The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-29

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life setting their children on the verge of
hell. The mothers Of Samuel johnson,
and of Alfred the Great, and of Isaac New
ton, and of st. Augustine, and Of Richard
Cecil. and of President Edwards for the
most part, were industrious, Woodworking
mothers.
Now, while congratulate all Christian
mothers upon the wealth and the modern
science which may afford them all kinds Of
help, let me say that every mother ought
to be observant of her children's walk.
her children's behavior, he children's food,
her children's books, her children's COM
partnerships. However much help Hannah
may have. think she ought every year,
at least, make one garment for Samuel.
The Lord have mercy ON a man who is SO
unfortunate as to have lazy mother.
Q. Again, Hannah stands before you as
an intelligent mother. From the way in
which she talked in this chapter, and from
the way she managed this boy, you know
she was intelligent. There are no persons
in a community who need to be so wise
and well informed as mothers.
Oh this work of culture in children for
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timid, and it must be reused up and
pushed out into activity. This child is
forward, and he must be held back and
tanned down into modesty and politeness.
Rewards for one; punishment for another.
That which will make George win ruin
John. The rod is necessary in one case,
while frown of displeasure is more than
enough in another. Whipping and dark
closet do not exhaust all the rounds of do
mestic discipline. There have been chill
dren who have grown up and gone to
glory without ever having had their ears
boxed.
Oh! how much care and intelligence are
necessary in the rearing of children! But
in this day, when there are so many books
on the subject, no parent is excusable in
being ignorant of the best mode of bring
ing up a child. If parents knew more of
electics there would not be so many dys-
poetic stomachs and weak nerves and in
competent iivers among children. If par
ents knew more of physiology there would
not be so many curved spines, and cramped
chests. and inflamed throats, and diseased
lungs as there are among children. If
parents knew more of art, aud were in
sympathy with all that is beautiful, there
would not be so many children coming out
in the world with boorish proclivities. II
parents knew more of Christ, and prac-
ticed 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
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The eaglets in the eyrie have no advan-
tage over the eaglets of a thousand years
ago; the kids have no superior way OF
climbing 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-they are taught no more by the
| lions of the desert; but it is a shame tina,
in this day, when there are so many OPP
! portunities of improving ourselves in the
best manner of cultivating children, that
| so often there is no more advancement in
| this respect than there has been among
the kids and the eaglets and the whelps.
/ 8. Again Hannah stands before you as 6
Christian mother. From her prayers and
| from the way she consecrated her boy t.
| God, / know that she was good. A mother
may have the finest culture, the most bril-
liant surroundings; but she is not fit for hel
duties unless she be Christian mother
There may be wen-read libraries in tn,
house; and exquisite music in the parlor
and the canvas of the best artists adorn
ing the walls; and the wardrobe b,
crowded with tasteful apparel; and tn,
children be wonderful for their attain
ments, and make the house ring with
laughter and innocent mirth, but there il
something woeful looking in that house
If it be not also the residence of Chris
tian mother.
/ bless God that there are not man,
prayerless nothers-not MANY of them
| The weight of responsibility is so grea
that they feel the need of Divin
hand to help. and a Divine voice to com
fort, and Divine heart to sympathize
Thousands of mothers have been led int
the kingdom of God by the hands of thei
1 little children. There were hundreds O
mothers who would not have been Chris
tians had it not been for the prattle o
the nursery they bethought themselves
"This child God was given me to rails
for eternity. What is my influence upol
its Not being a Christian myself, ho1
can ever expect him to become Chris
tian? Lord, help mel"
Are there anxious mothers who knos
nothing of the infinite help of religion
Then ] commend them to Hannah, th
pious mother of Samuel. Do not think
is absolutely impossible that your childre
come up UBIQUITOUS. Out of just such fai
brows, and bright eyes. and soft hands
and innocent hearts. crime gets it's victim
-extirpating purity from the heart. an
rubbing out the smoothness from the brow
and quenching the ulster of the eve, an
shriveling up, and poisoning. and purify
ing, and scathing, and scalding. and blast
ing, and burning with shame and woe.
Every child is bundle of tremendou
possibilities; and whether that child shaI
come forth to life, its heart atfuned to tn
eternal harmonies, and after a lif
OF usefulness on earth go to a lif
OF joy in Heaven. or whether across
shall jar eternal discords. and after a lif
of wrong-doing on earth it shall go to
home of impenetrable darkness and a
abyss of immeasurable plnnge, is bein
decided by nursery song and Sabbath les
son, and evening PRAYER. and walk, an