Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-29


mothers upon the wealth and the moder
science which may afford them all kind
of help, let me say that every motht
ought to be observsnt of her children
behavior, her children's food, her chi
dren's looks, her children's companion
ships. However much help Hannah ma
have, I think she ought every year, at leas
make one garment for Samuel. The Lor
have mercy on a man who is 80 untortu
nate as to have had O lazy mother
Again, Hannah stands before you as
An INTELLIGENT MOTHER.
From the way in which she talked in thi
chapter, and from the way she manage;
this boy, you know abe was intelligent
There are no persons in community VIII
need to be 80 wise and wellintormed o
mothers.
Oh! this work of culture in children TO
this world and the next! This child il
timid, and it must be reused up and push
ed out into activity. This chifd Is forward
and he must be held back and tanned dowr
into modesty and politeness. Rewards fol
one, punishments for another. That which
will make George will ruin John. The
rod is necet sary in one case, while q frowr
of displeasurs is more than enough in an
other. Whipping and dark closet do moi
exhaust all the rounds of domestic discip
line. There have been children who have
grown up and gone to glory without ever
having had their ears boxed.
Obi how much care and intelligence are
necessary in the rearing of children! Bu!
in this day, when there is so many books
on this subject, no parent is excusable IN
being ignorant of the best mode of bring.
ing up q child. II parents knew more OF
dietetics there would not be 30 many dys.
peptic stomschs, and weak nerves, and IN
competent livers amcng children. If pa,
rents knew more Of physiology there would
not be so many curved spines, and cramp.
ed chests, and inhamed throsts, and dis
essed lungs as there are among children.
[f parents knew more of art, and were in
sympathy with all that is beautiful, tWere
would not be so many children coming in
10 the world with boorish proclivities. If
knew more Of Christ, and prac-
iced more of his religion, there would not
be so many little feet already starting on
he wrong road, and all around US voices
If riot and blssphemy would not come up
With such ecstasy Of internal triumph.
The esglets in the aerie have no sdvan,
ages over the eaglets Of a thousand yesrs
,go; the kids have 20 superior way OF
climbing up the rocks than the old goats
aught hundreds of years ago; the whelps
Inow no more nov than did the whelps Of
.ges sgo-they are taught no more By the
ions Of the desert; but it is shame that
n this day, when there go many opportubi'
les of improving ourselves in the best
manner Of cultiVating children, that 80
'ften there is no more advancement in this
espect than there has been among the
lids and the esglets and the whelPs.
Ill. Again, Hannah stands before you
A CHRISTIAN MOTHER.
rom her prayers and from the way she
her boy to God, | know that
he was good. A mother may have the
inest culture, the most brilliant surround
ngs; but she is not fit for her duties unless
he be Christian mother. There may be
YELL read libraries in the house; and ex-
Iuisite music in the parlor, and the canvas
# the best artists alorning the walls; and
he wardrobe becrowded with tastetHl ap'
,srel; and the children be wonderful for
heir sttsinments, and make the house
ing with laughter and innocent mirth;
mt there is something woetul-looking in
hat house, if it be not also the residence
4 Christian mother.
| bless God that there are not many
,rayerless motbers-not many Of them
The weight Of responsibility is so great
hat they feel the need Of a Divine hsni to
IeIp, and Divine voice to comfort, and
)ivins heart 10 sympsthi2e. Thousands Of
mothers have beel led into the kingdom Of
rod by the hands OF their little children.
here were hundreds OF mothers who would
ot have been Christians had it not been
or the prattle of their little ones. Stand
ng some day in the nursery,they bethought
themselves. "fhis child God hes given me
o raise for eternity. What is my influence
pom itY Not being Christian myself, how
an ever expect him to become q Chris
ian? Lord help me-"
Are there anxious mothers, who know
othing of the infinite help Of religion?
hen | commend to them Hannah, the
,ious mother OF Samuel.
pT - +
hat your children come up iniquitous.
)ut of Just such fair brows, and bright
yes, and soft hands, end innocen. hearts,
rime gets its victm'-extirpsting purity
rom the heart, and rubbing out the
moo,hness from the brow and quenching
he lustre OF the eye, and the shrivelling
lp. and poisoning, and putrefying, aud
csthing and scslding, and blasting, and
,urning with shame and woe.
Every child is q bundle Of tremendous
possibilities; and whether that child shall
,ome forth to life, its heart sttuned to the
ternal harmonies and after life OF use
illness on earth go to a life Of 10y in
er whethes sc.oss il shan Jar
,ternal discords, and after life Of wrong.
loing on earth it shall go to home OF i'm
,euetrable darkness aud an abyss Of i'm
measurable plunge, is being decided by
nursery song and Sabbath lesson, and
evening prayer, aua Sslk, and ride, and
ook, aud fFoWn, snd smile. Oh how
many children in glory, croSding ell the
,sttlements, and lifting 0 million-voiced
,osanna, to God through Christian parent
sge!
One hundred and twenty clergymen we're
togethsr, and they we're telling their expe-
renee and theic ancestry; aud OF the oae
hundred snd twenty clergyuen, how many
Of them, do you sjpBose, assigned as the
means OF their conversion the influence o.
a Christian mother? One hundred ont OF
the one hundred and twenty PniEp Dod-
dridge vss brought to God By he Scripture
lesson on the Dutch tiles Of chimney
fireplace. The mother thinks she is only
rocking o child, but at the same time she
may be rocking the fate Of nations, rocking
the glories Of heaven. The same maternal
power that may lift the child up may prsss
q child sQvs.
A daughter cane 70 q worldly noteer
and said she WA anxious about her sins,
and che had been praying all night. The
mother said: "0h, stop praying! | don
beieive in praying. Get over all these
religious notions and Ill give you