No eye should be so wakeful and watchful as a mother’s.
I. Watch over your children in infancy.
Exod. ii. 8. 1 Sam. i. 23.
It is described as next to impossible for a woman to forget her sucking child. Isa. xlix. 15.
A well-watched infancy, under God’s blessing, avoids many future ills.
II. Watch over your children’s education.
Judg. xiii. 8.
In every minute particular.
Learning—clothing, &c. 1 Sam. ii. 19. Prov. xxxi. 21, 23.
Contrast the dirty, unmended clothes of the poor, uncared-for child, with the clean and neatly mended garments of him whose childhood is guarded by the watchful eye of a mother.