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To My Mother.
of the Lord forever." This tribute of respect and affection is due to one whose thirteen children unite in rising up to call her blessed. Long may she live to hear and see the result of her labors in the prosperity, usefulness, and devotion of her offspring in the vineyard of the Lord. And when at last the toils of earth shall be over, may she stand before her heavenly Father and say, "Behold I and the children whom thou hast given me."
