[TO THR EDITOR OP TEl " SPEOTATORn
In,—May I be allowed to add to the sayings of children in the two last numbers of the Spectator by another, illustrating the faith of a child? I had expressed to my little boy, who was about eight years of age, that I was extremely auxions that something (I forget what now) should happen in which I was interested. The following day my mind was relieved by a letter, and my little boy was in the room at the time, and heard about it, but made no remark. I said :—" Are you not surprised, dear, it is just as I wished it to be I" He looked quietly and brightly up at me, and said : "Oh, yea; I knew it would be all right. I am not the least surprised, for I prayed so much for it that it should be as you wished, dear mother." This is only one instance of a mind even so young, that seemed to live continually under the deepest sense of faith and trust in the Heavenly Father, as shown to me in numberless little acts and thoughts in his short life of thirteen years. He was not at all an unnaturally preeocious or grave child, but had a truly happy and boyish nature, with a keen sense of fan and much natural humour.—I am, Sir, &o.,
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