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/ bless God that there are not many
prayerless mOthers-nOt many of them.
The weight of responsibility is so great that
they feel the need of divine hand to help
and divine voice to comfort and divine
heart to sympathize. Thousands of mothers
have been led into the kingdom Of God by
the hands of their little children. There
are hundreds of mothers who would not
have been Christians had it not been for the
prattle of their little ones. Standing some
day in the nursery they bethOught them
selves, s'This child God has given me to
raise for eternity, What is my influence
upon it? Not being Christian myself,
how can l ever expect him to become a
Christian? Lord, help mew Oh, are there
anxious mothers who know nothing of the
infinite help of religion? Then 1 commend
to them Hannah, the piOus mother of
Samuel. Do not think it is absolutely im-
possible that your children come up iniqui-
tOus. Out of just such fair brows and
bright eyes and soft hands and innocent
hearts crime gets it's victims extirpating
purity from the heart and rubbing out the
SmOOthness from the brows, quenching the
lustre of the eye and shriyeling up and
poisoning and putrefying and scathing and
scalding and blasting and burning with
SHAME AND WOE.
Every child is a bundle OF tremendous
possibilities; and whether that child
shall come forth in life, it's heart
attuned to the eternal harmonies, and
after life of usefulness on earth
go to, a life of joy in heaven: or
whether across it shall jar eternal discords,
and after life of wrong-doing on earth it
shall go to home of impenetrable dark
ness and an abyss of immeasurable plunge,
is being decided by nursery song and Sab
bath lesson and evening prayer and walk and
ride and look and frown and smile. Again
and lastly, Hannah stands before us as the
rewarded mother. For all the coats she
made for Samuel; for all the prayers she
offered for him; for the discipline she ex-
erted over him, she got abundant compen-
sation in the piety and the usefulness and
the popularity of her son Samuel; and that
is true in all ages. Every mother gets full
pay for all the prayers and tears in behalf
of her children. That man useful in COM
mercia1 life; that man prominent in the
profession: that master mechanic
every step he takes in life has an echo of
gladness in the old heart that
LONG AGO TAUGHT HIM
to be Christian and heroic and earnest.
The story of what you have done OF what
you have written, of the influence you have
eXerted, has gone back to the old home
stead-for there is someone always ready
to carry good tidings- and that story makes
the needle in the old mothers tremulous
hand fly quicker and the fail in the fa-
theirs hand come down npon the barn floor
with more vigorous thump. Parents love
to hear good news from their children.
But oh, the pang of that mother who,
after life of street-gadding and gossip-re-
failing. hanging on her children the "trip
peries and follies of this world, sees those
children tossed out on the sea of life like
foam On the wave or nonentities in world
where only brawny and stalwar character
can stand 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 at the altar; Of Mother
Eunice in seeing. her Timothy learned in
the scriptures. That is the mothers recon-
pense: to see children coming up useful in
the world, reclaiming the lost, healing the
sick, pitying the ignorant, earnest and use
full in every sphere.