Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-02

IVA N-NJ VANA hHN
Journey Of lie and read the old book more
than they used TO, hardly knowing which
most they enjoy. the Old Testament OF
the New, and often stop and dwell tesr-
fully over the family record half way be-
tween. We hail them TO day whether in
the house of God or st the homestead.
Blessed is that household that has in it a
grandmother Lois. Where she is angels
are lowering round and God is in the
room. May her last days Ne like those
LOVELY AUTUMNAL DAYS
that we call Indian summer.
l never knew the joy Of having q grand
mother; that Is the disadvantage of being
the youngest child of the family. The
elder members only lave that benedIc-
ton. But though she went up out Of this
life before 1 began it, 1 have heard
Of her faith in Goo, that
brought all her children into the
kingdom and two of them into the min
istry, and then brought al her grand
children into the kingdom, myself the last
and least worthy. Is it not time that you
and 1 do two things, swing open g picture
gallery Of the wrinkled faces and stopped
shoulders Of the past, and call down from
their heavenly thrones the Cody grand
mothers to give them our thanks, and then
persuade the mothers Of to-day that they
are living for all time, and that against the
sides OF every cradle in which 8 child is
rocked beat the two eternities.
Here we have an untried, undiscussed
and unexplored subject. You often hear
about your influence upon your own
children-I an not talking about that.
What about your influence upon the
Tuantiafh Hnntnru nnOu tho Tbirfiafh
Century, upon the Fortieth Century,
upon the year 1000, upon the year 1000,
il the world lasts so long. The world
stood 1000 years before Christ came; It
is not unreasonable to suppose that it may
stand 1000 years after his arrival. Four
thousand years the world SWING of in
sin, 1000 years 1t may be swinging back
into Righteousness. BY the ordinary rate
Of multiplication, Of the worlds populs-
ton in a century your descendants will be
over 800, and by two centuries at least
over 100 1000, perhaps zoe, 900, and upon
every one OF them you, the mother of to-
day, will have an influence for good or
evil. And if in two centuries your de-
scendants shall have with their names
FILLED A SCROLL
Of hundreds of thousands, will some angel
from heaven to whom is given the capa-
city to calculate the number Of the stars
Of heaven and the sands of the s~eashore,
step down and tell us how many descend.
ants you will have in the 400oth
year of the worlds possible continuance.
Do not let the gre ndmothers any longer
think that they are retired, and sit clear
back out Of sight from the world; feeling
that they have no relation to it. The
mothers of the last century sre to-day in
the ~senates, the ~parliements, the palaces,
the pulpits, the banking houses, the pro-
fessional chairs, the prisons, the aims
houses, the company of midnight bri-
gaDds, the cellars, the dltches Of this
century. You have been thinking about
the Importance of having the right irfiu-
ence upon one nursery. You have been
thinking of the Importance Of getting
those two little feet on the right path.
You have been thinking Of your chlld's
destiny for the next eighty years, II it
should pass on TO be an octogen6rian.
That is we'll, but my subject sweeps q
thousand years, q million years, q quadril-
lion of yesrs. / cannot stop at one
cradle, l am looking at the cradles that
reach al round the world and across all
time. am no. talking Of mother Eunice,
L hn Ia hlue vi Sinuo ~ bfuios LUG
only wy you can tell the force of q cur-
rent ia bY sailing up stream; or the force
of an ocean wave, by running the ship
sgsinst 1t. Running along with 1t we
cannot appreciate the force. ID estimst-
ing mSterDsl influence we generally run
along with 1t down the stream Of time,
and 80 we don't understand the full force.
Let Us come up to It from the eternity
oF1o ,Rbor ~ han hopp Uoykip1 nm TO-
centuries, and see all the good 1t has done
snd all the evil it hiss accomplished null
tiplied in magnificent or appalling com
pound interest. The difference between
that mothers influence on her children
now and the IT dusuce when 1t has been
multiplied In hundreds of thousands
of lives, is tie difference between
the Mississippi river way up at
the top Of the continent starting
from the little lake ~I'ssca, seven miles
long and one wide, and It's mouth at the
Gulf of Mexico, where nsvies might ride.
Between tn" birth OF hat river and its
burial In the sea the Missouri pours in,
sud the Ohio pours In. and the Arkansas
pours in, and the Red and White and
Yszoo rivers pour in. and all the states
snd territories between the Allegheny
and Rocky mountains make contribution.
Now, in order tn test the power Of
A MOTHERS INFLUENCE,
we need 70 come 10 OF Of the ocean of
e'ernitv and sail MP towsrd the one cradle.
and we Will find ten thousand tributaries
of influence pouring in and pouring
down. But T. is after sill one crest river
OF power rolling on snd rolling forever.
Who can fsthom l.? Who can bridge il?
Who csn stop II? Had not mothers bet
ter be intensiiying their prayers7 Had
thsy not better be elevsting their exam.
themselves with the consideration
hat by their faithfulness or neg
lect thew are sterling an in
1uence which will be %stupsndous
sitter the last mountain of earth Is Mt,
and the last ses hiss been dried up, spd
the las fake OF the ashes of s consumed
worl' shall hSye been blown awsy, and
all the telescopes OF other worlds directed
to the track around which our world orce
swung shall discover not SO much as Q
cinder of the b~urned-dowp aud swept-oh
planet. In Ceylou there is q granite
column thirty six square feet in size,
which Is thought by the natives to decide
the worlds continuance. Ar angel with
robe spun from zephyrs Is once a century
TO descend and sweep the hem of that
robe across the grsnite, and when by that
attrition the column Is worn away they
say time will end. But by thst process
that granite column would be worn out If
existence before mothers influence will
begin to give away.
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