nd enmity, Esau inquired, "Who are those with thee?" Jacob
replied, "The children which God hath graciously given thy servant." Gen.
33:5. Blessed and happy is the man that can look into the face of the
newly-born and feel in his heart that this is a child graciously given me
of God.

Because children are a heritage from the Lord is the real secret of the
joy experienced in the parents' hearts when a child is born. An angel from
God's presence anoints the spirit of man with the "oil of joy" when he
obeys Heaven's ordained laws of procreation. Alas! how many husbands and
wives, who fear to meet the responsibilities involved thus upon them seek
to avert God's laws. And when a child is conceived they, instead of
rejoicing as did Rachel, the mother of Joseph, and Mary, the mother of
Jesus, sorrow in heart, thus allowing the enemy of human happiness to
deprive them of the blessing God designed for them.

God, in his own mysterious way, from the mother's life and blood is
creating a new life. But did you know that at the same time he was
creating an immortal soul? That new-born life contains an immortal part,
and very much depends upon you as to where shall be its eternal existence.
We want you to feel this deep in your hearts. God has given into your
charge a life and a soul. When you come to appear before him in the day of
judgment then you will have to render an account of how you have dealt
with your child. Oh, what awful responsibilities! What a charge! God help
us! With such a sacred trust, what shall we do? Like she of olden time,
who petitioned the God of heaven for a child, carry him back to the Lord
and there implore grace and wisdom and guidance from above to train these
little feet in the way that leads to endless joys.

Parents, as you look into the face of your slumbering child, and then
along down through his life, what do you want him to become? Do you want
him to grow up to manhood a poor, delicate, frail body with but little
energy or vitality with which to meet the sterner duties of life? Do you
want him to be indolent, shiftless, unmanly and addicted to such as will
bring him to shame, ruin and death? What! would you picture such a life
for my innocent boy? Such a thought is instantly banished from you. With
all your heart you desire him to become a true and noble man. You want him
to be strong, full of energy and vitality, of great mental and physical
worth, of manly ways, of pure habits, and in every wa