Uncle Tom

"Has there ever been a child like Eva? Yes, there have been but their names have always been on gravestones, and their sweet smiles, their heavenly eyes, their singular words and ways, are among the buried treasures of yearning hearts. In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculair charms of one who is not. It is as heaven had a especial band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and to endear to them the wayward human heart, that they may bear it upward with them in their homeward flight. When you see that deep spirtual light in the eye,-when the little soul reveals itself in words sweeter and wiser than the ordinary words of children,-hope not to retain that child, for the seal of heaven is on it, and the light of immortaility looks out from its eyes."