But, now, please observe that Mary must have trained this child in the knowledge of God's Word. There is grievous danger that we parents shall turn over to the Sunday school our parental duty of training our children in God's Word. It is one of the perils of our time. Let us train them to look at God's Word as the guide of their life. Think of Mary at the cross Description is here dumb.
Imagination stands in mute wonder.
You would remember how suffering is the inevitable consequence of sin in this world, how suffering was the necessary condition of human salvation, even that poor mother's suffering as she looked upon her atoning son. Then remember how out of his death came life again, and out of that sorrow came springing joy. But you might sit down sometime and think it all over. Yea, amid that great event of the universe, with that darkness settling down upon all his soul as the sin bearer, he made provision for his widowed mother. If ever there comes a pang to the glorified ones, methinks Mary must look down with unutterable grief upon the thousands and millions that almost worship her instead of worshiping her son, the Savior.