Hesba Stretton

No Place Like Home Hesba Stretton

Ruth Medway, a Christian mother, brooded over her eight children who had left home. Ishmael, her beloved ninth child, took the schoolmistress? daughter to a cave and roasted some wild eggs. The unusual consequences of this event shaped his life greatly. ?Where can we find a home again, mother?? he asked at last; ?there?s no place like home.? ?Up there!? she said, lifting her dim eyes to the great sky above them; ?if God gives us no other home here in this world, He?s got one ready there for thee and me.? "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father?s house are many mansions; I go to prepare a place for you."?John 14:1, 2.