THE HEATHEN MOTHER.
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See that heathen mother stand
Where the sacred currents flow,
With her own maternal hand,
Mid the waves her infant throw.
Hark! I hear the piteous scream,
Frightful monsters seize their prey:
Or the dark and bloody stream
Bears the struggling child away.
Fainter now, and fainter still,
Breaks the cry upon the ear;
But the mother's heart is steel;
She, unmov'd, that cry can hear.
Send, O send the Bible there,
Let its precepts reach the heart,
She may then her children spare—
Act the mother's tender part.
B.
- What is a heathen mother?
- What is meant by the sacred current?
- Why does she throw her infant into the river?
- What monsters of the deep seize infants?
- Why is the heathen mother so hard hearted?
- What would make her love her child?
- Would the Bible do her good without reading it?
- What would make its truths touch her heart?
- Why would she then spare her child?
