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The mother thought It n very strange request
but she brought II to please the dying child.
Now said the daughter, mother. hang
that dress on the foot OF my bed" ana INC
dress was hung there, on the foot OF the bed.
Then the dying girl got up on one-elboW ana
looked ut her mother, and then pointed TO the
dress md said Mother, that dress Is the
price Of my soul! Oh, what n:momcntous
thing IL Is 10 be II mother.
Again, and lastly, Hannah stands beforoyou
n rewarded mother. For oil the coats she
made for Samuel, for oil the prayers she offer
cl :, : him, for the discipline cxerted ovcrhlm
she got abundant compensation IN inc
picty, and the usefulness, end the popularity
of her son Samuel, anu that Is true In Nil ages.
Every mother gets, full ray for nil the pray.
ers and tears In behalf OF her chlldren. ina
man useful In commercial life; that man pro
lninent In q Profession; that master mechanic
why, every step he takes In life has an echo OF
g.alness In the old hear that long ago tiught
to bel Christian. and heroic ana earnest
The story OF what you have done, or what
you have written, or the influence you ave
cxcrted, has gone back to the old homestead
for there Is sone one always ready to carry
good tidings--and that story makes the
needle in tie Did mothers tremulous hand
fly quicker. and the fall IN the latners hMmu
come down upon the barn floor with q vlgor-
GUS thun,b. Parents love to hear good news
from their children. DO you send them goou
news Rlwaysl Look out for the young man
who spcaksof his father 9s the governor,
for the young m who calls her mother
her "maternal ancestor" or the "old woman
"The eye that m0cketh at his father, anu re-
fuscth to obey his mother, the ravens OF the
shall eat it, God grant that these parents
may havc the great satisfaction Of seeing
their children glow up Christirns. But on
the pang Of that mother who, after q life OF
strect-eadding and gosipe.re.aining, hanging
on the children the fripperies and follics OF
this world, sees those children tossed out on
the sea OF life like foam on the wave, on non,
entities In world where only bravery ana
stal wart character cun stund the shock But
blessed be the mother who looks upon her
children as sons and daughters OF the LORD
Almighty. Oh! the satisfaction OF Hannah
In seeing Samuel serving IT. the alter; or
Mother Eunlce in seeing her Timothy learned
In the Scriptures. That is the mothers re;
compcnse, TO see children coming up useful
in the world retaining the lot, healing the
sick, plying the ignorant, earnest and useiui
back OH the old family Bible wherever she
reads II and that will be ointment to soothe
the aching limbs of denscrcpltude,..and light
up the closing hours OF lies day with the
glOrics OF an autumnal sunset
There she sits, the old Christian mother ripe
for heaven. Her eycsight Is almost gone. but
the splendori of the celestial city kindle up her
vision. The gray light Of heavens morn ms
struck through the gray locks which are fold
cd back over the wrinkled temples. She
stoops very much now under the burden or
care she used to carry for her children. She
sits at home. too old to find her way to the
house Of God; but while she sits there, nll the
pmst comes back, and the children that forty
years ago, trippcd around her armchair with
their griefs, and joys, and sorrows-thosc
children are gone now. Some caught up Into
O better realm. where they shall neverdie, and
others out In the broad world, testing the ex.
cellcncy OF q Christian mothers discipline.
Her Inst days are full Of peace; and calmer
and swccter will her spirit become, until the
gates of life shall lit and let In the WORKOUT
pilgrim into eternal sprtng-tlde and youth,
where the limbs never acho, n the eyes new.
or grow dim, and the staff OF the exhausted
and dccrepit pilgrim shall become the palm oil
tho immortal athlete?