Our Saviour spoke of tener

There are, I presume, more by the name of Mary on earth, and more by that name in heaven, than there are of any other name. And it was a name which, we may suppose, our Saviour spoke of tener than lie spoke any other name, for several of His best and most intimate friends were Marys. Mary, too, it would seem, was the first person lie addressed, and the first name He pronounced, and hers was the first heart He comforted, after Ili’s resurrection.

Mary Benjamin was but three years old, but she was so original in all her conceptions aiid expressions, her thoughts and words and ways, as to raise the highest expectations of her friends, and to call forth a frequent repetition of the passage remarked upon at her baptism, “ What manner of child shall this be? ” She could sing some twenty or more tunes, sitting on her father’s knee, and carry her part alone, while he sung another part. She spent much time every day in singing, amusing herself, when alone, in singing some of her beautiful hymns. Oue of her favorite hymns was, —

“ I think, when I read that sweet story of old,

When Jesus was here among men,” &c.

One of the very last hymns she ever heard, and the first verse of which she had already committed to memory, was, —

“A home in heaven! what a joyful thought! ”

And she went singing it round the house, in her pleasant home on earth, till within a few hours of the time when she went to sing in her Father’s house above, —

“ A home in heaven! what a joyful ”

Affectionate disposition

This little Mary was of a most affectionate disposition. She loved with great strength. It almost seemed as though she had more love than her little heart could possibly hold, for it ran over on all sides. And who can doubt that she has gone to that bright world above, that heaven of love, which she talked so much about, not only when awake, but even in her sleep; and that she now dwells with that great and good Father, whose face, even months ago, and when in perfect health, she longed even with weepy to see, and in whose holy presence, in order to be prepared to dwell, she was already kk purifying herself even as He is pure,” correcting her own faults, and, waxing strong in spirit” to do right. Strange to say, that, though of a very inquisitive turn of mind, asking most prying questions about things that came under her observation, yet she never asked where the body is put, when the spirit goes to heaven; and thus, in blissful ignorance about the fearful passage over Jordan, she crossed it unawares, and found herself at once in the promised land.