A Mother's Prayer
Improvement Era, vol. 6, no. 1, November 1902, p. 37
Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
HE HATH GIVEN US LIFE. 37
closely resemble their parents." This law has been established by observation prolonged throughout the whole length of man's ex- perience; and the fossil remains found imbedded in the strata of the earth's crust, indicate that the same great law prevailed among ancient forms of life. But these facts teach further that, not only are all living things endowed with power to reproduce their kind, but new organisms are produced only through the ex- ercise of the reproductive powers. An organism is born into the world; we naturally infer that the germ of that new life was pro- duced by parent life; and in no instance has this inference been shown to be at fault. It may, therefore, be affirmed as equally
true With the above-stated law, that an organism cannot come into existence by its own force, but originates in a seed, or germ, pro- duced by a parent organism. (Part Two in December Number.)
A MOTHER'S PRAYER.
FOR THE IMPROVEMENT ERA. Father in heaven! in thy loving kindness,
Stay with my boy, who is out in the world; 0, leave him not in the midst of that blindness And unbelief into which he is hurled !
May he be strong to resist all temptation; Brave in defense of the good and the pure; So may his present and final salvation, Through thy sweet mercies, be ever secure.
Thou gavest him to me, a part of my being; 0, bring him back to me safe, undefiled! Worthy at last of thy precious face seeing, Take us, Father, myself and my child!