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Title: The value of a praying mother

Author: Isabel C. Byrum

Release Date: April 15, 2004 [EBook #12042]

Language: English

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THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHER

BY ISABEL C. BYRUM

GOSPEL TRUMPET COMPANY

First Printing 1911

PREFACE.

This book has a purpose: it is sent forth as precious seed, with the
prayer that it will fall into "good soil" in many hearts and bring forth
an hundredfold.

All parents with natural affection desire the best things for their
children. Such fathers and mothers have high hopes that from their home
will go forth noble men and women--yes, even heroes. Many fail to
realize the attainment of this ideal in their children, because of a
lack of the knowledge necessary to bring about the desired development
in the child-life.

The following pages were written with the fervent hope that they would,
at least in some measure, be a help in developing the young lives
entrusted to your care. If your harvest-time is past; if your children
have grown up and have left the old home, you may be able to help some
one who still has little ones to train.

One object in relating actual experiences was that the reader might be
guided in the application of those principles of child-training which,
if merely stated in the abstract, might be hard to understand and
difficult of application. The principles herein stated are not mere
theories, but they have the commendation of having stood the test of
use. Two other objects of this simple story of home life are that the
thoughtful mother may get a view of the effects of certain extreme
environments on the child-life and, by observing the substantial results
accomplished by a praying mother, she may discover the secret of
success.

The incidents of this little home story are all true, even to minute
details, as far as memory serves one of the actors in this drama of home
life after the lapse of many years; bu