The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
TALMAGE ON IIEREDITY.
WHAT ARE you DOING FOR YOUR
FIFTY THOUSAND DESCENDANTS:

WHAT ARE you DOING FOR YOUR
FIFTY THOUSAND DESCENDANTS:
Every Mothers Influence Likely to Extend
for Ages--How to Make Children Liars
and bow They May be Made Truthful,
Benevolent and Good.
In the eighth of his sermons to the
women of America, which was delivered
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday
morning, the Rev. DIR. Tslmage preached
on "Prolonged influence of Mothers.
He said:
Everybody talks about the dissipa-
tions of modern society and how woman
" health goes down under it, but it was
worse a hundred years ago, for the chap
lain OF French regiment in our Re7o-
lutionary War wrote in 1872, in his book
of American women, saying: sThey are
tall and well proportioned, their features
are generally regular, their complexions
are generally fair and without color. At
twenty years of age the women have no
longer the freshness of youth. At thirty
or forty they are decrepit.' In 1872 a
foreign consul wrote book entitled "A
Sketch of the United States at the Com
mencement of the Present Century, and
he SAYS of the women of those times:
.At the age OF thirty all their charms
have disappeared One glance at the
portraits of the women hundred years
ago and their style of dress makes US
wonder how they ever got their breath.
AL this makes me think that the express
rail train is 40 more an improvement on
the old canal boat, or the telegraph no
more an improvement on the old-tlme
saddlebags, than the women Of our day
are an Improvement on the women of the
last century.
81 never knew the Joy of having a
grandmother; that is, the disadvantage
Of being the youngest child Of the fani-
". The elder members only have that
benediction. But though she went up
out of this life before began it, have
heard of her faith in God, that brought
all her children into the kingdom and
two of them into the ministry, and then
brought all her grandchildren into the
kingdom, myself the last and the least
worthy.
YOUR FIFTY THOUSAND DESCENDANTS.
s:Here we have an untried, undiscussed
and unexplored subject. You often hear
about your influence upon your own
children am not talking about that.
What about your influence upon the
twentieth century, upon the thlrtleth
century, upon the fortieth century, upon
the year 2000, upon the year 1000, if 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 swung off IN
sin, 1000 years it may be swinging back
into righteousness. By the ordinary
rate OF multiplication of the worlds
population, in a century your descend
ants will be over 200, and by two cen
turies at least over $4,000, and upon
every one of them you, the mother OF
to-day, will have an influence for good
or evil. And if in four centuries your
descendants shall have with their names
filed q scroll of hundreds of thousands,
will some angel from heaven to whom IS
given the capacity to calculate the num-
ber Of the stars of heaven and the sands
of the seashores, step down and tell US
how many descendants you will have in
the four thousandth year OF the worlds
possible continuance?
ssDo not let the grandmothers any
longer think that they are retired, and
sit clear back out of sight from the
world, feeling that they have no rela-
tions to it. The mothers OF the last cen
tury are to-day in the Senates, the Par
haments, the palaces, the pulpits, the
banking houses, the professional chairs,
the prisons, the almshouses, the compa-
ny Of midnight brigands, 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 the import
ancs of getting those two little feet on
the right path. You have been thinking
of your child's destiny for the next
eighty years, if it should pass on to be
an octogenarian. That is well, but my
subject sweeps thousand years, a mil
lion years, quadrillion of years. l can
not stop at one cradle; Fam looking at
the cradles that reach ali round the world
and across sn time.
ssHad not mothers better be intensity
ing their prayers? Had they not better
be elevating their example? Had they
not better be rousing themselves with the
consideration that by their faithfulness
or neglect they are starting an influence
which will be stupendous after the last
mountain of earth is fiat and the last sea
has been dried up, and the last flake OF
the ashes Of a consumed world shall
have been blown away, and all the tele-
scopes of other worlds directed to the
track around which our world once
swung shall discover not so much as a
cinder of the burned-down and swept-off
planet.
HOW TO MAKE CHILDREN LIARS.
eff a mother tell child that if he is
not good, some bugaboo will come and
catch him, the fear excited may make
the child coward, and the fact that he
finds that there is no bugaboo may make
him har, and the echo Of that false
alarm may be heard after fifteen genera
tons have been born and have expired.
If mother promise child reward for
good behavior, and after the good be-
hayior forgets TO give the reward, the
cheat may crop out in some faithlessness