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Little Graves

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
February
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sacred places for pure thonghts and holy meditations are the little graves in the ohurohyard. They are the depositories of the mother's sweetest joy, half unfolded buds of innocence, kumanity nipped by the first frost of time, ere yet a canker worm of corruption has nestled among its embryo petals. Callous, indeed, must be the heart of him who can stand by a little grave-side and not have the holiest emotions of the soul awakened to thoughts of purity and joy which belong alone to God and heaven, for the mute preacher at his feet tells of life begun and ended without stain ; and surely if tliis be vouohsafed to mortality, how much purer and holier must be the spiritual land, enlightened by the suu of infinite goodness, whenoe emanated the soul of that brief sojourner among ns ? How swells the heari of the parent with mournful joy while standing by the earth-bed of lost little ones ? Mournful, becauso a sweet treasure bas been taken avay - joyful because that precioni jewel glitters in the diadem of the F.cdeemer. .

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Old News
Michigan Argus