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135 gathered as neatly furnished, and the little cribs in which they were lying as cleanly and tidy in their arrangement as any that could be found in our best homes; and the consequence of it all was that the poor little waifs looked exactly as sweet and lovable as any that you could discover in the most palatial residences along our main avenues. God would teach us, then, by such cases as these, and especially by the case of His own Son, our Lord, born of poor parents in a cheap little house, that the worth of boys or girls is something entirely apart from the kind of clothes they wear, or the style of house in which they live; that the worth of a child is what the child is, not what the child has; that a diamond is still a diamond though its brightness be hidden or soiled, and that the humble roof and the lowly manger may nevertheless shelter the dearest of God’s little ones—His own Holy Child, our Saviour.