Dwight L. Moody in his sermons used to tell of a mother who had
an only child that was an idiot. When it was fourteen years
of age a neighbor came in and found the mother weeping in the
bitterness of her soul. Asking what was the matter, the mother
answered: “For fourteen years I have cared for that child day
and night; I have given up society and spent my time with her,
and to-day she does not know me from you. If she would only
recognize me once it would pay me for all I have ever done for
her.”
Mr. Moody would add: “How many are there over whom the Son of God has
watched and cared for and blest, and who have never once recognized
Him, have never once looked up into His face and said, “Thank you, Lord
Jesus.”
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