IT is a beautiful picture, to see the love of the father and mother expressed upon the children, and that from their infancy, but still better it is to see, along with that love, the tare to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Great too is the responsibility of such children, as a preacher once put it, “To have been nursed upon the lap of the godly, to have been rocked in the cradle and hushed to sleep with a lullaby in which the name of Jesus comes as a sweet refrain—this involves a great responsibility. No one can go to hell over a mother’s tears without accumulated vengeance. No son can rebel against a father’s affectionate and tearful admonitions, without perishing many times more frightfully than if he had never been thus privileged.
“Dost thou remember, young man, how thy mother put her arms around thy neck, and wooed thee to turn to Christ?
“Do you remember that little Bible given you when you first went to school, and the verse inscribed as a motto?”
Yes, dear reader, there are many in the condition the preacher described, and have grown up to manhood and womanhood and have hardened their hearts against the early teachings of their parents, and have gone on without the fear of God. May it not be your case, but may you give heed to the Word of God, meditate upon its pages, accept the Lord Jesus as your Savior, and walk in His ways. Peace and happiness shall be yours for time and eternity. What a contrast to the Christ rejecter.
“MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF THY FATHER, AND FORSAKE NOT THE LAW OF THY MOTHER.” Prov.1:8.
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