D. And did God call him

again, Mamma ?

Mamma. Yes: God came, and called him as before, Samuel, Samuel!" Then the good little boy said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth." And God told Samuel what he had to say to him, and Samuel lay still till the morning; and then he got up, and opened the doors of the temple, and told Eli what God had said to him in the night; and from the very hour in which God

first called to Samuel, Samuel loved God, and prayed to Him,

and sought to do His holy will ; and the Bible tells us that he grew up in favour both with the Lord and also with men.

D. Now I know what that little verse of my hymn means, Mamma.

"When little Samuel woke,

And heard his Maker's voice,

At every word he spoke

How much did he rejoice!

O blessed, happy child, to find

The God of heaven so near and kind!"

And I will try to love God, that He may love me, as He loved good little Samuel.

LESSON XII.

ELIJAH.

Mamma.

There was once a

good man, a prophet of God, named Elijah. God sent a famine into the land where Elijah lived, so that he had nothing to

eat; but God loved him, and took care of him, and told him of a brook at some distance where he might go to quench his thirst, and said He would send some ravens to feed him.

D. What are ravens, Mamma? Mamma. Large black birds, a little like the rooks which you sometimes see in the elm-trees, only larger.

D. And did they feed him, Mamma?

Mamma. Yes: they brought

him some bread and meat for his breakfast every morning, and some bread and meat for his supper every night, and he drank of the water of the brook. After a few weeks, the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land for so long a time.

D. Then the prophet had nothing to drink, Mamma.

Mamma. No : but God still watched over him, and did not allow him to starve. He told him to go to a city some way off, and