A MOTHER'S APPEAL
, A Mrs; Baitty, iniDiinedin;rhas lost four children by typhoid fever. One otheif -Was dqn|n^haj |be/was nursiog it, when the authorities insisted ot^remp.vi^ the cbild , ; to the hospital. No one that bas any kubwlectge "of th| tender ties that bind W mother to neT sick child could view with indifference such an< exhibition of aiagui.h as tbat "^iOb^iwhich /Mrs. Batty (pleaded ,4hafc, she might not be; separated from her fever-stricken daughter. Her grief cu|miuated io, the .followiog pathetic, but ineffectual, appeal:— r or .. o "I will go down oii nay Mrel.y"kbefeand beseech of you to leave th« obi Id __ a mother's care. The cljild broken-hearted if abe w.as.-takei'^away from her mother. I Deg^g^ou, as ( ..a gentleman, ioleave the child -witb :^^ I have- b^d sis children^ apdeonly two refa^h^a^ if it is the LordV will Jo, take tbeo^ let me attend them to the last. "It may be the law of man, biit it ifl.no. the law of the Lord, t6;.Qiska'.fe mother,; part with- her chilii r.Ae. a gftftt.lemao, you < will not ask to take h^i: away." • .••^..mY.'. ,'- f^ It appears ; that, despite this, the ehlldiWSß removed. r; :r /V- | \~'y ' : '- : s y---s ■•-■' ■•'-■■■'■ a . *'i \y\y
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 16, 18 January 1877, Page 4
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197A MOTHER'S APPEAL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 16, 18 January 1877, Page 4
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