A MOTHER'S LOVE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 60, 12 March 1910, Page 3

A MOTHER'S LOVE.

One calm, bright, sweet sunshiny day an angel stole out of Heaven, and came down to tiiii old world, and roamed field and 10, est, city and hamlet. Just as the sun went down he plumed his wings, and said: "Now my visit is out, and I. must go back to the world of light, but before I go I must gather some mementoes of my visit here." He looked over into a beautiful flower garden, and said: ' 'How lovely and fragrant these flowers are." He plucked the rarest roses and made a bouquet, and said : "I see nothing more beautiful and fragrant than these. I will take them with me." "But he looked a little further, and there saw a little bright-eyed, rosycheeked babe, smiling up into its mother's face. He said: "Oh! that baby's smile is prettier than this bouquet. I will take that too." "Then he looked just beyond the cradle, and there was a mother's love pouring out like the gush of a river towards the cradle and the baby, and he said: "Oh, that mother's love is the prettiest thing I have seen on earth; 1 will carry that, too." "With the three treasures he winged his way to the pearly gates, and lit just on the outside. "Before Igo in," he said, "I will examine my mementoes." And he looked at the | flowers, and they had withered ; he looked at the baby's smile, and it had faded away; he looked at the mother's love, and there it was in all its pristine beauty and fragrance. He threw aside the withered flowers and the faded smile, and winged his way through the gates, and led all the hosts of Heaven together, and said, "Here is the only thing I found on earth that would keep its fragrance all the way to Heaven—a mother's love."