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is a mother ' s love ! How self-denying ! how lofty ! how unlike to what js earthly ! 1 {< fVkat is a mother ' s love ? The noblest , purest , tenderest flame That kindles from above . Within a heart of earthly mould , Nor through eternity grows cold : This was that mother's love . "
* But did the anticipations of Jesus mother fail utterly and for ever ? Pid nothing * but . embalming , and burial succeed the terror of Calvary ? Her anticipation was or will be realized . It is true that every
succeeding generation has called Mary blessed , as being the mother of the Saviour of the world . And may we not indulge the idea * that not many years after the torture of her sod , she herself beheld his glory at the right hand of his Father ? Certainly the time will come when she will behold
him crowned as head _ oyer ^ ^ all earthly things , and dispensing blessings to countless myriads made happy by him . Again , 4 iow striking a contrast ! A mother ' s hopes are realized , a mother ' s love is once more gratified , —but language cannot tell how far beyond her warmest , bi ' ightest anticipations . ' The departed has not seen her children for the last time . She is a
sharer in that work to which even the mother of the Saviour owed , or will owe , her change from woe to bliss . We have none , we cannot have any doulbts of her safety . With so much of that heavenly principle in her breast , the indulgence of which cost her her life ; and with a firm belief in a risen Saviour , and a
firm reliance on God ' s mercy through his Son , she is become one of that family which consists of the children of God , "gathered from all nations , and will again , when the time comes , rejoice over child and partner ; but not in a mortal body , not in a changeful world ; not in a scene where the indulgence of the holiest affections is sometimes most peril-
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ous ; not in a frame unequal to the strong workings of the most sacred instincts of intelligent nature ; but in a state where no earthly dross need be mingled with the spirit to give it strength to accomplish its task ; where a motherjijoj 7 e __ . n 3 : ay
love as it will , without detriment or fear ; where sin cannot come , sorrow cannot come , separation , death cannot come ; where parents and children will be united in yet holier ^ richer bonds than those of earth , alia spend an eternity in being happy , in making others happy , and in offering the burning incense of their adoration and gratitude before the throne of God .
4 Bereaved friends and mourners , raise your eyes from here to there ; from the present calamity to the future renovation ; from the severing which has filled and oppressed your hearts with grief to that reunion which , . will be the more , blissful in proportion as this time is more afflicting . O turn from the mortal to the imftKSrtal ; from the child of earth to the child of God : from a
sister to the worm to the same become a sister spirit with the happy intelligences of heaven . And you , who found in her a lover , a friend , and all in one , a partner , did you not take her to yourself , knowing that she was mortal ? and has it not been a good ... to ., you . to . witness . the working of her motherly tenderness ? has it
not infused some portion of its Divine power into your own heart ? And if God , in his wisdom , refuses the benefit to you any longer , will you , not thank him for what you have enjoyed ? Will you not rejoice that the dejparted was no l ^ ss ripe in her fitness for heaven than
premature in her departure hence ? Vou knoiv better thajrj any other the gladness of her heart in the days of its maternal joy , and you only can fully know the blackness of that darkness which has come over her and your domestic peace ; bu £ do you too carry your thoughts from
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CORRESPONDENCE . 287
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/30/
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