Have you ever lost a child, for whose soul you never cared? Pray Ps. li. 14.
This arises from want of real religion.
You do not know the immense value of a soul.
Would you be thus careless of an earthly treasure? Would you not watch it—lock it up—guard it with a jealous eye? Your child’s soul a treasure passing all price. Yet you allow Satan to steal it—bad companions to corrupt it—ruin it yourself by neglect. A thing neglected is ruined.
Keep in view the judgment day.
Will your child then say, ‘No man cared for my soul’—‘even my mother cared not that I perished!’
XVII. THE CAREFUL MOTHER.
I. Careful in her house.
No waste. Prov. xviii. 9. John, vi. 12.
Yet not stingy. No needless expense—makes a little go a long way.