Sir, you hear how my mother swears; pray say something to her; she will not hear me." I went towards the stair-head, and called to the woman; but ashamed at the thought of my having probably overheard her expressions, she suddenly left the house, and for that time escaped reproof.
"Sir," said little Jane, "I am so afraid, if I go to heaven I shall never see my poor mother there.

I wish I may, but she does swear so, and keep such bad company.

As I lie here a-bed, sir, for hours together, there is often so much wickedness, and noise, and quarrelling down below, that I do not know how to bear it.

It comes very near, sir, when one's father and mother go on so.

I want them all to turn to the Lord, and go to heaven .-- Tell me now, sir, something about being an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." "You may remember, my child, what I have told you when explaining the Catechism in the church, that the 'kingdom of heaven' in the Scripture means the church of Christ upon earth, as well as the state of glory in heaven.