"Parents and Children," The Gospel Messenger vol. 15 no. 3 (Mar. 1893)
Children, old and young, you who have fathers and mothers, cherish them while you may, for they will soon be gone, and then it will be too late. It is said of Cowper, the poet or lyrist, who wrote the hymn we are all so familiar with—
God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform, etc.—
that upon receiving his mother’s picture, fifty years after her death, he wrote the lines:
Oh, that those lips had language! Life has passed
With me but roughly since I heard Thee last,
Those lips are thine; thy own sweet smile I see,
The same that oft in childhood solaced me. |
