Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant.  I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me.

Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her life-long prayers ! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest !

Stepping Heavenward, Mrs. E. Prentiss, 1831, Author

c. 1997, Mark Hamby, Editor, by Lamplighter Publishing, p.240

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