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Excerpt from True Childhood: A Sermon Delivered in West Church, June 2, 1872, After the Death of Mrs. Mary Avery Upham
And had their issue in betrothal and mar riage; of the love that was born before a true son or daughter could be or of the sacred yearnings rooted in the past and branching into futurity, that make a blessed family? When presently the little creature can not only suck and cling and cry and lie in its crib and begin to creep, but makes some response of a fond look With a smile or a kiss, will salute your friend Who comes to see you, gets to be cunning, as we say, and seems dimly to conceive who it is to you and you to it, how proud and pleased you are! Yet it is not aware of the bond, cannot love as you do, and will not till it becomes a parent. Parents are perfectly loved only through the grave, across the earthly horizon, in heaven. As the rolling moon draws the Atlantic, how the tide of emotion rises and heaps at the sepulchre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
