Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 22: Organ for Young Latter-Day Saints; August 1, 1887 A few years ago a company of Indians were captured on the Western frontier. Among them were a number of stolen children who had been with the savages for years. Word was sent through out the region inviting all who had lost children to come and see if among the little captives they could recognize their own. A long way off was a woman who had been robbed of her darlings - a boy and a girl. With mingled hope and fear she came; with throbbing heart she approached the group.' They were strange to her. She came nearer and with eyes filled with mother-love peered into their faces, one after another, but there was nothing in any that she could claim; nor Was there anything in her to light up their cold faces. With the dull pain of despair at her heart she was turning away, when she paused, choked back the tears, and in soft, clear notes, began a simple song she used to'sing her little ones of Jes us and' heaven. Not a line was completed before a boy and girl sprang from the group, exclaiming Mammal mammal and she foldedher lost ones to her bosom. So lives a mother's early influence in the hearts of her children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.