Mary, we are told, "pondered the things in her heart" which marked the boy Jesus out from all the other lads who played about the carpenter shop of Joseph.

And it is not alone poetic imagination that shows her as troubled as well as humbly proud at the testimonies of His coming greatness.

Many other mothers of those destined to high achievement have had misgivings as the shadow as truly as the sunlight of that greatness passed across their vision.
For true greatness is solitary and often dedicated to tragedies of experience.

The family life may be the only refuge from a misunderstanding world while the hero lives and only after death may the high quality of his service be known to all.
=Genius Its Own School-master.=--The most comforting thought to parents who have children "different" and perhaps different in ways not yet appreciated by the world around them, is this: nature, which takes care that we shall not have too many geniuses and doubtless will still take such care when we grow wise enough to give all the children a chance to prove whether or not they are geniuses--nature sees to it that the most gifted among the children of men carry within themselves their own school-master.

If the regular lines of education do not suit their needs they promptly emancipate themselves from the useless pedagogy, and going after what they personally demand for inner nourishment, get it at all hazards.