Incidenti di gli Stati Uniti Commissione cristiana . uve stato alla domenica-scuola? Sì, sir. Avete dimenticato una relativa, quindi. Mi ha guardato inquiringly, quando ho aggiunto, rivolto verso l'alto- Padre nostro che sei nei cieli ; vi è un padre e un homefor voi lassù. Doubtfully per prima, poi con aumentando lentamente assurance, theprecious verità è stato ricevuto. In una rotta, infantili modo egli learnedto pregare per questo solo rispetto a terra o il cielo. Presto la faccia grcAVbright e felice, e la risposta di una volta inquieto, senzatetto occhi,era uno di fidarsi della pace. Un grande favorito tra i suoi compagni wa

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Incidents of the United States Christian Commission . uve been at Sunday-school? Yes, sir. You have forgotten one relative, then. He looked at me inquiringly, when I added, pointing upwards— Our Father, who art in heaven ; there is a Father and a homefor you up there. Doubtfully at first, then with slowly increasing assurance, theprecious truth was received. In a broken, childlike way he learnedto pray to this only relative in earth or heaven. Soon the face grcAVbright and glad, and the answer of the once restless, homeless eyes, was one of trusting peace. A great favorite among his comrades was M , a soldier from THE HUMISTON CHILDREN. 175 Massachusetts. After his death his mother wrote me, begging foi only one lock of his hair. A comrade of the deadsoldier went down into the last resting-place, and sev-ering a damp lock, it was sent on its mournful errand The Lock ojHair. Perhaps no incident of the war became so widelyknown and excited such deep sympathy as the story ofthe Humiston chihlren. The main facts of the narra-tive are these:. the humiston children. {An exact copy of the original picture.) Dr. J. Francis Bourns, of Philadelphia, was crossing the moun-tains on his way to Gettysburg, as a volunteer Surgeon and Delegateof the Commission. An accident to his vehicle forced him, withthree fellow-travellers on the same errand, to halt atGraefenberg Springs. Mr. Schriver, the proprietor, t i T hexhibited to them a beautiful ferrotype of threelovely children, which had been found clasped in the hands of asoldier dead on the battle-field. The })icture was so held that it must 170 CHRISTIAN COMiyySSION INCIDENTS. have met his dying gaze. No other memoranda, relies, or evenequipments were found on the body, so that identification was impos-sible. Dr. Bourns obtained the ferrotype, with the intention, whenhis Delegate work was over, of using it to discover the little father-less ones. He persevered until all the obstacles in the way of obtain-ing a salable picture we

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