New England Religious Herald

MATERNAL LOVE.

The Dayton, (Ohio) Journal relates a thrilling incident showing the strength of maternal affection. The house of Mr. Wooddle, in that city, took fire in the absence of Mr. W. and his wife. A little daughter of four or five years had been left rocking the cradle, in which was the babe. The little girl easily escaped, but the infant was left in the burning house. Several persons tried to penetrate in and rescue it, but were driven back by the excessive heat. But a woman came rushing to the spot from a neighbor's—she threw water over her clothes and drew her wet apron hastily over her head, rushed in, and returned in a moment—the child in her arms, and safe. It was the mother—of course it was—every mother's heart will tell her that.