Thank God for the children

"God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -

to enlarge our hearts; and

to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection;

to give our shoulds higher aims;

to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and

to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts.

My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children."

- Mary Howitt