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The Most Important Thought. — "I want
you to tell me," said a gentleman to the late
distinguished Mr. Webster, " What is the most
important thought that ever occupied your
mind ? " " The most important thought that
ever occupied my mind," said Mr. Webster,
with the deepest seriousness, " was that of 7ni/
individual responsibility to God.'''^
A Word to Mother s. — If the time that
is spent by mothers in places of amusement
should be spent in narrating to children the
history of the Bible, we should soon have jails
and prisons to let.
Contrast the feelings of two mothers on a
dying bed. One left a son, a successful minis-
ter of the gospel ; he studied theology beside a
pious mother, commencing at the age of five.
382 grandmother's scrap-book;
The other, left a son in prison for life ; he was
educated in the street, and in grog-shops,
while his mother was in places of amusement !
A young man presented himself before a
committee as a candidate for the ministry. He
was asked, who he studied theology with ? his
answer was. My mother ! They wanted no
better evidence of liis piety.
Mothers, remember the young man that
wrote with a piece of chalk on his prison wall
the five steps to the gallows. Learn your
children (commencing at the age of five) to
write on their hearts the five steps to the para-
dise of God.
CONCLUSION.
Search the Bible and this book daily. It
will enable you to see the great object of this
life, which is to do good to others, and to love
and glorify God, and prepare to meet him in
heaven. Burn up your novels, and give up
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your places of amusement ; and attend the
prayer-meeting ; it will learn you the way to do
good to others, which is a foretaste of heavenly
things : for who is more happy than he that is
doing good to others ?
Take the example of Rev. Mr. Cleveland,
the City Missionary of Boston. A gentleman
taking him by the hand, with these words, " Sir,
you are a happy man." " Yes, I am a happy
man ; for who can be more so than he who is
trying to make others happy." While you are
doing good to others, you are transported with
delight by the prospect of the happy land,
where no one says he is sick ; and when the
hour of death arrives, and the spirit leaves this
body of clay, it leaves all worldly thoughts
with it, and becomes brilliant and active, and
ready to receive the great mystery of godliness.
You are transported on angelic wings to the
pearly gates of the New Jerusalem, where you
are welcomed into the golden city by that an-
gelic throng that sang praises at the time you
gave your heart to God. " There is more joy
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by the angels in heaven over one sinner that
repenteth, than over ninety and nine just per-
sons that need no repentance." Christ presents
you here a crown of rejoicing. You see the
place he prepared for you, eighteen hundred
years ago ; you behold " the tree that bears its
twelve manner of fruit," and " the river of
water pure as crystal ; " " the mystery of god-
liness begins to unfold ; you are satisfied." " I
shall be satisfied when I awake with thy like-
ness." — Psal. xvii. 15. Is this to be eternal?
We can count the sands upon the sea-shore,
but not the years of eternity. Trusting in the
Lord that you have made your final decision
to obtain the everlasting crown — we bid you
ALL GOD-SPEED.
THE END.
The Most Important Thought. — "I want
you to tell me," said a gentleman to the late
distinguished Mr. Webster, " What is the most
important thought that ever occupied your
mind ? " " The most important thought that
ever occupied my mind," said Mr. Webster,
with the deepest seriousness, " was that of 7ni/
individual responsibility to God.'''^
A Word to Mother s. — If the time that
is spent by mothers in places of amusement
should be spent in narrating to children the
history of the Bible, we should soon have jails
and prisons to let.
Contrast the feelings of two mothers on a
dying bed. One left a son, a successful minis-
ter of the gospel ; he studied theology beside a
pious mother, commencing at the age of five.
382 grandmother's scrap-book;
The other, left a son in prison for life ; he was
educated in the street, and in grog-shops,
while his mother was in places of amusement !
A young man presented himself before a
committee as a candidate for the ministry. He
was asked, who he studied theology with ? his
answer was. My mother ! They wanted no
better evidence of liis piety.
Mothers, remember the young man that
wrote with a piece of chalk on his prison wall
the five steps to the gallows. Learn your
children (commencing at the age of five) to
write on their hearts the five steps to the para-
dise of God.
CONCLUSION.
Search the Bible and this book daily. It
will enable you to see the great object of this
life, which is to do good to others, and to love
and glorify God, and prepare to meet him in
heaven. Burn up your novels, and give up
383
your places of amusement ; and attend the
prayer-meeting ; it will learn you the way to do
good to others, which is a foretaste of heavenly
things : for who is more happy than he that is
doing good to others ?
Take the example of Rev. Mr. Cleveland,
the City Missionary of Boston. A gentleman
taking him by the hand, with these words, " Sir,
you are a happy man." " Yes, I am a happy
man ; for who can be more so than he who is
trying to make others happy." While you are
doing good to others, you are transported with
delight by the prospect of the happy land,
where no one says he is sick ; and when the
hour of death arrives, and the spirit leaves this
body of clay, it leaves all worldly thoughts
with it, and becomes brilliant and active, and
ready to receive the great mystery of godliness.
You are transported on angelic wings to the
pearly gates of the New Jerusalem, where you
are welcomed into the golden city by that an-
gelic throng that sang praises at the time you
gave your heart to God. " There is more joy
384 grandmother's scrap-book.
by the angels in heaven over one sinner that
repenteth, than over ninety and nine just per-
sons that need no repentance." Christ presents
you here a crown of rejoicing. You see the
place he prepared for you, eighteen hundred
years ago ; you behold " the tree that bears its
twelve manner of fruit," and " the river of
water pure as crystal ; " " the mystery of god-
liness begins to unfold ; you are satisfied." " I
shall be satisfied when I awake with thy like-
ness." — Psal. xvii. 15. Is this to be eternal?
We can count the sands upon the sea-shore,
but not the years of eternity. Trusting in the
Lord that you have made your final decision
to obtain the everlasting crown — we bid you
ALL GOD-SPEED.
THE END.
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