The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-11-08
WONDERFUL THING
IS BABE LIFE.
Wonderful. Beautiful and Mysterious
Is Childhood.

Wonderful. Beautiful and Mysterious
Is Childhood.
Every day and night, every hour. min
ute and second, new children are com
ing into the world, says the New York
American. Out Of the great hand of
mysterious eternity they come in thou
sands and millions. They stay here for
awhile, doing the work Tor which they
are sent, and then go back to the same
mysterious, unknown silence.
There Is nothing more wonderful
beautiful and mysterious than a child.
Every human being living, the greatest,
most powerful, was once child at that,
naked, weak, dependent upon others.
The\oniy really important thing inthe
world is the human baby, each baby a
drop In the ocean of humanity. The
greatest work done in the world Is that
of the mothers who supply the children,
giving to the world the power, the
thought of the future.
We know how the rain is drawn up
out of the ocean and scattered over the
earth's surface, making it fruitful and
beautiful. In the same way, from some
mysterious ocean of force or Of souls,
the children, the little drops of human
ity are rained down upon this planet,
to care for il, to improve it, and Dc,
velop 1t in accordance with the will OF
eternal wisdom.
Whenever you see very small child
helpless on its back, or beginning to
crawl about, looking upward at, the
big people, and the other big things, !
you see that which is more worthy Of
study and of thought than all things else
on our little earth.
What a wonderful story hairless,
toothless, blinking child might tell
We all wish that those who die andgo
off into the infinite might come back. and
tell their story, But every minute new
lives come into the earth from that same
mysterious, infinite, unknown land. And
although we do not realize it, they really
do tell US the story of the great power
that has sent them here.
Every child, as it begins TO develop,
proves that it Is sent by beneficent
Power, with fixed plans. Every grow
ing child proves the folly of the dull
minded atheist, or self-satlsfied scient-
ist, who speaks of this earth as the
accidental result of uncontrolled disor-
ganized forces
The little girl, almost too small 10
talk, begins playing with her doll--she
has brought from the great Power that
sent her the love of children. and she
is already preparing to take care Of
them. The greatest happiness in the
world is found in the intense affection
Of a mother for the new child, and there
is nothing more beautiful than the de-
In that child, almost before
the capacity for speech, Of the same
mother love by which it Is protected.
Little boys, in their activities, in their
desire TO do something, ito fix some
thing, TO be busy and rough and active,
prove also that their work was mapped
out for them long before they came
here. With their toys, and tools, and
games, they are practicing for the real
work that they have got 10 do.
Let as take comfort in the thought
that there il a real manhood for this
race and ahead of il. And let US help
along the Improvement, first of all, by
doing everything that we can for the
feeble children as they come helplessly
seeking for care and knowledge. Let us
do for them as much as was done for
Us, or more, remembering that when we
shall have gone and given up the strug-
gle they will still be here working to
make Of the baby humanity q grownup,
dignifed race, worthy OF this earth,
able TO read the great unopened volumes
Of the eternal library.