by: Dawson Trotman
I watched them for a little while as they walked on and thought how beautiful it is that God permits a man to choose one woman who seems the most beautiful and lovely to him, and she chooses him out of all the men whom she has ever known. Then they separate themselves to one another; and God in His plan gives them the means of reproducing! It is a wonderful thing that a little child should be born into their family, having some of the father's characteristics and some of the mother's, some of his looks and some of hers. Each sees in that baby a reflection of the one whom he or she loves.
Seeing that little one made me feel homesick for our own children whom I dearly love and whose faces I had not seen for some time. As I continued to stand there, I saw another baby carriage, or perambulator as they call it over there, coming in my direction. It was a secondhand affair and very wobbly. Obviously the father and mother were poor. Both were dressed poorly and plainly, but when I indicated my interest in seeing their baby, they stopped and with the same pride as the other parents let me view their little, pink-cheeked, beautiful-eyed child.
I thought as these went on their way, "God gave this little baby, whose parents are poor, everything that He gave the other. It has five little fingers on each hand, a little mouth and two eyes. Properly cared for; those little hands may someday be the hands of an artist or a musician."
Then this other thought came to me, "Isn't it wonderful that God did not select the wealthy and the educated and say, 'You can have children', and to the poor and uneducated say, 'You cannot.' Everyone on earth has that privilege." The first order ever given to man was that he "be fruitful and multiply" In other words, he was to reproduce after his own kind. God did not tell Adam and Eve, our first parents, to be spiritual.