Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-01-19

You struck her down The tent pin that
Jael drove three times into the skull OtSlsera
was not 50 cruel as tds stab YOU have ma 10
more than three times through your mother
heart. But she j. waiting yet, for mothers
arc slow 60 give up tuctF BOYS -WAilEE II
soma window, u n,ay be Il window oa earn
or az some window IN heaven. Anl others
may cast You OF. Your wife may sss<
divorce AMI have no patience with you.
Your father may disnuerit YOU aud say
"I.r him n-yrr again darSen the door o. our
house" But there are two persons who do
not give YOU up Col and mother
How many disappointed mothers waitiny
at the window Perhaps the pane' oil the
window are not great glass plate, hevel
edf.el ami lowered over 10y exquisite lam
hrcquin bat the window Is made OF small
panes, | would say about six or "ight OF
Them. in summer wrcathei with trailing
ylEe anc IN w.nJcr pictured by tle -.apaaes
OF the forest, real country window. The
mother sits there knitting. or busy with her
needle on homely repairs, when she looks up
and sees coming across the bridge OF the
meadow brook a stranger who dismounts In
front ofthe window He lifts and drops the
heavy kuocker the farmhouse door. Come
ia !" IL the response He gives his u lme AMI
says II have come on aS9d crrand. 'shtro
Is nothing the mattar with my son Ia the
cary, Is tltIrs size hSN-u. - uC HhfE.
''Your son got into an an fortunate encounter
with young mau in liquor saloon last
night and Is badly hurt. The fact is he can
not get well. 1 hate TO tell you all. AIN
sorry to say he is dead" Dead ~ she cries
rs she tOtterS back 'OI NV son my son
my SON Would God | hal diet for thee ~
That Is the en- ling Of all her cares and ankle
ties aud good cOdnsels for that boy. That
is her pay Tor her SELF sacrifices in his bshalf
~, f., h.a lnf M
tidings OF derelict or Christian sons travel TO
the windows Of earth OF the windows OF
heaven 1T which mothers sit.
But" SAYS some one. ARE YOU not mis-
taken about my glOriiled mother hearing OF
my ey,ldolngs sue she went away: says
some one e'se Are YOU not mistaken about
my gorned mother nearing OF my self sacri-
flee aud moral bravery an | struggle TO do
right NO. Heaven and earth are In con-
slant communication. There are trains run
ming every Ave minutes trains OF immortals
ascending ami descending spirits going
from earth TO heaven 10 live there SPIRITS
descending from heaven to earth TO min.
lister AMI help They hear from US
many times every day. Do they heat
good news or bad news from the battle,
this Sedan. this rhermopylg. this Austen
liiz. in which every one " us is lighting on
the right side or the wrong side. q God,
whose | am. AMI whom am trying TO
Serve 80 result OF this sermon, roll over
CA all mothers anew sense % cir responst-
biiitY, ami upOn all children. whether still
in the nursery or OIt on tue tremendous
distraction OF midtl life or Did age, the fact
that their Victories or defeats sound clear
ou:. clear up to the We lows Of sympathetic
maternity Ga. Is no. this the minute when
tn" cloud o; blessing died with tn aNhslei
tears OF anxious mothers shall hurst in
showers OF mercy TINS audience
There - oan thought thIt - almost too
u!er toralltrrantp. ! RimOst fear 10 start
It lest have not enough control OF my emo
ton 10 roncn te II. A. wnen w. were chill
drrn W. 50 often came ia from play or from
hart or from soma childish injustice prac-
tireI upon rs AMI ~ soon as the door was
opened ", crrI. Where's mother AMI
she said. HI am, an W. huriel QUE
weeping faces IN her lap, SO aztec awhile,
when We get throu:h with the pleasures aud
hurts 81 this life. We will, by the pIdonng
mercy Of Chrst enter the heavenly nome, and
among the first questions, not the hrst. but
among the first, will br ta5 OIL question that
We used TO, ask, the question that is being
asked in thousands OF places at this very
moment--the question. Where's MOTHER
Aui 1t will not take long for us to hni her
or for aer to flnd us. for she will have been
watching nj the win ow for our coming.
and with the other children OF our household
.. earth ", will again gather round her, and
sac will say We'll. how did you get through
the battle o: life? | have often heard from
others about you but now | want 10 hear
it from YOUR own souls Tell mo all about
H. my children - Aud then We will tell
ner OK al o4r earthly experiences,
the holidays. the marriages, the birth hours,
the burials til, hearbreaks. the losses, the
gains. the victories. the defeats, and she will
say Never min /. II is all over now. see
each one OF yon has crown, which was
given you at tine gate as you came through.
Now east 1t At the feet OF the Christ who
saved you and s.ved me sul saved US all
Thank Col, We are never TO part, anl for all
the ages OF eternity you will never again
have. to reE, 'Waers mother!