Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-04-08
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In q community who need to be 90 wise aud
uell-infurmed as mothers.
OH this work OF culture in children foi
this world and the nexti This child 10
timid, and II must be roused up and pushed
out into activity. Ibis child is forward,
and he must be held back and tanned down
into modesty and po iteness. Rewards foI
one, punishmcnts for another. That which
wall make George will ruin John. The rod
Is necessary In one case, while frown OF
displeasure is more than enough in another.
Whipping andia dark closet do not exhaust
. all the rounds Of domestic discipline.
There have been children who have grown
up and gone to glory without ever having
1 had their ears boxed.
Oh, how much care and intelligence are
necessary in the rearing of childrenl But
in this day. when there are SO many books
on the subject, no parent is excusabe In
being ignorant of the best mode of bring
ing up child. If parents knew more Of
dicietics there woull not be so many dys-
pcptic stomachs, and weak nerves, and in
competent iyers among children. If par
ents knew more tf physiology there would
moi be so many curved spines, and cramped
chests, hnd intlnmed tbroats, and diseased
lungs as there are among children. II
| paESutb kucn IlOit VI ait ANU "ctc III oy iile
pathy with all that i, beautiful, there would
not he so many children coming out in the
world with boorish prociivilies. If parents
knew more of Christ and pr cticed more OF
Its religion there would not be SO many
lI;tlc feet already starting on the wrong
Rad, and nj aroind us voices of riot and
blasphemy would not come up with such
ecstacy of internal triumph.
Tho eaglets in the aerie have no advant-
ages over the caglets of thousand years
ago; the kids have no supe ior 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
lims of the desert; but it is shame that
in tuis day, when there are so many oppor-
tunities 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 aud the whelps.
| 3. Again, Hannah stands before you as
(, Christian mother. From her prayers and
from the way she tonsecrated her boy to
God, ] know that she was good. A mother
may have the finest culture, the most bril-
liant surroundings; bnt she Is not fit for her
duties unless she be Christian mother.
here may be well.read libraries in the
house. and exquisite music in the parlor,
nnl the canvas OF the best artists adornine
the walls, and The wardrobe be crowded
with tttelul apparel, and the children be
woadeifIl for heir attainments, and mako
tlI, hons ring with their laughter and in
no .ent mir.h; but there is something
wninl-i oking in that house ii it be not
ais, The residence OF fhristlan mo,hsr.
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p;ayerless mothers not many Of them.
Tn Weight OF responsibility is so grea. that
taey fe Hi. need of a divine head to help,
an ia tii.ine voice to mf rt. and divine
heart o sympathize. thousands of meth
ers have be, n led into the kingdom of God
Ly i!i5 hands of their little children. There
are hrndretls of mothers who wauld not
have bnen Christians had it not been for
the prattle Of their little o1cs. Standing
son. day in the nursery they bethought
themselves, This hild God has given me
to raise for eternity. What il my influence
Irnn it? Not being a Christian myself
bow can I ever expect him to become a
Christian? Lord help mel"
Are III re anxious mothers, who know
nothing of the infinite help of religion:
Then l commend to them Hannah, The
pious mother of Samuel. Do not thatH il
is absolutely impossible thai your children
come up iniquitous. Out Of just such fan
brows, and bright eyes, and soft hands, and
innocent hearts, crime gets its victims -ex-
tirpating purity from the heart, and rub
bing ont the smoothness from the biOw,
and quenching the luster of the eye, and
shriveling up, and poisoning, and putre-
flying, and scathing, and scalding, and
blasting, and burning, with shame and
woe.
Every child is o bundle of tremendou.
possibilities; and whether that child shall
come forth to life, its heart attuned to thu
eternal harmonies, and after q life Of use.
! fulness on earth go to life Of joy ir
heaven, or whether across it shall jar eter.
nal discords, and after life of wrong.
ioing on earth it shall 60 to home Of i'm
penetrable darkness and an abyss Of i'm,
measurable plunge, is being decided b,
nursery song, and Sabbath lesson, ant
evening prayer, and walk, and ride, ant
look, and frown, and smile. Oh! hov
many children in glory, ,crowding all th,
battlements, and lifting million -voicet
hosanna, brought to God through Christial
parentage! 81
One hundred and twenty clergymen wer'
together, and they were telling their ex
perience and their ancestry; and of the on'
hundred and twenty clergymen, how man.
! Of them, do You suppose. assigned as, tn
means of their conversion the influence o
4 Christian mother2 One hundred out o
the one hundred and, twenty! Philil
Doddridge was brought to God by th
| scripture lesson on the Ducth tiles of
! chimney fireplace. The mother think
she is only rocking child, but at the sam
, time she may be rocking the fate o
nations, rocking the glories Of heaven
The same maternal power that may lift tn
child up may press child down.
. A daughter came to worldly mother an,
said she was anxious about her sins. an
!, she had ..es been .ds praying & all night; a. q
Sssss SSssss sa & prns sog s R'asss sssa asa
, religious notions and I'll give You iires
, that will cost $500, and you may wear
! next week to that party" The daughte
took the dress, and she moved in the "a
i circle. the gayest Of all the gay, that night
and sure enough, all religious impression
! were gone and she stopped praying. A fe,
I months after she came to die, and in he
\ closing moments said: Mother, / wis
! you would bring me that dress that COS
, $500" The mother thought ii yer
/ strange request but she, brought it t
please the diving child. aNow, said Ii
/ | DAUGHTER, mother. hang that dress on III
\ i foot OF nv bed.D and the dress was hun
|. there, on the foot of the bed
I Then the dying girl got up O
I ona elbow and looked at her mother, an
i then pointed 10 the dress and said: Mother
j that dress 10 the price Of my soul!p oh
!, what q momentous thing It is to be
!. mother!
4 \. Aqair. and lastly. Hannah stands be