Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-29
". Again, and lastly, Hannah stands

". Again, and lastly, Hannah stands
oeiore YOU the rewarded mother. For all
! the coats she made for Samuel, for all the
! prayers she offered for him, for the disci-
! pine eSerted over him, she got abundant
compensation In the piety, and the useful
ness and the popularity OF her son sam
| uel; ana that is true in all ages. Every
mother gets full pay for all the prayers
ana tears In behalf of her children. That
man useful in commercial life; that man
! prominent in profession; that master
mechanio-why, every step he takes in
life has an echo OF gladness in the old
neart that long ago taught him to be
Christian, aud hsroic and earnest.
The story of what you have done or
what you have written of the influence
yOn have eXerted has gone back TO the old
homestead, for there ia some one always
ready to carry good tidings and that sto-
ry makes the needle ia the Old mothers
! tremulous hand fly quicker and the fail
In the fathers hand come down upon the
barn floor with vigorous thump. Par
ents love to hear good news from their
children. Do you send them good news
alwaysp
Look out for the young man who speaks
OF his father as ''the GOVERNOR" the
Esquire" or the 'oId chap" Look out
Tor the young woman who calls her moth
er her "maternal ANCESTOR or the "old
woman" "rhe eye that mOcketh at mis-
father and reiuseth to obey his. mother the
ravens OF the valley shall pick IL 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 Oh!
the pang of that mother who, after life
OF street-gadding and gossip-ratailing,
hanging on the chilaren the fripperies aud
foliies OF this world, sees those children
tossed out on the sea OF life like foam on
the wave, ornonentities In world where
only bravery and stalwart character can
stand the shOcki But blessed be the
mother who looks upon her children as
sons and daughters OF the Lord Almighty.
Ohi the satisfaction Of Hannah in
seeing Samuel serving at the altar;
Of Mother Eunice in seeing
her Timothy learned in the Scrip
turesi That Is the mothers recOmpense,
10 see children coming up useful in the
world, reclaiming the lost, healing the
sick, plying the ignorant, earnest and
useful in every sphere. That throws
new light back on the old family Bible
whenever she reads IT,, and that will be
ointment to soothe the aching limbs of de-
crepItude and light UP the closing hours
of hfe's day with the glOries of an
autumnai sunset.
There she sits, the old Christian mother,
zone, but the splendors OF the Celestial
City kindle up her vision. Tue 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 she
used 10 carry for her 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
armchair with their griefs, and joys, and
sOrr0 0ws-th0se children are gone now.
Some caught up into a better realm,
where they shall never die, and others
out in the broad world, testing the ex-
cellency OF a Christian mothers discip-
line. Her last days are fun Of peace; and
calmer and sweeter will her spirit be-
come, until the gates Of lite shall 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 and deere
pit pilgrim shall become the palm OF the
immortal athlete.