Before the sea was made or the mountains were brought forth, 'Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, God thought on _me_ his child,' and on _you_ and on _every soul_ made for immortality by the growth that fresh birth gives it.

He loves us with an everlasting love.

No false mother can destroy a child's soul, but she can destroy its flesh and so retard and interfere with its eternal growth.

This is the great sin--the sin of blood-guiltiness--any woman may commit it." "You talk sheer nonsense, John.

I do not believe anything you say." Then John went to a large Bible lying open on a table.