The gate beautiful . greatthings Jesus did that day when redeeming theworld was to think of his mother, and providethat the cold storms should not blow sharplyupon her frail, sorrowful life. If this was afit thing for Jesus to do for his mother, it isa fit thing for us to do for our mothers, if wehave them yet with us. Then, if your motheris in heaven, and you cannot go to her withany fresh honor, find some other one to whomyou can show kindness for your motherssake. Jesus asked John to take his place, and love [115] C^e (Bate iseauttful and honor his mother for him. There may besomewhere an a
The gate beautiful . greatthings Jesus did that day when redeeming theworld was to think of his mother, and providethat the cold storms should not blow sharplyupon her frail, sorrowful life. If this was afit thing for Jesus to do for his mother, it isa fit thing for us to do for our mothers, if wehave them yet with us. Then, if your motheris in heaven, and you cannot go to her withany fresh honor, find some other one to whomyou can show kindness for your motherssake. Jesus asked John to take his place, and love [115] C^e (Bate iseauttful and honor his mother for him. There may besomewhere an aged mother, or a mother feebleand lonely, who has no child of her own toshow the kindness of God to her. Jesus saysto you, Behold, thy mother! [116] WW (0ou C^infejs of as [117] God reads—and very truly reads—Our motives under all our deeds:And if, with purpose pure, to-dayI seek—but seem to miss my way,Yet am I, in the courts above,Judged by the perfect law of love/ [118] CHAPTER NINTH ww <0od c^fnitf of m. NE of the most importantquestions we can ask our-selves is what God thinks ofus. Dr. Stalker has pointedout that in every man thereare four different men—theman the neighbors see, the man ones most in-timate friends see, the man the person himselfsees, and the man God sees. The communityknows us only in a general way, people think of us we sometimes callreputation—what we are reputed to be. It isa composite made up of all that people knowabout us, gathered from our conduct, ouracts, our dispositions, our words, the impres-sions of ourselves we give to man becomes known, for example, as hon-est, because he pays his debts, never defraudsanother, never fails in any financial obliga-tion. Men learn to know that he can be de- [119] C^e (Bait Beautiful pended upon. They say his word is as goodas his oath, his simplest promise as good ashis bond. Or, he gets the reputation of notpaying his debts, of not meeting his obliga-tions, of not bein
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