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The narrative interweaves an artist's spiritual crisis with life at a small seaside community, where a confident, faith-taught child comforts and challenges adults with simple assurances about God and metaphors of different seas—sorrow, sin, difficulty—that shape their fears and hopes. An expectant woman and her mother-in-law linger at the shore, scanning the horizon with private longings, while interactions among the artist, the child, and the family reveal tensions between adult despair and childlike trust. The work uses seaside imagery and intimate episodes to explore faith, redemption, grief, and the restorative power of human tenderness.

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Title: A little child

Author: Mary Hornibrook Cummins

Release date: February 19, 2023 [eBook #70069]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Davis & Bond, 1913

Credits: Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Little Child

BY

MARY HORNIBROOK CUMMINS

AUTHOR OF

THE MIGHTY GUEST
THE AWAKENING

DAVIS & BOND

BOSTON