Mother! I cannot recompense thy love,
But thy reward is sure, for thou hast done
Thy duty perfectly, and we rise up
And call thee blessed; and the Lord shall give
Thy pious cares and labors rich reward."
And when you descend to the grave and are gathered to your fathers, the
assurance of fidelity to your home-trust, the prospect of meeting your
children in heaven, and all the brilliant hopes that loom up before you,
full of the light and glory of the eternal world, will furnish you a great
recompense of reward.
Parents can rely upon these promises of God with the full assurance of
faith; for His promises are yea and amen. Let them but lay hold upon the
promises, and act upon the conditions of their fulfillment, and then leave
the rest to God. Abraham and Joshua, and David, acted upon this principle
in their families. Let the members of the Christian home do the same, and
the blessing of God will rest upon them.
God promises to reward parents in this life. We find their fulfillment in
the peace, the hopes, the interests, and the pleasures of the faithful
household. The members are happy in each other's love, in each other's
virtue, in each other's worth, in each other's hopes, in each other's
interests, in each other's confidence, in each other's piety, in each
other's fidelity, in each other's happiness. Thus God shall reward thee
openly. He has never said to the seed of Jacob seek ye me in vain.
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