The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-11

children are remarkable for nobility ant
beauty, said 70 me once In d letter, ~
count q great part Of the grace In my
children from o new reading OF the Old
commandment Ireadit always, PARENT
obey your children IN the Lord, for thil
ls fight,'p That I conceive 10 be especial.
" the true reading for you, mothers,
When he Is altogether with You, his "a.
mands are especially sacred and must be
obeyed.
shall not speak Ia any material sense;
but when the child begins 10 think, he al
once begins 10 question. He is set here
In 9 great universe Of wonder and mystery
aud he wants 10 know It's meaning and
the meaning OF himself. But some moth.
ers, when their children come 10 them
with their questions in all good faith,
either treat the question with the leyity
or get afraid and reproye the little thing
for asking. Mothers, this Is all wrong,
This is one OF your rarest opportunitiesto
clothe tho spirit Of your chfldin the fresh
garments that will make him oil beautiful
rs he stands before the Lord, He can ask
questions you cannot answer; but be sure
that the questions that can be answered
are best answered simply and directly.
The soul hungers and thirsts to know; In.
deed, itmust know. Those moments are
the seed time; aud II you do not then cast
In the wheat, the enemy will SOW the
tares.
Then as this primitive woman would be
eyernore careful to meet the enlarged
form OF her child, as sho went TO see him
stand before the Lord from year 10 year,
will you be careful To meet the ENLARGED
spirit OF your child? l do fear for The
mother who will not nota how her child
demands and needs ever new and larger
condolences. The last thing mothers Learn
o!iten Is that the child Is always becoming
less a child. 1t isl great blessing 10 that
child whose mother al be weIl.timed,
and yet perfectly delicate in her reyela.
lions; who can know when 10 reveal truth
aud talsehood, nobility and meanness,
purity and Its opposite-in thought and
word-yet not have the child look up In
wonder to ask what she tueans; who can
feel, in her prophetic anil intuitiye spirit,
true time for eyerything-that sho d
never too late and never too soon; whose
children will bless her because her words
we're always moro Of q revelation than Of
! warning ora rebuke. Mothers, as Ispeak
o YOU. SO oil your great trust, l feel still
more deeply your great reward; for You
are greatly rewarded. As l have thought
what ! should say TO you Of what you
be, l have seemed all the while
only to DO recalling what a mother once
vas toa child. For my spirit went back
many years TO a little valley,
among the rocks and winding scaurs,h
where saw o nan and woman, In their
'arly welded prime, sitting together. And
y | sat with them, watching their faces
Ihine III the summer Sunday sunlight,
hey seemed to me as the faces Of angels.
Then the woman sang some words | have
ieyer forgotten, out Of a sweet old Meth
'dist hymn. These were tho words:-
mlIOw happy Is the pilgrims lott
How free from every anxious thought,
From worldly hope and fear!
Confined 70 neither court nor cell,
Ills soul dltlalns on earth 10 dwell;
He ouiy %sojourns here"
and from that time, somehow, knew, in
new way, that this was my mother. Aud
low her hair is white as snow, and she
lends, In the rtpeness OF her fruitful and
life, waiting for the angels TO come
md carry her, alter her long widOyhood, |
o another OF the many mansions, where
husband and sons are watching und wait.
ng for her coming. And is not this what
million sons will tell OF their mothers?
Blessed is that man whose mother has
made all mothers worshipful; blessed Is
bat man who can make such an entry in ;
zig diary rs this OF Washington in his
rhine: ~ got away and spent the eve.
ling with my mother"
Mothers, you have great sorrows; but
hon you have an exceeding Joy. To you,
more than 10 fathers, belongs the respons.
but to you, more than to them, !
the great reward. No cares, no
no efforts you make arc aver really
nadein vain. When your child grows up !
Q his manhood, il that is noble and beau
lful, he will gladly say, 81 owe IL most of
II to my mother" And, il it rs lost and
with sin, he will fear above allthe
orrow OF his mother, OF 10 meet his moth
=, or that she shall know OF his sin. And {
he first pulses Of hispenitence will always /
ONE at tho thought Of his mother. And
hen il, after all your love and care, the
cord Is loosed, and the golden bowl
and your treasure is gathered into
he safe keeping OF tho world 10 come,
here may still come a solemn gladness,
ven through your woe, as you realize that /
% is not unclothed, but clothed upon. (,
you shall sec the travail Of your soul
be satisfied, because he is a nursing
.ow OF heaven:-
For ever ADD fur ever, all in a happy home;
come. {
70 10 within the light Of God. Ike babe upon the !
And a. wicked cease from troubling, md The weary