III. It may be you need patience in bearing with unjust tempers, and unkind treatment. 1 Pet. ii. 19, 23. Ps. xxxvii. 7.

IV. For answers to prayer.

Syro-Phenician mother. Matt. xv. 22, 28. Jam. v. 7, 8. ‘Tarry thou the Lord’s leisure.’

V. In tribulation, sickness, and poverty. Rom. xii. 12. Jam. v. 10, 11. Luke, xxi. 19.

XIX. THE FIRM MOTHER.

I. To obey is a child’s duty.

Exod. xx. 12. Eph. vi. 1. Col. iii. 20.

II. This obedience should be—

1. Implicit.

2. Unquestioning.