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XVI.
The Home
Chapter 181
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The Mother
1. WHY did Adam call
his wife's name Eve?
"And Adam called his wife's name Eve:
because she was the mother of all living."
Gen. 3:20.
NOTE.-It is
said that the three sweetest words in
any language are mother, home, and
heaven.
2. What did God say to
Abraham concerning his wife, Sarah?
"And I will bless her, and give thee
a son also of her: yea, I will' bless her, and
she shall be a mother of nations; kings
of people shall be of her." Gen. 17:16.
3. What commandment
guards the honor of the mother?
"Honor thy father and thy mother."
Ex. 20:12.
4. How early did Hannah
dedicate her son Samuel to God?
"And she vowed a vow, and said, O
Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed . . . give
unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will
give him unto the Lord all the days of his
life." 1 Sam. 1:11.
5. To whom did God
commit the care and early training of His only
begotten Son?
"And when they were come into the
house, they saw the . young child with Mary
His mother, and fell down, and worshiped
Him." Matt. 2:11.
6. Under the influence
of her tender care and faithful instruction,
what is said of the child life of Jesus?
"And the child grew, and waxed strong
in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of
God was upon Him. . . . And Jesus increased in
wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and
man." Luke 2:40-52.
NOTES.-"The hand that rocks the cradle is
the hand that rules the world."
"A
mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing on earth."
A
Christian mother above all others, can
deeply implant and faithfully cherish the
seeds of truth in the young and tender
heart. More even than the father, the mother
molds the life, character, and destiny of
man. Every stage and phase of life is
touched and influenced by her. Infancy,
childhood, youth, manhood, and old age alike
center in her. She is both the morning and
the evening star of life,- the angel spirit
of the home.
7. What tender, filial
regard did Christ manifest for His mother in the
hour of His death?
"When Jesus therefore saw His mother,
and the disciple standing by, whom He loved
[John], He saith unto His mother, Woman,
behold thy son! Then saith He to the
disciple, Behold thy mother! And from
that hour that disciple took her unto his own
home." John 19:26,27.
8. How early did
Timothy know the Scriptures?
"And that from a child thou
hast known the Holy Scriptures." 2 Tim. 3:15.
9. What is said of his
mother and his grandmother?
"When I call to remembrance the
unfeigned faith that is in thee, which
dwell first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy
mother Eunice." 2 Tim. 1:5.
NOTE.-No position in life is superior to
that of the mother, no influence more potent
for good or evil. "All that I am or hope to
be, I owe to my mother," said Abraham
Lincoln. "All that I have ever accomplished
in life, owe to my mother," declared D. L.
Moody. "A kiss from my mother," said
Benjamin West, "made me a painter." "My
mother was the making of me," declares the
noted inventor, Thomas A. Edison. And Andrew
Carnegie, the millionaire, who gave his
mother his earnings when a boy, adds, "I am
deeply touched by the remembrance of one to
whom I owe everything that a wise mother
ever gave to a son who adored her." It has
been truly said that the home is the
primeval school, the best, the most
hallowed, and the most potential of all
academies, and that the mother is the first,
the most influential, and therefore the most
important of all teachers. See poem in
previous chapter.
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