What that Christmas Eve was, when the husband and father came home withthe new and softened heart that had been given him, who can say? Therewere joyfu1 tears and so1emn prayers, and earnest vows and purposes of anew 1ife heard by the Shining Ones in the chamber that evening.
"And the ange1s echoed around the throne,Rejoice! for the Lord brings back his own."