There are teachings in earth, and sky, and air, The heavens the glory of God declare; But louder than voice, beneath, above, He is heard to speak through a _mother’s_ love. _Emily Taylor._ The _mother’s_ love--there’s none so pure, So constant, and so kind, No human passion doth endure Like this within the mind. _Mrs. Hale._ Lo! where yon cottage whitens through the green, The loveliest feature of a matchless scene; Beneath its shading elm, with pious fear, An aged _mother_ draws her children near; While from the Holy Word, with earnest air, She teaches them the privilege of prayer. Look! How their infant eyes with rapture speak; Mark the flushed lily on the dimpled cheek; Their hearts are filled with gratitude and love, Their hopes are centred in a world above, Where, in a choir of angels, Faith portrays The loved, departed, father of their days. _Rufus Dawes._ By thee, dear _Mother_, o’er whose darksome bed Summer now pours his beams in vain--by thee Gladly my infant love of flowers was fed; By thee my steps through flow’ry tracts were led, Where ne’er mine eye could aught but beauty see; Throughout our borne exotics perfume shed, In sooth, it was fair Flora’s treasury! Thy love, and use of heaven’s blest means of grace, Faith bids me trust, have placed thee with thy God, Where flowers unfading deck the lovely place. Oh, when I’ve closed my toilsome earthly race, With thee may those bright scenes by me be trod, With thee may I behold th’ eternal face. _William Pulling._ A _mother’s_ love Is an undying feeling. Earth may chill And sever other sympathies, and prove How weak all human bonds are; it may kill Friendships, and crush hearts with them--but the thrill Of the maternal breast must ever move In blest communion with her child, and fill Even Heaven itself with prayers and hymns of love. _S. D. Patterson._ I see my _mother’s_ calm, sad face Look through the mist of by-gone years; And from yon high and holy place, Her accents come unto mine ears, To bid me hope amid my fears. _Egone._ MOUNTAIN. As the _mountains_ are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.--Psalm cxxv. 2. It shall come to pass in the last days, that the _mountain_ of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the _mountains_, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.--Isaiah, ii. 2.