The Portland daily press., 1892-12-10

memory of past watchfulness.Y But the
strength of mothers love is entlrely
independent of the past and the future,
and is, of all emotions, the purest. The
child has done nothing in the past TO
earn kindness, and in the future IT may
grow up to maltreat its parent, but still
from the mothers heart there goes forth
inconsumable affection.
Abuse cannot offend it; neglect cam
not chill it; time cannot etface 1t; death
cannot destroy it. For harsh words it
has gentle chiding; for the blow it has
beneficent ministry; for neglect 1t has
increasing watchfulness. 1t weeps at
the prison door over the incarcerated
/ prodigal, and pleads for pardon at the
governors feet. and is forced away by
compassionate friends from witnessing
the struggles of the gallows. Other
lights go out, but this burns on without
extinguishment, as in gloom struck
night you may see single star, one OF
Gods pickets, with cleaning bayonet OF
light guarding the outposts of heaven.
II The Marchioness of Spadara, when
i the earthquake rat Messina occurred,
/ was carried ont insensible from the
i falling houses olOn coming to her
Il senses she found, that her infant had
| not been rescued She went back and
/ persisted in the ruins. Illustration of
| ten thousand mothers who IN as many
\ different ways have sacrificed themselves
i for their children.
7 cls1 BE KIND to- THE AGED PARENT,f n
Il Oh, despise not mothers love! If
| heretofore you have been negligent of
such one, and you have still oppor
| tunity for PREPARATION, make haste. If
you could only just look in for an hours
visit to her, you would rouse up in the
aged one whole world of blissful mem
cries. What if she does sit, without
talking much? She watched you for
many months when you knew not how
to talk at all. What if she has many
ailments to tell about? During fifteen
! years you ran to her with every little
| scratch and bruise, and she doctored
your little finger as carefully as a sur
| geon would bind the worst fracture.
You say she is childish now; wonder
if she ever saw you when you were
childish. You have no patience to walt
| with her on the street, she moves. SO
| slowly; I wonder if she remembers the
| time when you were glad enough to go
| slowly You complain at the expense of
| providing for her now; I wonder what
| your financial income was from one year
to ten years ofEage. Do not begrudge
what you do fer1 the old folks. a care
not how much you did for them; they
have done more for you. t%gSf
q But from thisweird text of the morn
ing comes rushing in upon my soul a
| thought that overpowers me4G.'This
watching by Rizpah was an after death
watching. wonder if now there is an
after death watching. 1 think there is.
| There are Rizpahs who have passed
death and are still watching. They look
down from their supernal and glorifed
| state upon us, and is not that an after
| death watching? / cannot believe that
those who before their death were inter-
ested in us have since their death become
| Indifferent as to what happens to us.
Not.one hour of the six months during
which Rizpah watched, seated upon the
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armed for us than our mother, if glori-
fed, is alert and diligent and armed for
us. 1t is not now Rizpah on a rock, but
Rizpah on throne. How long has your
mother been dead? Do you think she
has been dead long enough to. forget
you? My mother has been dead twenty
| nine years. I believe she knows more
o1,o,,4 ~, q ,,oxxy +1,o,, che did yzyonrn Tctood
in her presence, and am no Spiritualist
either. The Bible says, care they not
all ministering spirits sent forth to min
lister to them that shall be hairs of saliva
tion2'' gF5s l.s
bsYoung man,. better look out what
you do and where you go, for your glo-
! rified mother is looking at youJ You
sometimes say to yourself, "Whatwould
| mother say if she knew this!' Shedoes
know. You might cheat her once, but
you cannot cheat her now. Does it en-
barrass us to think she knows all about
us now? If she had to put up with so
much when she was here, surely she
will not be the less patient or excusa-
tory now.
THE WATCH AFTER DEATH.
| Oh, this tremendous thought of my
text-this after death watching! What
an uplifting consideration, and what a
comforting thought! Young mother,
you who have just lost your babe, and
who feel that need Of nearer solace
than that which comes from ordinary
sympathy, your mother knows all about
it. You cannot run in and talk it all
over with her as you would if she were
still a terrestrial resident, but,tis will
comfort you some, think-yea,lit will
comfort you good deal-to know that
she Understandable all. You see that the
velocities of the heavenly conditions are
i so great that it would not take hera half
second to come to your bereft heart.
e1Oh, these mothers in heaven!f They
can do more for us now than before
they went away The bridge between
this world and the next is not broken
down. They approach the bridge from
both ways, departing spirits and coming
spirits, disimprisoned spirits and SYM
pathizing spirits. And SO let us walk as
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