Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-07
From the American Messenger.

Do YOU OBEY YOUR MOTHER ?-Charles
T was the son of poor widow in the city
of n. B. He and younger brother were her
only earthly comfort and care. But when
about ten years of age he began to go with
wicked companions and yield to their wishes
in disobedence to his mothers commando
Charles loved her, yet when tempted to do
wrong forgot her kindness, and the grief he
would occasion. Like all habits, good and
evil, disobedience became stronger every time
he was guilty of it; and sins which were once
thought of with dread, Charles. before he was
welye years DID, committed boldly.
One morning police officer, whose bust
ness it is to arrest criminals, called at his
humble home, and took him away to be tried
for stealing. The little fellow cried and so
did the lonely mother. After he was found
guilty, it was decided to send him to the Re
form School, in distant city. The next
news Charles's mother had frcm him, he was
very sick. An epidemic prevailed in the in.
stitution, and he was among those most dam
gerously i'll. A benevolent man gave Mrs.
T. money to pay the expenses of visit to
the sick boy. When she arrived at the large
building in which he was confined, she entered
a room where several lads were lying on their
small beds, in pain, with no mother to watch
over them. She looked around for the ia
miliar locks of hair above the pale face of her
son. But she sought in vain for the one for
whom her heart was yearning. Then an at
tendant came and told her that he was too i'll
to be there he was in another room.
The weeping mother fastened to the apart
| ment, and i'll a moment she saw the emaciated
features of her Charles. 1t was a sad and af-
| fecting meeting. After she had talked with
him until her tears fell on his feverish fore
head, she unfolded a little handkerchief, and
| said if was his hrother's at homo
30, mother exclaimed Charles, 'lay it on
my breast; want it near my heart And
soon he added, Does brother mind you, moth
err Sometimes she replied. 20, tell him
to obey you always, always; if l had done SO,
should not be here. And he buried his
fearful face in the bedclothes, and sobbed.
Mrs. T saw that Charles must die, and
begged permission to stay all night in the
room, and sleep on the floor, or watch by his
side. But this was contrary to the rules of
| the institution, and she left him with break
ing heart In the morning he was delirious,
and soon after died. The same kind gentle
man who helped the widow when she went to
see Charles, sent for the body; and last au-
tumn, as the leaves were dying, it was laid in
the grave, upon which, for the first time, the
SHOWS of winter have fallen.
Think of Charles, and of what God said
amid the thunderings and flames of Sinai =
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy
thy God eiyeth thee ~ =
THE Fur1rpr Crupcu or A,,nn,c, po
DIR. Newell of Camhridoe has recontl,, Nh
lshed verv able essay on the Fnturo 1y,i,rol,
of America. or the Future Dayeloroent 81
Christianity in this country He saws We
hear of the Romisb of the Groek If +Lo
Gallican. nda of the Fpgl;sb Church The nIJ
religious traditions. the Old RELIGIONS fashions
of Europe. NAV he reverent;aII9 accented h.,
America for a time. Int not forayor 1o,,,.
1t will criticise. and opestion and cb t1,
them. where 4 can chance then, for the bet'
ter. It will ask not what has snited others in