Dawn by Harriet A. Adams
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impulsively; they are the result of long thinking, and were they my
last, I would as strongly and as fearlessly utter them." "I feel myself growing in thought, to-night, Hugh, and O, how proud I feel that the little being who is soon to claim our love, if all is well, will come into at least some knowledge of these things." In a few weeks she expected to become a mother, and was looking hopefully forward to the event, as all women do, or should, who have pleasant homes and worthy husbands. "I, too, am glad that we can give it the benefit of our experience, and shall be proud to welcome into the world a legitimate child." "Why, Hugh! what do you mean? All children are legitimate, are they not, that are born in wedlock?" "Very far from it. In very many cases they are wholly illegitimate." His wife looked eagerly for an explanation. "All persons who are not living in harmony and love, are bringing into the world illegitimate offspring. Children should be born because they are wanted. A welcome should greet every new-born child, and yet a mere physical relation is all that exists between thousands of parents and children, while thousands who have not given physical birth are more fitted by qualities of heart and soul to be the parents of these spiritual orphans than the blood relations, who claim them as their own. I often think that many in the other life will find, even though they may have had no offspring |
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