Behold that mother’s wayward boy
Preparing home to leave;
He does not heed her loving words
Or fail her heart to grieve.
On roving bent
he little now
For her affection cares
And cruelly forsakes her
yet
She follows with her prayers.
Gone
gone
she knows not where
And yet her love he shares;
Forgotten never
he’s followed ever
By a faithful mother’s prayers.
The months roll on
she anxious waits
But tidings do not come;
Engrossed in sin
the erring boy
Sends not a message home.
O does he live? And if he does
She knows not how he fares;
What dread suspense! yet faithful still
She upward sends her prayers.
Think you the God of all the earth
Hears not that mother’s cry?
Think you He will not find her boy
Ere he in sin shall die?
Tho’ he may roam in many lands
And fall by sinful snares
Will God not surely honor yet
That faithful mother’s prayers?
Perchance some soul
this very hour
Recalls an early vow;
Perchance some mother
far away
To God is praying now;
O
weary
heavy burdened one
On Jesus cast your cares;
And find the heav’nly refuge thro’
A faithful mother’s prayer.
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