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February 3, 1876
The Working Christian
York, Charleston, Columbia, York County, Charleston County, Richland County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
A reflective essay on the profound emotional impact of a mother's death, emphasizing the unbreakable bond it severs and the enduring duty to honor her by following her precepts and practicing virtues for a happy life and heavenly reward.
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The Death of a Mother.
Aside from that of a wife, the death of a mother has something in it more touching than any other event; it bursts a tie which no affliction can possibly dissolve. For when such an event does happen, we look back upon the days of our infancy and childhood, when a fond mother watched over our "outgoings and incomings," when the dull hours of night were marked with her waking.
"We think we have done our duty when we have laid her in the gloomy grave, wetting it with our tears, and raised a stone over her dust and chanted a hymn to her memory. But there is a duty which maternal affection has imposed upon us, and which nothing but a stern conformity to precept can perform; it is to follow her precepts and examples, to take home to our hearts the solemn warning which heaven born love dictates—to practice those virtues which ornament every department of life, happiness, and, we might say, for heaven. If we fail to perform these, we prove ourselves traitors to our conscience and to our God.
Aside from that of a wife, the death of a mother has something in it more touching than any other event; it bursts a tie which no affliction can possibly dissolve. For when such an event does happen, we look back upon the days of our infancy and childhood, when a fond mother watched over our "outgoings and incomings," when the dull hours of night were marked with her waking.
"We think we have done our duty when we have laid her in the gloomy grave, wetting it with our tears, and raised a stone over her dust and chanted a hymn to her memory. But there is a duty which maternal affection has imposed upon us, and which nothing but a stern conformity to precept can perform; it is to follow her precepts and examples, to take home to our hearts the solemn warning which heaven born love dictates—to practice those virtues which ornament every department of life, happiness, and, we might say, for heaven. If we fail to perform these, we prove ourselves traitors to our conscience and to our God.
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Reflection
Eulogy
What themes does it cover?
Family
Moral Virtue
Tragedy
What keywords are associated?
Mother Death
Maternal Bond
Virtue Duty
Family Loss
Moral Precepts
Story Details
Story Details
The death of a mother evokes deep sorrow, recalling childhood care; true duty lies in emulating her virtues and heeding her loving warnings to live ethically, or else betray conscience and God.