Correspondence (outgoing), 1896 Mar 18-31

in me through great sorrow and severe discipline, and He has developed it in you through the gift of mother love and the wife love that you have for your loved ones. How beautiful it is to realize that we are all children of the same Father, and what a father; - so full of tender love and pity; pity that we are so shortsighted; that we go through life accepting the blessings of health, of sight, of hearing, the blessing of looking upon the Earth in all its beauty we accept these blessings and never give things

never come to Him seeking for His love or his sympathy until sorrow, panic and death stalk into our homes, and then how tenderly He clasps His arms around us and bids us lay our heads upon his breast as did his favored disciple and tells us, his weary waiting children how grateful he is that we have sought His protecting love.

When I think that He gave to us His only Son, Jesus Christ, and that He lived upon this Earth thirty-three years, teaching the children of Earth, the

in me through great sorrow and severe discipline, and He has developed it in you through the gift of mothers love and the wife love that you have for your loved ones. How beautiful it - is to realize that we are all children of the same Father, and what a Father;- so full of tender love and pity; pity that we are so shortsighted; that we go through life accepting the blessings of health, of sight, of hearing, the blessing of looking upon the Earth in all its beauty we accept these blessings and never give thanks

way of light and of truth, how we was buffeted, persecuted and spit upon and finally crucified, submitting to it all without a murmur and all for His love for the children of Earth, and with love for you and me, then I say to myself "I had a son; he was not divine; but God gave him to me. He was filled with spiritual influence that came from on high. God made him beautiful in person and in character, and He permitted my husband and