DUTY TO PARENTS

Recently I was browsing through an old book, I found this beautiful reading. Though it was written more than a hundred years ago it is still relevant to us today. I hope you enjoy it as I did.

"We read that Moses did ascend

To Sinai's Mount to take

The ten commandments from God's hand,

And that the mount did shake.

He did the written Law receive

From the great God above ;

And those commandments God did give,

From motives of pure love,

                              

The first command, with promise, giv'n,

Is," Children, honour give

Unto your parents, that ye may

On earth have long to live"

                                     

God is well pleased with children who

Their parents do obey ;

Who strict obedience willing yield,

And loving reverence pay.

But those who mind not this command,

Who tread a different path,

Must, most assuredly, expect

To meet God's awful wrath.

Then where's the child who dare oppose

The sovereign Laws of heaven?

Who dare his parents disobey,

And hope to be forgiven.

If children would but learn from me,

And from extravagance would flee,

And mind the golden rule:

No ! God in anger marks that child,

And still his mercy's loathed ;

But justice will, tho' mercy pleads,

That wicked child cut off.

                        
Then, child, obey the just command,

The promise then is thine ;

Obedience will ensure God's love,

Whose laws are all divine."

Henry Sharpe Horsley

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