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be a blessing to these children of God’s love and would be reflected
back upon her in affection and love
When Double Care is Needed—Children who have lost the one
in whose breasts maternal love has flowed have met with a loss that
can never be supplied. But when one ventures to stand in the place of
mother to the little stricken flock, a double care and burden rests upon
her to be even more loving if possible, more forbearing of censure and
threatening than their own mother could have been, and in this way
supply the loss which the little flock have sustained
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3
Ibid., 3:531, 532
.
4
Ibid., 2:58
.