Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-05-30

I For the Sentinel
Dir. Edtor,-My attention has been direct
ed TO an article in your issue of the week be-
fore last, entitled "Mothers." Permit me TO
! express my views in coincidence
In the history Of The human race woman has
| ever led the forlorn hope Of the worlds moral
progress. Joshebed was such leader. She
must have had faith in God S promise Of de-
liverance for her people; every man child
brought II new ray of hope as the chosen de.
liverer. She had goodly son he should not
die, so she nd him three months; language
can never express the agony which must have
wrung the mothers heart during those months,
when each dawnng day might bring death
down on her nursing son; at length she can
hide him no longer. Another resource must
be tried. She must trust lrim to Gods Provi-
dence. God could move the compassion of
the Egyptian heart. But the mother has her
work 10 perform; so she gathers her materials
and us she sits weaving AN ark OF FURNISHES,
and daubing it with slime, who that saw her
ture of more Importance TO mankind than all
he pyramids Of Egypt
The whole plan was in perfect accordance
with the distinctive character of women and
life and ife's hottest hopes.
There is no danger that we shall ever es-
teen too highly, honor too much, or treat
with too tender consideration, the mothers of
| nj oahiv al
it was only misguided. The impulse was holy,
but misdirected. That impulse gave us cyili-
cation; the same chiyalric feeling, with more
enlightenment, will give us that state of soce-
ty which glows in beauty in our radiant
dreams of the future, physically and morally.
| God has made woman worthy to be the moth
er of mankind. Her nature is as exalted as
her function-love and truth and purity are
the instincts of her being. Religion is the
grand impulse of her soul, the regeneration of
the race, and the opening of a higher and
happier existence 10 mankind, and her eleva-
lion and happiness will be the most gratifying
| feature ola new order Of society.
| Mothers powers over children none can
doubt; and that this influence is usually ex-
erted to the best Ct her ability is unquestiona-
bly, true. When the mother errs, it is thro'
| ignorance or weakness OF authority to sustain
her wishes she yields her judgment to her af-
| fections and the unsubdued will of her chill
| dren. These errors are often productive of
! great injury to the INDUCED darling of mater
nal care but there is still left in the heart of
| fIa oft
goes forth into the cold, selfish world, turns
| instinctiyely back to the fountain of his moth
er's love; and these thoughts keep few flow
ers Of his s;nless, happy childhood, fresh and
bright through the arid, dusty highway of
his hurrying care. To these flowers he turns
for relief and hope when faintng under the
burdens of life, or left TO struggle in the dark
| hours Of sickness and solitude with the bitter
mockng memories of his own broken aims or
sinful deeds.
AS philosophers, recognizing the laws of the
material and moral universe as philanthro-
piss, seeking the elevation and happiness of
our species as Christians, having faith in the
goodness and wisdom of God, and in the tenn
poral and eternal salvation of His children,
we should work earnestly TO undo the wrongs
of ages and give to mothers tina: place in
ciety for which God designed them, and that
opportunity for the development of their gifts
and graces which would secure them happi-
ness, fulfill the promises Of the future aud
make them the glory of the race, in that condi-
ton Of social order and moral harmony to
which all the attractions of humanity tend,
and in which the highest earthly destiny Of
the human race shall be accomplished.
GLAUCUS.
EuLALlA, Montgomery Co, Nd.