"Verily
there is a reward for the righteous." "This is the seed which the Lord hath
blessed."
The promised reward of faithful parents may be seen in their children. They
are in the true Christian home a precious heritage from the Lord. Thus a
parent's faithfulness was rewarded in the piety of Baxter, and Doddridge,
and Watts. What a rich reward did Elkanah and Hannah receive by their
training up Samuel! And were not Lois and Eunice rewarded for their
faithfulness to young Timothy? What a glorious reward the mother of John Q.
Adams received from God, in that great and good man! God blessed her
fidelity, by making him worthy of such a mother. He himself was conscious
that he was his mother's reward, as may be seen from the following anecdote
of him. Governor Briggs of Massachusetts, after reading with great interest
the letters of John Q. Adam's mother, one day went over to his seat in
Congress, and said to him:
"Mr. Adams, I have found out who made you!"
"What do you mean?" said he.
"I have been reading the letters of your mother," was the reply.
With a flashing eye and glowing face, he started, and in his peculiar
manner, said: "Yes, Briggs, all that is good in me, I owe to my mother!"
But God promises to reward faithful parents in the life to come. Their
great reward is in heaven. The departure of every pious member of their
home but increases the heavenly reward.
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