The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-02-02
MANY, MANY MOTHERS.
THREE WORDS or MOST MEANING:
MOTHER, HOME, HEAVEN"
"a Good Mother the Creaisst Blessinr and
aBrd , other the Greatest 'u's- Ever
Bssto~~d Upon fAmiiy--society struck
BroadsIds sam Jones' Sell mon.

NoIlAiu AM IN ms D1icouy hul ON tnt stage
~as occupied 10y a woman. There were old
women btnt with the sge n years, their sill
very hairs aud batting step testifying that
something unusual u was that would bring
them forth on such a damp, muddy, dis.
sRroeab o morning; young "omsn in their
teens, an1 middle-ag women, minds aud
wives, society women and t3ilers in tho
house anu workshop; women in silks and
women IN calico--wom 'n, In fact, Of all
kinds and ot all natioualiti,s.
II was Au aui cucs " dom gathsraI To-
gether an aud lencs that only the eloquen~o
and earnrs ness Of Bnm Jones could bring
together. and II was well repa d for oil tbs
discomtorts Of the borr BIZ Weather a nt has
been hangiuy in murray clouds Over our
heads Tor d week. Rev Mr. Jones is In bis
element VII u he has such M audience as
this. md tears and sots we're mauy ns he NJ.
iurtd some IL bis W0Ddrous truthes and
drew IN vivid coiora and with mn imagery
rare, such pathetic PIC ures nnd grapnic de-
script ~ rs would INST the heart OF the
har test woman on rar,h.
His sstm II was a powerful one. and many
a mother resent said amen M he tod Il
the fearful sins md shnms Of society In the
world around
TIE sermon was intensely interesting and
che BRET pyort will bc founJ well wor tn
The reading by many women and men, too.
~ hope this sermon will b1 profitable
one 10 al II US 1hs IN tho iirst OF series
OF services tor WON u only. and is held with
aEle,iai reference to notporA
"iuoro IRE TIRES WORDS that are YER
clos is associated with each other In oU.
minds, sui perhaps mean mora 10 Us thtn
nlu ost any other three wurdA These words
form be su jrct OF this srfyic1: Mother,
Home Honven.'
m ,th'rt Wont IL hons without motheri
How may ever lin my etarnni home With
out n mothers prayers to inspire ms nnl
mother 5 hnni TO guide msi History toncbeI
US some valuable lessons on all ITS pages
concerning this thought DO you know that
keruH mother was murderessi She gtvj
~ this worli the mos cruel man IN tho bis
tory Of humanity.
- me ono said once, III ! could mother
this worlI coud save th,s worln, and an.
other sid, The hand that rocks tho crndio
ruls3 t1a world
"a COOL mother IL tho greatest blessing
ever bestowed on family OF children; AM
a Go iless, wicked, worldly mother, IL tn
greatest curse that ever tli1h ed a homel
| eau understand how mon Can to- wicIel.
/ cnn sort Of uuders and how 10 is
men can forsake God and live worldly life;
but the most torrule moral anamoly anI
moustroIty In tao universe today 10 a OIL.
less, Cnristlcss mother, with innocent chill
dreu playing around her homel oh, mot B..
ersi OF oil beings in tbs VOL God demands
OF you that you be tho rurest and the b ~
II recoll CT an incident of father an
mother The father was n physician an !
their littlh Willie was III, nnl growing
worse mud worse for several days. until at
Inst his condition was critical About mid
nj, ht one night the mother cams down aud
wake into the sick room whare hor hus-
babd sat 10y little Whites bedside, and as
she entered she threw her eyes upon tho
pnle, hard breathing little infant and as she
thew herself on hr husbands breast an
cried ont In an agony OF fear, Ca, husband,
God is going to take our little Willie away; I
aud shs sobbu1 ami cried aloud. Direcuy
tho husband lookol up and said, on, wife,
don't say God ~ going 10 take our little
Willie from us, but, vito, II little Willie il
not better by daylight VIZ viii give him TO
God Oh, precious mother that can sec her
child transplant,d from the thorns AMI
hrambles OF life to tho roses of tho paradise
of Col and say, 4 have given God child :
Thrice happy that mother who has Guild
In heavell
THAT mother who has n sweet one In heaven
IL n better mother 30 those she has left th an
sh' ever would have been IL God had not
given her a child IN heavenl Oh, how thos,
little waxen, ice cold fingers bind our mem
cries back 10 many hastY word aud &C
scattered along our backward TRACK, and
oh
Elbow those waxen hands remind uS
As in snowy cerements they lie,
Not to scatter Ia rms, but roses,
For our meeting by aud by
"Soclety soe,etyi A leech OF the hoart,
and when every soc oty shall fix itself upon
your lifebood it will draw the last drop of
blood out OF your heart, and you'll b. a
bloodess, hcartlass won IN aud that's the
worst thina Coils eyes ever looked upon, a
woman without hear,l You know that's
what society does for a woman A woman
that enters society and goes the gidiy
rounds forgets her children and Col and
everything, and she comes In contact with
tle most hearu,ss ceratures God ever saw,
aud by-the.hy she Is transformed into a
heart less wretch like those around her.
III tell YOU another thing You'll never
reform Cincinnati or New YORK or any
place else from incompetence and degreda-
ton an death until you reform the respect
able Pc pie Of this countryl You can put
that down. As long as mothers run bar
rooms at tlelr homA3, you can't blame men
for running tar-rooms ON the street. corners
OF the town; anil mothars who train their
children at home TO drink, can't blame the
chlltrln for gong to barrooms and getting
It wbenovor they want t. | have known
mothers 70 st out brandy snl wine at their
homes, aud in the gay hirta,ious Of life the
loved ones begsn to dSsippte an1 drink /;
ana I've had that mother come to me alter.
ward wring,ns her hands, and with u look
OF Infinite despair on her lace, say: Help
me, for Coils sake, TO ave my husband an 1
children, for thew seem already to be
beyoat tho reach Of the arm Of Godr How
many mothers in this house to dsy whose
hear. is bleed ne, drop by drop and hour az.
ter hour, becaus, OF your chtllreu's sins,
snl yet you have been particops crimims to
the transgress,ons Of your sons anl hus-
handsl
I've said many time, IL had TO marry
thousand times-snd rm ike the Irslmau
who stid, Il hope I'll never live to s,e my
wife married again'-rll say this much: II
had 30 marry a thousand times, and il
didu'S get good wife aud knew rs 30 mis-
erabls the balance Of my lie, the further
coulI get away from the giiIy pleasures
AM sntul ADJUSTMENTS OF life, just that
much further away would be sb to get
good wife would never GO to a ball roou
to get a first class wife You can get wivea
in ball rooms but | never said what sort