I. The parting place—the child’s death-bed. This is,
1. A parting place.
All must die alone. The mother may have watched over her child with untiring care during its years of infancy, the trials of youth, and the snares and cares of riper years, but here they must part. 2 Sam. xii. 15, 23.
2. A weeping place. Gen. xxi. 16.
2 Sam. xii. 21. Jer. xxxi. 15.
Mark, v. 38. Luke, vii. 13. Not wrong, for Jesus wept at the grave of Lazarus. John, xi. 35.
3. A birth place
To a new and heavenly life. But not so to all. To some, namely, to those who have indeed been born again. Luke, xvi. 22; and to babes. Isa. xl. 11.
Contrast David’s sorrow for his infant, (2 Sam. xii. 23) with his sorrow for Absalom, 2 Sam. xix. 4. To one death was the door of life, to the other of death.
II. The meeting place—the judgment-seat. Rev. xx. 12. Rom. xiv. 10.