A MOTHER IS WAITING
The following story was sent in by Charles J. Youngkin, of the Morgan Hill Bible Church in Morgan Hill, California. 95037 John Todd was born in Rutledge, Vermont into a family of several children. They later moved to the village of Killingsworth back in the early 1800’s. And there, at a very early age, John had both his mother and father die, and he was left without parents. The relatives wondered what they would do with the number of children, how they could parcel them out to other friends and relatives. One dear and loving aunt said she would take little John. The aunt sent a horse and a slave to get John who was only six at the time. The slave (named Caesar in some versions) came and put the little boy on the back of the horse. On the way back an endearing conversation takes place: John: Will she be there? Caesar: Oh, yes, she’ll be there waiting…
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