The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-30

i to that party The daughter took thu
dress; and she moved In the gay circle.
the gayest Of all the gay that night;
4 and, sure enough all RELIGIOUS I'M I'M.
pressions were gore, and she stopped
fpraying. IA few months after she came
/ to die; and in her closing moments.
said: Mother, wish you would
/ bring me that dress that cost $500, /,
The mother thought it & was a very
strange request, but she brought it to
/ please the dying child. q ow, 3 a said
the daught en- mother, hang that
dress on the foot of my bed = and the
1 dress was hung there on the foot Of
/ the bed. Then the dying girl got up on
lone elbow and looked at her mother.
and then Pointed to the dress and said:
Mother, hat dress is tie price Of nv
soul!a Q, what q momentous thing it
is to be a mother!
Again, and lastly: Hannah stands
before you to-day, the rewarded moth
er. For all the coats she made for
Samuel; for all the prayers she offered
for him, she got abundant compensa-
ton in the piety and the usefulness
and the popularity of her son Samuel:
and that is true in all ages. Every.
mother gets full pay for all the prayers
and tears in behalf Of her children.
That man, useful in commercial life:
that man, prominent in the prof
that master mechani C-Why every step
he takes in life has an echo of gladness
in the old heart that long ago taught
him to be Christian and heroic and
earnest. The story Of what you have
done OF what you have written, of the
influence you have exerted, has gone
hsso oh
someone always ready to carry good
tidings and that story makes & the
needle IN the old mothers fingers f1y.
quicker, and the fail in the fathers
hand come down upon the barn floor
with more vigorous thump. 4
e Parents love to hear coed news from
their children. Do you send them
good news, always? Look out for, the
young man who speaks of his father
as the governor" the SQUIRE or the
"old chap" Look cut for the youn,
woman who calls her mother her una
ternal ancestor" or the tto1d woman ~
#''The eye that mocketh at his father,
and refuseth to obey his mother, the
ravens Of the valley shall pick it out.
and the young eagles shall eat it,
God grant that all these parents may
have the great satisfaction of seeing
their children grow up Christians.
But, q, the pang of that mother who.
after life of streat-gadding and Cos
slp-retailing, hanging on her children
the fripperies and follies of this world.
sees those children tossed out on the
sea of life like foam on the wave, orr
nonenities in a world where only
sbraWny and stalWalt character eau
stand the shock! But blessed be the
mother who looks upon bel children as
sons and daughters of the Lord Al
mighty! O, the satisfaction of Han
nah in seeing Samuel serving at the
altar; of Mother Eunice in seeing her
Timothy learning the Scriptures. That
is the mothers recompense; to see
children coming up useful in the world,
retaining the lost, healing the sick, /;
plying the ignorant, earnest and use
full in every sphere. That throws a
new light back upon the old family
Bible whenever she reads it; and that
will be ointment to soothe the aching
limbs of decreptitude, End light up the
closing hours Of life's day with the
glories of an autumnaI sunset!
There she sits-the old Christian
mother-ripe for heaven. Her eyesight
is almost gone; but the splendors ST
the celestial city kindle up her vision.
The gray light of heavens morn has
struck Through the gray locks which
are folded back over the wrinkIed tenn
pies. She stoops very much now I'M
der the burden Of care she used to,
carry for her children She sits at
home to-day, too old to find her way to-
the house of God; but while she sits
there, all the past comes back, and the
children that forty years ago trooped1
around her arm chair with their little
griefs and joys and sorrow s-those
children are all gone now. Some
caught up into better realm, where
they shall never die, and others out in
the broad world, attesting the excel
lency of Christian mothers disci-
pine. Fer last days are full Of peace;
and calmer and sWeeter will her spirit
become. until the gates Of life shall
lift and let the WORKOUT pilgrim into
eternal spring tide and youth, where
the limbs never ache and the eyes nev-
er grow dim, and the staff of the ex-
hausted and decIepit pilgrim shall be-
come the palm of the Immortal atb-s
lete.