Gold Nugget 354 - Widows, Parents and Children
“Honour widows.” Let them have a special place in reverent care and common prayer, as they have a lot which is so isolated and so hard – a battle so keen and terrible, and as they find that the slender means are so soon spent. The lonely hours are full of pictures of the past: as wives they were the first to be thought of and provided for – the best was for them, the first place at the table and in the heart was theirs; so honour them, for thy are sensitive to slight and indifference. …
An ungrateful child, who never thinks on a parent’s past self-denial in its education, a parent’s watchfulness in times of weakness and sickness, a parent’s interest in its pleasure and counsels as to its companionships, and a parent’s long interest in all that relates to mind and heart, - is an impious child. Quick, clever, it may be flattered by new friends, and favoured by fortune with pleasant looks, and yet be selfish, indifferent, and forgetful.
Remember, young friends, that you have to requite your parents, not with the patronage of commercial payment when you succeed, but with the requital of the tender inquiry, the watchful love, the jealous service, the gracious respect.
The Pulpit Commentary, I Timothy 110, I Timothy 5:3, (W. M. Statham)
Gold Nugget 354
Widows, Parents and Children
