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Identifier: threecircleshome00detl (find matches)
Title: The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Detling, William Colbert
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Publisher: Cleveland, O.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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th marvelous faculties and forces whichcarry in them sublime possibilities. A babeis an interesting thing because it is the incar-nation of an immortal soul and carries in it aneternity. The little crib out of which looksthe chubby face, is the fullest thing in theworld. It is the grandest blessing possessedby the human race. Whose heart has infancyever injured? Nay, rather let me ask, intothe tissue of whose life has it not woven somegolden thread or some ray of joy or some mas-terful purpose or some heavenly tie? Every-where it begets love and trust, humility andpureness of motive and all the graces which goto make up fitness for the kingdom of God.Every cradle contains wonders, destinies andhistories, and condensed potentialities in asmall package. This is especially true of thecradle of Bethlehem, which is the cradle ofcradles. If it had perished, Christendomwould have perished with it. And the King-dom of God would never have gained a foot-hold on earth. This cradle is the cradle
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A MOTHER AND SON WHO HAVE INFLUENCED THE WORLD MORETHAN ANY OTHER MOTHER AND SON. THE THREE CIRCLES. 59 among all cradles. It is the incarnation of allincarnation. Never was so much compressedin so small a compass as was compressed intothe swaddling bands that held the Child ofBethlehem. 60 THE THREE CIRCLES. CHAPTER IV. THE CHILDREN IN THE HOME. A truly Christian home and happy fam-ily, where father, mother, brothers and sistersdwell together in sweet accord and harmony,is the nearest approach to Heaven we can havein any earthly institution. How in after life,our memories revert to the old home! Howwe like to go back to the old home, see the oldwell, and spring, the old barn where weclimbed tO the highest rafter, or where wenearly smothered in our mowing away thehay; where we heard the cackle of the hen,or saw the young roosters fight; or wherewe hid the Easter eggs, or in the fields wherewe saw the little lambs skip and play; alas,those happy days have gone; this rugged reallife is

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