Early Training

 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 7
“A time to plant" "In the morning sow thy seed.”
Many years ago a company of Indians was captured on the western frontier. Among them were stolen children who had been with the Indians for years. Word was sent throughout the region, inviting all who had lost children to come and see if, among the captives, they could recognize their own. A long way off was a woman who had been robbed of a boy and a girl. With mingled feelings of hope and fear she came and with throbbing heart approached the group, but they were strange to her. With a dull feeling of despair in her heart she was turning away, when she paused, choked back her tears, and in soft, clear notes, began a simple song she used to sing to her little ones of JESUS and heaven. Not a line was completed before a boy and a girl sprang from the group, exclaiming, "Mamma! mamma!" So lives a mother's early influence in the hearts of her children.