Words Of Cheer For The Tempted, The Toiling And The Sorrowing

THE little Lina opened her eyes upon this world in the arms of her father, the good Gotleib. He kissed the child with a holy joy: For, said he, now is a thought of God fixed in an eternal form; and he felt that a Divine love flowed into this work of the great God–this also thrilled his warm, manly heart with a wondrous love. He felt the inmost of his being vibrating as with an electric touch, to the inmost of the little new-born innocent.