THE EVENING PRAYER.

"Our Father."

"OUR Father." The mother's voice was low, and tender, and solemn.

"Our Father." On two sweet voices the words were borne upward. It

was the innocence of reverent childhood that gave them utterance.

"Who art in the heavens."

"Who art in the heavens," repeated the children, one with her eyes

bent meekly down, and the other looking upward, as if she would

penetrate the heavens into which her heart aspired.

"Hallowed be Thy name."

Lower fell the voices of the little ones. In a gentle murmur they

said: "Hallowed be Thy name."

"Thy kingdom come."

And the burden of the prayer was still taken up by the

children--"Thy kingdom come."

"Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven."

Like a low, sweet echo from the land of angels--"Thy will be done on

earth, as it is done in heaven," filled the chamber.

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