_Hereafter_. Heb. iv. 9. III. Weary with sickness. III. Comfort in time of sickness. Ps. xli. 3. Job, vii. 3, 4. Isa. xxxviii. 12, 14. Great alleviation in true spirit of submission. May be your own, your husband’s, your children’s. _Hereafter_. Isa. xxxiii. 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; xxxviii. 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. Do you know where to go for rest? Jer. vi. 16. Or are you wandering hither and thither in vain, having forgotten your resting-place? Jer. l. 6. Remember, it is only to those who are in Christ that these promises of rest apply. It is only His own sheep who can say, ‘He maketh me to _lie down in green pastures_.’ To others there is no rest here, or hereafter, for, ‘The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it _cannot rest_. . . . There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.’ Isa. lvii. 20, 21. XVI. THE CARELESS MOTHER. Isa. xxxii. 9–13. Motherless children are often uncared for. No one ‘_naturally_ cares for their state.’ No child with a mother _ought_ to be so. But too often mothers are careless about— I. Their _minds_. No schooling—no teaching—no training—no Sunday School. Cares not whether in time, or too late—regular or truant, &c., &c. II. Their _respectability_, and _associates_. Will take in bad lodgers, hire bad characters to help at the wash-tub because they can be had cheaper than the respectable, forgetting that ‘a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.’ Prov. xxii. 1. Eccles. vii. 1. What guilty carelessness! III. Their _happiness_. What misery here awaits a neglected child! What woe hereafter! IV. Their _souls_. To a parent guilty of this carelessness, it is said, ‘His blood will I require at thine hand.’ Ezek. iii. 18, 19; xxxiii. 6. Have you ever lost a child, for whose soul you never cared? Pray Ps. li. 14. _This_ arises from want of real religion. You do not know the immense value of a soul.