I With Three Fatherless Children Artist_David M. Merrill For the wages of sin

For the wages of sin is death

A few days this week

a central metaphor in the narrative

With their faith and innocence

Their euphoric chaos not only contradicts the serenity of the lone leper

I With Three Fatherless Children Artist_David M. Merrill For the wages of sinI WITH THREE FATHERLESS CHILDREN October, 1856, Red Buttes, Martin Company, Elizabeth Horrocks Jackson Kingsford. It will be readily perceived that under such adverse circumstances I had become despondent. I was six or seven thousand miles from my native land, in a wild, rocky, mountain country, in a destitute condition, the ground covered with snow, the waters covered with ice, and I with three fatherless children with scarcely nothing to protect