some very offensive expressions; but quickly stopped on hearing us n conversation up stairs: Ah, my poor mother! aid the girl, you would not have stopped so short f Mr had not been here. Sir, you hear how my mother swears; say something to her; she will not hear me. I went toward the stairhead and called to the woman; but ashamed at he thought of my having probably overheard her expressions, she suddenly left the house, and for that time escaped reproof. Sir, said little Jane, I am so afraid if I go to heaven, I shall never see my poor mother there, I wish I may, but she does swear so, and keep such bad company. As lie here a bed, sir, for hours together, there will be so much wickedness, and noise, and quarrelling down below, that I do not know how to bear it. It comes so near, and is so shocking, sir, when my father and mother go on so. I want them all to turn to the Lord, and go to heaven. Tell me, sir, something about being an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. You may remember, my child, what I said when explaining the Catechism, that the kingdom of heaven in the Scripture, means the Church of Christ upon earth, as well as the state of glory in heaven. The one is a preparation for the other. All true Christians are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, and shall inherit the glory and happiness of his kingdom; and live with Christ, and be with him for