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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 11, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 41.

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A MOTHER once said to a popular teacher who had been admired by her pupils for a score of years: “What a wide and beneficent influence you have exerted, while I have been cooped up at home, managing servants, dosing the mumps and the measles, and patching and darning! How narrow my life looks beside yours.”
“Narrow!” cried her friend. “Think how you have sent forth into the world every morning your husband and your flock of boys and girls, full of health and cheer! What a model home you have created for all your friends to see! It is I who have lived a narrow life rather than you. What is the slight touch which I may have given to a thousand or more lives compared with the deep, determining influence which you have wielded over the half dozen in your home?”
“Is it possible that you think so!” exclaimed the tired mother, incredulously.
“I know so. I have watched your children in school. They radiate everywhere an atmosphere of love and light, and it was you who gave it to them.”
—Herald and Presbyter.