Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1876 — A Pious Daughter. [ARTICLE]

A Pious Daughter.

Children, says the Rev. W. Jay, have conveyed religion to those from whom they ought to have derived it. “Well,” said a mother one day, weeping, her daughter being about to make a public profession of religion by going to the Lord’s table, “ I will resist no longer. How can I bear to see my dear child love and read the Scriptures while I never look iqto the Bible; to See her retire and seek God jwliile 1 never pray; to see her going to the Lord’s table while His death is nothing to m|B!” “ Ah,” said she to the minister who called to inform her of her daughter's intention, wiping her eyes, “ Yes, sir, I know she is right, and I am wrong. I have aeon her firm under reproach, and patient under provocation, and cheerful in all her sufferings. When in her late illness she was looking for dissolution, heaven stood in her face. Oh, that I was fit to die! I ought to have taught her, but I am sure she nas taught me. How can I bear to see her joining the church of God and leaving me behind —perhaps forever!” From that hour she prayed in earnest that the God of her child would be her God, and was soon seen walking with her in the way everlasting.