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Show Children in the Home. The children of the family one is apt to look on them as burdens; bothers and expenses. ex-penses. When the baby; Comes, be it ever o welcome, the mother has more work to do.- As it grows into childhood and on to maturity, it is more; and more care, worry and expense. And so the little children. chil-dren. ' those innocent trespassers, are borne with as patiently as possible until they grow to a successful manhood or womanhood. Few stop- to think deeply about this, or it would be plainly seen how erroneous the impression. The children of the family, instead of being burdons. are burden-bearers; small saviors who'are daily means of grace, and who lead the world-worn parents once more into- the paths of innocence and peace. A baby's tiny; hand ciasped around his mother's finger has stilled heartthrobs heart-throbs of sorrow and of bitter trouble: a baby's arms around his father's neck have brought to the man's weary brain a renewal of that love which is all that I makes life livable. |