A Secret for Mothers

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 20, 1864

A Secret for Mothers.

MR. and Mrs. Ashton, with their numerous family of sons and daughters, came to the Lord's table an unbroken circle. I never witnessed the blessed sight without asking myself, "What secret influence has been owned of God by these precious results? One day I said to the youngest daughter, a child of twelve years, "Do you ever forget Jesus?"

"Oh! no," she replied, "we can none of us at home ever forget Him, for mother talks to us of Jesus every day. He is ever with us."

Oh! mothers, take to your heart the precious secret of that family's bliss. The mother, ever abiding in Jesus made his name a household word, his presence ever acknowledged, ever felt. "She speaks to us of Jesus every day!" Mother, is it true of you? Do your lips and life daily, hourly, breathe the knowledge and love of Jesus into the hearts of the little ones at your knee? Is Jesus a name which your baby often hears, and early lisps? Trust not that formal counsels, invitations and prayers will be owned and blessed of God in the salvation of your children. The ever-abiding, ever-pleading, outbreathing, outspeaking love of Jesus, alone shall prevail. Giving yourself, and your little ones, unto God to be saved by the blood of Jesus alone, according to His everlasting covenant to you and to your children, trust him unwaveringly to keep His word. So shall you be sustained in your work of Christian culture, not alone by hope and faith, but by the blessed assurance that God will make your labors effectual unto salvation, by His converting and saving grace.—Congregationalist.