The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-07-29
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how many of them, do you suppose, as
signed as the means of their conVer-
sion the influence of 4 Christian mother:
One hundred ont of the hundred and
twenty. Philip Doddridge was brought
to God by tie Scripture lesson on the
Dutch tile of the chimney fireplace. The
mother thinks she is only rocking
child, but at the same time she may be
rocking the destiny of empires. rocking
the fate OF nations, rocking the glorlcs
of heaven The same maternal power
that may lift child up may press
child down. A daughter came to
worldly mother and said she was anx-
ious about her sins and she had been
praving all night The mother said:
"Oh, stop praying! I don't believe IN
praying. Get over all those religious
notions, and III give you dress that
will cost five hundred dollars, and you
NAV wear it next week to that party.
The daughter took the dress, and she
moved in the gay circle, the gaycst OF
all the gay that night, and, sure enough,
all religious impressions were gone, and
she stopped praying. A few months aft
or. she came to die and in her closing
moments said, Mother, I wish you
would bring me that dress that cost
$500" The mother thought it was a
very strange request, but she brought 1t
to please the dying child. Nov, said
the daughter. mother, hang that dress
Oh the foot of my bed. y And the dress
was hung there on the foot of the bed
Then the dying girl got up on one ell
bow and looked at her mother and then
pointed to the dress and said, "Mother,
that dress is the price of my soul. On,
what . momentous thing it is to be
mother!
Again, and lastly, Hannah stands be-
fore you today, the rewarded mother.
For ali the coats she made tor Samuel,
for all the prayers she offered for him,
for the discipline she exerted over him,
she got abundant compensation III the
piety and the usefulness and the popu-
larity Of her son Samuel, and that is
true in all ages. Every mother gets full
pay for all the prayers and tears III be-
half of her children. That man useful
in commercial life, that man prominent
III the profession, that master mechanic
why, every step he takes IL life has
an echo of gladncss i'll the old heart that
long AGO taught him to be Christian and
heroic and earnest The story OF what
YOU have done or what you haze writ
ten, of the influence you have exertcd,
has gone back to the old homeStead-tor
there is some cne always ready to carry
good tidings-and that story makes the
needle in the old mothers tremulous
hand fly quicker aud the fail In the
| fathers hand come down upon the barn
floor with u more vigorous thump. Par
ents love to hear good news from their
children. Do you send them good news
ALWAYS? Look out for the young man
who speaks of his father as the "gov-
ernor, the "squire' or the 'old chap y
Look out for the young woman who
calls her mother her maternal an
cestor' or the cold woman. y 1.-THE eye
that r1ocketh 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 salts
faction of seeing their children grow up
| Christians.
But, Oh, the pang of that mother who.
after life of street gaddiDg and gossip
retailing, hanging on her children the
| fripperies and fcllies of this world, sees
those children tossed out en- the sea of
life like foam on the wave or nonentl-
ties in a world where only brawny and
stalwart character can stand the shock!
| Rut blessed be the mother who looks
upon her children as sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty! Oh, the satisfac-
| ton Of Hannah in seeing Samuel serv-
ing at the altar; of Mother Eunice IN
seeing her Timothy learned in the
Scriptures. That is the mothers recon-
pense-to see children coming up useful
in the world, reclaiming the lost, heal
ing the sick, pitying the Ignorant, ear
nest and useful in every sphere. That
throws lew light back Oh the old
family Bible whenever she reads it; and
that will be ointment to soothe the ach-
ing limbs of dccrepitude and light up
the closing hours of life's day with the
glories of an autumnal sunset.
There she sits-the old Christian
| mother-ripe for heaven. Her eyesight
is almost gone, but the splendors Of 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 wrinkled temples. She
stoops very much now under the burden
of care she used to carry for her chill
dren She sits at home today, 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 40 years
ago trooDed around her armc-air with
their little gricfs and joys and sorrows,
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
excellence of q Christian mothers dis
cipline. Her last days are full of peace,
and calmer and swceter will her spirit
become, until the gates of life shall lift
and let the wornout pilgrim into eternal
springtide and youth, where the limbs
never ache and the eyes never grow
dim and the staff of the exhausted and
decrepit pilgrims shall become the palm
Of the immortal athlete.