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 care and  anxiety  for  the  temporal  happiness and well-being  of  his  beloved  children.

Then ask  your  mother  what  cruel  anguish she endured  for  your  sake,  how  many  hours she watched  beside  your  cradle,  how  muck anxiety she  has  felt  on  your  account? Truly. "New every  morning  is  the  love,  a  tender mothers  heart  can  prove!"

2. Maternal  love! Eight years  ago  a  cadet seventeen years  of  age,  from  the  military school at  Vienna,  slipped  from  the  Traunstein  in  so  unfortunate  a  manner  that  he  fell into the  lake  of  Gemunden,  which  lies  directly beneath,  and  there  found  a  watery grave. Every effort  to  recover  the  body proved to  be  without  result. Year by  year, on All  Souls'  Day,  a  lady  bowed  down  with grief, arrives  at  Gemunden. She is  the mother of  the  poor  drowned  lad,  and  she causes herself  to  be  rowed  out  into  the  middle of the  lake,  to  the  spot  where  the  waters swallowed up  her  darling  son. There, as  a token  of  her  unchanging  affection,  she  drops into the  lake  a  splendid  wreath,  composed of the  choicest  flowers.

Honor your  father  and  mother;  honor  them by invariably  speaking  in  a  respectful  manner to them  and  of  them;  by  never  allowing  an  insolent or  unbecoming  expression  to  pass  your lips in  regard  to  them,  and  by  never  permitting yourself  to  make  any  natural  or  moral imperfections they  may  chance  to  possess,  the subject of a jest.