Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. (Samuel Rutherford)

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Samuel Rutherford

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