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I think I know what
were your first feelings
quite as well as if I
were an old friend.

I am sure your
first thoughts were
that the little circle
there was widening
and then the sorrow was
tempered by the joy in the
meeting in the Father's
house.

[Right page]

Never again can you
feel such a weight
of sorrow as when your
only beloved son left
you, but each time
we are asked to walk
the path of sorrow the
steps beome slower
and the head bends
a little lower, until
some time some day we
shall lift our face
and for ourselves see