The progress., 1890-03-22
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and education and advantages, ana com
Portable starting in the world, and must
get a little something ahead, so that II l am
taken away these helpless ores VIII not oe
turned out on the cold charities OF the
world Yes. your father has been good
friend to you. He has never told anyone,
and he never win tell anyone, OF the sacrt-
fees he has made for YOU And he is ready
10 keep right on until unto that hand that
has been toillng for YOU all these years
snail come the very numoness OF death
You cannot afford to break his heart. But
YOU are doing il. les. you are. on nave
driven the dagger clear in up 10 the hilt-
And YOUR motner-I warrant she has
never told YOU much about the nights when
YOU were down with scarlet fever, or dlph-
iberia, and she slept not Il wink, or falling
into drowsiuess, your first cry awakened
her, and brought the words, ''N hat Is II,
my dear.'' oh, If the rocking chair could
speak OH ii the cradle could only tell
its story OF years !, And whom YOU got bet
ter and were fretful and hard 10 please, as
is usual in conyalcscence, she kept her pa
thence SO We'll and was as Kind as you were
( unreasonable and cross. oh, midnights OF
/ ,motherly watching, how can YOU keep
+ silence! Speak out and tell that wander
ing Young man the story that he so much
needs 10 hear.
I. BY the bye, wonder what has become
! of our old cradle in which all of us Child
! dren rocked / must ask my sister when
see her next tune. we were large fam
4 lily, and that old cradle was going a good
many years. | remember Just how it look.
! ed. III was old fashioned and had no tap
! estry. Its two sides and canopy all OF
plain wood, but there was a great deal of
sound sleeping in that cradle and many
aches and pains were soothed by it as 1t
moved to and fro by day and night
Most vividly 1 remember that
the rockers, which camc out from
under the cradle, were on the top and side
very smooth, SO smooth that they actually
I glistened. They must have been worn
smooth by a foot that long ago ceased its
journey How tired the foot that pressed
it must sometimes have got But 1T did
not stop for that. 1t went right on and
rocked Tor phebe the first, and for DE Witt
the last And it WAS cradle like that, or
perhaps of modern make and richly up
holstered, in which your mother rocked
you. Can it be that for all that
4 care and devotion you are
paying her. back with harsh
words or neglects, or wicked life! Then
must tell you that you are the foolish
!. son who is the heaviness OF his mother. :"
Better go home and kiss her, and ask her
forgiveness. Kiss heron the lips that have
so often prayed for you. Kiss her on the
forehead that so often ached Tor YOU. Kiss
her on the eyes that have so often wept
over you. Better go right away, Tor sue
will be dead before long. And no"
will you feel then after you realize
it is your waywardness that klileu
hera Romelus made no law against
patricide or the Staying of a father,
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mother. because he considered such crimes
impossible, and for six hundred years there
was not a crime Of that sortln Rome. But
then came Lucius Ostius, and slew his
father, proving the crime possible. Now,
do you not think that the child, who by
wrong behavior, sends his father TO pre-
mature grave is patrlcide, or who by mis-
| conduct hastens mother into the tomb Is 9
matricide:
The heaviness of parents oyer sons de-
pravity is all the greater because 1t means
spiritual disaster and overthrow. That Is
the worst thing about it. In tho pension
regulations a soldier receives for loss OF
both hands or feet So. For loss Of onf
hand and one foot S36. For loss of a hanc
or foot $50. For loss OF both eyes
$72 But who can calculate the value OF ;
whole man ruined body, mind, ant
soul! How can parents have any happl
ness about your future destiny, oh youns
man gone astrayl Can such opposite lMeS
as YOU and they are living come out at the
same place! Can holiness and dissipation
enter the same gate! Where is the Httl
prayer that was taught you at you
mothers kneel Is the God they loved ant
worshipped your God: 1t is you
, soul about which they are mos
! anxious, your soul that shall Av
after the earth itself shall be gil
died with flames, and the flames, dJ
! : ing down, will leave the planet only liv
: coal and the live coal shall have becom
: ashes, and then the ashes shall be scatter
ed by the whirlwinds of the Almighty.
But" says some young man, IN
mother is gone; my behavior will no
! trouble her any more.
'.Oh that those lips had language! LII
has passed
With me but roughly since heard the
laSt.n
g What! Is she dead. How you startle me
a Is she deadl Then. perhaps you have he
, picture. Hang it UP in your room in tn
place where you oftenest look. Go an
: study her features, and while you al
/; looking the past will come back, an
g Won NAV hear her voice, which
o now SO still, speak again, saying
$ s.F'rom my heavenly home, my dea
r boy, solicit your reformation and salv'
q tion Go to the Christ who pardoncd M
o and He will pardon you. My heaven wi
not be complete till hear Of your chan
u ing. But will hear of it right away II
9 there is Joy up here when OF
e sinner repenteth; and oh, II the ne
u news of that kind that comes uphere mig
n come up regarding you, oh my chi
II of many tears and anxieties and prayers
IS Come my boy, do you not hear your mott
:. er's voice. Omy son, my son, would Gc
II that could die for thee! @ my son, n
P, son!. Young man! what news for heavt
u would be your conversation Swifter thf
ID than telegraphic wire ever carried congra
's ulations to a wedding or acoronation wou
fy heavenward the news OF your dellve
a a ance: and whether the one most interest
~ in your salvation were on rlver-Dan
70 or in the temple, or on the battlements,
~ in the great tower, the message would
20 instantly received, and before this servi
is closed angel would cry to angel: "Ha
90 Won heard the newsl Oct yonder is
~ ~ mother who has just heard OF her waywa
- boy,s redemption. Another prodigal b
20 got home The dead is alive again, and I