Do speak to all our dear mothers, and tell them in health to make far more, than many do, of baptism for their children." "And have you no blessing for me ?" said the husband, as the pastor rose to go.
"Dear sir," said the pastor, "they seem to have left you alone." He had been sitting, somewhat out of sight, at the foot of the bedstead; but, it was evident, from several signs, that his feelings were deeply moved.
The pastor took his arm, and, bidding the wife an affectionate but hasty adieu, he went with him to the sitting-room below.
"I need no arguments," said the husband, "to satisfy me, further, that you are right.

You have a system of religion which, I see, is good for everything, and for everybody, and for all times, and places, and circumstances.

Sir, I have been sceptical; but I must confess that a religion which can come into a family, like mine, and do what it has done, through you, sir, to mine, and to me, must be from God.

Sir, I shall always respect our pastor for his consistency with his principles, and for many other reasons; but I prefer principles like yours, which can go to the sick and dying, and to little children whose mother----" Here he began to weep.

The pastor said, "To take a mother from a young family of children, like yours, Mr.Peirce, is just the thing which we should prevent, could we have the ordering of affairs." "I feel," said Mr.P., "that God's hand is upon me.