The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

that gives itself with its thought and strength to live for and in the
other,
and breathes its own stronger and better life into the weaker one. Love
inspires, and it is inspiration is the secret of training.
NOTES
FORTIETH DAY.
The following extract, from 'life In Jesus: A Memoir Of Mrs. Mary
Winslow By Her Son,' gives a very touching and instructive illustration
of a widowed mother claiming God's covenant on behalf of her
children. And in later years, after her death, her son, Dr. B. Winslow,
loved to tell how wondrously God had proved Himself faithful in
fulfilling His promise to all her children:—
'She was now a widow with a large family of sons, dependent upon her
for their training and settlement in life. "She that is a widow indeed,
and desolate, trusts in God." Such was her present condition. The surges
of grief now yielded to a calm, intelligent survey of her position. She
threw herself upon God. The covenant she made with Him when a wife,
she now and more solemnly renewed as a widow,—that the Lord should
be her God. It was at this important crisis of her history that the
following touching incident in her experience occurred.
'" I had sent one of my sons, a youth of ten years old, accompanied by a
servant, across the river on a matter of business. The appointed hour
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