Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-10-13
APPEAL To M OTHERS.


From the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.)
Where ia your boy tonight mother? Do
you know? Is he at home, or away by
permission in good company ? Is he from
home without permission, in doubtful or
even bad company? If so, are not you re-
sponsible? Was 1t your son who was in
viled into saloon the other evening to eat
oysters, and while there offered drink and
made drunk and then taken by his compnn-
ions and walked until sober enough to
crawl home. Did you know il Had you
heard OF it? II you do not believe it,
bring your children all together, read this
aloud, watch their faces, and If your boy
has not learned 10 cover his sins, it shall
be revealed to you.
o, my dear friend God has given you
fearful responsibility, even the immortal
souls of your sons. This responsibility
lasts through all the tender, yielding, for
native period of their lives. When you
are done with them the world inkes them.
If you have done your part we'll, the twig
is bent, and all the bitter blasts OF this
wicked world cannot sway them to the right
or to the LETT; but if you have done yonr
part carelessly or indfferently, or indolent-
iv, God pity you. 1t were better that
mil stone were hanged about yonr neck
and you were drowned IN the depth of the
sea, than that one of your sons should come
up at the Judgment and say, mother am
lost through all the endless ages of eterni-
ty, because of your unfaithfulness to me.
Dear young mother, as you clasp your
b,by boy to your heart, with Il thrill of Joy
YOU have never known before, and ask God
TO bless him, remember that God sends the
blessings through yon. If you do not teach
your boy obedience he will never learn it.
ii you do not keep the tender feet ont of
the thorny paths of sin, they will soon he
torn and bleeding. If you allow him to go
into places of temptation you may expect
him 10 become II drunkard. 1t ia not
enough to ask God to shield your boy from
tempiation. God asks and expects you to
shield him, by teaching him to obey you
ever and always. III yonr boy grows up
| ungoverned, undsciplined, and is saved
| from, bad and wicked life, il will be in
| spite of you, not because of you, and il he
| is ever saved in heaven, he will he II star in
anolhers crown, not yours.
| Beside the teaching Of obedience we must
guard our children mos, faithfully against
tile sin oi intemperance. There may have
been n time. perhaps, when mothers did
not fully understand the in-idious al'-
proaches Of ilis deadly foe, and 20 failed
to council aud warn in time; an,l bright
gifted boys went ont from their homes, NIL
unconscious of their danger, ill too late.
But who can plead ignorance now with
the light from Gods Word; with the light
from science, from our own every day OBJ
servaiion trum facts and figures that meet
us everywhere !; and the wrecks OF grand
men all around us. All these things make
MS see and feel our responsibility ns never
before.
Then let us not silence the warming voice
that comes TO us "IIe not deceived tiod
il not mocked; for whatsoever man SOW
eth TINT shall lie also reap"
Whist then, can we do to insure enr chill
dren against this evil, for we know thn
even the religious family, aud the Snnda,
school, furnish many victims. We feel tina
something more must lie done, and we mus
do il. We must see that our children hAv'
speeial in struclion as 10 the nature nn,
character OF alcohol, and its rninous effect
upon the body and brain, us well MS upol
tile whole moral nature. Such instruction
ns will ii. them to intelligently choose 4
abstain from all Intoxicating liquors as I
beverage. And where can this inStruciio ioi
outside Of the home, be so thoroughly Civ
en-, with the certainty OF reaching all class
es, az in our public schools and the Sunda
, school? Let us, then, M mothers, ask mn
insist, il necessary, that our children i
our Sunday schools be taught the, Thu
saith the Lord concerning intemperanc'
. aud the duty Of total abstinence from n
! that inloxicntes.
Our children go from our care very earl
into the public schools, aud upon nlno
q every street they meet the templer, and III
. teach ings oi the saloon. Then here agai'
'. let Ms request and urge that our Schot
!. Boards Introduce Scientific TemperNn.
. Text Books into the regular course OF stud
in the public Schools, 30 that when Il
children go out from these schools the
+, shall go armed with knowledge that WI
= save tliem. These things we can do, Al
:, they are being done in many places. The
u why should we delay? Time and eppoi
iunilies are swiftly passing by. Whi
this work may bring TO us additional iao
and care YET let IN remember, that II
~ would be joyful reapers in lilies harve
s. we must patiently aud prayerlnliy SOW =
is good seed that will save the children, vi
are The Joy and pride OF onr homes, and 4
hope Of the Nation.