For Mother's Sake
Thomas Binney. Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: What a mysterious thing — what a mysterious, magical, Divine thing is a mother's love! How it nestles about the heart, and goes with the man, and speaks to him pure words, and is like a guardian angel! This young man (of whom he was then preaching) could never take any money that came to him from his mother and spend that upon a Sunday excursion or a treat to a theatre. It was a sacred thing with him; it had the impression and the inscription of his mother's image, and his mother's purity, and his mother's piety, and his mother's love. It was a sacred thing to him, and these things that he felt to be questionable, or felt to be sinful, were always to be provided for by other resources and by money that came to him from other hands. Oh! there is the poetry of the heart, the poetry of our home and domestic affections, the poetry of the religion of the heart and the altar, about that little incident, and it strikes me as being perfectly beautiful. (Thomas Binney.) Parallel Verses KJV: My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: WEB: My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching: