Ith pleasure upon your conduct. When your parents are in the grave, you
will feel no remorse of conscience harrowing your soul for your past
unkindness. And when you die yourselves, you can anticipate a happy
meeting with your parents, in that heavenly home, where sin and sorrow,
and sickness and death, can never come. God has, in almost every case,
connected suffering with sin. And there are related many cases in which
he has, in this world, most signally punished ungrateful children. I
read, a short time since, an account of an old man, who had a drunken
and brutal son. He would abuse his aged father without mercy. One day,
he, in a passion, knocked him flat upon the floor, and, seizing him by
his gray hairs, dragged him across the room to the threshold of the
door, to cast him out. The old man, with his tremulous voice, cried out
to his unnatural son, "It is enough--it is enough. God is just. When I
was young, I dragged my own father in the same way; and now God is
giving me the pu
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