Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
Mr.. Moody to Parents.
The following is taken from a sermon by
Mr.. Moody addressed to parents

The following is taken from a sermon by
Mr.. Moody addressed to parents
AN uNFAIrHFuL MOTHER.
Many a man is laughed out of all serious
impressions by some one who professe to
be a Christian-perhaps it is his own father
or mother. heard of one the other day, a
man who is a terrible slave to drink, and
who has attended these meetings, and his
mother has been ridiculng him for coming
here Can you think of such madness
That woman has three sons who have already
gone to ruin, and now one son is coming
here and that mother is laughing at him
and making sport at these meetings Oh,
may God open her eyes May the Spirit OF
God trouble her.
SHE DIED OF BROKEN HEART.
There was lady in Philadelphia, who
told me of her son in Chicago. When he
was a boy, he got interested in the Young
Mems Christian Association, and she thought
it wasn't Just the class of society she wanted
him to move in, and so she discouraged
him. She couldn't get him to give it up,
however, and to break it off she sent him
to boarding-school There he met bad
company and got to drinking, and she heard
of it, and saw for the first time what she
had been with him FIVE minutes she saw she
had lost all influence. She wrote and asked
him to forgive her, but heard that he burned
her letters without opening them. He went
away, and for two years they heard nothing
from him, but then she learned he was in
Chicago, and his father purchased a bust
ness for him, thinking to win him back.
But he would not heed them, and she be-
sought me to find him out and try and lead
him to Christ. tried to meet him, but for
a whole year failed, and while East | read
a dispatch in newspaper that he had been
drowned in Lake Michigan, and his father
recovered his body and brought him home
to that mother. She didn't live long after
wards. She died of broken heart. She
had stood in his way when he wanted to
come to Christ, and he went down to de-
struction.
ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO COME TO CHRIST.
Dear parents, if you have children out of
Christ, encourage them TO come to him; let
God use any instrument he may to bring
them to Christ and if they are crushed by
the Spirit of God, don't do anything to him
der their coming to the cross of Christ. If
you do. the day may come when you will
give all the world to have them where you
have them tonight. You may not live long,
.ou may no. nave 'he ohiiu unuer your iooi
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ONE FAITHFUL MOTHER.
An old Mexican soldier once told me that
when he enlisted, his mother gave him his
fathers watch and Bible. and urged him to
remember that every dav AT twelve o'clock
she would rTav for him lie was reckles,
and did not nav much attention to her part
ing words, but one day he pulled out the
watch (he had never altered the time) and
il WAS lust twelve o'clock. and the thought
of his inother's last words passed thronph
his mind. He couldn't take another step.
and he got behind a tree on the plains Of
Nexico and cried IN his motb4r's Cod IA
take away his sins. and he was saved. H..
said Christ was with him in the Mexican
war. and he enlisted in our war in boues he
might give some good advice to his COM
rades. Mothers. have Won A bow that is a
wanderer Mothers. have Won a son that
has grown reckless Is there A mother or