LOVE THE TRANSFORMER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1903

LOVE THE TRANSFORMER.

“The greatest of these is love.” A worker in the Manchester slums tells the story of a whole family completely changed by the presence of a deformed child. The father was a rude, working man, the boys were coarse and uncouth, and the mother, overworked and far from strong, had fallen into untidy habits. But there was born into that home a crippled child, and that deformed baby was the means of drawing out the sympathy, and love, and tenderness of the whole family. The man nursed and petted his child in the evenings; the boys made playthings for her, and showed their affection in all sorts of pleasant ways; the mother kept the window clean, that her child, pillowed on the table, might look out on the court. The visitor declared that she witnessed a complete transformation in the family,—an elevating and refining process went right through the whole household. Surely, love is the great transformer.—S. S. Times.