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“Love Like Mother’s”
’T'HE Lord assures us that He
loves us as a mother loves her
child. “Can a woman forget her
sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her
womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not forget thee. Benold, I
have graven thee upon the palms
of My hands; thy walls are contin
ually before Me.”—Isaiah 49:15-16.
A mother’s love lingers long.
Others may forsake us, but when
their love fails, we can still depend
on mother. The doors of other
homes may be closed against us,
but mother’s door is still open.
The daughter of a poor widow
was led into the paths of sin. She
rejected the invitation of mother
to return home. But mother kept
on praying for her wayward daugh
ter. He who hears the cry of the
afflicted and who notes the spar
row’s fall heard her cry. One night
the daughter was wandering in the
streets of a large city. Homeless,
cold, and friendless, she decided to
go to mother. Late in the night she
reached the humble home. She ap
proached cautiously, and turning
the latch, she found the door open.
She went in and found mother sit
ting by the fireside, a few embers
only upon the hearth. ^
In reply to her child’s remon
strance for sitting by ’he fire with
the door unlocked in the small
hours of the morning, she said:
“Never, my daughter, by night or
by day has the door been locked
since you left. I was afraid you
would return, and finding it fas
tened, would go off again.”
This is a mother’s love. God’s
love is like this. Surely, with great
confidence, we can come to Him in
times of trouble and need.
. “Faith.”
p\A.ITH is not blind acceptance of
* absurdity. Faith is the com
pletion of a transaction in which
we commit ourselves to a personal
relationship with an unseen and
living Master. Faith is such an
adventure as every sailor makes
when he sets out for an unseen
port. Faith is our response to our
yearning for the God who has made
us for fellowship with Himself.
Faith is the answer of the vibrant
human spirit to the music of eter
nity.
“The Beauty of Woman
hood.”
“TEACH the young women to be
discreet, chaste, keepers at
home.” Titus 2:4-5.
True modesty is the highest grace
and adornment of womanhood.
Modesty is the daughter of chas
tity; and wherever the heart is
clean, true modesty is sure to re
side.
A most deplorable lack in our
modern life is that of true modesty
in both men and women.
The first of all virtues is in
nocence; the next, modesty. If we
banish modesty out of the world,
she carries away with her half the
virtue that is in it.
“The Blessed ”
DLESSED indeed are those in the
° kingdom of heaven, but if any
seek this kingdom with motives of
self-blessing merely, they will fail
to find it. Only as the eyes are
turned away from self can one
truly seek or see God. Jesus used
the word “blessed” in pointing out
those in the kingdom, that we may
know who they are; not to empha
size blessings conferred. We should
be careful how we appeal ta mo
tives of self-interest in connection
with entering upon the Christian
life, else we may block the way
which we seek to open; for the
blessed life is an ..nsolfish life.
“My Mother's Hands.”
MY mother’s hands! So capable!
I love them—every wrinkle
there.
Though toil has made them rough
and worn,
These hands to me are wondrous
fair.
My mother’s hands! How oft have
they
The restless spirit lulled to rest,
How oft have they the tear-stained
cheek
In silent sympathy caressed! .
No power on earth can quite excel
1 le magic touch of mother’s
hands,
It guards the soul and guides the
steps
And grips the heart like iron
hands!
“What Is a SaintV*
ALMOST as many definitions
**■have been given of a saint as of
a genius; but there are some very
common errors on the subject. A
saint is not one of those emaciated,
rather foolish-looking people some
times represented in pictures.
Neither is he always on his knees
praying. Rather, his whole lift is
a life of prayer, for he is always
trying to do good. He is a hero of
unselfishness; but his unselfishness
is not shown by doing extraordi
nary acts of service, but by doing
the ordinary week-day work of life
in an unselfish spirit.
The Lord described a saint when
He said of the woman, “She hath
done what she could.” He who
knows whereof we are made ex
pects'us to do all that we can. Are
we doing that? Are we living to
the best of our ability the life that
He wants exhibited to the world?
God knows all about your peculiar
circumstances and environment, and
so He will ask, “Have you done
what you could?”
“The Lowly Heart ”
MO proud heart ever heard an
angel singing. No haughty eye
ever saw God’s glory in the skies,
nor ever shall. It is the lowly heart
which folds itself in quiet duty, the
lowly spirit which looks aloft for
the guiding star of love that finds
heaven’s secret given to them.—
Lauchlan MacLean Watt.