everlasting." This promise of reward is "to you and to your children."
"Many souls shall be given for its hire." Their children shall reap the
reward of the faithfulness of the parents. Of them it shall be said, "this
is the seed which the Lord hath blessed." Faithful parents have thus a
glorious recompense of reward. God shall reward thee openly. Make your
household a true nursery for the soul; and He will give thee thy wages. The
blessing of the Most High will descend like dew upon you and your children.
And when they grow up to manhood, He will make them His agents in rewarding
you. They will honor and comfort you in your declining years. They will not
depart from the ways of the Lord in which you trained them. Though they may
be in a distant land,--far from you and the cherished home of their
childhood, yet they will obey your admonitions, gratefully remember your
kindness; and their grateful obedience and remembrance will be your great
reward from them. They will rise up and call you blessed.

"Though we dwell apart,
Thy loving words are with me evermore,--
Thy precious loving words. Thy hand, and heart.
And earnest soul of love, are here impressed,
For me, a dear memorial through all time.
Mother! I cannot recompense thy love,
But thy reward is sure, for thou hast done
Thy duty perfectly, and we rise up
And call thee blessed; and the Lord shall give
Thy pious cares and labors rich reward."

And when you descend to the grave and are gathered to your fathers, the
assurance of fidelity to your home-trust, the prospect of meeting your
children in heaven, and all the brilliant hopes that loom up before you,
full of the light and glory of the eternal world, will furnish you a great
recompense of reward.

Parents can rely upon these promises of God with the full assurance of
faith; for His promises are yea and amen. Let them but lay hold upon the
promises, and act upon the conditions of their fulfillment, and then leave
the rest to God. Abraham and Joshua, and David, acted upon this principle
in their families. Let the members of the Christian home do the same, and
the blessing of God will rest upon them.

God promises to reward parents in this life. We find their fulfillment in
the peace, the hopes, the interests, and the pleasures of the faithful
household. The members are happy in each other's love, in each other's
virtue, in each other's worth, in each other's hopes, in each other's
inter