HATTIE AND HERBERT.
"Was there ever so good a mother as you are?" said Hattie Atherton, throwing her arms around her mother's neck, and kissing her with great affection.
"Oh yes!" answered little Herbert, in a solemn tone, "there is one a great deal better."
"Why, Herbert! what do you mean?" exclaimed Hattie, who knew Herbert loved his mother as dearly as she did.
"I mean God. He is better than mother."
"But God is a Father. He is our Father in heaven," continued Hattie.
Herbert was quite satisfied with Hattie's correction, and was then ready to agree with her, that his mother was the best mother in the world.