WE see from this picture that it was taken many years ago. The things in this room are not at all like those we have in our homes. This chair has wheels on it, so that baby can easily be moved from place to place. Even the doll, lying on a low bench by the baby’s chair, looks very different from our dolls of today. The mother is standing near the table. She has a string in her hand and is playing with the kitten as it rolls’ about on the floor. The baby seems to be enjoying the fun, for he is leaning forward in his chair as far as he can. What a queer dress this mother wears! Our mothers do not dress this way now. But there is one thing in the picture that has not changed. It is the love this mother has for her baby.
Time changes many things about us, but our mothers of today, love us just as tenderly as this mother loves her child. A love like this is always the same. How happy the thought of our mother’s love should make us! Our playmates love us dearly one day and often turn coldly from us on the next. When we grow older we will often find the same thing to be true with our friends. But our mothers will always love us, come what will.
In the Bible we find, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.” Ps. 8:13.
From the unchanging love of our mothers and fathers, we can, in a small way, realize the love of Christ for those who believe in Him. His love is the greatest of any love, for the Bible tells us, “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” Ps. 27:10. Christ left His home above and came down to die upon the cross for us. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend.” John 15:1313Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13). He also tells us, in His word that He never changes.
ML 06/15/1902