Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-29
who is so unfortunate as to have had lazy
mother!
Again Hannah stands before us as
An Intelligent Mother.

care and intelligence IS necessary IN the
rearing of children But in this day when
there are so many books on this subject
No Parent is ExcusabIe in Being Ignorant
of the best mode OF bringing up a child. If
parents knew more OF dietetics there would
not be so many dyspeptic stomachs and
weak nerves and inactive Evers among
children. If parents knew more OF physol-
ogy there would not be 30 many curved
spines and cramped chests and inhsmed
throats, and diseased lungsa as there are
among children. lfparents knew more OF
art and were in sympathy with all that is
beautiful, there would not be so many chill
dren coming out in the world with boorish
Drocliyities. If parents knew more OF Christ
and practiced more Of his religion there
would not be so many little feet already
starting on the wrong road, and all around
us voices OF riot and blasphemy would not
come up with such ecstasy Of internal
triumph. The eaglets in the eyrie have no
advantage over the eaglets thousand years
ago; the kids have no superior way Of climb
ing up the rocks than the old goats taught
hundreds of years ago; the whelps know no
more now than did the whelps OF ages ago
ago-they are taught no more by the lions
of the desert; but tits q shame that in this
dav, when there are so many opportunities
CT IMPROVING ourselves in the best manner
of culiuripg children, That so often there is
no more advancement in this respect than
there has been among the kids and the Gag
let's and the whelps.
Again Hannah stands before usas
4 Christian Mother.
From her prayers and from the way sh
consecraied her boy to God | know she wa
good. A mother may have the finest cul'
lure, the mcst brilliant surroundings, but
she is not fit for her duties unless she be a
Christian mother. There may be well'read
libraries in the house, and exquisite music
in the parlor and the canvas OF the best
artists aiorning the walls, and the wardrobe
be crowded with tasteful apparel, and the
children be wonderful for their attainments,
and make the house ring with laughter and
innocent mirth, but there is something woe
fulloohirg in that house if it be not also the
residence of Christian mother. bless
God that there are not many prayerIess
rothGs-rot many Of them. The weight
of responsibility is so great that they ieeI
he NJ cf
4 Divine Hand
TO help, and divine voice TO comfort, and
a divine heart 10 synpa:hiZe. Thousands
Of morhers have been led into the Kingdom
of GOO by the hands of their little children.
There are hundreds Of mothers who
would not have been Christians
6ode had y FS HSt pprssS SsSn they for 5ernoutH the
themselves: This child God has given me
10 raise for eternity. What is my influence
upon i? that being Christian myself, how
can ever expect him to become Chris
tiar. Lord help me-! Oh, are there
anxious mothers who know nothing Of the
infinite help Of religion? Then | commend
TO them, Hannah, the pious mother Of
Samuel. Do not think it is absolutely i'm.
possible that your children come up iniqui-
tous. Out OF Just such fair brows and
bright eyes and soft hands and innocent
hearts crime gets its misunderstanding
purity from the heart and rubbing out the
smoortness from the brow and quenching
the lus're of the eye, and shriveling up and
poisoning and putrefying and scathing and
scoldirg and blasting and burning with
shame end woe. Every child is a bundle Of
Tremendous Possibilities
and whether that child shall come forth in
lie. its heart attuned to the eternal har
monies and after life of usefulness on
earth 20 TO life Of Joy in heaven; or wheth
~r acr, IS it shall Jar eternal discords and al.
,er life of wrong doing on earth it shall 60
TO home Of impenetrable darkness and an
abyss of unmeasurable plunge, is being de.
cided 10y nursery song and Sabbath lesson
md evening prayer and walk and ride and
frown and smile Oh, how many children
in glorq, crowding all the battlements and
lifting u million voiced hosanna brought to
God through Christian parcntage' One
hundred and twenty clergymen were to
gether and they we're telling their exper
'ence and their ancestry: and Of the l2V
.Icrgyu I'll how many of them DO you sup
pose assigned as the means Of their con
version. the influence Of q Christian moth
-? one hundred out Of the one hundred
aud twenty Philip Doddridge was brought
20 God by the sculpture lesson on The
Dutch tiie Of the chimney fire place The
mothcr thinks she is only rocking child;
but at he same time she may be rocking
Tho Destiny of Empires,
rocking the fate of Nations-rocking the
glories OF heaven. The same maternal
power that may lift child up, may press a
child down. A daughter came TO worldly
mother and said she was ANXIOUS about her
sins, and she had been praying all night
The mother said; oh, stop praying |
don't believe in praying. Get over all those
religious notions, and III give you a dress
that will cost five hundred dollars, and you
may wear it next week to the party The
daughter took the dress, and she moved in
the gay circle, the gayest Of all the gay that
night; ard sore enough, all religious I'M
prcss;Ons were gone, and she stopped pray
ing. a few months after she came to die
and in her closing moments said: Mother,
| wish YOU would bring me that dress that
cost FIVE hundred dollars" Tie mother
thought it q very strange request; but she
brought it to please the dying child. Now,
said The daughter, Mother, hang that dress
on the foot of my bed and the dress was
hung there on the foot of the bed. Then
the dying girl got up on one e!bo" and
looked at her mother and pointed to the
dress, and said: Mother, that dress ID the
price OF my soul ~ oh, what momenious
thing it is TO be mother
Again and lastly, Hannah stands be-
fore us as
The Rewarded Mother.
For sll the coats she made for Samuel; for
all The prayers she offered Tor him; for the
discipline she exerted owe. him, she got
ahu, dant compensation in the piety and
the usefulness and the popularity OF her son
Samuel. and that Is true in all ages. Every
NO her gets tull pay Tor all the prayers and
tear. in behalf Of he. children. That man
rse.ul in commercial life; that man promin'
ent in the profession; that master mechanic
why, every step he takes in lie has an
echo Of 2ladness in the old heart that long
ago taught hia to be Christian and heroic
All earnest The story of what you have
done or what you have written, OF the mi. a.
epce you have exerted, has gone back 10 the
old homestead ttereis someone a! Saya
,s.Ir 20 ca-rr Good tiiipps-ani that stOry