Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-12-29
A MOTHERS WAGES.
hY nEv. risopop. L. cuyLEs.

III REv. THsoDoHE L. crYLER.
It was an uncouth birds nest Of rushes i,
which Jochebe moored her birding among
the flags by the rivers brink" Little did sh'
know what precious freight she was cntrust
ing to that basket cradle And little die
Pharoh's daughter know. when she took the
little founding out of the Hoating basket
what manner IT child he would be. As she
gives back the handsome boy into the very
bosom that first give him life, she says to
tdshsbcl, Take this child away and nurse
it for me. and will give thee thy wages"
I will give thee thy wages, says the Egyp-
tian princess to the Hebrew nurse She got
her WAGES Ill better coin than silver 5F gold.
She got them in tlie joys mother feels when
she yields up paft IF htFtslf to sastuih her
darling child she got tieH in The 1--we IF a
child she nurscd she got them in the g,ori-
GUS service which her child wrought for Israel
in after years. She was paid in the heavenly
coin with which God pays godd mothers. For
all her anxictics and all her efforts to preserve
the life of her goodly child" was siS abun-
dainty rewarded
When God lays i tex Born babe in the
arms Of a welded pair, Tie says to them, "Take
this child and nurse it for Ne, and will give
you your wages" And the answer of Chris
tian gratitude and faith should be, "Oh
God. thou hast put thy noblest work into our
hands. We accept the precious trust: We
will try to stamp on this soft plastic heart the
impress of gOodly example. We will shell
ter this young life under thy iiiercy seat. We
will bear With it as thou dearest with US. We
will be thahkfll, that it may never learn
falsth55d. We will nurse this soul in its in
fancy, with the sltcere milk Of 1--we that in
after years it may bear str5hg iteat' for
strdhg service Of tod and Righteousness. Oh |!
God, make our lives in harmony with Thee
that tliis YOUNG life may rsastt thine image in
rejecting ours"
Toouch pious fidelity uod 5ffsrs The only
wages that ssn satisfy tile claims of lste He
pays the hearts claim in the heatt's own CON.
What wages stuld repay Hhnnals prayerful
care like the sight Of Sahttc1's after career as
Isroers upfight Judge? Moses standing on
the mount was the wages" of the poor He
Brsw mother who Graded him in her basket
of rushes.
St. Augustine's mighty service for the
Gospel was the best rewarded that God could
give to Monica. John Wesey's mother was
repaid for all her patient disciplife When lief
son built the worldwide tabernacle fdf Meth
odism to worship in. George Washington
was Gods reward to Washington's. good mo-
ther; as Archibald Alexander and Brown, of
Haddington, and Myinan Bcechcr found sheir
wages" in the t6ble sons who took the Cos
pei banner from their aged hands.
When I have seen happy father ana ttS:
tker looking on the prizes theft children
brought home from school, or enjtsihg the
home that 6lial love had provided for their
old age, then have | seen h6W God rewards
parental patience and fidelity. When 1 have
seen pious parents bcholdins their children as
they stood up bcfcfg the altar to profess Christ
in the freshness " L youthful conservation,
then l have said to myself, "God is paying
those parents their ,cagc," they once
dropped the seed with faith and tears ow
their shcaf is large and golden. God rewards a
mothers fidelity and fathers todly exam
pie with accumuating interest through all
eternity.
Alas! I fave seen other wages" too
paid dearly for, by parental impety or neg
lect of duty, Ellis sin was repaid in Els sor-
row. l have seen frivolous, praycrless
mother paid in the wages of broken bcArt
And when to many fathers door d 3rGhhkcn
soa fis beet, brought home from Sabbath.
breaking dabauch, it was only the wages o.
his own sin which Just God vas paying him
The " ~agss Y sfh Is death of no sir
moYe surely than parental. 1t is death t.
pea of mind-deoth to domestic happines.
death to the neglected or misguided soul.
Of their offspring.
Take this child aid hidrse it for Me. and
1 will give thee thy wago.-is the inscription
which Gods hand writes on every cradle
when dressed my child each morning,
prayed that Jesus would clothe it with purity,
said goodly mother to one who inquired be-
secret Of good training. "When wash it
I pray .tAt Els bIobd will cleanse its f6tht
soul from evil whet feed r., + tYat tltat it
heart may be nourisfaca with truth, and ma,
grew INTO likeas.s with the youthful Jciis o
Nazaset..' lfe.e vas religious traiAing from
the trade. II began with the dawn, and IT.
course' VAS like the sun, growing moro fit
orbsd in b.fdty IN the perfect day" Tha
mother received her golden wages in tbs earl,
conversion. usefulness. and honor Of all he
children. '.Go thou and do likewise.'
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