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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Christian Mother + or, Notes for Mothers' Meetings + + +Author: Maria Eliza Hoare + + + +Release Date: March 10, 2013 [eBook #42291] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHRISTIAN MOTHER*** + + +Transcribed from the 1876 Hatchards edition by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + THE + CHRISTIAN MOTHER: + + + OR, + + NOTES FOR MOTHERS’ MEETINGS. + + * * * * * + + BY THE LATE + MRS E. HOARE. + + * * * * * + + Second Edition. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY. + 1876. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed by JOHN STRANGEWAYS, Castle St. Leicester Sq. + + + + +PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. + + +THE following Notes were prepared and published some years ago, by one +who has since realised in Heaven the unspeakable value of those precious +truths which she most diligently taught on earth. The little book has +been for a long time out of print, but it appears so calculated to be +useful in the Lord’s service that I have thought it well to publish +another edition. It was said of Abel, ‘He being dead yet speaketh.’ May +the admirable mother by whom these notes were prepared so speak in these +pages to those who know a mother’s care, that they may be assisted to +enjoy the full experience of a mother’s joy! + + E. HOARE. + +TUNBRIDGE WELLS, + _April_, 1876. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +THE following notes have been used by the writer in conducting Mothers’ +Meetings amongst the poorer classes, and it has been suggested that they +may be useful to other ladies engaged in a similar work. + +With this view, she has ventured to publish them in the present concise +form. + +It will be seen that they are merely skeletons, and will require to be +filled up by each person who makes use of them. Thus it will be +necessary to _turn to the texts referred to_, and to enlarge on each head +as familiarly as possible, illustrating it by simple, and telling facts. + +If this is done, and the subjects well studied, it will often be found, +that, although each subject has been generally compressed into one +chapter, it is better to take one, two, or three heads, as affording +sufficient matter for the conversation of a single evening, rather than +too hastily to go over the whole section. + +It will be a cause for thankfulness, if these short notes may be the +means of leading any mothers to search the Scriptures more diligently +with reference to their own especial duties. + +Whether rich or poor—educated or uneducated—mothers all need, in the +great essentials, the _same_ help, the _same_ warnings, the _same_ +encouragements. They want to be comforted, both in duty and trial, by +the _same_ word of promise, and to ‘go boldly to the _same_ throne of +grace to obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.’ It is +earnestly desired that the study of the following pages, which are, in +fact, only a compilation of Scripture, may be the means of leading many +to listen more closely to _His_ voice, who knows so well the mother’s +heart, the mother’s sins, the mother’s sorrows, and the mother’s need. + + M. E. H. + +TUNBRIDGE WELLS, + _December_, 1862. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + PAGE +Importance of Children 9 +The Temper of the Wife, and Mother 11 +Truth—part I. 12 +Truth—part II. 13 +The Excellent Woman—as a Wife 15 +„ „—in her Home 17 +„ „—in her Conversation 19 +„ „—her Religion 21 +„ „—her Reward 22 +How to spend Sunday 24 +Companions 26 +Sloth 28 +The Watchful Mother 29 +The Hasty Mother 31 +The Weary Mother 32 +The Careless Mother 35 +The Careful Mother 37 +The Patient Mother 38 +The Firm Mother 39 +Conversion 41 +Thou, God, seest me 43 +Jesus the Mother’s Friend 44 +Helps for Mothers—part I. 46 +Helps for Mothers—part II. 48 +Teach your Children 50 +The Parting Place, and the Meeting Place 51 +The Mother’s Death-bed 54 +New Year’s Day 55 +First Meeting in the Year 57 +Last Meeting in the Year. The Cradle and the Grave 59 + + + + +I. IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN. + + + ‘Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones.’ Matt. + xviii. 10. + +I. They are important to _Society_. + + Our future soldiers, sailors, servants, fathers, mothers, husbands, + wives, &c., &c. + +II. Important to _yourselves_. + + The babe—the child—the young man—the young woman. + + A gift (Gen. xxxiii. 5; xlviii. 9) which must prove either your crown + (Prov. xvii. 6; Ps. cxxvii. 3) or your bitterness. Prov. xvii. 25; + Gen. xlii. 38. + +III. Important to _themselves_. + + That child must live for ever. + + A living soul committed to your care. + + That child must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ. Rev. xx. 12. + +IV. Important in the sight of _their Father who is in heaven_. + + So important—that for them He gave His only Son to shed His blood. + + So important—that He especially calls, ‘Suffer little children,’ &c. + Mark, x. 14. + + So important—that He gives His angels special charge over them. Matt. + xviii. 10. + + ‘Take heed then that ye despise not one of these little ones.’ + +No jewel so precious as the soul of your child, but how far more do +parents often prize the casket containing it, than the gem itself! + +No plant so needing watchful care and culture; Oh! neglect it not! + +What have YOU done with your jewel, your plant? + + + + +II. THE TEMPER OF THE WIFE, AND MOTHER. + + +I. What she should _not_ be. + + 1. Provoking. Eph. vi. 4. Prov. xv. 1. Gal. v. 26. + + 2. Easily provoked. 1 Cor. xiii. 5. Jam. i. 19. + + 3. Brawling. Prov. xxi. 9; xxv. 24. + + 4. Contentious. Prov. xix. 13; xxi. 19; xxvii. 15. + +II. What she _should_ be. + + 1. Gentle. 1 Thess. ii. 7. 1 Pet. iii. 4. Children are soon + frightened by rough words, or rough treatment. + + 2. Forbearing. Eph. iv. 2. Col. iii. 13. If _you_ cannot bear with + your children, who will? + + 3. Patient. 1 Thess. v. 14. Eccles. vii. 8. A mother has need of + great patience. + + 4. Loving. Tit. ii. 4. + +III. In your daily temper take Christ as your example. + + ‘_Consider Him_ who endured such contradiction of sinners against + himself, lest ye be weary, and faint in your minds.’ Heb. xii. 3. + + + + +III. TRUTH. 1. + + +Importance of truth. Prov. xii. 19. + +The liar’s portion. Rev. xxi. 8; xxii. 15. + +How can you enforce the necessity of truth, and the sin of lying upon +your children? + +I. You must enforce it by _example_. + + 1. Never deceive them. The word passed must never be broken. Be + careful, then, how you promise or threaten. + + 2. Always adhere yourself closely to truth. In _little_ things as + well as _great_, in _deed_ as well as _word_. What a warning is + Rebecca (Gen. xxvii.) of the danger of the first downward step, and the + baneful influence of a mother’s evil example! + + 3. Let them see that you cling closely to truth, even when it is to + your own disadvantage. Ps. xv. 5, Prayer-book version. + + 4. Never get out of a difficulty by an untruth. + +II. To do this be ever— + + Watchful. Ps. cxli. 3. + + Prayerful. Ps. cxix. 29. + + + + +IV. TRUTH. 2. + + +Last meeting we found that it is useless to enforce the necessity of +truth, unless the mother is consistent in her _example_. Besides this: + +II. Enforce it by instruction and by precept. + + Tell—how God hates lying. Prov. vi. 16, 17; xii. 22. + + Tell—histories from Scripture to show how God hates it. Satan, Gen. + iii. 4. Gehazi, 2 Kings, v. 25. Ananias, Acts, v. 1–11. + + Tell—who is the father of lies. John, viii. 44. + + Tell—the consequences of lying. Ps. v. 6; lv. 23. Rev. xxi. 8. + +III. Avoid severity. + + Children are often frightened into deceit by fear of their parents’ + severity. + +IV. Do not put temptations to lie in a child’s way. + + Do not encourage them to conceal anything from their father, + schoolmaster, master, or mistress, if in service. + +V. Correct for a lie. + + It is a false love which dispenses with a needful chastisement. Prov. + xiii. 24; xix. 18. + + But always with prayer. + +VI. Let the child see that you are grieved for his sin. That it gives +you _sorrow_, not only causes _anger_. Ps. cxix. 158. + +VII. Make it a subject of prayer with your child that the way of lying +may be removed from him. Ps. cxix. 29. Prov. xxx. 8. + + + + +V. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN. + + + Prov. xxxi. + + AS A WIFE. + +I. A wife _ought_ to be a chief blessing; a good wife _is_ so. Verse +10. Prov. xii. 4; xviii. 22; xix. 14. + +II. Her husband can safely trust her. Ver. 11. + + Money—children—sure of her affection—no secrets. + +III. She does him good, and not evil all the days of her life. Verse +12. + + Not like Eve. Gen. iii. 6. + + Or Samson’s wife. Enticing—coaxing—teazing—weeping—betraying. Judg. + xiv. 16. + +IV. She cares for his bodily wants. Verses 15, 23. + + To do this must be a ‘keeper at home.’ Tit. ii. 5. + +V. She submits if wills clash. + + Not often the case in a happy home. + + Yields cheerfully, not grudgingly, when in accordance with God’s will. + Col. iii. 18. Eph. v. 22. + +VI. She endeavours to _win_ her husband, does not try to _drive_. 1 +Pet. iii. 1. 1 Cor. vii. 16. + + Win to religion by displaying its beauty and brightness in your lives. + +VII. She is a spiritual help to her husband. 1 Pet. iii. 7. + + ‘Mutual help and comfort.’ Marriage Service. + + Not a hindrance. Luke, xiv. 20. + + A wife has more opportunity than any one of seeing her husband’s + faults. Do not _talk_ about them, but _pray_ about them. + + + + +VI. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN. + + + Prov. xxxi. + + IN HER HOME. + +I. She is diligent. Verses 13, 15, 18, 19, 22, 27. So 1 Tim. v. 10. +Rom. xii. 8. + + No gossiping; standing at doors; idling at neighbours. + + Observe what is said of the diligent in the Book of Proverbs. + + Maketh rich. Prov. x. 4. + + Prospered (Prov. xii. 24, 27; xiii. 4; xxi. 5.) Sometimes worldly + diligence leads to spiritual sloth. Let it not be so with you; but + whilst you are ‘not slothful in business,’ be also ‘fervent in spirit; + serving the Lord.’ Rom. xii. 11. + +II. She is prudent. Verses 13, 14, 15. + + Looks well to her goings. Prov. xiv. 15. Looks forward. Prov. xxii. + 3; xxvii. 12. Enjoys a special blessing. Prov. xix. 14. + +III. Overlooks her household. Verses 15, 21, 27. + + Children, servants, if she has any. + + Your household, of whomsoever it may consist, should share your + blessings and privileges. Gen. xviii. 19. Lev. xvi. 17. Acts, xvi. + 15. + + Important to impress this upon your girls going to service. A _good_ + mistress _ought_, and _will_, look after them. No kindness in lax + discipline. Look back to your own days of service. Who was the best + mistress? 1 Tim. v. 14. + + + + +VII. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN. + + + Prov. xxxi. + + IN HER CONVERSATION. + +I. ‘She openeth her mouth with _wisdom_,’ verse 26. + + 1. No foolish talking, or jesting. Job, xv. 3. Eph. v. 4. + + 2. No chattering or gossip, which tends to penury. Prov. xiv. 23. + Eccles. x. 11, 14. + + 3. No deception. Prov. xxiv. 28; xx. 17. + +II. ‘In her tongue is the law of _kindness_,’ verse 26. + + 1. No tale-bearing or back-biting. Prov. xxv. 23; xxvi. 22. Ps. xv. + 3. + + How mischievous. Prov. xxiv. 2. + + 2. No flattering, like wicked woman. Prov. v. 3; vi. 24. Ps. v. 9. + +III. How important to bridle the tongue. Jam. i. 26. + + There is often much wisdom in silence. Ps. xxxiv. 13. Prov. xvii. 28; + xxix. 11. + + Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ. Philip, + i. 27. Ps. lxxvii. 12. Prov. xv. 4. 1 Pet. iii. 1. 2 Pet. iii. 11. + Col. iii. 16. + + Make this your prayer. Ps. xix. 14; cxli. 3. + + Blessing promised. Ps. l. 23. + +IV. Three good rules. + + 1. So speak to your husband and children, that should these be your + _last_ words, you would not regret them. + + 2. Never say anything of your neighbours you would dislike them to + overhear. + + 3. In all your conversation, remember that the Lord is nigh, and hears + each word. + + + + +VIII. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN. + + + Prov. xxxi. + + HER RELIGION. + +I. The secret of her many excellencies here portrayed. + + It did not consist in _beauty_. Verse 30. A pretty face often leads + to ruin. Prov. xi. 22. Ezek. xxviii. 17. + + Never make much of a child’s beauty. + + But it was this, she was a _religious_ woman, actuated in all she did + by the _fear of the Lord_. Verse 30. + + The woman who fears the Lord. + +1. Hates evil. Prov. viii. 13. + +2. It is her moving principle, ‘all the day long.’ Prov. xxiii. 17. + +3. She is happy, though poor. Prov. xv. 16. + +4. It is her confidence and refuge in trial. Prov. xiv. 26. + +5. It is _well_ with her. Eccles. viii. 12. + +II. She shows her love to Christ, by her love to His people. Verse 20. + + Acts, ix. 36. Heb. xiii. 16. + + You need not be _rich_ to be _charitable_. + + The poorest may give. 2 Cor. viii. 2. + + God looks not at the size, or value of the gift, but the motive from + which it springs. 2 Cor. viii. 12. + + The widow’s mite. Mark, xii. 42, 44. + + The cup of cold water. Matt. x. 42; xxv. 35. + + Nursing a sick neighbour. 1 Tim. v. 10. + + + + +IX. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN. + + + Prov. xxxi. + + HER REWARD. + +I. Her children regard her with grateful love, and look back with +thankfulness to her care and teaching. Verse 28. _e.g._ Timothy, 2 Tim. +i. 5, and David, Ps. lxxxvi. 16; cxvi. 16. + +II. Her husband confides in her, blesses her, honours her. Verse 28. + + Eph. v. 25, 31. 1 Pet. iii. 7. + +III. She reaps the fruit of her labours. Verse 31. Deut. iv. 40. +Prov. xx. 7; xxii. 6; xxix. 17. 2 John, 4. + +IV. She shall rejoice in time to come. Verse 25. + + Not only in this world (Ps. cxviii. 15), but in the life to come. + + In the future kingdom, will not her children, for whom she prayed and + laboured, be to her, as St. Paul says his spiritual children will be to + him, ‘Her joy, her crown of rejoicing in the presence of our Lord Jesus + Christ at His coming?’ 1 Thess. ii. 19. + + Let this cheer the faint-hearted and discouraged Christian mother; she + sows perhaps now with bitter tears, but she shall ‘reap in joy.’ + + + + +X. HOW TO SPEND SUNDAY. + + + ‘Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.’ + +Mothers can effect much by domestic arrangement, and forethought. + +I. Make Saturday a ‘day of preparation.’ ‘Bake that which ye will bake +to-day,’ &c. Exod. xvi. 5, 23. Mark, xv. 42. Luke, xxiii. 54. + +II. Endeavour to make the Sunday + +1. A _holy_ day. + + Exod. xx. 10, 11. Deut. v. 12. Gen. ii. 3. + + To sanctify, signifies to set apart for a holy purpose. Thus in the + New Testament the Sabbath is called ‘the Lord’s day.’ Rev. i. 10, + because a day devoted to His service. + +2. A _resting_ day. + + Gen. ii. 3. Lev. xxiii. 3. Matt. xxiii. 56. + + Called ‘the Sabbath of _rest_.’ Lev. xxiii. 3. And ‘the _rest_ of the + holy Sabbath.’ Exod. xvi. 23. _Sabbath_ signifies _rest_, and heaven, + of which it is a type, is called, ‘the keeping of a _Sabbath_.’ Heb. + iv. 9. + +3. A _happy_ day. + + It is a _gift_, a _privilege_, not a task. + + Exod. xvi. 29. Isa. lviii. 13. + + Not esteemed to be such, unless God’s service felt to be a _delight_. + Others say, ‘When will the Sabbath be gone?’ Amos, viii. 5. + + Let there be no gloom in the home, but a cheerful sobriety. + +4. A _profitable_ day. + + Though _rest_, not _idleness_. Children are always happiest when their + minds are employed. + + To profit pay great attention to Public Worship, Deut. xxxi. 12, 13. + Acts, xiii. 42; xvi. 13; xviii. 4. Heb. x. 25. + + Observe our Lord’s example. Luke, iv. 16. + + The Sunday School is a great help to the poor mother. + + Cultivate religious occupation. _e.g._ Find texts—repeat hymns—sing + hymns, &c. + +III. Observe the promise. + + Isa. lvi. 2–7: lviii. 13, 14. + + + + +XI. COMPANIONS. + + +I. Danger of bad companions. + + One bad companion corrupts many. ‘A little leaven leaveneth the whole + lump.’ 1 Cor. v. 6. + + ‘Evil communications corrupt good manners.’ 1 Cor. xv. 33. + + Eph. v. 11. Prov. xxii. 24, 25. + + You are warned in the Scriptures against making companions of: + +1. Fools. Prov. xiii. 20. + +2. Riotous. Prov. xxviii. 7. + +3. Thieves. Isa. i. 23. + +4. Depraved. Prov. xxix. 3. 1 Cor. v. 9. + +5. Irreligious. 2 Thess. iii. 14. Jam. iv. 4. + + If important for yourselves, doubly so for the young, unformed minds of + your children. + +II. Form good friendships. + + ‘The friendship of the world is enmity with God.’ Jam. iv. 4. + + David chose his friends from those who feared God. Ps. cxix. 63. Heb. + x. 33. + +III. Observe three rules for the sake of your _children_, as well as +_yourselves_. + +1. Never harbour bad guests. + + Lodgers—workpeople. + +2. Never associate with the wicked, unless obliged to do so, or with a +view to doing them good. + + Even this needs caution. + +3. Remember, ‘A man is known by his friends.’ + + You and your children will be judged by the company you keep. + + + + +XII. SLOTH. + + +I. The command to be diligent is plain. Rom. xii. 11. 2 Thess. iii. +10, 11. + +II. See the miserable results of sloth. + + 1. It leads to tattling. 1 Tim. v. 13. + + 2. Decay. Eccles. x. 18. + + 3. Difficulties. Prov. xv. 19. + + 4. Waste. Prov. xviii. 9. + + 5. Want. Prov. xx. 4; xxiv. 30, 34. + +III. Contrast excellent woman (Prov. xxxi. 27) with the slothful person. +Prov. xix. 24; xxiv. 30; x. 26. + +IV. Learn a lesson from the ant for yourselves—for your children. Prov. +vi. 6, &c. + + Give your children something to do. + + Remember, they must be _set to work_, though it is often more trouble + to you to teach _them_ to do it, than to do it _yourself_—yet + persevere. + +V. If not slothful in your temporal affairs, above all be not slothful +concerning the salvation of your souls. + + Heb. vi. 11, 12. 2 Pet. i. 10. + + + + +XIII. THE WATCHFUL MOTHER. + + +No eye should be so wakeful and watchful as a mother’s. + +I. Watch over your children _in infancy_. + + Exod. ii. 8. 1 Sam. i. 23. + + It is described as next to impossible for a woman to forget her sucking + child. Isa. xlix. 15. + + A well-watched infancy, under God’s blessing, avoids many future ills. + +II. Watch over your children’s _education_. + + Judg. xiii. 8. + + In every minute particular. + + Learning—clothing, &c. 1 Sam. ii. 19. Prov. xxxi. 21, 23. + + Contrast the dirty, unmended clothes of the poor, uncared-for child, + with the clean and neatly mended garments of him whose childhood is + guarded by the watchful eye of a mother. + +III. Watch them in times of sickness and death. + + No eye so quick to discover a hidden ill. + + 2 Kings, iv. 19, 20. John, xix. 25. + +IV. Above all watch over the precious soul. + + Never lose sight of the soul, in care for the body. + + 1. _Watch_, as those that must give account. Heb. xiii. 17. + + 2. _Watch_, to detect sin, and check its growth. + + Mark first sign of the plague spot. + + 3. _Watch_, for opportunity to lead to Christ. Prov. xv. 23. Deut. + vi. 6, 9. Mark, x. 13. + + + + +XIV. THE HASTY MOTHER. + + +I. How common! Yet the Bible commands us not to be hasty. Eccles. vii. +9. + + A woman’s ornament should be a meek, and quiet spirit (1 Pet. iii. 4), + and a nurse is mentioned as being especially gentle to the little ones. + 1 Thess. ii. 7. + +II. Observe the angry woman, + + How foolish! Prov. xiv. 29; xxix. 20. + + How provoking! Prov. xv. 1. + + How wearing! Prov. xix. 13; xxvii. 15; xxi. 19. + + Drives the husband from his fireside. + + Sets an evil example to the children. + + Often does in her haste, what she heartily repents at leisure. + +III. Therefore, + + 1. Put away anger. Eph. iv. 31. + + Do not be _soon_ angry. Prov. xiv. 17. Jam. i. 19. + + ‘Meekness gives smooth answers to rough questions.’ + + 2. Exercise self-control. Prov. xxv. 28; xvi. 32. + + 3. Teach it to your children. + +III. Remember, a hasty temper is a _fault_, not a _misfortune_. +Accustom yourself, and your children, to view it in its right light. + +IV. Ask help from God to subdue it, for temper is hard to conquer, and +meekness is a fruit of the Spirit. Gal. v. 22. Matt. v. 5. + + You _need help_, for there is much to provoke a wife, and mother. + + You _need help_, for you are very weak, but you can do all things + through Christ who strengtheneth you. Phil. iv. 13. + + + + +XV. THE WEARY MOTHER. + + +Many things below make a mother weary. + +The blessing of _rest_ is chiefly future. + +Notice various things that often make mothers weary, and the remedy for +them. + + CAUSE. REMEDY. +I. Weary with cares and I. Do not carry your burden +sorrows—ready to exclaim, ‘My alone. Ps. lv. 22. +burden is greater than I can +bear.’ 1 Pet. v. 7. Jer. xxxi. 25. + + _Hereafter_ rest. + + Psa. xciv. 13. Isa. xiv. 3. +II. Weary with work. II. Make more use of the rest of + the Sabbath. + + Exod. xx. 8. + + Called ‘Sabbath of _rest_.’ + + Lev. xxiii. 3. + + _Hereafter_. Heb. iv. 9. +III. Weary with sickness. III. Comfort in time of + sickness. Ps. xli. 3. + Job, vii. 3, 4. Isa. xxxviii. + 12, 14. Great alleviation in true + spirit of submission. + May be your own, your + husband’s, your children’s. _Hereafter_. Isa. xxxiii. 24. + Rev. xxi. 4. + Wearisome nights of pain, or + watching. +IV. Weary of your sins. IV. Come with your sins to + Christ. + Ps. vi. 6; xxxviii. 4. + Matt. xi. 28, 29. + Oft repented. + _Hereafter_. Rev. xxi. 27. + Oft repeated. +V. Weary with your children’s V. Correct, and they shall give +sins. you rest. Prov. xxix. 17. + + Consider Christ, _lest ye be + weary_. Heb. xii. 3. + +Do you know where to go for rest? Jer. vi. 16. Or are you wandering +hither and thither in vain, having forgotten your resting-place? Jer. l. +6. Remember, it is only to those who are in Christ that these promises +of rest apply. + +It is only His own sheep who can say, ‘He maketh me to _lie down in green +pastures_.’ + +To others there is no rest here, or hereafter, for, ‘The wicked are like +the troubled sea, when it _cannot rest_. . . . There is no peace, saith +my God, to the wicked.’ Isa. lvii. 20, 21. + + + + +XVI. THE CARELESS MOTHER. + + + Isa. xxxii. 9–13. + +Motherless children are often uncared for. No one ‘_naturally_ cares for +their state.’ No child with a mother _ought_ to be so. But too often +mothers are careless about— + +I. Their _minds_. + + No schooling—no teaching—no training—no Sunday School. Cares not + whether in time, or too late—regular or truant, &c., &c. + +II. Their _respectability_, and _associates_. + + Will take in bad lodgers, hire bad characters to help at the wash-tub + because they can be had cheaper than the respectable, forgetting that + ‘a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.’ Prov. xxii. 1. + Eccles. vii. 1. + + What guilty carelessness! + +III. Their _happiness_. + + What misery here awaits a neglected child! + + What woe hereafter! + +IV. Their _souls_. + + To a parent guilty of this carelessness, it is said, ‘His blood will I + require at thine hand.’ Ezek. iii. 18, 19; xxxiii. 6. + + Have you ever lost a child, for whose soul you never cared? Pray Ps. + li. 14. + + _This_ arises from want of real religion. + + You do not know the immense value of a soul. + + Would you be thus careless of an earthly treasure? Would you not watch + it—lock it up—guard it with a jealous eye? Your child’s soul a + treasure passing all price. Yet you allow Satan to steal it—bad + companions to corrupt it—ruin it yourself by neglect. A thing + neglected is ruined. + + Keep in view the judgment day. + + Will your child then say, ‘No man cared for my soul’—‘even my _mother_ + cared not that I perished!’ + + + + +XVII. THE CAREFUL MOTHER. + + +I. Careful in her _house_. + + No waste. Prov. xviii. 9. John, vi. 12. + + Yet not stingy. No needless expense—makes a little go a long way. + +II. Careful over her _children_. + + Their _bodies_—health—clothes—future. 1 Tim. v. 8. 2 Cor. xii. 14. + + Provident Club. Penny Bank, &c. + + Their _minds_. Gives education suitable to their station. No fortune + so good. + + What a disgrace in these days to a mother, if a child cannot read and + write! + + Their _souls_. Above all, let not care for the body choke this. Mark, + iv. 19. + + Lay up treasure in heaven. Matt. vi. 20. + +III. Let not careful mother be _too full of care_. + + Not _overcharged_. Luke, xxi. 34; x. 41, 42. + + ‘Live not in careful suspense.’ Luke, xii. 29 (margin). + + Cast your care on One who can bear it. 1 Pet. v. 7. Phil. iv. 6. He + will not despise it, ‘_for He careth for you_.’ + + For the future, take this for your motto when over-pressed by cares and + trials, ‘The Lord will provide.’ Gen. xxii, 14. Philip, iv. 19. Ps. + xxiii. 1. + + + + +XVIII. THE PATIENT MOTHER. + + +A mother has, in a peculiar degree, ‘need of patience.’ Heb. x. 36. + +I. In trials of temper. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 5, 7. Prov. xiv. 17. + +II. With your children’s faults. + + Matt. xviii. 22, 35. + + Look back to the days of your childhood. + + Were not you equally trying to your mother? + + Remember your own faults, and God’s patience with you. He bears long + with you. + +III. It may be you need patience in bearing with unjust tempers, and +unkind treatment. 1 Pet. ii. 19, 23. Ps. xxxvii. 7. + +IV. For answers to prayer. + + Syro-Phenician mother. Matt. xv. 22, 28. Jam. v. 7, 8. ‘Tarry thou + the Lord’s leisure.’ + +V. In tribulation, sickness, and poverty. Rom. xii. 12. Jam. v. 10, +11. Luke, xxi. 19. + + + + +XIX. THE FIRM MOTHER. + + +I. To obey is a child’s duty. + + Exod. xx. 12. Eph. vi. 1. Col. iii. 20. + +II. This obedience should be— + + 1. Implicit. + + 2. Unquestioning. + + 3. Immediate. + + 4. In manner, and spirit. + + 5. From love. + + 6. In absence, as well as presence. + + 7. To the _mother_ as well as the _father_. + + Prov. i. 8; vi. 20; xv. 20. Lev. xix. 3. _e.g._ Luke, ii. 51. + + This is most important. In the Bible no difference is drawn between + the authority of the father and mother. + +III. A promise attached to obedience. + + Exod. xx. 12. Eph. vi. 2. Jer. xxxv. 18, 19. + +IV. To disobey is sin. + + Deut. xxi. 18, 21. Ezek. xxii. 7. Rom. i. 30. 2 Tim. iii. 2. 1 Sam. + ii. 25. + +V. A punishment attached to disobedience. + + Deut. xxvii. 16. Prov. xxx. 17. + +VI. It is a parent’s _duty_ to enforce obedience. Allowed disobedience +brings misery into the home. 1 Tim. iii. 4; v. 4. + + Eli. 1 Sam. ii. 23. + + David. 1 Kings, i. 6. + +How solemn then, Mothers, is your responsibility. + +How earnest should be your prayers that _your_ commands may agree with +_God’s_. Gen. xviii. 19. Deut. xxxii. 46. Eph. vi. 1. + + * * * * * + +Seek for wisdom in commanding. + +Firmness in insisting. + + + + +XX. CONVERSION. + + +We meet time after time at our Mothers’ Meeting, but how few of us are +truly converted, and changed in heart. + + Ask yourselves this night two questions. + +I. Do you earnestly seek your own conversion? ‘What shall it profit +you, if you gain the whole world, and lose your own soul?’ + + Mark, viii. 36, 37. + + Delay not. Isa. lix. 1. + +II. Do you earnestly seek for the conversion of your children?## + +1. Perhaps you do not _care_ for it. You do not seek _first_ for them +the kingdom of God. Matt. vi. 33. Be honest to yourselves in this +matter. Are you ready to give up for them anything that keeps them from +Christ? + + Matt. v. 29, 30. + +2. Perhaps you do not _pray_ for it. + + Observe how the mother prayed. Matt. xv. 22, 28. David. 1 Chron. + xxix. 19. Job, i. 5. + +3. Perhaps you place _hindrances_ in the way. + + You draw them to the world instead of to Christ. Matt. xviii. 6. + +4. Perhaps you forget the necessity of the _Holy Spirit’s power_. Isa. +xliv. 3, 4, 5. + + Pray this night for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon + yourselves—your husbands—your children. Matt. vii. 11. + + Remember, ‘except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye + shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ Matt. xviii. 3. + + + + +XXI. THOU, GOD, SEEST ME. + + +God’s penetrating eye. Rev. i 14. + +I. He sees _all_. Prov. v. 21. + + Bad and good. Prov. xv. 3. + +II. _Where_ does He see you? + +1. He sees the mother _in secret_. Matt. vi. 6. + + Each secret prayer—each sigh—each tear. + + No privacy from Him. Eccles. xii. 14. Ps. xix. 12. Jer. xxiii. 24. + + Many would give worlds to hide from God. + +2. In her _daily path_. Job, xxxiv. 21. Ps. cxxxix. 3. + +3. In _every circumstance_. 2 Chron. xvi. 9. + +III. _What_ does He see? + +1. The mother’s _heart_. Jer. xx. 12. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Her +motives—desires—yearnings. + + You may deceive _others_. You may even deceive _yourselves_, ‘but all + things are naked, and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to + do.’ Heb. iv. 13. Luke, xvi. 15. + +2. The mother’s _sins_. Ps. xix. 12; xc. 8. Isa. lvii. 18. Amos, v. +12. + + Sins of omission and commission. + +3. The mother’s _sorrows_. Exod. iii. 7. + + Both inward and outward trials. 2 Kings, xx. 5. Ps. cxlii. 3. Acts, + vii. 34. + + There are many sorrows it is not well for a wife and mother to speak of + to others, but take comfort! Your Saviour knows each grief—each + trouble—each tear for your own sins or the sins of others. + +4. The mother’s _need_. Matt. vi. 8, 32. + + And He promises to supply it. Ps. xxiii. 1. Philip, iv. 19. + + + + +XXII. JESUS THE MOTHER’S FRIEND. + + +I. Mothers need a friend! + + In joy and in sorrow, in dark hours and in light, in life and in death, + they need a Friend who is always the same—even ‘the same yesterday, + to-day, and for ever.’ + +II. You may have such a Friend. + + 1. Even Jesus. Prov. xviii. 24. John, xv. 15. The Friend of + sinners. Matt. xi. 19. + + 2. He loveth always. Prov. xvii. 17. + + 3. He is faithful. Prov. xviii. 24. John, xiii. 1. + +III. Is He _your_ Friend? + + Can you point to Jesus and say, ‘This is my Beloved, and this is my + Friend?’ Cant. v. 16. + + If not, do not rest until you can say so. + +IV. If Jesus _is_ your Friend. + +1. Go to Him in _trouble_. ‘Pour out your heart before Him.’ John, xi. +3, 11. + + In sorrow lean on His bosom, as John did. John, xiii. 23. + + ‘He weeps with those who weep.’ + +2. Go to Him in _joy_, for He ‘rejoices with those who do rejoice.’ + +3. Do not have hard thoughts of Him because He afflicts. + + ‘Faithful are the wounds of a friend.’ Prov. xxvii. 6. Ps. cxli. 5. + + He sympathises in every sorrow. Heb. iv. 15. + + And has borne your griefs. Isa. liii. 4. + + + + +XXIII. HELPS FOR MOTHERS. +1. + + +A mother has many hindrances in seeking Christ. She needs much help from +the means of grace. To obtain this is often difficult, and requires much +effort. Outward means are, therefore, too often neglected. If you would +grow in grace this must not be. + +Be diligent, therefore, in the use of— + +I. Daily prayer. Matt. vi. 6, 11. + + No business should prevent this. David had the business of a kingdom + upon him, nevertheless, he says, ‘Evening, and morning, and at noon, + will I pray.’ Ps. lv. 17. + +II. Daily Scripture reading. Acts, xvii. 11. Ps. cxix. 103. + +III. Family prayer. + + Judgment pronounced on those who neglect family religion. Jer. x. 25. + + Promise to united prayer. Matt. xviii. 19, 20. + +IV. Attendance on the public means of grace. + + Observe the command. Deut. xii. 12, 18. Heb. x. 25. + + What a blessing rested on it in the case of Lydia. Acts, xvi. 13, 15. + + There are great difficulties to the mother of a young family in going + to Church on Sunday, but make an effort to overcome them. This can + generally be done if husband and wife make a _united effort_. + + If you are truly hungering and thirsting after righteousness, you will + earnestly use every means for obtaining the bread and the water of + life. If you are careless in this respect, it is because there is no + real hunger, no craving of soul for heavenly food. + + + + +XXIV. HELPS FOR MOTHERS. +2. + + +We will notice this evening three more things which are, or ought to be, +‘helps’ to mothers on the heavenly race. + +I. Husbands and wives should be _mutual_ helps, (see Marriage Service) +‘for the mutual help and comfort the one of the other.’ + + Gen. ii. 18. 1 Pet. iii. 7. Eph. v. 28, 29. + + Fellow-pilgrims, fellow-sufferers, fellow-travellers they _must be_; + but what an unspeakable joy is it when they are also fellow-helpers, + fellow-labourers, fellow-heirs, fellow-citizens! + + * * * * * + + ‘O happy house, where man and wife are one, + Thro’ love of Thee, in spirit, heart, and mind; + Together joined by holy bands, which none, + Not death itself, can sever or unbind; + Where both on thee unfailingly depend, + In weal and woe, in good and evil days, + And hope with Thee eternity to spend; + In sweet communion and eternal praise.’ + +II. Christian friends. + + 2 Cor. i. 24. Rom. xvi. 3. + + What comfort and _help_ may be derived from the visits, counsels, and + sympathy of a Christian neighbour, a kind and devoted district visitor, + or minister. + + Especially may Christian friends help each other by _prayer_. 2 Cor. + i. 11. Jam. v. 16, 18. Matt. xviii. 19. + + How valuable is a Prayer Union, such as we have connected with our + Mothers’ Meeting. + +III. But lastly remember that these ‘helps’ are worth nothing unless you +have _the Lord for your Helper_. Ps. liv. 4. Heb. xiii. 6. Exod. +xviii. 4. + + He is different to any earthly helper, for He is a Helper at all times, + and in all circumstances. + + In trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1. + + To the widow. Ps. lxviii. 5. + + To the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. + + Take, therefore, this short prayer and use it in your daily life, + ‘Lord, be _Thou_ my helper.’ Lift up this prayer in the midst of your + work—of temptation—of trial, and you will be enabled to add, ‘My heart + trusted in Him, and _I am helped_!’ Ps. xxviii. 7. + + + + +XXV. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN. + + +A mother may not have much time for instruction, or be very capable of +teaching, but she should make it her daily duty to give her children some +instruction in the Scriptures. She may know but little herself, but let +not this discourage her; for in watering others she shall herself be +watered. Prov. xi. 25. + +I. Teach, seeking the help of the Holy Spirit. Isa. liv. 13. John, +xvi. 13. Luke, xii. 12. Job, xxxvi. 22. Ps. xciv. 12. + +II. Teach in the spirit of prayer. + + Eph. vi. 18, 19. + + Remembering these words, ‘Without Me ye can do nothing.’ John, xv. 5. + +III. Teach, leaning on the promise. + + Isa. lv. 10, 11. Eccles. xi. 1, 6. + +IV. Teach, expecting a result. + + Ps. cxxvi. 6. Prov. xxii. 6. Gen. xviii. 19. 2 Tim. i. 5; iii. 15. + + + + +XXVI. THE PARTING PLACE, AND THE MEETING PLACE. + + +The following circumstance took place not long after the last meeting. +Two mothers, who were both present at the Class, about a fortnight after +met in the Cemetery, sorrowing at their children’s graves. Each had +during that interval lost a child, but not having heard of each other’s +trouble, the meeting was unexpected. + +On this occasion the following subject was taken. + +I. The parting place—the child’s death-bed. This is, + + 1. A parting place. + + All must die alone. The mother may have watched over her child with + untiring care during its years of infancy, the trials of youth, and the + snares and cares of riper years, but here they _must part_. 2 Sam. + xii. 15, 23. + + 2. A weeping place. Gen. xxi. 16. + + 2 Sam. xii. 21. Jer. xxxi. 15. + + Mark, v. 38. Luke, vii. 13. Not _wrong_, for Jesus wept at the grave + of Lazarus. John, xi. 35. + + 3. A birth place + + To a new and heavenly life. But not so to _all_. To _some_, namely, + to those who have indeed been born again. Luke, xvi. 22; and to babes. + Isa. xl. 11. + + Contrast David’s sorrow for his infant, (2 Sam. xii. 23) with his + sorrow for Absalom, 2 Sam. xix. 4. To one death was the door of + _life_, to the other of _death_. + +II. The meeting place—the judgment-seat. Rev. xx. 12. Rom. xiv. 10. + + You cannot avoid it. + + It will be. + + 1. To all a place of recognition. + + The child you led to Christ—the child you led astray. The child you + trained for heaven—the child you trained for hell. _All_ will be + there. + + 2. To many a place of weeping. Matt. xxv. 30. Luke, vi. 25. + + 3. To many a place of rejoicing. Matt. xxv. 34. + + Believing mother! Your night of weeping will then be over, your + morning of joy will dawn, of which the sun will never set! Ps. xxx. 5. + + Which will it be to you—a meeting-place of joy or sorrow? + + May you and your children be so united in Christ here, that you may + both part and meet in peace! + + + + +XXVII. THE MOTHER’S DEATH-BED. + + +On the occasion of the death of a young mother, which took place not long +after the first meeting in the new year. + +I. How near it may be. 1 Sam. xx. 3. Job, xxi. 13. + + In the midst of life we are in death. + + We have had a solemn lesson. Almost the youngest in our class cut down + the first. + +II. The hour of death is an hour + +1. Of deep solemnity. + + It is a dark valley. Ps. xxiii. 4. Job. x. 21. + +2. Of much regret. + + Conscience awake, looks back on duties undone—things done—words + spoken—words unsaid, &c. + +3. Often of great suffering. Ps. cxvi. 3. + + Not the time to begin to seek the Lord. + +4. Of parting. Philip, i. 23, 24. + + Must die alone. Must leave husband and children. They may go with you + to the edge of the river, but no further. + +5. Of weeping. Gen. xxxv. 18; xxiii. 2. John, xi. 31. 2 Sam. xix. 4. + +6. It is an hour when Christ, and _Christ alone_, can save you. + + Thus we pray, ‘In the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good + Lord, deliver us.’ + + His rod and staff alone can help you. Ps. xxiii. 4. + + He alone can take away the sting from death. 1 Cor. xv. 55, 57. Rom. + viii. 38, 39. Isa. xliii. 2. + + It is only if washed in His blood, and clothed in His righteousness, + that you need not fear to appear before God. + + + + +XXVIII. NEW YEAR’S DAY. + + + ‘I must work the work of Him that sent me while it is day: the night + cometh, when no man can work.’—John, ix. 4. + + Time _past_—is gone, thou canst not it recall. + Time _is_—thou hast, improve the portion small. + Time_ future_—is not, and may never be. + Time _present_—is the only time for thee! + +Therefore, + +I. _Hear to-day_. (Ps. xcv. 7.) ‘See that ye refuse not Him that +speaketh.’ + + _Exhort to-day_ your children. (Heb. iii. 13.) + + _Work to-day_ (John, ix. 4) for your children’s souls. + + Never postpone. Jam. iv. 13. 2 Cor. vi. 2. + + _Now_ it is high time to wake out of sleep. Rom. xiii. 11. + +II. Because the _night_ cometh when no man can work. John, ix. 4. + + The night of _your_ death—your _husband’s_ death—your _children’s_ + death. + + Perhaps this sentence has gone forth against you, or yours, ‘This year + thou shalt die.’ Jer. xxviii. 16. + + Luke, xii. 20; xiii. 7. + + * * * * * + + Mothers, _awake_! to your own, and your children’s danger. + + _Awake_ to the importance of safety in Christ. + + Mothers, _work_! for yourselves, for your families. + + ‘Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which + endureth unto everlasting life.’ John, vi. 27. + + + + +XXIX. FIRST MEETING IN THE YEAR. + + +I. Look backwards on the past year. + +1. On your _sins_. + + They are many—great—mighty. You need forgiveness, and Christ is + _ready_ to forgive. Neh. ix. 17. Make this your prayer for the past + year, ‘Lord, pardon mine iniquity, for _it is great_.’ Ps. xxv. 11. + + On your sins towards your _husbands_. Provocation—temper—carelessness + of their comfort—an unyielding spirit. Again must you say, ‘Pardon + mine iniquity, for it is _great_.’ + + On your sins towards your _children_. Neglect—bad + example—prayerlessness—cross tempers—hasty slaps. Again you must say, + ‘Pardon mine iniquity, for it is _great_.’ + +2. On your _sorrows_. + + Poverty—sickness—death. Yet your sorrows not so many as your sins. + How have you been helped through them! Have you _profited_? Heb. xii. + 10. God has been teaching you, have you learnt the lesson? + +3. On your mercies. + + You can count your sorrows. Try and count your mercies, they are more + than can be numbered. Ps. xl. 5. How undeserved they were! You have + counted your days of sickness—have you those of health? Your hours of + mourning—have you those of joy? Your children taken—have you counted + your children spared? &c., &c. Were you thankful? Gen. xxxii. 10. + +II. Look forward on the opening year. + + On what? Can you tell? + + How uncertain, you know not what will be even on the morrow. Jam. iv. + 4. Prov. xxvii. 1. Who will be taken? Whose husband? Whose child? + + You know not. + + Therefore, ‘be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye _think not_ the + Son of Man cometh.’ Matt. xxiv. 44. + + Can _you_ say, ‘Even so come, Lord Jesus, _come quickly_?’ + + + + +XXX. LAST MEETING IN THE YEAR. +THE CRADLE AND THE GRAVE. + + +God has been speaking to us during the past year. Two mothers have gone +to their long home, and ten of our children. Let us reply, ‘Speak, Lord, +for thy servant heareth.’ 1 Sam. iii. 9. + +God speaks to us from the cradle, and the grave. + +I. From the _cradle_, and says, + + 1. ‘Take this child, and nurse it for _me_.’ Exod. ii. 9. + + 2. Pray for it—train it—love it—comfort it. + + 3. He speaks in a voice of _comfort_ from our cradles to our souls, if + we are His people. ‘Mother, can you forget this sucking child? Yea, + you _may_ forget, yet will not I forget you.’ Isa. xlix. 15. + + Again—Do you comfort your babe—do you soothe its fears? do you wipe its + tears? Even so, believing mother, will God comfort you. Isa. lxvi. + 13. Yes, even ‘wipe away all tears from your eyes.’ + + Oh! precious voice from the cradle to your soul! + +II. God speaks from the _grave_—and says, + +1. ‘Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou mayst be no longer +steward.’ Luke, xvi. 2. + +2. ‘Time is short.’ + + 1 Cor. vii. 29. 1 Pet. iv. 7. + + What a little life—gone as a spark! + + You may die—your children may die—or Christ may come. Do not say, + ‘to-morrow.’ Jam. iv. 13. + +3. ‘Be ye also ready.’ + + Matt. xxiv. 44. + +4. Your child shall rise again. + + ‘I am the resurrection and the life.’ John, xi. 25. (See Burial + Service.) Jer. xxxi. 16, 17. + + If both parent and child are in Christ, what a blessed reunion, for He + adds, ‘Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall _never die_!’ + + If it should be the Lord’s will during the coming year again to take + many of our little ones from their mothers’ arms, and to lay them in + His own bosom, may each sorrowing one amongst us be enabled to say in + the spirit of true and loving submission, ‘The Lord gave, and the Lord + hath taken away; _blessed be the name of the Lord_!’ + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed by JOHN STRANGEWAYS, Castle St. Leicester Sq. + + + + +By the same Author, +_Short Tracts for Mothers_. + + +No. 1. Give an Account of thy Stewardship. + +2. Praying Mothers. + +3. In the Morning Sow thy Seed. + +4. Shine as Lights in your Families. + +5. Parental Affection. + +6. Cast thy Burden upon the Lord. + + THE SIX TRACTS IN A PACKET, 4_d._ + + + + +By the Rev. E. HOARE, + + +_Vicar of Trinity_, _Tunbridge Wells_, _& Hon. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Christian Mother + or, Notes for Mothers' Meetings + + +Author: Maria Eliza Hoare + + + +Release Date: March 10, 2013 [eBook #42291] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHRISTIAN MOTHER*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1876 Hatchards edition by David Price, +email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>THE<br /> +CHRISTIAN MOTHER:</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">OR,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">NOTES FOR MOTHERS’ +MEETINGS.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY THE +LATE</span><br /> +MRS E. HOARE.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Second Edition.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span><br /> +HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.<br /> +1876.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="pageii"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. ii</span><span +class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span><br /> +Printed by <span class="smcap">John Strangeways</span>, Castle +St. Leicester Sq.</p> +<h2><a name="pageiii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +iii</span>PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> following Notes were prepared +and published some years ago, by one who has since realised in +Heaven the unspeakable value of those precious truths which she +most diligently taught on earth. The little book has been +for a long time out of print, but it appears so calculated to be +useful in the Lord’s service that I have thought it well to +publish another edition. It was said of Abel, ‘He +being dead yet speaketh.’ May the admirable mother by +whom these notes were prepared so speak in these pages to those +who know a mother’s care, that they may be assisted to +enjoy the full experience of a mother’s joy!</p> +<p style="text-align: right">E. HOARE.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Tunbridge Wells</span>,<br /> + <i>April</i>, +1876.</p> +<h2><a name="pagev"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +v</span>PREFACE.</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> following notes have been used +by the writer in conducting Mothers’ Meetings amongst the +poorer classes, and it has been suggested that they may be useful +to other ladies engaged in a similar work.</p> +<p>With this view, she has ventured to publish them in the +present concise form.</p> +<p>It will be seen that they are merely skeletons, and will +require to be filled up by each person who makes use of +them. Thus it will be necessary to <i>turn to the texts +referred to</i>, and to enlarge on each head as familiarly as +possible, illustrating it by simple, and telling facts.</p> +<p>If this is done, and the subjects well studied, it will often +be found, that, although each subject has been generally +compressed into one chapter, it is better to take one, two, or +three heads, as affording sufficient matter for the conversation +<a name="pagevi"></a><span class="pagenum">p. vi</span>of a +single evening, rather than too hastily to go over the whole +section.</p> +<p>It will be a cause for thankfulness, if these short notes may +be the means of leading any mothers to search the Scriptures more +diligently with reference to their own especial duties.</p> +<p>Whether rich or poor—educated or +uneducated—mothers all need, in the great essentials, the +<i>same</i> help, the <i>same</i> warnings, the <i>same</i> +encouragements. They want to be comforted, both in duty and +trial, by the <i>same</i> word of promise, and to ‘go +boldly to the <i>same</i> throne of grace to obtain mercy, and +find grace to help in time of need.’ It is earnestly +desired that the study of the following pages, which are, in +fact, only a compilation of Scripture, may be the means of +leading many to listen more closely to <i>His</i> voice, who +knows so well the mother’s heart, the mother’s sins, +the mother’s sorrows, and the mother’s need.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">M. E. H.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Tunbridge Wells</span>,<br /> + <i>December</i>, +1862.</p> +<h2><a name="pagevii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +vii</span>CONTENTS.</h2> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">PAGE</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Importance of Children</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page9">9</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Temper of the Wife, and Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page11">11</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Truth—part I.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page12">12</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Truth—part II.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page13">13</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Excellent Woman—as a Wife</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page15">15</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ „—in her Home</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page17">17</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ „—in her Conversation</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page19">19</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ „—her Religion</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page21">21</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>„ „—her Reward</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page22">22</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>How to spend Sunday</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page24">24</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Companions</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page26">26</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sloth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page28">28</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Watchful Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page29">29</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Hasty Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page31">31</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Weary Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page32">32</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Careless Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page35">35</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Careful Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page37">37</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Patient Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page38">38</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Firm Mother</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page39">39</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="pageviii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +viii</span>Conversion</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page41">41</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thou, God, seest me</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page43">43</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Jesus the Mother’s Friend</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page44">44</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Helps for Mothers—part I.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page46">46</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Helps for Mothers—part II.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page48">48</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Teach your Children</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page50">50</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Parting Place, and the Meeting Place</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page51">51</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Mother’s Death-bed</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page54">54</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>New Year’s Day</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page55">55</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>First Meeting in the Year</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page57">57</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Last Meeting in the Year. The Cradle and the +Grave</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page59">59</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h2><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>I. +IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN.</h2> +<blockquote><p>‘Take heed that ye despise not one of these +little ones.’ Matt. xviii. 10.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I. They are important to <i>Society</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Our future soldiers, sailors, servants, +fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, &c., &c.</p> +<p>II. Important to <i>yourselves</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">The babe—the child—the young +man—the young woman.</p> +<p class="gutindent">A gift (Gen. xxxiii. 5; xlviii. 9) which <a +name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>must prove +either your crown (Prov. xvii. 6; Ps. cxxvii. 3) or your +bitterness. Prov. xvii. 25; Gen. xlii. 38.</p> +<p>III. Important to <i>themselves</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">That child must live for ever.</p> +<p class="gutindent">A living soul committed to your care.</p> +<p class="gutindent">That child must stand before the +judgment-seat of Christ. Rev. xx. 12.</p> +<p>IV. Important in the sight of <i>their Father who is in +heaven</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">So important—that for them He gave His +only Son to shed His blood.</p> +<p class="gutindent">So important—that He especially calls, +‘Suffer little children,’ &c. Mark, x. +14.</p> +<p class="gutindent">So important—that He gives His angels +special charge over them. Matt. xviii. 10.</p> +<blockquote><p>‘Take heed then that ye despise not one of +these little ones.’</p> +</blockquote> +<p>No jewel so precious as the soul of your child, but how far +more do parents often prize the casket containing it, than the +gem itself!</p> +<p><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>No +plant so needing watchful care and culture; Oh! neglect it +not!</p> +<p>What have <span class="GutSmall">YOU</span> done with your +jewel, your plant?</p> +<h2>II. THE TEMPER OF THE WIFE, AND MOTHER.</h2> +<p>I. What she should <i>not</i> be.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. Provoking. Eph. vi. 4. +Prov. xv. 1. Gal. v. 26.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. Easily provoked. 1 Cor. xiii. +5. Jam. i. 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. Brawling. Prov. xxi. 9; xxv. +24.</p> +<p class="gutindent">4. Contentious. Prov. xix. 13; +xxi. 19; xxvii. 15.</p> +<p>II. What she <i>should</i> be.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. Gentle. 1 Thess. ii. 7. +1 Pet. iii. 4. Children are soon frightened by rough words, +or rough treatment.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. Forbearing. Eph. iv. 2. +Col. iii. 13. If <i>you</i> cannot bear with your children, +who will?</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page12"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 12</span>3. Patient. 1 Thess. v. +14. Eccles. vii. 8. A mother has need of great +patience.</p> +<p class="gutindent">4. Loving. Tit. ii. 4.</p> +<p>III. In your daily temper take Christ as your +example.</p> +<blockquote><p>‘<i>Consider Him</i> who endured such +contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be weary, and +faint in your minds.’ Heb. xii. 3.</p> +</blockquote> +<h2>III. TRUTH. 1.</h2> +<p>Importance of truth. Prov. xii. 19.</p> +<p>The liar’s portion. Rev. xxi. 8; xxii. 15.</p> +<p>How can you enforce the necessity of truth, and the sin of +lying upon your children?</p> +<p>I. You must enforce it by <i>example</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. Never deceive them. The word +passed must never be broken. Be careful, then, how you +promise or threaten.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page13"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 13</span>2. Always adhere yourself +closely to truth. In <i>little</i> things as well as +<i>great</i>, in <i>deed</i> as well as <i>word</i>. What a +warning is Rebecca (Gen. xxvii.) of the danger of the first +downward step, and the baneful influence of a mother’s evil +example!</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. Let them see that you cling closely +to truth, even when it is to your own disadvantage. Ps. xv. +5, Prayer-book version.</p> +<p class="gutindent">4. Never get out of a difficulty by an +untruth.</p> +<p>II. To do this be ever—</p> +<p class="gutindent">Watchful. Ps. cxli. 3.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Prayerful. Ps. cxix. 29.</p> +<h2>IV. TRUTH. 2.</h2> +<p>Last meeting we found that it is useless to enforce the +necessity of truth, unless the <a name="page14"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 14</span>mother is consistent in her +<i>example</i>. Besides this:</p> +<p>II. Enforce it by instruction and by precept.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Tell—how God hates lying. Prov. +vi. 16, 17; xii. 22.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Tell—histories from Scripture to show +how God hates it. Satan, Gen. iii. 4. Gehazi, 2 +Kings, v. 25. Ananias, Acts, v. 1–11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Tell—who is the father of lies. +John, viii. 44.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Tell—the consequences of lying. +Ps. v. 6; lv. 23. Rev. xxi. 8.</p> +<p>III. Avoid severity.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Children are often frightened into deceit by +fear of their parents’ severity.</p> +<p>IV. Do not put temptations to lie in a child’s +way.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Do not encourage them to conceal anything +from their father, schoolmaster, master, or mistress, if in +service.</p> +<p>V. Correct for a lie.</p> +<p class="gutindent">It is a false love which dispenses with a <a +name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>needful +chastisement. Prov. xiii. 24; xix. 18.</p> +<p class="gutindent">But always with prayer.</p> +<p>VI. Let the child see that you are grieved for his +sin. That it gives you <i>sorrow</i>, not only causes +<i>anger</i>. Ps. cxix. 158.</p> +<p>VII. Make it a subject of prayer with your child that +the way of lying may be removed from him. Ps. cxix. +29. Prov. xxx. 8.</p> +<h2>V. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">Prov. xxxi.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">As a +Wife</span>.</p> +<p>I. A wife <i>ought</i> to be a chief blessing; a good +wife <i>is</i> so. Verse 10. Prov. xii. 4; xviii. 22; +xix. 14.</p> +<p>II. Her husband can safely trust her. Ver. 11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Money—children—sure of her +affection—no secrets.</p> +<p><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>III. She does him good, and not evil all the days +of her life. Verse 12.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Not like Eve. Gen. iii. 6.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Or Samson’s wife. +Enticing—coaxing—teazing—weeping—betraying. +Judg. xiv. 16.</p> +<p>IV. She cares for his bodily wants. Verses 15, +23.</p> +<p class="gutindent">To do this must be a ‘keeper at +home.’ Tit. ii. 5.</p> +<p>V. She submits if wills clash.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Not often the case in a happy home.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Yields cheerfully, not grudgingly, when in +accordance with God’s will. Col. iii. 18. Eph. +v. 22.</p> +<p>VI. She endeavours to <i>win</i> her husband, does not +try to <i>drive</i>. 1 Pet. iii. 1. 1 Cor. vii. +16.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Win to religion by displaying its beauty and +brightness in your lives.</p> +<p>VII. She is a spiritual help to her husband. 1 +Pet. iii. 7.</p> +<p class="gutindent">‘Mutual help and comfort.’ +Marriage Service.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page17"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 17</span>Not a hindrance. Luke, xiv. +20.</p> +<p class="gutindent">A wife has more opportunity than any one of +seeing her husband’s faults. Do not <i>talk</i> about +them, but <i>pray</i> about them.</p> +<h2>VI. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">Prov. xxxi.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">In her +Home</span>.</p> +<p>I. She is diligent. Verses 13, 15, 18, 19, 22, +27. So 1 Tim. v. 10. Rom. xii. 8.</p> +<p class="gutindent">No gossiping; standing at doors; idling at +neighbours.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Observe what is said of the diligent in the +Book of Proverbs.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Maketh rich. Prov. x. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Prospered (Prov. xii. 24, 27; xiii. 4; xxi. +5.) Sometimes worldly diligence leads to spiritual +sloth. Let it not be so with you; but whilst you are +‘not slothful in business,’ be also ‘fervent in +spirit; serving the Lord.’ Rom. xii. 11.</p> +<p><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>II. She is prudent. Verses 13, 14, 15.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Looks well to her goings. Prov. xiv. +15. Looks forward. Prov. xxii. 3; xxvii. 12. +Enjoys a special blessing. Prov. xix. 14.</p> +<p>III. Overlooks her household. Verses 15, 21, +27.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Children, servants, if she has any.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Your household, of whomsoever it may +consist, should share your blessings and privileges. Gen. +xviii. 19. Lev. xvi. 17. Acts, xvi. 15.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Important to impress this upon your girls +going to service. A <i>good</i> mistress <i>ought</i>, and +<i>will</i>, look after them. No kindness in lax +discipline. Look back to your own days of service. +Who was the best mistress? 1 Tim. v. 14.</p> +<h2><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>VII. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">Prov. xxxi.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">In her +Conversation</span>.</p> +<p>I. ‘She openeth her mouth with +<i>wisdom</i>,’ verse 26.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. No foolish talking, or +jesting. Job, xv. 3. Eph. v. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. No chattering or gossip, which +tends to penury. Prov. xiv. 23. Eccles. x. 11, +14.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. No deception. Prov. xxiv. 28; +xx. 17.</p> +<p>II. ‘In her tongue is the law of +<i>kindness</i>,’ verse 26.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. No tale-bearing or +back-biting. Prov. xxv. 23; xxvi. 22. Ps. xv. 3.</p> +<p class="gutindent">How mischievous. Prov. xxiv. 2.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. No flattering, like wicked +woman. Prov. v. 3; vi. 24. Ps. v. 9.</p> +<p>III. How important to bridle the tongue. +Jam. i. 26.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page20"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 20</span>There is often much wisdom in +silence. Ps. xxxiv. 13. Prov. xvii. 28; xxix. 11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Let your conversation be as it becometh the +gospel of Christ. Philip, i. 27. Ps. lxxvii. +12. Prov. xv. 4. 1 Pet. iii. 1. 2 Pet. iii. +11. Col. iii. 16.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Make this your prayer. Ps. xix. 14; +cxli. 3.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Blessing promised. Ps. l. 23.</p> +<p>IV. Three good rules.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. So speak to your husband and +children, that should these be your <i>last</i> words, you would +not regret them.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. Never say anything of your +neighbours you would dislike them to overhear.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. In all your conversation, remember +that the Lord is nigh, and hears each word.</p> +<h2><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>VIII. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">Prov. xxxi.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Her +Religion</span>.</p> +<p>I. The secret of her many excellencies here +portrayed.</p> +<p class="gutindent">It did not consist in <i>beauty</i>. +Verse 30. A pretty face often leads to ruin. Prov. +xi. 22. Ezek. xxviii. 17.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Never make much of a child’s +beauty.</p> +<p class="gutindent">But it was this, she was a <i>religious</i> +woman, actuated in all she did by the <i>fear of the +Lord</i>. Verse 30.</p> +<p class="gutindent">The woman who fears the Lord.</p> +<p>1. Hates evil. Prov. viii. 13.</p> +<p>2. It is her moving principle, ‘all the day +long.’ Prov. xxiii. 17.</p> +<p>3. She is happy, though poor. Prov. xv. 16.</p> +<p>4. It is her confidence and refuge in trial. Prov. +xiv. 26.</p> +<p>5. It is <i>well</i> with her. Eccles. viii. +12.</p> +<p>II. She shows her love to Christ, by her love to His +people. Verse 20.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page22"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 22</span>Acts, ix. 36. Heb. xiii. +16.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You need not be <i>rich</i> to be +<i>charitable</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">The poorest may give. 2 Cor. viii. +2.</p> +<p class="gutindent">God looks not at the size, or value of the +gift, but the motive from which it springs. 2 Cor. viii. +12.</p> +<p class="gutindent">The widow’s mite. Mark, xii. 42, +44.</p> +<p class="gutindent">The cup of cold water. Matt. x. 42; +xxv. 35.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Nursing a sick neighbour. 1 Tim. v. +10.</p> +<h2>IX. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">Prov. xxxi.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Her +Reward</span>.</p> +<p>I. Her children regard her with grateful love, and look +back with thankfulness to her care and teaching. Verse 28. +<i>e.g.</i> Timothy, 2 Tim. i. 5, and David, Ps. lxxxvi. 16; +cxvi. 16.</p> +<p><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>II. Her husband confides in her, blesses her, +honours her. Verse 28.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Eph. v. 25, 31. 1 Pet. iii. 7.</p> +<p>III. She reaps the fruit of her labours. Verse +31. Deut. iv. 40. Prov. xx. 7; xxii. 6; xxix. +17. 2 John, 4.</p> +<p>IV. She shall rejoice in time to come. Verse +25.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Not only in this world (Ps. cxviii. 15), but +in the life to come.</p> +<p class="gutindent">In the future kingdom, will not her +children, for whom she prayed and laboured, be to her, as St. +Paul says his spiritual children will be to him, ‘Her joy, +her crown of rejoicing in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ +at His coming?’ 1 Thess. ii. 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Let this cheer the faint-hearted and +discouraged Christian mother; she sows perhaps now with bitter +tears, but she shall ‘reap in joy.’</p> +<h2><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>X. HOW TO SPEND SUNDAY.</h2> +<blockquote><p>‘Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it +holy.’</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Mothers can effect much by domestic arrangement, and +forethought.</p> +<p>I. Make Saturday a ‘day of +preparation.’ ‘Bake that which ye will bake +to-day,’ &c. Exod. xvi. 5, 23. Mark, xv. +42. Luke, xxiii. 54.</p> +<p>II. Endeavour to make the Sunday</p> +<p>1. A <i>holy</i> day.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Exod. xx. 10, 11. Deut. v. 12. +Gen. ii. 3.</p> +<p class="gutindent">To sanctify, signifies to set apart for a +holy purpose. Thus in the New Testament the Sabbath is +called ‘the Lord’s day.’ Rev. i. 10, +because a day devoted to His service.</p> +<p>2. A <i>resting</i> day.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Gen. ii. 3. Lev. xxiii. 3. Matt. +xxiii. 56.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page25"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 25</span>Called ‘the Sabbath of +<i>rest</i>.’ Lev. xxiii. 3. And ‘the +<i>rest</i> of the holy Sabbath.’ Exod. xvi. +23. <i>Sabbath</i> signifies <i>rest</i>, and heaven, of +which it is a type, is called, ‘the keeping of a +<i>Sabbath</i>.’ Heb. iv. 9.</p> +<p>3. A <i>happy</i> day.</p> +<p class="gutindent">It is a <i>gift</i>, a <i>privilege</i>, not +a task.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Exod. xvi. 29. Isa. lviii. 13.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Not esteemed to be such, unless God’s +service felt to be a <i>delight</i>. Others say, +‘When will the Sabbath be gone?’ Amos, viii. +5.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Let there be no gloom in the home, but a +cheerful sobriety.</p> +<p>4. A <i>profitable</i> day.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Though <i>rest</i>, not +<i>idleness</i>. Children are always happiest when their +minds are employed.</p> +<p class="gutindent">To profit pay great attention to Public +Worship, Deut. xxxi. 12, 13. Acts, xiii. 42; xvi. 13; +xviii. 4. Heb. x. 25.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Observe our Lord’s example. +Luke, iv. 16.</p> +<p class="gutindent">The Sunday School is a great help to the +poor mother.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page26"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 26</span>Cultivate religious occupation. +<i>e.g.</i> Find texts—repeat hymns—sing hymns, +&c.</p> +<p>III. Observe the promise.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Isa. lvi. 2–7: lviii. 13, 14.</p> +<h2>XI. COMPANIONS.</h2> +<p>I. Danger of bad companions.</p> +<p class="gutindent">One bad companion corrupts many. +‘A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.’ 1 +Cor. v. 6.</p> +<p class="gutindent">‘Evil communications corrupt good +manners.’ 1 Cor. xv. 33.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Eph. v. 11. Prov. xxii. 24, 25.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You are warned in the Scriptures against +making companions of:</p> +<p>1. Fools. Prov. xiii. 20.</p> +<p>2. Riotous. Prov. xxviii. 7.</p> +<p>3. Thieves. Isa. i. 23.</p> +<p>4. Depraved. Prov. xxix. 3. 1 Cor. v. 9.</p> +<p>5. Irreligious. 2 Thess. iii. 14. Jam. iv. +4.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page27"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 27</span>If important for yourselves, doubly +so for the young, unformed minds of your children.</p> +<p>II. Form good friendships.</p> +<p class="gutindent">‘The friendship of the world is enmity +with God.’ Jam. iv. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent">David chose his friends from those who +feared God. Ps. cxix. 63. Heb. x. 33.</p> +<p>III. Observe three rules for the sake of your +<i>children</i>, as well as <i>yourselves</i>.</p> +<p>1. Never harbour bad guests.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Lodgers—workpeople.</p> +<p>2. Never associate with the wicked, unless obliged to do +so, or with a view to doing them good.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Even this needs caution.</p> +<p>3. Remember, ‘A man is known by his +friends.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">You and your children will be judged by the +company you keep.</p> +<h2><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>XII. SLOTH.</h2> +<p>I. The command to be diligent is plain. Rom. xii. +11. 2 Thess. iii. 10, 11.</p> +<p>II. See the miserable results of sloth.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. It leads to tattling. 1 Tim. +v. 13.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. Decay. Eccles. x. 18.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. Difficulties. Prov. xv. +19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">4. Waste. Prov. xviii. 9.</p> +<p class="gutindent">5. Want. Prov. xx. 4; xxiv. 30, +34.</p> +<p>III. Contrast excellent woman (Prov. xxxi. 27) with the +slothful person. Prov. xix. 24; xxiv. 30; x. 26.</p> +<p>IV. Learn a lesson from the ant for yourselves—for +your children. Prov. vi. 6, &c.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Give your children something to do.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Remember, they must be <i>set to work</i>, +though it is often more trouble to you to teach <i>them</i> to do +it, than to do it <i>yourself</i>—yet persevere.</p> +<p><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>V. If not slothful in your temporal affairs, above +all be not slothful concerning the salvation of your souls.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Heb. vi. 11, 12. 2 Pet. i. 10.</p> +<h2>XIII. THE WATCHFUL MOTHER.</h2> +<p>No eye should be so wakeful and watchful as a +mother’s.</p> +<p>I. Watch over your children <i>in infancy</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Exod. ii. 8. 1 Sam. i. 23.</p> +<p class="gutindent">It is described as next to impossible for a +woman to forget her sucking child. Isa. xlix. 15.</p> +<p class="gutindent">A well-watched infancy, under God’s +blessing, avoids many future ills.</p> +<p>II. Watch over your children’s +<i>education</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Judg. xiii. 8.</p> +<p class="gutindent">In every minute particular.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Learning—clothing, &c. 1 +Sam. ii. 19. Prov. xxxi. 21, 23.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page30"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 30</span>Contrast the dirty, unmended clothes +of the poor, uncared-for child, with the clean and neatly mended +garments of him whose childhood is guarded by the watchful eye of +a mother.</p> +<p>III. Watch them in times of sickness and death.</p> +<p class="gutindent">No eye so quick to discover a hidden +ill.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2 Kings, iv. 19, 20. John, xix. +25.</p> +<p>IV. Above all watch over the precious soul.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Never lose sight of the soul, in care for +the body.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. <i>Watch</i>, as those that must +give account. Heb. xiii. 17.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. <i>Watch</i>, to detect sin, and +check its growth.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Mark first sign of the plague spot.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. <i>Watch</i>, for opportunity to +lead to Christ. Prov. xv. 23. Deut. vi. 6, 9. +Mark, x. 13.</p> +<h2><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>XIV. THE HASTY MOTHER.</h2> +<p>I. How common! Yet the Bible commands us not to be +hasty. Eccles. vii. 9.</p> +<p class="gutindent">A woman’s ornament should be a meek, +and quiet spirit (1 Pet. iii. 4), and a nurse is mentioned as +being especially gentle to the little ones. 1 Thess. ii. +7.</p> +<p>II. Observe the angry woman,</p> +<p class="gutindent">How foolish! Prov. xiv. 29; xxix. +20.</p> +<p class="gutindent">How provoking! Prov. xv. 1.</p> +<p class="gutindent">How wearing! Prov. xix. 13; xxvii. 15; +xxi. 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Drives the husband from his fireside.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Sets an evil example to the children.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Often does in her haste, what she heartily +repents at leisure.</p> +<p>III. Therefore,</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. Put away anger. Eph. iv. +31.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Do not be <i>soon</i> angry. Prov. +xiv. 17. Jam. i. 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page32"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 32</span>‘Meekness gives smooth answers +to rough questions.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. Exercise self-control. Prov. +xxv. 28; xvi. 32.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. Teach it to your children.</p> +<p>III. Remember, a hasty temper is a <i>fault</i>, not a +<i>misfortune</i>. Accustom yourself, and your children, to +view it in its right light.</p> +<p>IV. Ask help from God to subdue it, for temper is hard +to conquer, and meekness is a fruit of the Spirit. Gal. v. +22. Matt. v. 5.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You <i>need help</i>, for there is much to +provoke a wife, and mother.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You <i>need help</i>, for you are very weak, +but you can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth +you. Phil. iv. 13.</p> +<h2>XV. THE WEARY MOTHER.</h2> +<p>Many things below make a mother weary.</p> +<p>The blessing of <i>rest</i> is chiefly future.</p> +<p><a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>Notice +various things that often make mothers weary, and the remedy for +them.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Cause</span>.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Remedy</span>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I. Weary with cares and sorrows—ready to +exclaim, ‘My burden is greater than I can bear.’</p> +</td> +<td><p>I. Do not carry your burden alone. Ps. lv. +22.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1 Pet. v. 7. Jer. xxxi. 25.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>Hereafter</i> rest.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Psa. xciv. 13. Isa. xiv. 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>II. Weary with work.</p> +</td> +<td><p>II. Make more use of the rest of the Sabbath.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Exod. xx. 8.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Called ‘Sabbath of +<i>rest</i>.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">Lev. xxiii. 3.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>Hereafter</i>. Heb. iv. 9.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>III. Weary with sickness.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Job, vii. 3, 4. Isa. xxxviii. 12, +14.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page34"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 34</span>May be your own, your +husband’s, your children’s.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Wearisome nights of pain, or watching.</p> +</td> +<td><p>III. Comfort in time of sickness. Ps. xli. +3.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Great alleviation in true spirit of +submission.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>Hereafter</i>. Isa. xxxiii. +24. Rev. xxi. 4.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>IV. Weary of your sins.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Ps. vi. 6; xxxviii. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Oft repented.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Oft repeated.</p> +</td> +<td><p>IV. Come with your sins to Christ.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Matt. xi. 28, 29.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>Hereafter</i>. Rev. xxi. 27.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>V. Weary with your children’s sins.</p> +</td> +<td><p>V. Correct, and they shall give you rest. +Prov. xxix. 17.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Consider Christ, <i>lest ye be +weary</i>. Heb. xii. 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Do you know where to go for rest? Jer. vi. 16. Or +are you wandering hither and thither in vain, having forgotten +your resting-place? Jer. l. 6. Remember, it is only +to those who are in Christ that these promises of rest apply.</p> +<p><a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 35</span>It is +only His own sheep who can say, ‘He maketh me to <i>lie +down in green pastures</i>.’</p> +<p>To others there is no rest here, or hereafter, for, ‘The +wicked are like the troubled sea, when it <i>cannot rest</i>. . . +. There is no peace, saith my God, to the +wicked.’ Isa. lvii. 20, 21.</p> +<h2>XVI. THE CARELESS MOTHER.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">Isa. xxxii. 9–13.</p> +<p>Motherless children are often uncared for. No one +‘<i>naturally</i> cares for their state.’ No +child with a mother <i>ought</i> to be so. But too often +mothers are careless about—</p> +<p>I. Their <i>minds</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">No schooling—no teaching—no +training—no Sunday School. Cares not whether in time, +or too late—regular or truant, &c., &c.</p> +<p>II. Their <i>respectability</i>, and +<i>associates</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Will take in bad lodgers, hire bad +characters <a name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +36</span>to help at the wash-tub because they can be had cheaper +than the respectable, forgetting that ‘a good name is +rather to be chosen than great riches.’ Prov. xxii. +1. Eccles. vii. 1.</p> +<p class="gutindent">What guilty carelessness!</p> +<p>III. Their <i>happiness</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">What misery here awaits a neglected +child!</p> +<p class="gutindent">What woe hereafter!</p> +<p>IV. Their <i>souls</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">To a parent guilty of this carelessness, it +is said, ‘His blood will I require at thine +hand.’ Ezek. iii. 18, 19; xxxiii. 6.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Have you ever lost a child, for whose soul +you never cared? Pray Ps. li. 14.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>This</i> arises from want of real +religion.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You do not know the immense value of a +soul.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Would you be thus careless of an earthly +treasure? Would you not watch it—lock it +up—guard it with a jealous eye? Your child’s +soul a treasure passing all price. Yet you allow Satan to +steal <a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +37</span>it—bad companions to corrupt it—ruin it +yourself by neglect. A thing neglected is ruined.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Keep in view the judgment day.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Will your child then say, ‘No man +cared for my soul’—‘even my <i>mother</i> cared +not that I perished!’</p> +<h2>XVII. THE CAREFUL MOTHER.</h2> +<p>I. Careful in her <i>house</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">No waste. Prov. xviii. 9. John, +vi. 12.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Yet not stingy. No needless +expense—makes a little go a long way.</p> +<p>II. Careful over her <i>children</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Their +<i>bodies</i>—health—clothes—future. 1 +Tim. v. 8. 2 Cor. xii. 14.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Provident Club. Penny Bank, +&c.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Their <i>minds</i>. Gives education +suitable to their station. No fortune so good.</p> +<p class="gutindent">What a disgrace in these days to a mother, +if a child cannot read and write!</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page38"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 38</span>Their <i>souls</i>. Above all, +let not care for the body choke this. Mark, iv. 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Lay up treasure in heaven. Matt. vi. +20.</p> +<p>III. Let not careful mother be <i>too full of +care</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Not <i>overcharged</i>. Luke, xxi. 34; +x. 41, 42.</p> +<p class="gutindent">‘Live not in careful +suspense.’ Luke, xii. 29 (margin).</p> +<p class="gutindent">Cast your care on One who can bear it. +1 Pet. v. 7. Phil. iv. 6. He will not despise it, +‘<i>for He careth for you</i>.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">For the future, take this for your motto +when over-pressed by cares and trials, ‘The Lord will +provide.’ Gen. xxii, 14. Philip, iv. 19. +Ps. xxiii. 1.</p> +<h2>XVIII. THE PATIENT MOTHER.</h2> +<p>A mother has, in a peculiar degree, ‘need of +patience.’ Heb. x. 36.</p> +<p>I. In trials of temper. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 5, +7. Prov. xiv. 17.</p> +<p>II. With your children’s faults.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Matt. xviii. 22, 35.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page39"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 39</span>Look back to the days of your +childhood.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Were not you equally trying to your +mother?</p> +<p class="gutindent">Remember your own faults, and God’s +patience with you. He bears long with you.</p> +<p>III. It may be you need patience in bearing with unjust +tempers, and unkind treatment. 1 Pet. ii. 19, 23. Ps. +xxxvii. 7.</p> +<p>IV. For answers to prayer.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Syro-Phenician mother. Matt. xv. 22, +28. Jam. v. 7, 8. ‘Tarry thou the Lord’s +leisure.’</p> +<p>V. In tribulation, sickness, and poverty. Rom. +xii. 12. Jam. v. 10, 11. Luke, xxi. 19.</p> +<h2>XIX. THE FIRM MOTHER.</h2> +<p>I. To obey is a child’s duty.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Exod. xx. 12. Eph. vi. 1. Col. +iii. 20.</p> +<p><a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +40</span>II. This obedience should be—</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. Implicit.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. Unquestioning.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. Immediate.</p> +<p class="gutindent">4. In manner, and spirit.</p> +<p class="gutindent">5. From love.</p> +<p class="gutindent">6. In absence, as well as +presence.</p> +<p class="gutindent">7. To the <i>mother</i> as well as the +<i>father</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Prov. i. 8; vi. 20; xv. 20. Lev. xix. +3. <i>e.g.</i> Luke, ii. 51.</p> +<p class="gutindent">This is most important. In the Bible +no difference is drawn between the authority of the father and +mother.</p> +<p>III. A promise attached to obedience.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Exod. xx. 12. Eph. vi. 2. Jer. +xxxv. 18, 19.</p> +<p>IV. To disobey is sin.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Deut. xxi. 18, 21. Ezek. xxii. +7. Rom. i. 30. 2 Tim. iii. 2. 1 Sam. ii. +25.</p> +<p>V. A punishment attached to disobedience.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Deut. xxvii. 16. Prov. xxx. 17.</p> +<p>VI. It is a parent’s <i>duty</i> to enforce +obedience. Allowed disobedience brings misery into the +home. 1 Tim. iii. 4; v. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page41"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 41</span>Eli. 1 Sam. ii. 23.</p> +<p class="gutindent">David. 1 Kings, i. 6.</p> +<p>How solemn then, Mothers, is your responsibility.</p> +<p>How earnest should be your prayers that <i>your</i> commands +may agree with <i>God’s</i>. Gen. xviii. 19. +Deut. xxxii. 46. Eph. vi. 1.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Seek for wisdom in commanding.</p> +<p>Firmness in insisting.</p> +<h2>XX. CONVERSION.</h2> +<p>We meet time after time at our Mothers’ Meeting, but how +few of us are truly converted, and changed in heart.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Ask yourselves this night two questions.</p> +<p>I. Do you earnestly seek your own conversion? +‘What shall it profit you, if you gain the whole world, and +lose your own soul?’</p> +<p class="gutindent">Mark, viii. 36, 37.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Delay not. Isa. lix. 1.</p> +<p><a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +42</span>II. Do you earnestly seek for the conversion of +your children?##</p> +<p>1. Perhaps you do not <i>care</i> for it. You do +not seek <i>first</i> for them the kingdom of God. Matt. +vi. 33. Be honest to yourselves in this matter. Are +you ready to give up for them anything that keeps them from +Christ?</p> +<p class="gutindent">Matt. v. 29, 30.</p> +<p>2. Perhaps you do not <i>pray</i> for it.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Observe how the mother prayed. Matt. +xv. 22, 28. David. 1 Chron. xxix. 19. Job, i. +5.</p> +<p>3. Perhaps you place <i>hindrances</i> in the way.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You draw them to the world instead of to +Christ. Matt. xviii. 6.</p> +<p>4. Perhaps you forget the necessity of the <i>Holy +Spirit’s power</i>. Isa. xliv. 3, 4, 5.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Pray this night for the outpouring of the +Holy Spirit upon yourselves—your husbands—your +children. Matt. vii. 11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Remember, ‘except ye be converted, and +become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of +heaven.’ Matt. xviii. 3.</p> +<h2><a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +43</span>XXI. THOU, GOD, SEEST ME.</h2> +<p>God’s penetrating eye. Rev. i 14.</p> +<p>I. He sees <i>all</i>. Prov. v. 21.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Bad and good. Prov. xv. 3.</p> +<p>II. <i>Where</i> does He see you?</p> +<p>1. He sees the mother <i>in secret</i>. Matt. vi. +6.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Each secret prayer—each +sigh—each tear.</p> +<p class="gutindent">No privacy from Him. Eccles. xii. +14. Ps. xix. 12. Jer. xxiii. 24.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Many would give worlds to hide from God.</p> +<p>2. In her <i>daily path</i>. Job, xxxiv. 21. +Ps. cxxxix. 3.</p> +<p>3. In <i>every circumstance</i>. 2 Chron. xvi. +9.</p> +<p>III. <i>What</i> does He see?</p> +<p>1. The mother’s <i>heart</i>. Jer. xx. +12. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Her +motives—desires—yearnings.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You may deceive <i>others</i>. You may +even deceive <i>yourselves</i>, ‘but all things are <a +name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 44</span>naked, and +opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.’ +Heb. iv. 13. Luke, xvi. 15.</p> +<p>2. The mother’s <i>sins</i>. Ps. xix. 12; +xc. 8. Isa. lvii. 18. Amos, v. 12.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Sins of omission and commission.</p> +<p>3. The mother’s <i>sorrows</i>. Exod. iii. +7.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Both inward and outward trials. 2 +Kings, xx. 5. Ps. cxlii. 3. Acts, vii. 34.</p> +<p class="gutindent">There are many sorrows it is not well for a +wife and mother to speak of to others, but take comfort! +Your Saviour knows each grief—each trouble—each tear +for your own sins or the sins of others.</p> +<p>4. The mother’s <i>need</i>. Matt. vi. 8, +32.</p> +<p class="gutindent">And He promises to supply it. Ps. +xxiii. 1. Philip, iv. 19.</p> +<h2>XXII. JESUS THE MOTHER’S FRIEND.</h2> +<p>I. Mothers need a friend!</p> +<p class="gutindent">In joy and in sorrow, in dark hours and in +light, in life and in death, they <a name="page45"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 45</span>need a Friend who is always the +same—even ‘the same yesterday, to-day, and for +ever.’</p> +<p>II. You may have such a Friend.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. Even Jesus. Prov. xviii. +24. John, xv. 15. The Friend of sinners. Matt. +xi. 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. He loveth always. Prov. xvii. +17.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. He is faithful. Prov. xviii. +24. John, xiii. 1.</p> +<p>III. Is He <i>your</i> Friend?</p> +<p class="gutindent">Can you point to Jesus and say, ‘This +is my Beloved, and this is my Friend?’ Cant. v. +16.</p> +<p class="gutindent">If not, do not rest until you can say +so.</p> +<p>IV. If Jesus <i>is</i> your Friend.</p> +<p>1. Go to Him in <i>trouble</i>. ‘Pour out +your heart before Him.’ John, xi. 3, 11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">In sorrow lean on His bosom, as John +did. John, xiii. 23.</p> +<p class="gutindent">‘He weeps with those who +weep.’</p> +<p>2. Go to Him in <i>joy</i>, for He ‘rejoices with +those who do rejoice.’</p> +<p>3. Do not have hard thoughts of Him because He +afflicts.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page46"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 46</span>‘Faithful are the wounds of a +friend.’ Prov. xxvii. 6. Ps. cxli. 5.</p> +<p class="gutindent">He sympathises in every sorrow. Heb. +iv. 15.</p> +<p class="gutindent">And has borne your griefs. Isa. liii. +4.</p> +<h2>XXIII. HELPS FOR MOTHERS.<br /> +1.</h2> +<p>A mother has many hindrances in seeking Christ. She +needs much help from the means of grace. To obtain this is +often difficult, and requires much effort. Outward means +are, therefore, too often neglected. If you would grow in +grace this must not be.</p> +<p>Be diligent, therefore, in the use of—</p> +<p>I. Daily prayer. Matt. vi. 6, 11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">No business should prevent this. David +had the business of a kingdom upon him, nevertheless, he says, +‘Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I +pray.’ Ps. lv. 17.</p> +<p><a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +47</span>II. Daily Scripture reading. Acts, xvii. +11. Ps. cxix. 103.</p> +<p>III. Family prayer.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Judgment pronounced on those who neglect +family religion. Jer. x. 25.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Promise to united prayer. Matt. xviii. +19, 20.</p> +<p>IV. Attendance on the public means of grace.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Observe the command. Deut. xii. 12, +18. Heb. x. 25.</p> +<p class="gutindent">What a blessing rested on it in the case of +Lydia. Acts, xvi. 13, 15.</p> +<p class="gutindent">There are great difficulties to the mother +of a young family in going to Church on Sunday, but make an +effort to overcome them. This can generally be done if +husband and wife make a <i>united effort</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">If you are truly hungering and thirsting +after righteousness, you will earnestly use every means for +obtaining the bread and the water of life. If you are +careless in this respect, it is because there is no real hunger, +no craving of soul for heavenly food.</p> +<h2><a name="page48"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +48</span>XXIV. HELPS FOR MOTHERS.<br /> +2.</h2> +<p>We will notice this evening three more things which are, or +ought to be, ‘helps’ to mothers on the heavenly +race.</p> +<p>I. Husbands and wives should be <i>mutual</i> helps, +(see Marriage Service) ‘for the mutual help and comfort the +one of the other.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">Gen. ii. 18. 1 Pet. iii. 7. Eph. +v. 28, 29.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Fellow-pilgrims, fellow-sufferers, +fellow-travellers they <i>must be</i>; but what an unspeakable +joy is it when they are also fellow-helpers, fellow-labourers, +fellow-heirs, fellow-citizens!</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<blockquote><p>‘O happy house, where man and wife are +one,<br /> + Thro’ love of Thee, in spirit, heart, and +mind;<br /> +Together joined by holy bands, which none,<br /> + Not death itself, can sever or unbind;<br /> +Where both on thee unfailingly depend,<br /> + In weal and woe, in good and evil days,<br /> +And hope with Thee eternity to spend;<br /> + In sweet communion and eternal praise.’</p> +</blockquote> +<p><a name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +49</span>II. Christian friends.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2 Cor. i. 24. Rom. xvi. 3.</p> +<p class="gutindent">What comfort and <i>help</i> may be derived +from the visits, counsels, and sympathy of a Christian neighbour, +a kind and devoted district visitor, or minister.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Especially may Christian friends help each +other by <i>prayer</i>. 2 Cor. i. 11. Jam. v. 16, +18. Matt. xviii. 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">How valuable is a Prayer Union, such as we +have connected with our Mothers’ Meeting.</p> +<p>III. But lastly remember that these ‘helps’ +are worth nothing unless you have <i>the Lord for your +Helper</i>. Ps. liv. 4. Heb. xiii. 6. Exod. +xviii. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent">He is different to any earthly helper, for +He is a Helper at all times, and in all circumstances.</p> +<p class="gutindent">In trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1.</p> +<p class="gutindent">To the widow. Ps. lxviii. 5.</p> +<p class="gutindent">To the fatherless. Ps. x. 14.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Take, therefore, this short prayer and use +it in your daily life, ‘Lord, be <i>Thou</i> my +helper.’ Lift up this prayer in the midst of your +work—of temptation—<a name="page50"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 50</span>of trial, and you will be enabled to +add, ‘My heart trusted in Him, and <i>I am +helped</i>!’ Ps. xxviii. 7.</p> +<h2>XXV. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN.</h2> +<p>A mother may not have much time for instruction, or be very +capable of teaching, but she should make it her daily duty to +give her children some instruction in the Scriptures. She +may know but little herself, but let not this discourage her; for +in watering others she shall herself be watered. Prov. xi. +25.</p> +<p>I. Teach, seeking the help of the Holy Spirit. +Isa. liv. 13. John, xvi. 13. Luke, xii. 12. +Job, xxxvi. 22. Ps. xciv. 12.</p> +<p>II. Teach in the spirit of prayer.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Eph. vi. 18, 19.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Remembering these words, ‘Without Me +ye can do nothing.’ John, xv. 5.</p> +<p><a name="page51"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +51</span>III. Teach, leaning on the promise.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Isa. lv. 10, 11. Eccles. xi. 1, 6.</p> +<p>IV. Teach, expecting a result.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Ps. cxxvi. 6. Prov. xxii. 6. +Gen. xviii. 19. 2 Tim. i. 5; iii. 15.</p> +<h2>XXVI. THE PARTING PLACE, AND THE MEETING PLACE.</h2> +<p>The following circumstance took place not long after the last +meeting. Two mothers, who were both present at the Class, +about a fortnight after met in the Cemetery, sorrowing at their +children’s graves. Each had during that interval lost +a child, but not having heard of each other’s trouble, the +meeting was unexpected.</p> +<p>On this occasion the following subject was taken.</p> +<p>I. The parting place—the child’s +death-bed. This is,</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. A parting place.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page52"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 52</span>All must die alone. The mother +may have watched over her child with untiring care during its +years of infancy, the trials of youth, and the snares and cares +of riper years, but here they <i>must part</i>. 2 Sam. xii. +15, 23.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. A weeping place. Gen. xxi. +16.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2 Sam. xii. 21. Jer. xxxi. 15.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Mark, v. 38. Luke, vii. 13. Not +<i>wrong</i>, for Jesus wept at the grave of Lazarus. John, +xi. 35.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. A birth place</p> +<p class="gutindent">To a new and heavenly life. But not so +to <i>all</i>. To <i>some</i>, namely, to those who have +indeed been born again. Luke, xvi. 22; and to babes. +Isa. xl. 11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Contrast David’s sorrow for his +infant, (2 Sam. xii. 23) with his sorrow for Absalom, 2 Sam. xix. +4. To one death was the door of <i>life</i>, to the other +of <i>death</i>.</p> +<p>II. The meeting place—the judgment-seat. +Rev. xx. 12. Rom. xiv. 10.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You cannot avoid it.</p> +<p class="gutindent">It will be.</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. To all a place of recognition.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page53"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 53</span>The child you led to Christ—the +child you led astray. The child you trained for +heaven—the child you trained for hell. <i>All</i> +will be there.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. To many a place of weeping. +Matt. xxv. 30. Luke, vi. 25.</p> +<p class="gutindent">3. To many a place of rejoicing. +Matt. xxv. 34.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Believing mother! Your night of +weeping will then be over, your morning of joy will dawn, of +which the sun will never set! Ps. xxx. 5.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Which will it be to you—a +meeting-place of joy or sorrow?</p> +<p class="gutindent">May you and your children be so united in +Christ here, that you may both part and meet in peace!</p> +<h2><a name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +54</span>XXVII. THE MOTHER’S DEATH-BED.</h2> +<p>On the occasion of the death of a young mother, which took +place not long after the first meeting in the new year.</p> +<p>I. How near it may be. 1 Sam. xx. 3. Job, +xxi. 13.</p> +<p class="gutindent">In the midst of life we are in death.</p> +<p class="gutindent">We have had a solemn lesson. Almost +the youngest in our class cut down the first.</p> +<p>II. The hour of death is an hour</p> +<p>1. Of deep solemnity.</p> +<p class="gutindent">It is a dark valley. Ps. xxiii. +4. Job. x. 21.</p> +<p>2. Of much regret.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Conscience awake, looks back on duties +undone—things done—words spoken—words unsaid, +&c.</p> +<p>3. Often of great suffering. Ps. cxvi. 3.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Not the time to begin to seek the Lord.</p> +<p>4. Of parting. Philip, i. 23, 24.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Must die alone. Must leave husband <a +name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 55</span>and +children. They may go with you to the edge of the river, +but no further.</p> +<p>5. Of weeping. Gen. xxxv. 18; xxiii. 2. +John, xi. 31. 2 Sam. xix. 4.</p> +<p>6. It is an hour when Christ, and <i>Christ alone</i>, +can save you.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Thus we pray, ‘In the hour of death, +and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">His rod and staff alone can help you. +Ps. xxiii. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent">He alone can take away the sting from +death. 1 Cor. xv. 55, 57. Rom. viii. 38, 39. +Isa. xliii. 2.</p> +<p class="gutindent">It is only if washed in His blood, and +clothed in His righteousness, that you need not fear to appear +before God.</p> +<h2>XXVIII. NEW YEAR’S DAY.</h2> +<blockquote><p>‘I must work the work of Him that sent me +while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can +work.’—John, ix. 4.</p> +<p>Time <i>past</i>—is gone, thou canst not it recall.<br +/> +Time <i>is</i>—thou hast, improve the portion small.<br /> +<a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 56</span>Time<i> +future</i>—is not, and may never be.<br /> +Time <i>present</i>—is the only time for thee!</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Therefore,</p> +<p>I. <i>Hear to-day</i>. (Ps. xcv. 7.) ‘See +that ye refuse not Him that speaketh.’</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>Exhort to-day</i> your children. +(Heb. iii. 13.)</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>Work to-day</i> (John, ix. 4) for your +children’s souls.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Never postpone. Jam. iv. 13. 2 +Cor. vi. 2.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><i>Now</i> it is high time to wake out of +sleep. Rom. xiii. 11.</p> +<p>II. Because the <i>night</i> cometh when no man can +work. John, ix. 4.</p> +<p class="gutindent">The night of <i>your</i> death—your +<i>husband’s</i> death—your <i>children’s</i> +death.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Perhaps this sentence has gone forth against +you, or yours, ‘This year thou shalt die.’ Jer. +xxviii. 16.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Luke, xii. 20; xiii. 7.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p class="gutindent">Mothers, <i>awake</i>! to your own, and your +children’s danger.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page57"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 57</span><i>Awake</i> to the importance of +safety in Christ.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Mothers, <i>work</i>! for yourselves, for +your families.</p> +<p class="gutindent">‘Labour not for the meat which +perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting +life.’ John, vi. 27.</p> +<h2>XXIX. FIRST MEETING IN THE YEAR.</h2> +<p>I. Look backwards on the past year.</p> +<p>1. On your <i>sins</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">They are +many—great—mighty. You need forgiveness, and +Christ is <i>ready</i> to forgive. Neh. ix. 17. Make +this your prayer for the past year, ‘Lord, pardon mine +iniquity, for <i>it is great</i>.’ Ps. xxv. 11.</p> +<p class="gutindent">On your sins towards your +<i>husbands</i>. +Provocation—temper—carelessness of their +comfort—an unyielding spirit. Again must you say, +‘Pardon mine iniquity, for it is <i>great</i>.’</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page58"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 58</span>On your sins towards your +<i>children</i>. Neglect—bad +example—prayerlessness—cross tempers—hasty +slaps. Again you must say, ‘Pardon mine iniquity, for +it is <i>great</i>.’</p> +<p>2. On your <i>sorrows</i>.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Poverty—sickness—death. +Yet your sorrows not so many as your sins. How have you +been helped through them! Have you <i>profited</i>? +Heb. xii. 10. God has been teaching you, have you learnt +the lesson?</p> +<p>3. On your mercies.</p> +<p class="gutindent">You can count your sorrows. Try and +count your mercies, they are more than can be numbered. Ps. +xl. 5. How undeserved they were! You have counted +your days of sickness—have you those of health? Your +hours of mourning—have you those of joy? Your +children taken—have you counted your children spared? +&c., &c. Were you thankful? Gen. xxxii. +10.</p> +<p>II. Look forward on the opening year.</p> +<p class="gutindent">On what? Can you tell?</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page59"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 59</span>How uncertain, you know not what will +be even on the morrow. Jam. iv. 4. Prov. xxvii. +1. Who will be taken? Whose husband? Whose +child?</p> +<p class="gutindent">You know not.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Therefore, ‘be ye also ready, for in +such an hour as ye <i>think not</i> the Son of Man +cometh.’ Matt. xxiv. 44.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Can <i>you</i> say, ‘Even so come, +Lord Jesus, <i>come quickly</i>?’</p> +<h2>XXX. LAST MEETING IN THE YEAR.<br /> +<span class="smcap">The Cradle and the Grave</span>.</h2> +<p>God has been speaking to us during the past year. Two +mothers have gone to their long home, and ten of our +children. Let us reply, ‘Speak, Lord, for thy servant +heareth.’ 1 Sam. iii. 9.</p> +<p>God speaks to us from the cradle, and the grave.</p> +<p>I. From the <i>cradle</i>, and says,</p> +<p class="gutindent">1. ‘Take this child, and nurse +it for <i>me</i>.’ Exod. ii. 9.</p> +<p class="gutindent">2. Pray for it—train +it—love it—comfort it.</p> +<p class="gutindent"><a name="page60"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 60</span>3. He speaks in a voice of +<i>comfort</i> from our cradles to our souls, if we are His +people. ‘Mother, can you forget this sucking +child? Yea, you <i>may</i> forget, yet will not I forget +you.’ Isa. xlix. 15.</p> +<p class="gutindent">Again—Do you comfort your +babe—do you soothe its fears? do you wipe its tears? +Even so, believing mother, will God comfort you. Isa. lxvi. +13. Yes, even ‘wipe away all tears from your +eyes.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">Oh! precious voice from the cradle to your +soul!</p> +<p>II. God speaks from the <i>grave</i>—and says,</p> +<p>1. ‘Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou +mayst be no longer steward.’ Luke, xvi. 2.</p> +<p>2. ‘Time is short.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">1 Cor. vii. 29. 1 Pet. iv. 7.</p> +<p class="gutindent">What a little life—gone as a +spark!</p> +<p class="gutindent">You may die—your children may +die—or Christ may come. Do not say, +‘to-morrow.’ Jam. iv. 13.</p> +<p>3. ‘Be ye also ready.’</p> +<p class="gutindent">Matt. xxiv. 44.</p> +<p><a name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +61</span>4. Your child shall rise again.</p> +<p class="gutindent">‘I am the resurrection and the +life.’ John, xi. 25. (See Burial Service.) Jer. +xxxi. 16, 17.</p> +<p class="gutindent">If both parent and child are in Christ, what +a blessed reunion, for He adds, ‘Whosoever liveth and +believeth in me shall <i>never die</i>!’</p> +<p class="gutindent">If it should be the Lord’s will during +the coming year again to take many of our little ones from their +mothers’ arms, and to lay them in His own bosom, may each +sorrowing one amongst us be enabled to say in the spirit of true +and loving submission, ‘The Lord gave, and the Lord hath +taken away; <i>blessed be the name of the Lord</i>!’</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">LONDON:<br /> +Printed by <span class="smcap">John Strangeways</span>, Castle +St. Leicester Sq.</p> +<h2><a name="page62"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 62</span>By the +same Author,<br /> +<i>Short Tracts for Mothers</i>.</h2> +<p>No. 1. Give an Account of thy Stewardship.</p> +<p>2. Praying Mothers.</p> +<p>3. In the Morning Sow thy Seed.</p> +<p>4. 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