Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-29
WHEELING w, VA MONDAY MORNING MARCH 1885,

discipline exerted over him, she got
abundant compensation in the piety, and
the usefulress, 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 commercial life; that
man prominent in a profession; that mas-
ter mechanically, every step he takes in
life has an echo of gladness in the old
heart that long ago taught him 10 be q
Christian, and heroic and earnest.
The story Of what you have done, or
what you have written, Of the influence
you have exerted, has gone backto the old
homestead-ior there is some one always
ready to carry good tidings and that story
makes the needle in the old mothers
tremulous hand Ay quicker and the fail
in the fathers hand come down upon the
barn floor with o vigorous thump. Pa
rents love to hear good news from their
children. Do you send them good news
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LOOK OUT FOB THE YOUNG NAN
who speaks Of hisfather as ''the governor"
the squire" or the "old chap" Look
ont for the young woman who calls her
mother her maternal ancestor" or the
"old woman" The eye that mocketh at
his father, and refuseth to obey his mother,
the ravens of the valley shall pick it out
and the young eagles shall eat it."
God grant that all these parents may
have the great satisfaction OF seeing their
children grow up Christians But OBJ the
pang of that mother who, after life OF
streetgadding and gossip-retailing, hang
ing on the children the tripperies aud fol.
lies of this world, sees those children toss.
ed out on the sea OF life like foam on the
wave, or nouenities in world where only
bravery and stslwart character can stand
the shock But blessed be the mother
who looks upon her children ss sons ard
daughters OF the Lord Almighty.
OH the satisfaction of Hannah in see.
ing Samuel serving at the altar; OF Mother
Eanice IN seeing her Timothy learned in
the Scriptures. That is the mothers
recompense to gee children coming up use
ful in the world, reclaiming the lost, heal
ing the sick, plying the ignorant. earnest
and useful in every sphere. That throws
q new light back on the old family Bible
whenever she reads it, and that will be
ointment to soothe the aching limbs OF .
decrepitude, and light up the closing hours
Of lifes day with the glories Of an autumnal
sunset.
There she sits,
THE OLD CHRISTIAN NEITHER,
ripe for heaven. Her eyesght is almost
gone, but the spIendors of the Celestial City
kindle up her vision. The gray light OF
Heavens morn has struck through the
gray locks which are folded back over
the wrinkled temples. She stoops very
much now under the burden Of care che
used to carry for Der children. She sits at
home, too old to find her way to the house
of God; but while she sits there, all the
past comes back, and the children that
forty years ago tripped around her arm
chair with their griefs, and joys, ani sor-
rows-those children are gone now. Some
caught up into better realm, where they
shall never die and others out in the
broad world, testing the excellency of q
Christian mothers discipline. Her last
days are full OF peace; and cslmer aud
sweeter will her spirit become, until the
gate5 OF life Ghall lift and let in the worn.
out pilgrim into eternal spring tide and
youth, where the limbs never ache, and
the eyes never grow dim, and the staff OF
the exhausted ard decTepit pilgrim shall
become the palm OF the immortal athlete.