Seeing Mother | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 17, 1879

Seeing Mother.

A LADY was riding one day in her carriage among the mountains, when she came upon an old woman, with a funny little hood on her head and a staff in her hand, walking on all alone. She was neat and clean, and her skin was soft and delicate, but her back was bent and she was barefoot.

The lady saw she was shoeless and stopped the carriage. "Here is some money," said she in a tender tone.

"What for?" said the woman, looking up pleasantly.

"To buy shoes for your poor feet. Do you not want a pair of shoes?"

The woman laughed a little, low laugh, which seemed to come from a heart filled with simple, happy thoughts.

"Don't you want a pair of shoes?" asked the lady, a little hurt.

"I s'pose I do," said the woman, "but I didn't think of anybody's giving'em to me."

"Take this bill, please, and buy you a pair," said the lady.

"God bless and reward you!" answered the woman heartily.

The carriage drove on, and the lady sank back on the seat with tears in her eyes. "Oh!" said she, "I thought I saw my own mother in that dear old lady. She had just such a sweet face and pleasant voice. You don't know how I felt when I thought of my mother, old and feeble, walking with bare feet over this rough, rocky road."

If we all saw fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters in the poor, the cold, and the hungry, what a world this would be.—Sel.