PROBATION.
"Wait, darling wait," thus once heard I, A gentle mother sayTo her boy, who plead for a bit of bread— 11 The dinner hour is almost nigh— My dear, you must obey ! " I pondered o'er the mother's speech, Eor, like her little child, I, too, did await for ft longed-for fate— Was it that He a truth might teach To one unreconciled ? I could, perforce, but plainly see The parent knew the best, A.nd I was taught, from her simple thought, That waiting would be good for me At (iod'a supremo behest.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2230, 23 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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93PROBATION. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2230, 23 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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