THE
CHRISTIAN MOTHER:

OR,

NOTES FOR MOTHERS’ MEETINGS.

BY THE LATE
MRS E. HOARE.

Second Edition.

LONDON:
HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.
1876.

LONDON:
Printed by John Strangeways, Castle St. Leicester Sq.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

The following Notes were prepared and published some years ago, by one who has since realised in Heaven the unspeakable value of those precious truths which she most diligently taught on earth.  The little book has been for a long time out of print, but it appears so calculated to be useful in the Lord’s service that I have thought it well to publish another edition.  It was said of Abel, ‘He being dead yet speaketh.’  May the admirable mother by whom these notes were prepared so speak in these pages to those who know a mother’s care, that they may be assisted to enjoy the full experience of a mother’s joy!

E. HOARE.

Tunbridge Wells,
         April, 1876.

PREFACE.

The following notes have been used by the writer in conducting Mothers’ Meetings amongst the poorer classes, and it has been suggested that they may be useful to other ladies engaged in a similar work.

With this view, she has ventured to publish them in the present concise form.

It will be seen that they are merely skeletons, and will require to be filled up by each person who makes use of them.  Thus it will be necessary to turn to the texts referred to, and to enlarge on each head as familiarly as possible, illustrating it by simple, and telling facts.

If this is done, and the subjects well studied, it will often be found, that, although each subject has been generally compressed into one chapter, it is better to take one, two, or three heads, as affording sufficient matter for the conversation of a single evening, rather than too hastily to go over the whole section.

It will be a cause for thankfulness, if these short notes may be the means of leading any mothers to search the Scriptures more diligently with reference to their own especial duties.

Whether rich or poor—educated or uneducated—mothers all need, in the great essentials, the same help, the same warnings, the same encouragements.  They want to be comforted, both in duty and trial, by the same word of promise, and to ‘go boldly to the same throne of grace to obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.’  It is earnestly desired that the study of the following pages, which are, in fact, only a compilation of Scripture, may be the means of leading many to listen more closely to His voice, who knows so well the mother’s heart, the mother’s sins, the mother’s sorrows, and the mother’s need.

M. E. H.

Tunbridge Wells,
         December, 1862.

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