Children to be Brought to Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody

There was a mother lay dying some time ago, and she requested her children to be brought to her bedside. The eldest one came in first, and putting her loving bands on his head, she gave him a mother’s parting message. Then came another, and then another. To all of them she gave her parting message, until the last — the seventh one, an inlay, — was brought in. She was so young she could not understand the message of love; so the weather gave it to her husband for her; and then she took the child to her bosom, and kissed it, and caressed it, until her time was almost up. Then, turning to her husband, she said: “I charge you to bring all these children home to heaven with you.

(D. L. Moody.)