Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-02-27

stood 4, 900 years before Christ came, it
not unreasonable to suppose that 1t ma
stand 1000 years after his arrival Fou
thousand years the world swung OF in sin
1000 years it may be swinging back int
rghteousnes By the ordinary rate of mul
tiplicatioa, Of the worlds population in
century your descendants will be over Gc0
and by two centuries at least over 100, ,000
perhaps 800 900, and upon every one of then
you, the mother Of today, will have an inilu
ence for good or evil And IL il
two centuries your descendants shal
have with their names filed a scrol
Of hundreds of thousands, will some anSe
from heaven to whom is given the capacity
to calculate tho number of the stars oi
heaven and the sands Of the seashorc, steI
down and toll us how many descendants you
viii have In the 4,00Oth year of tie world.
possible continuance. Do not let the grand
mothers any longer think that they are re
tired, and sit clear back out of sight from tht
world, feeling that they have no relation &c
It. The mothers Of the last century ore to
day in the senates, the parliamcnts, tho pal
aces, the pulpits, the banking houses, the
professional chairs, the prisons, the aims
houses, the company of midnight brisands,
the cellars, the bitches of this century. You
have been thinking about the Importance OF
having the right influence upon one nursery.
You have been thinking Of tho importance of
getting those two little feet on the right path.
You have been thinking Of your child's dcs-
tiny for the next eighty years, if it should
pass on to be an octoSenarian That
is well; but my subject sweeps Thousand
years, a million years, a quadrillion of
years / cannot stop at one cradle, l an
looking at the cradles that reach eli round
the world and across all time. l am not
talking Of Mother Eunice; am talking of
Grandmother Lois The only way YOU can
tell the force Of q current is by sailing up
stream; or the force of an ocean wave, by
running the ship against it. Running along
with it we cannot appreciate the force In
estimating maternal influence we generally
run along with it down the stream of time,
and 30 we don't understand the full force
Let Us como up to it from the eternity side,
after it has been working on for centuries,
and see all the good it has done and all the
evil it has accomplished multiplied in mag
nificent or appalling compound interest. Tlo
difference between that mothers influence
on her children now and the influence when
it has been multiplied In hundreds Of
thousands OF lives is the difference be
tween the Mississippi river way up at
the top Of the continent, starting
from the little Lake 1taSca, seven miles long
and one wide, and its mouth at the Gulf of
Mexico, where navies might ride. Between
the birth OF that river and its burial in the
SEA the Missouri pours N, and the Ohio pours
ArEnnSaS in nd h.A Rsai
and White and Yazoo rivers pour in, and all
the states and territories between the Allie
ghany and Rocky mountains make contribu-
ton Now, in order to test the power Of n
mothers influence, we need 10 come in of of
the ocean Of eternity and sail up toward the
one cradle, and we will find 10000 tributaries
II influence pouring in and pouring down
But it Is, after all, one great river of power
rolling en- and rolling forever. Who can
fathom itf Who can bridge itl Who can
stop 1T Had not mothers better be intensi-
lying their prayersi Had they not better be
slevating their examplel Had they rot
better DO rousinG themselves with the
that by their faithfulness or
neglect they are starting an Influence which
sll be stupendous after the last mountain Of
,arth Is 1at, and the last sea has been dried
lp, and the last fake OF the asfes OF con-
'umed world shall have been blown away,
md all the telescopes of other worlds directed
o the track around which our W, rid once
wung shall discover not so much as cinder
II tho burned-down and swept-of planet.
n Ceylon there Is granite column If thirty
ix square feet In size, which is thought ~
be n nstives to decide the worlds continuance.
N rvith DO
'nce century to descend and sweep the hem
that robe across tie granite, and when by
hat attrition the column Is worn away they
ay time viii end. But BY that process that
,ranite column would be worn out OF exist
nee before nlothers influence will begin to
1vo away.
II a mother tell child be Is not good,
ONE ougaboo Will como and catch him, the
ear excited may mako the child coward,
nd the fact that he fnds that there is no
uGaboo may make HIM lar. and the echo
that false alarm may be heard after fifteen
euerations have been born and have ex-
lred Ii mother promise child q reward
Or good behavior and after the good be-
avior forgets TO give the reward, the cheat
nay crop out In some falthleSsneSs 500 years
urther on II mother culture child's
anity and culosize his curls and extol the
light black or SKY blue or nut brown Of the
hild's eyes, and call out in his presence the
dmiration Or spectators, pride and arrogance
nay bs prolonged after half dozen family
ecords have been obliterated. IL mother
1press doubt about come statement of the
ioly Bible in childs presence, long after
be gates OF this historical era have closed
nd the gates OF another era have opened,
be result may be seen In champion bias
nr. ouI, On Ioe o'ner hano, II
'o-nef SaiAihs WIZ Iaa" Sso a suIerinS
= oS " Ioe "a5sioe e-H sats my cnlId,
i'e Ilas 'en eent p's''e " " lna. laine Ooy,
- resui' niay oe seen on 'ne o'ner siae OF
10 toiso"hhS een'uIy In soine oeorSe muller
'iions d "noie 'iliase Vi orPnanaSeA :"
motnef sH almost every evening oy the
unoie oeo Oh ehibd ana teacn IL lessons OF
oa''ou fo'e eno saviour example, OF
- in 'ahce oi tfu'n anu the horror OF
. anu the Virtues Oh INDUSTRY ana kindness
III synpa,ny anu eh-sac,inc ions a'er
70 no'nei hAs sohe anu me cniu mas gone
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