Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-04-08
SrnnatIliza With Children.

20, how 90 love to talk With you, Mrs. S.
would rather iak with Jou any time tLan with N!
own motherl' Thus exclaimed girl OF nine years
whom we had taken into season in conversation
with her which she greatly enjoyed, ss her remark
testified.
'Wby, Jsne,' said I, @what speech II thought
you wanted to see your mother very much "'-'-
80 do" she replied, shut for all that love
to talk with yoa, better than ever did with her" "
"What is the reasony 7" asked.
IL don't know exactly" said Jane; sometimes
mother wouldn't let me talk with her, when she
wasat busy, either. The school girls used to plague
me sometimes, aud if l told mother she would say,
"Hush; stop telling tales out of school" used to
plague them back, and SO we had real quarelling
times. One day, pretty soon after l came TO live
with you told you how Ellen May pushed me
down, and you told lie apoat heaping Goals Of fire
on her head. You know you said, if would give
her part of my orange, she wouldn't do so again,
and she didn't. Now, when the girls plague me, l
do something to please them, and they stop very
quick guess they won't trouble me any more.
Before came here IT, hurt myself and told mother,
she would laugh at me aud tell me what fuss /
made about nothing. But you say, never mind,
or I'm very sorry, and that seems to make it stop
aching almost feel as if can tell you anything
better than could tell my mother, for she never
cares what I say~
Poor child! 1t was sympathy she needed; and
how natural TO seek It from her mother. II James
mother had lent an ear to her daughters troubles
with the girls she might have prevented these quar-
rels, and might have ins,illed into her mind the
great principles Of right which it was her duty to
do. She need not have encouraged the child TO
make much ado about nothing" mourning over
every scratch bruise; but she might have forti-
fed her resolution to bear the pain, or might cause
her to forget it BY adroty turning her attention to
something of interest. This course would have ad-
ded to the happiness of the child aud strengthened
her affection for her mother.
Let mother show her little ones that she re-
CARDS their troubles as triies and their sports as
foies, and it will not be long before they will cease
to reveal their thoughts and emotions conGdingIy
to that mother. They will find their playmates
more congenial spirits and will form injurious in
timaces OF which the mother viii remain ignorant,
for they viii soon learn the art of concealment.
They will not tell Of their temptations nor seek for
counsel of those in whom they confds not. The
Holy Spirit may strive with them, but no mother
bids them beware how they grieve it away, for she
is unconscious Of is presence. Distress account
Of sin may lie heavily on their young hearts, and
they may grope in spiritual darkness for months,
not knowing whittier to turn for relief, when moth
er would gladly point out the way, did she but
know their desire.
/ knew Christian mother who prayed earnestly
for the conversion of her son. Day after day she
poured out her soul to God, but the answer came
not She told me her anxiety, and requested me to
converse with him. On doing so, 1 learned that
for two years he hoped he was child of God. l
asked him why be had not told his mother. He
said be had wished to do 50, but could not commu-
nicate freely to her his feelings. At my request ne
promised to take up his cross as he termed it, and
tax with her. What advancement he might have
made in the divine life, if be could have had en-
coutagement and advice of his mother dnring those
two years, is not mine to say. / believe his hight
would have shined more brightly, his mothers life
had been happier, and her faith stronger.
Motbers make your children feel that you are
their best friends.