The Mother's Hand by Dr. Talmage

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1903

The Mother's Hand

By Dr. Talmage

You, mother, who rocked and lullabied the family brood until they took wing for other nests, and never appreciated what you had done and suffered for them, will yet be rewarded. Your hand was well favored when you were young. It was a beautiful hand, so well-rounded, so graceful, that many admired and eulogized it, but hard work calloused it and twisted it, and self-sacrificing toil for others paled it, and many household griefs thinned it; and the ring, which went on only with a push at the marriage altar, now is too large, and falls off, and again and again you have lost it. Poor hand! Weary hand! Worn-out hand! But God will reconstruct it, reanimate it, readorn it, and all heaven will know the story of that hand. What fallen ones it lifted up! What tears it wiped away! What wounds it bandaged! What lighthouses it kindled! What storm-tossed ships it brought into the pearl-beached harbor! Roll on, everlasting rest for all the toiling and misunderstood and suffering and weary children of God, and know right well that to join your hand, at last emancipated from the struggle, will be the soft hand, the gentle hand, the triumphant hand of him who wipeth away all tears from all faces.—Dr. Talmage.