The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-01-12
A Mother 5 Wages.



II was an uncouth bird : nest OF PUSHES
in which Jochebed moored her birding
among the fags by the rivers brink.
Little did she know what precious freight
she was intrusting to that basket cradle
And little did Pharaoh daughter know
when she took the little fohndling out
of the floating basket-what manner of
child he yet would be As she gives
back the handsome boy INTO the very
bosom that first gave him life. she says
to Jochebed. Take this child away and
nurse it for me, and | will give thee thy
wages
| viii give thee thv wages, SAYS the
Egyptian princess TO the Hebrew nurse.
She got her WAGES II better coin than
silver or gold. Size got them IN the Joys
n mother feels whom she Yields up part
Of herself 70 sustain her darling child;
she got them in the love II the babe she
nursed. she got them in tie glorious
service which her child wrought for
Israel i'll after years. She was paid III
the heavenly coin with which God pays
good mothers, For al her anNieties
and all her efforts 10 pres erye the lie OF
her "gooiIy chill" WAS she aboundantiy
rewarded
arms OF = wedded pair, he says to them,
Take this child and nurse it for me,
and / will give YOU your wages. And
the answer OF Christian gratitude and
faith should be. Oh. God, thou hast put
thy nohlest work into our hands. W.
accept the precious trust, We will try
10 stamp on this soft plastic heart the +
impress of Il gcodiy example We will
bear with it as thou dearest with us We /
will be thankful, that it may never learn I
falsehood We will nurse this soul in F
it's infancy. with the sincere milk OF
love, that in after years 1t may bear
strong meat for strong service OF God /
and righteousness. Oh God, make our +
lives in harmony with thee, that this /
Young life may reflect thine imsge in re /
fecting ours
70 such pious fidelity God offers the +
only wages that can satisfy the claims OF
love. He pays the heart ; claim IN the I
hearts own coin. What wages could +
repay Hannah prayerful care like the /
sight Of Samuel's after career as israels
upright Judge? Moses standing on the /
mount was the wages" of the poor
Hebrew mother who Graded him III
her basket of PUSHES. st. Aurustine's .
mighty service for the gospel was the
best reward that God could give to Mon
lea John Wesleys mother was repaid
for all her patient discipline when she /
built the world wide tabernacle for /
Methodism to worship in. George
Washington was Gods reward TO Wash
ington's good mother; rs Archibald
Alexander. and Brown of Iaddington, /
and LYMAN Beecher found their wages
in the noble sons who took the gospel +
banner from their aged hands.
When ! have seen happy father and /
mother looking on the prizes their
children brought home from school, or /
ENJOYING the home that tilial love had I
provided for their old age. then have L +
seen how God rewards parental patience /
and fdility. When | have seen pious I
parents beholding their children as they +
stood mp before the altar to profess Christ I
in the freshness OF a Youthful consecra-
ton, then l haze said to myself, God is I
paving those parents their 1cages. They !
once dropped the seed with faith and T
tears: now. their sheaf is large and .
golden God rewards mothers fidelity .
and a fathers godlv example with ac
cumulating interest through all eternity.
Alas have seen other wages too T
paid dearly for, ~ parental impiety or +
neglect OF deity. ELS sin was repaid in T
Ellis sorrow. | have seen frivolous. /
pravcrless mother paid in the wages Of T
4 broken heart And when to many y
fathers door g drunken son has been
brought home from 4 Sabbath breaking
,lcbauch, it was only the wages Of his
own sin which just God was paying
him The wages Of sin IS death and
of no sin more surlcy than parental. It
is death to peace Of mind-death TO do
1nestic happines=-leath 70 the neglected
or misguided souls of their ofsprings.
Take this child and nurse it for me,
and viii give the thy waCes-is the in
scription which Gods hand writes on
every cradle. "Whcn dressed my Child
each morning, prayed that Jesus would
clothe it with Purity,' says godly
mother to one who inquired her secret of
good training. ''WLen | wash it, pray
that his blood will cleanse its young soul
from evil; when I feed it. pray that its
heart may be nouriShed with truth. and
may grow into likeness with the youthful
Jesus of Nazareth" Here was religious
training from the cradle 1t began with
the dawn and its course was like the
sun, growing more full orbed in beauty
till the perfect day" That mother re-
ceived her golden wages ia the early con
version, usefulness and honor Of all her
children. Go thou and do likewise