Part 6 (1/2)

XV. THE WEARY MOTHER.

Many things below make a mother weary.

The blessing of _rest_ is chiefly future.

Notice various things that often make mothers weary, and the remedy for them.

CAUSE. REMEDY.

I. Weary with cares and I. Do not carry your burden sorrows-ready to exclaim, 'My alone. Ps. lv. 22.

burden is greater than I can bear.' 1 Pet. v. 7. Jer. x.x.xi. 25.

_Hereafter_ rest.

Psa. xciv. 13. Isa. xiv. 3.

II. Weary with work. II. Make more use of the rest of the Sabbath.

Exod. xx. 8.

Called 'Sabbath of _rest_.'

Lev. xxiii. 3.

_Hereafter_. Heb. iv. 9.

III. Weary with sickness. III. Comfort in time of sickness. Ps. xli. 3.

Job, vii. 3, 4. Isa. x.x.xviii.

12, 14. Great alleviation in true spirit of submission.

May be your own, your husband's, your children's. _Hereafter_. Isa. x.x.xiii. 24.

Rev. xxi. 4.

Wearisome nights of pain, or watching.

IV. Weary of your sins. IV. Come with your sins to Christ.

Ps. vi. 6; x.x.xviii. 4.

Matt. xi. 28, 29.

Oft repented.

_Hereafter_. Rev. xxi. 27.

Oft repeated.

V. Weary with your children's V. Correct, and they shall give sins. you rest. Prov. xxix. 17.

Consider Christ, _lest ye be weary_. Heb. xii. 3.