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25-Pack of Large Print Gospel Tracts, 12.5-Point Type
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How a mother rescued her baby from an eagle. A good Mother's Day tract. Former titles: "A Mother's Love," "The Eagle's Nest" and "By Love Impelled."
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Over in Scotland, about 200 years ago, it was customary in the time of harvest for the women in farming districts to help in making and binding the sheaves after the mower had cut down the grain. On one occasion, a mother named Hannah Lamond offered her services for the harvest, and to make her work easier, she took her little child with her, thinking that she could place it safely within easy reach where she could look at it now and then. But, busily occupied as everyone was, the reapers did not notice as an eagle, which had its nest on a nearby mountain, swooped down to snatch the sleeping child from its little bed among the sheaves and carry it off, flying with its talons firmly fixed in the child's clothing. However, it had not risen far before the cry she begins to ascend that vertical rock; and, bit by bit, here and there, finding a little projection upon which to place her foot, she gradually rises away from the plain, and at last accomplishes the seemingly impossible feat of reaching the eagle's nest. There the bird of prey with flapping wings and powerful beak, tries to beat her back and to keep its victim, now lying in the nest among the eaglets. But, as desperate as the eagle's efforts are, they are not equal to the courage and determination of the mother of the child as she reclaims it from danger, death, and destruction.
She now begins the more perilous descent, much more difficult than the first journey; and, marvelous to tell, she comes back as surely, if not as swiftly as before. And great is the rejoicing among her friends, as they welcome her returning safe and sound from her brave and dangerous and heroic task—another proof that “love will find a way” when everything else fails.
And God has found a way to rescue us from our danger—from our sin, from Satan, and from eternal death—through the extreme giving of His Son. Just before His death on Calvary’s cross, Jesus said:
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13
After Christ’s resurrection, the following was written:
“For when we were yet without strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:6-8
“I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20