Mothers' Treasury Luke 2:22-24 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem… An aged Christian, a widow of fourscore years, relates the following experience of her early days. When she first entered upon her married life, she and her husband could lock their cottage door, and go together, forenoon and afternoon, to the house of God. After the birth of their first son they had to enjoy this privilege in turn; one going in the forenoon, and the other in the afternoon. But the sickness or fretfulness of the child not unfrequently detained the mother at home during the whole of the Sabbath. This she felt to be a great privation. On one such occasion a neighbour, coming in to inquire about her welfare, found her in tears. The dejected young mother was a Christian; she had early been brought to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus; she was a lover of the Lord's house, and of the Lord's day; she trusted in Jesus as her Saviour; but she had not yet learned lovingly to accept all His discipline. There were things connected with it "too painful for her." She did not know what was to compensate her for the want of the days in the courts of the Lord; and so she told her neighbour the cause of her dejection. "Woman," replied her neighbour, in the broad dialect of that land, "d'ye no mind the word that says, 'Take this child, and nurse him for Me; and I will give thee thy wages'?" It was a word in season; and, with greater or less power, it sustained and comforted that mother during the whole of her subsequent nursing of ten children. Her home in the valley of the Tweed was long ago exchanged for one on the banks of the Mohawk. But the God whose Word thus comforted her in early womanhood is with her still when she is old and greyheaded; and she can gratefully speak of her eleven children, nursed for Him, as all walking in the ways of God on earth, or taken away to another home. into which sickness and death can never come. (Mothers' Treasury.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; |
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