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from W. K. Bowling, M. D., "Extract of a Eulogy," prefaced to John M. Watson’s The Old Baptist Test; or, Bible Signs of the Lord’s People at p. 19; and John M. Watson, "Practical Godliness," ibid. pp. 530-31 (1867)
While the son was drifting away to perdition, the loving, ever-hoping mother, hoping when Hope, in despair, had fled from every other bosom; hoping against hope, and ever devoutly trustful of Him she so zealously served, with face averted from the sad picture of a beloved son, sinking into everlasting ruin, and always looking up to Heaven, and ever and anon radiant with that light of which the throne of God is alone the source and fountain, hoped on and hoped ever. Oh! the width, breadth and depth of a mother’s love. In the beautiful language of this son in after life: “Let no one attempt to describe a mother’s love, for it is a simple fact that expresses itself in conduct and not in words.”
…Hopes of reformation were lost by all except one; her’s was the mother’s hope, and it was in God. In the agony of her soul, she said: “Turn him, O Lord, and he shall be turned.” That prayer was heard by Him who had prompted it. And then was he found by Him who, in covenant, had said let his sins, by imputation, be my sins, his curse my curse, his death my death, and who had also, when he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors, atoned for all his sins. He came in the fullness of all the blessings of the gospel. |
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