Show What at Does The e Bible Say By REV LEO E E. E RUB RUBEL EL Two mothers stood at the entrance entrance en- en trance to a coal mine where a a- a terrible accident had occurred Each had a son trapped somewhere somewhere some some- where in the mine The one mother was hysterical the other other oth- oth er calm and quiet When asked how she could be so undisturbed she replied MY COMFORT is this my myson myson son was a devout Christian U If Uhe he has been killed he is with God in heaven where I shall soon meet him U If he is alive then God is with him and will bring him safely back to me Fortunate lad to have such a mother She had prepared him for life But more important she had prepared It took years of teaching and training years of consistently good eXample on the part of the mother to prepare for that fateful hour She had prayed and had taught her little boy to pray She had gone to church and she had taken him along Sunday Sun Sun- day alter after Sunday And so it was not an accident that she could now stand calm and undisturbed at the entrance to the mine In the face of terrible terrible ter- ter disaster She had done her duty as a Christian mother Her Herson Herson son was safe in his Saviors Savior's keeping IN OTHER words she had done what the Bible says Train up upa a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Proverbs The Bible says And ye fathers Lathers La- La provoke not your children to wrath rath but bring them up in inthe inthe the nurture and admonition of the Lord Ephesians 6 4 In this day an age of delinquency delin- delin I quency on the part ot of parents i and children what a blessing it would be to the home the state I the nation yes to the world if there were more pious and andI I God fearing mothers who would i have as their chief concern the rearing and training of godly I children Mothers 1 who bring their children to baptism so that God might make them His sons and daughters Mothers l who would tell their children 1 about Ute the love ot of Christ and taught them day alter after day to place their faith in their Savior IT IS JUST such mothers that deserve to be honored on Mothers Mothers' Moth Moth- I ers ers' Day and every day Do you i deserve such honor Will your children rise up and always call you a blessed mother |