By:
Edited By Heymen Wreford
I EXPECT many a young man and young woman reads the “Message from God.” I have a special message in this “Message” for you (however young or old you are), as long as your dear parents live.
Nowadays I often see and hear young people slighting their parents, thinking they know better than their elders! They do not half love their dear father and mother. Oh, let me entreat you to beware, for if you do slight them, you are laying up bitter remorse in the future. Be loving and respectful. Let them see you love, and fear to grieve, them.
I shall never forget the awful blow that came on a young woman I knew. She had been a servant in my father’s household. She neglected and despised her own father at that time. Such an honest, good old man he was, who died a sad death, in great want, and yet rather than not pay his rent, he kept the money in his hand so that it might not be spent in food. Alas! he died without the comfort he needed from his children. I shall never forget the agony of the daughter when she heard of his death. Her remorse and shame were terrible as she flung herself on the stairs and cried with Cain, “My punishment is greater than I can bear!”
Dear friends, rich or poor, love and aid your parents while they are alive; in death there is no remedy for unkindness or neglect.
E. P. L.