ests, in each other's confidence, in each other's piety, in each
other's fidelity, in each other's happiness. Thus God shall reward thee
openly. He has never said to the seed of Jacob seek ye me in vain. "Verily
there is a reward for the righteous." "This is the seed which the Lord hath
blessed."

The promised reward of faithful parents may be seen in their children. They
are in the true Christian home a precious heritage from the Lord. Thus a
parent's faithfulness was rewarded in the piety of Baxter, and Doddridge,
and Watts. What a rich reward did Elkanah and Hannah receive by their
training up Samuel! And were not Lois and Eunice rewarded for their
faithfulness to young Timothy? What a glorious reward the mother of John Q.
Adams received from God, in that great and good man! God blessed her
fidelity, by making him worthy of such a mother. He himself was conscious
that he was his mother's reward, as may be seen from the following anecdote
of him. Governor Briggs of Massachusetts, after reading with great interest
the letters of John Q. Adam's mother, one day went over to his seat in
Congress, and said to him:

"Mr. Adams, I have found out who made you!"

"What do you mean?" said he.

"I have been reading the letters of your mother," was the reply.

With a flashing eye and glowing face, he started, and in his peculiar
manner, said: "Yes, Briggs, all that is good in me, I owe to my mother!"

But God promises to reward faithful parents in the life to come. Their
great reward is in heaven. The departure of every pious member of their
home but increases the heavenly reward. The little child that dies in its
mother's arms, and is borne up to the God who gave it, but increases by its
sainted presence there, her joyful anticipations of the eternal reward.

"And when, by father's lonely bed,
You place me in the ground,
And his green turf, with daisies spread,
Has also wrapt me round;
Rejoice to think, to you 'tis given,
To have a ransomed child in heaven!"

And oh, how glorious will be this reward when all the members shall meet
again in heaven, recognize each other there, and unite their harps and
voices in ascriptions of praise to God. There in that better home, where no
separations take place, no trials are endured, no sorrows felt, no tears
shed, they shall enjoy the complete fulfillment of divine promises. Heaven,
with its unfading treasures, with its golden streets, with its crowns of
glory, with it