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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 20.

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Childhood.

LET man enjoy what he will in after-life, if his childhood has been blessed with the care and kindness of a judicious mother, there will come moments when the cup of pleasure will be dashed from his lips as tasteless, in comparison with those hours of sweet and social intercourse, when he first learned to look for a pervading spirit in the realms of nature—to welcome all the animated and joyous creatures of earth as members of his own wide brotherhood, and to hail the beams of morning as pledges of the inexhaustible beneficence which created both life and sight, and ordained them as blessings to mankind.