“Mother, watch the little feet,
    Climbing o’er the garden wall,
  Bounding through the busy street,
    Ranging garret shed and hall: 
  Never count the time it cost,
    Never think the moments lost;
  Little feet will go astray,
    Watch them, mother, while you may.

  “Mother, watch the little tongue,
    Prattling, innocent and wild,
  What is said and what is sung
    By the joyous, happy child;
  Stop the word while yet unspoken;
    Seal the vow while yet unbroken,
  That same tongue may yet proclaim,
    Blessings in a Savior’s name.

  “Mother, watch the little heart,
    Beating soft and warm for you;
  Wholesome lessons now impart,
    Keep, O keep, that young heart pure. 
  Extricating every weed,
    Sowing good and precious seed;
  Harvests rich you then shall see,
    Ripening for eternity.”

Once more I turn to the young men to say, if you would make life safe take the Bible as the man of your counsel and the guide of your life; love God and keep His commandments.  In this age of glittering literature, many consider the Bible dull reading.  Sir William Jones, one of England’s greatest jurists and scholars, said:  “I have carefully perused the Bible, and independent of its divine origin, I believe it contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than could be contained within the same compass, from all the books ever published in any age or any idiom.”

A passionate lover of poetry has said:  “The Bible is a mass of beautiful figures.  It has pressed into its service the animals of the forest, the flowers of the fields and the stars of heaven; the lion, spurning the sands of the desert; the wild roe, leaping the mountains; the lamb led to the slaughter; the goat, fleeing to the wilderness; the Rose of Sharon; the Lily of the Valley; the great rock in a weary land; Carmel by the sea; Tabor in the mountains; the rain and mown grass; the sun and moon and morning stars.  Thus hath the Bible swept creation to lay its trophies upon the altar of Jehovah.”  Patrick Henry continually sought the Bible for gems of expression, while today the politician on the rostrum and the lawyer at the bar, quote the Bible to give force and effect to their speeches.

Some say:  “There is so much in the Bible we cannot comprehend.”  Yes, there’s very much in there doubtless God did not intend you should understand.  One wades in the ocean knee deep, waist deep, neck deep, and gives it up that he can’t wade the ocean.  If God had intended one should wade the ocean He would have made it shallow enough to wade.  So, one finds he can climb to the mountain’s top, or sail thousands of feet above the mountain in an air ship, but he can’t sail to the skies.  Two good women went to Sam Jones and said:  “Mr. Jones, here are several passages of scripture we don’t understand.