The Heaven-Filled Heart

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 21, 1907

The Heaven-Filled Heart

A WRITER in the Holton (Kan.) Signal once witnessed a demonstration which was touching and beautiful. In the upper waiting-room of the Union Station at Kansas City, a tired, bedraggled mother of several small children, including a wailing baby of five or six months, was vainly endeavoring to quiet and entertain them. A woman, simply but richly dressed, with a beautiful face and commanding figure, left her seat and approached the dissatisfied little group. From her satchel she produced a veritable fairyland for those children. There were games, books, and toys; there were blunt scissors and pictures to cut out, and even tiny sugar pills, which, she explained to the mother, were unmedicated, and in trying to pick them up and convey them to his mouth the baby found occupation and the peace of mind which goes with it. Later, in conversation with the writer, this most charming woman modestly admitted that she never traveled without a satchel full of things with which to amuse and entertain children, as in her early life she had lost the one child she had ever possessed, and all children appealed to her. She certainly had the kingdom of heaven in her own heart, and so much sunshine that it simply had to reach out and touch all with whom she came in contact.—Selected.