The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-17

you got better. and were fre.ful and hard
to please, as is usual in co lvalesceuce, she
kept her patience so well, aud was as kind
as you were unreasonable and cross. ..
mdnigats of moth rlv watching, how can
YOU keep siloncel Speak out AID tell that
| wandering young mal tbs story that he so
much needs to hear.
by the by, wonder what has become
of our old cradle in which all Of US children
were rocked l must ask my sister next
time. We we're a large ia uily, aud that
old Grad e was gong a good many years.
| / remember just how IL loose1. 1t was
old-fashioned and had no tapestry. Its two
sides and a canopy all of plain wood. but
there was a great deal of sound sleeping in
that cradle, and many aches and pains were
pothed by It as it moved TO and fro by
day and night. Most wildly I remember
| that the rockers, which came out from. under
the cradle, were on the top d de very
smooth, so smooth that they actually
gliste ed They must have been worn
smooth by loot that long ago ceased its
! j iUrney. How tired the foot that pressed
| / sometimes must have gotl But it did not
! stop for that. 1t want right.on AMI rocked
for Phebe the first, and for Dewitt TIE last.
/ And it was a cradle like that, or perhaps of
NJ darn make and richly upholstered, in
which your mother rocked you. Can it be
| for all that care and devotion you are oay-
/ ing her back with harsh words or negle Is,
or wicked life? Then l must tell you
that you are the foolish sol who is the
heaviness of his mother" Better go
home and Kiss her, and ask her
forgiveness. Kiss her on the lips
that have so often prayed for you. Kiss her
on the forehead taat so often ached for you.
kiss her on the eyes that have so often wept
over you. Better g right away for she
will be dead before long. And how will
you feel then at e. you realize it is Your
waywardness that killed herl Romulus
made no law against partricide. or the slay.
ing of a father, matrcde, or the slaying of
mother, because he con 5iderei such crimes
Impossible, and for 800 years there was not
crime Of that sort in Rome. But then
came Lucius Ostius, AID slew his father.
proving the crime possible. Now. do you
not think that the cniid, who b. wrong be-
havior sends his father to a premature
grave, is patricide. or who by misconduct
nastens mother into the tomb, is matri-
eide?
The hsaviness of parents over a sons de-
pravtv is all the greater because it means
spiri ual disaster and overthrow That is
the worst thing about it. In the pension
regulations soldier receives for loss of both
hands or feet S72. For loss of one hand and
one foot 1885, For loss of hand or foot
$50. For loss of both eyes $72 But who
ruined body, mind, and soul? How can
parents have any happiness about your
future destiny, oh young man goue
astraY2 Can such opposite lives as
you and they are living come out
at the same placo2 Can holiness and dis
sipation enter tie same gate? Where is the
little PRAYER that was taught you at your
mot ers knees Is the God they loved and
worshipped your God! 1t is your soul about
which they are most anxious, your soul
that shall live after the earth itself shall be
glrdled with flames, aud the flames, dying
down, will leave the planet only a live coal.
and the live coal shall have become ashes,
and then the ashes shall be scattered by the
whirlwinds of the Almighty.
But" says some young man, ''my mother
is gone; my behavior will not trouble her
any more.
Oh that those lips had language! Life has
With me but roughly since heard thee last.
What Is she dead2 How you startle mel
l. she deads Then perhaps you have her
picture Hang 1T up in your room in the
place where you oftenest look. Go and
stud her features, and while you are look
ing the past will come back, and you NAV
hear her voice, which is now so still, speak
again, saying: From my heavenly home,
my dear boy, solicit your ref rma ion and
salvation. Go to the Christ who pardoned
me, and he will pardon you. NY heaven
will not be complete till | hear of your
changing. But l will hear Of it right away.
for there is joy up here when one sinner re.
penteth; and o, if the next news of that
kiad that CO mes up here might come up re-
girding you, o my child of many
tears and anxeties and prayersi Come.
my boy, do you not hear your mothers
| volce9 Q my son, my son, would God that
| uld die for theel o my son, my son I
Young mani what news for heaven would
be your conversion Swifter than tele-
| graphic wire ever carried congratulations
| to wedding or a coronation would Hy
heavenward the news ( your deliverance:
and whether the one most intereste in your
salvation were on the river bank, or in the
temple, or on the battlements, or in the
great tower, the message would be instantly
received, and before tlIs service is closed
angel would cry to angel: Have you
| heard the news9 Out yonder is a mother
who has just heard Of her hayward boys
redemption. Another prodigal has got
home. The dead is alive again, and the
lost is found. Hallelujahl Amenw