It epitomizes nature, providence and grace. Children are boons. They impart dignity to life and furnish a motive for work. They gather up the withering and fading plans for self, and cast them out into the future, renewed in vigor and hope. They cement they family in unity.
Children give new life to a home.
They warm the house. They dispel the gloom. They constrain age to renewed youth. They transform a hall into a home. Parents put their image and superscription upon their children.