True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-04-24
VOLUME /, NUMBER IS.
ANGRY WITH MOTHER.

er, sometimes, don't you children, because
she won't let you have your own way,
which you think the best way? Yes, We
know you do; and that you pout occasion
ally, and think yourselves very badly used.
Well, here is something on this very sub
ject, which we find in the Portland Eclec-
tic. Something about being angry with
mother. Read it, and resolve never to
act like the little girl who is presented TO
your notice.:
"Don't look SO troubled, child; and
every time you raise your eyes from your
work, give your mother such disdainful,
scornful look. She is your mother, and
not the worst woman that ever lived, eth
er. 1t is no use for you to wish she was
anybody's mother but yours. You have
broken her rules, and she has gently re-
proved you; but what Of that, has she
not right to do soG Must you get your
revenge in this sullen, angry way, and try
to make her feel that she has done some
very wicked thing by crossing your incli-
nation, and that she will be sorry for it,
and come and ask your forgiveness? You
mistake her if you suppose any such thing.
She is as firm and decided as she is mild
and gentle; and all the threats your little
naughty face expresses will not make her
change her purpose, for she knows you bet
ter than you know yourself. You may 81
lently threaten and menace, and when she
asks you to come to dinner, give her Ia
cit No! and make her feel, if you can,
THAT you want no fayors from her, and
that she needn't trouble herself in any
way on your account. When Mrs B.
comes in, be very smiling, pleasant and
polite, just to show your mother what you
can be; when she withdraws, step right
back into your old mood, to let her see
what you acos't be! Take the time when
she goes to her secret place to pray to Him
who car soften the hardest heart, to take
nice dinner and run in the garden and
orchard but be sure to bein your chair,
working as fast as your needle can fly, be-
fore she returns. Fix up the same kind
of face for her as before, ITO let her know
that your purpose is unalterable; and
when she again invites you to the table,
decline as gently as before, thinking she
will relent if you go to bed supperless.
But she loves you too deeply, too tender
ly for that. Not this day only is before
her, but your whole life, and for this she
Ilabors and endures. 1t will not always
be SO.
| "Let me hurry you over the rough pas
sage of few years. You have tried the
world, you have sought pleasure in your
own way. You now look around for one
true heart, but in your agony there seems
to be none for you, Your face is troubled
and anxious, but not angry, and then, in
the bitterness Of your soul, you erclaim,
|"Oh, my mother! my blessed mother!
would that could lean on the faithful
love that / once scorned but the heart
that was SO true to me has long ago ceased
to beat. Her spirit is where no angry
child can disturb the peacefulness Of her
eternal home. But does she love me nowi
!, Does she turn from her blest rest to her
agonized, repentant childs Oh, if ! only
knew, this! if | only knew that she saw
all that this heart suffers, and that she
would say, "Thou art forgiven, my childl'
!, But this is not permitted, II must live on
with this great sorrow burning away in
my heart, that ] once, yea, many times,
scorned the love that would now make me
SO rich in happiness"
j ''Think Of this, angry child, and 60 to
! that dear mother, and ask her 70 forgive
you while you may. Letnot wicked pride
keep you back, but obey the still voice that
) whispers in your ear, "This is the way,
walk ye in IT.
Weshould walk through life as through
the Swiss mountains, where 4 hasty word
may bring down an avalanche.
: Theonly praise that ought A. berelisd
on, comes from competent judges without
temptation to hatter
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