A PARENT'S HEART.
THE following advertisement appeared in the Times of Thursday.
"To L —a. Can the party who has lately been written to be ex- pected to justify or excuse L—'s conduct ? It is impossible. If it will be any satisfaction to her to know that the feelings of nature are not annihilated by the errors of her conduct, she may assure herself of that ; but any advance towards an approval of her conduct must never be ex- pected. If forgiveness be wished for, her education must have taught her how and where to seek for it."
We are tempted to notice this advertisement, by having wit- nessed its effect on an aged mother. She was so affected by it as to shed tears, whilst she exclaimed, "Poor Laura! write again —you will be forgiven?' Parent and child are indicated by the notice—the parent justly displeased, no doubt ; but the daughter longing to recover the love which she has forfeited. The faulty, but affectionate child, is told to despair of a reconciliation ; yet the parent speaks only of "errors," and acknowledges the "feelings of nature." Write again, LAURA—you will be forgiven yet ! Humble yourself again, and, further, before an offended parent— who will not forget that religion teaches us to forgive, as well as "how and where to ask forgiveness." It is hard for a loving, though erring child, to be long at variance with her parents ; for their anger at her fault springs from their love of herself. Only mischief-makers can prevent such anger from ending in forgive- ness and tenderness. The parent is entitled to be propitiated by repentance and humility'; but a mother's heart is never impreg- nable when properly attacked by the child of her bosom, and a father seldom. Write again, LAURA !—you will be forgiven.
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