...the little prayer I had taught her — " This night I lay me down to sleep, I give my soul to Christ to keep, And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take " — breathed her last. And now, my little readers, Mary Walton has gone to her home in the skies,...

...ready to retire, the girl repeated, after her mother, the prayer — " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." The little girl rose up, and the mother looked for the little boy to rise; but he remained kneeling....

...bed this little prayer : " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And should I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." And he further adds, that he never knew when to stop Baying that little prayer ; and so every...

...that little prayer, — " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And should I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." "And," said he, "in early life I formed the habit of saying this little prayer every night,...

...Look upon a little child." Or when uttering the hymn-prayer — " And now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." And tell me, are not prayer and simple faith often in exercise there? Oh my reader, in these...

...soul ! ' ' What do you mean, my child ? ' asked the mother. <Why— "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." ' She only meant to say that her mother had omitted one of her prayers. But her words seemed...

...beside my mother kneeling; Through the hushed-up silence deep Hear the double whisper stealing:— " If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." "Now I lay me down to sleep!" And the angels o'er me bending, Sent by God my soul to keep, Through...

...child I" asked the mother. « Why— " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to k ep ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." She only meant to say that her mother had omitted one of her prayers. But her words seemed to...

...charge, the good old lady taught her to say nightly the little prayer— " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." To this she soon added the Lord's Prayer— " Our Father which art in heaven." Year after year...

...following for evening : — A ' Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take i And this I ask for Jesus' sake.' AP would be very glad to hear of a suitable book of stories to read...