No hands are fuller of tasks, no heart is fuller of cares, than the hands and the heart of a mother of a large family of young children.

It is little wonder if sometimes she loses her sweetness of spirit in the pressure of care that is upon her.

But this lesson is worth learning.

Let the mothers wait on their knees each morning, before they begin their work, for the touch of Christ's hand upon their heart.

Then the fever will leave them, and they can enter with calm peace on the work of the long, hard day.
The lesson, however, is for us all.