Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-12-24

slunet Wnom you taught to pray, the
outcast whom you pointed to God for shell
ter. win say: you did it : them, You
did it to Me-
Again, the scene OF the text inpresses up
on us the strength OF maternal attachment.
Not many men would have had courage or
endurance for the awful mission Of Rizpah-
To dare the rage Of Wild beasts. and sit from
May to October unsheltered. 4nd TO watch
the corpses OF unsheltered children. wds a
work that nothing but the maternal heart
could have accomplished. it needed more
strength than to stand before opened batter
les or to walk in calmness the deck of q
laundering steamer.
There is no motion 50 completely unsel-
fish as maternal affection. Conjugal love
expects the return of many kindnesses AID
attentions. Filial love expects paternal care
or is helped by the memory of past watch
fulness. But the strength of a mothers love
is entirely 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. n in the future 1t may
grow I'D to maltreat its parent, but sun
from the mothers heart there goes forth
inconsumable affection.
Abuse cannot offend it: neglect cannot
chill 1t; time cannot eface it; death cannot
destroy it. For harsh words it has gentle
Gliding, for the blow it has bene1cent min
istry: for neglect it has increasing watch
fulness. It weeps at the prison door over the
incarcerated prodigal, and pleads for pardon
at the governors feet, and is forced way
by compassionate friends from witnessing
the struggles of the ~gallows. Other lights
go out, but this burns on without extinguish-
ment, as in a gloom-atruek plight you may
see a single star. one of GoTs pickets, With
cleaning bayonet Of light guarding the out
posts OF heaven.
The Marchioness of Spadara, wnen the
oortbn1oEo of MocSino 0cr1rrai was car-
ried out .insensible from the falling houses.
On coming TO her 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
for their children.
Or. despise not a mothers love! If here
tofore you have been negligent of such a
one, and you have still opportunity for
repararion, make haste. 1t you could only
lust look in for an hours visit to her, you
would rouse up in the aged one q whole
world of blissful memories. What If she
does sit without talking much? She
watched you for many months when you
knew not how to talk at all. What it she
has many ailments to tell about? During
fifteen years you ran to her witn every lit
tie scratch aud brulse, and she doctored
you little finger as carefully as a surgeon
would hind the worst fracture.
You say she is childish now; l wonder il
she ever saw you wlen you were childish.
You nave no pafLelce wait with her on
the street. ste moves 50 slowly; | wonder if
she remembers the time when you were glad
enough to 80 slowly. You complain at the
expense OF providing for her now; l wonder
what your financial incom, was from one
year to ten years of age. Do not begrudge
what you do for the old folks. ] care not
how much you did for them; they have done
more for you.
But from the weird tex OF tue morning
comes the rushing in upon my soul a thought
that overpowers me- This watching by
rlzpan va, en- avn ,voUt -uveafns. :
wonder il now there is an after death watch
ing. [ think there is. There are Rizpahs
who have passei death and are still watch
ing. They look down from their superna|
and glorjiied state upon us, and is not that
an after death watching? | cannot believe
that those who before tneir death were in
terested 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
rocks. was sue more alert or dlligent or
armed for Us than our mother, if g1orihaa
is alert and dlilgent AMI armed for us. Ii
is not now Rizpah on a rock. but RlZpah on
a throne. How long has your mother been
dead? Do you think she has been lead long
0uOUku \ lOIRcC yOu. VI uuOGucl OCCu
dead twenty nine years. | believe she
knows more about me now than she did
when | stood in her presence, and l am nc
Spiritualist either. The Bible says, cara
they not all mlnistering spirits sent forth to
minister to them that shall be heirs Of sal
vation."
Young man, better looz out what you do
and where you 60, for your gloriied mother
is looking at you. You sometimes say to
Yourself, What would mother say il she
knew thisg' She does know. You might
cheat her once, but you cannot cheat bel
now. Does it embarrass us to think she
Knows all about US now IT she had to put
up with SO much when she was here, surely
she will not be the less patient or excusatory
now.
Oh, this tremenio us thou ght Of my text
this after death watching. WHAT an up
lifting consideration, and what a comfort
ing thought! Young mother. vou who
have just lost your babe, AMI who feel that
need Of a nearer solace than that which
comes from ordinary sympathy. your
mother knows all about 1t. You cannot rur
in and talk it all over with her as GU woul'
ii she we're still a terrestrial resident. but i
will comfort you some. |, thinK-yea, 1t viii
comfort you q goo deai-ro know that she
understands it all. You see that til
velocities of the heavenly conditions are Sc
great that it would NOT take her a hal
second to come to your bere1t heart.
Oh, these mothers in heaven! They cal
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 spir
its and coming spirits. disimprisoned spirit:
and sympathlzing spirits. And so let u
walk as to be worthy OF the s%upernal cnauI
pionships, and it to any Of Us life on earth i
a hard grind, let us understand that If W
watch faithfully and trust fully our blesse.
Lord there Will To d corresponding rewar,
in the al OF peace, ami that Rizpah, wht
once wept on a rock, now reigns on
throne,
THaofion Enninos an II nsfarn Earns