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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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