Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
rA1MAGE's SERMON.
.,+, Discourse of the Series on
..rhe Marriage Ring"

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Good Mothers in a Com.
,,-.rhe story Of Ha"nah and the
'''" samuel ny Way OF lllustra-
r,,s Price of . Soul.
n Dewitt Talmage's twelfth SER
pew "The Marriage Ring" takes up the
i.ct of motherhood" tho text being
. words:
doFfo brought It to him from year to
q" .,on abe came up with her husband.
at, ,,c YEARLY sacrifice.-L. Samuel, it,, 10.
..ories of Deborah and Abigail are
,nt TO discourage a woman's soul.
..ys within herself: ut is impossible
ser can achieve any such grandeur
a. ,.socter. and 1 don't mean to try," as
en - . child should refuse to play the
~ votes because he can not execute Il
E.miam Tell" This Hannah of the text
~. from the persons'1 just now named.
,,as an ordinary woman, with ordi.
T., intellectual capacity, placed in the
,;,,ry circumstances, and yet, by
Urinary piety, standing out before all
aaas to come, the model Christian
ptber.
hannah was the wife of Elkannah, who
- I, nsrson very much like herself-un-
sontic and plain, never having fought a
..le or been the subject of a marvellous
.sne Neither of them would have been
nal genius. just what you and I
M he. that was Elkannah and Han.
rhs brightest time in all the history of
:, ramily was the birth of Samuel. Al
oush no star ran along the Heavens
Eintiug down to his birthplace. I think
. angels Of God stopped at the coming of
wonderful a prophet.
As Samuel had been given in answer to
aver, Elkannah and all his family, save
.nnsh, started up to Shiloh to offer sac.
Aces of tn thanksgiving. The cradle where
. child slept was altar enough for Han.
MS grateful heart, but when the boy was
4 enough she took him to Shiloh and
ok three bullocks, and an ephah OF flour,
NJ a bottle of wine, and made offering Of
criice unto the Lord, and there, accord
. to a previous VOW, she left him; for
ere he was to stay oil the days Of his
\. and minister in the Temple.
Years rolled on, and every year Hannah
AIDE with her own hands a garment for
smuel, and took it over to him. The lad
ould have got along we'll without that
prmaut, for l suppose he was we'll clad by
e ministry of the Temple; but Hannah
mid not be contented unless she was all
time doing something for her darling
by. "Moreover, his mother made him q
tile coat, and brought it to him from
kar to year, when she came up with her
bsband to offer the yearly sacrifice"
h. Hannah stands before you. then, in
E frs. place, as an industrious mother.
here was no need for her to work. Ell.
nnal, her husband, was far from poor.
belonged to a distinguished family, for
e Bible tells us that he was the son Ut
Erobum, the son of Elihu, the son of
bhn, the son of Zuph. "Who were they?"
bu say. l do not know, but they were
s.insuished people, no doubt, OF their
INES would not have been mentioned.
Hannah might have seated herself with
T family, and with folded arms and di-
evesd hair, read novels from year to
Fa, if there had been any to read;
/ when | see her making that garment,
ID 'sking it over to Samuel, l know she
Industrious from principle as well IS
pm pleasure. God would not have u
PtAer become a drudge or a slave; he
Puld have her employ all the helps pos
Ne i'll this day in the rearing of her chill
Zen, But Hannah ought never to be
hamed to be found making a Goa for
muel.
piost mothers need no counsel in this di.
ZION. The wrinkles ON their brow, the
Nor on their cheek, the thimble mark
their finger attest that they are faith
IN their maternal duties. The bloom,
\ the brightness, and the vivacity of
mood have given place for the grander
ehsty, and usefulness, and industry of
'nerhood. But there is a heathenish
a getting abroad in so me of the fani-
Oh Americans; there are mothers
0 Danish themselves from the
ne circle. For three-fourths
their maternal duties they
We themselves incompetent. They
ignorant of what their children wear,
what their children eat, and what
y children read. They intrust to ir-
pohslble persons these young immor-
ana allow them to be under influences
l.n may cripple their bodies, or faint
y purity, or spoil their manners, or de-
" their souls.
4'"i the awkward cut of Samuel's coat
know his mother Hannah did not make
oae from under flaming chandeliers,
oi rom imported al cts, and down
granite stairs, there has COME a great
W. OF children in this day, unframed,
~ incompetent for all practical duties
: ready to be caught in the first whill
:.ae and sensuality. Indolent and
pi.aiul mothers will make INDECENT and
.'n'ui children. You can not expect
ness and order in any house where the
sn'ers see nothing but s~latternliness
ups'ue-downativeness in their parents.
1''nhah be idle, and most certainly
oel VIII grow up idle.
~ are the industrious men in all our
.'a''ohs and professions? Who are
managing tho merchandise of the
building the walls, timing the
weaving the carpets, making the
governing tho nations, making the
" quake and heave and roar and
WIN the tread of gigantic enter
"ho are they? For the most part
uescended from indnstrions ,nothors