Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — THE QUEEN OF ALL. [ARTICLE]

THE QUEEN OF ALL.

Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered the snowy flakes on her brow, plowed deep furrows on her cheeks, but is she not sweet and beautiful now? The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheeks, and they are the sweetest lips in all the world. Tbe eye i g dim, yet.it glows with tho soft radiance of holy love which can never fade. Ah, yes, she isadoariold mother. The sands of life are nearly run out, but feeble as she is, she will go further and reach down lower for you than any other upon earth. You cannot walk into a midnight where she cannot see you; you cannot enter a prison whose bars will keep her out; you can never mount a scaffold too high for her to reach, that she may kiss and bless yuu in evidence of her deathless love. When the world shall despise and forsake you, when it leaves you by the wayside to die unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you in her feeble arms and carry you home and tell you of all your virtues until you almost forget that your soul is disfigured by vices. Love her tenderly and cheer declining years With holy devotion-—[Ex.