Compassion Over Us.

     Angels watch by the cradle of the new-born babe and spread their celestial wings round the tottering steps of infancy. If the path of life be difficult and thorny, and evil spirits work us shame and woe, good angels sustain us; they bear the voice of our repentance up to the foot of God's throne, and bring us back in return a pitying benediction to strengthen and to cheer. When passion and temptation strive for the mastery, they encourage us to resist; when we conquer, they crown us; when we falter and fail, they are compassionate and grieve over us when we are obstinate in polluting our own souls, and are perverted not only in act but in will, they leave us: and woe to them that are so left! But the good angel does not quit his charge until his protection is despised, rejected and utterly repudiated. Wonderful the fervor of their love, wonderful their meekness and patience, who endure from day to day the spectacle of the unveiled human heart with all its miserable weakness and vanities, its inordinate desires and selfish purpose! Constant to us in death, they contend against the powers of darkness for the emancipated spirit. --Mrs. Jameson.