Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27

= ir act t1nas that gou ana &c two tniAgs.
s~ing oE@a a picture gallery q tAs wriakled
faces and stooped snoahisrs q ths last, ana
cal down from their heavenly tErones tie
gss1iy grandmoInsss, - give Lhern ouF thanks,
and theB pers1a5e Ls~ nlot1ers Il to1ay thai
tney are hv.ns for al tlnae, 2na tAaE
against TIE sllies of every crss1-s "a snlcn
cbld ls rofked b@at TIA two efernsties.
Here Ne have an untried. unalselEsssd ana
aasxpi0rsi subieck Yoa often haaF stogs
your latLiaacs upon your c~a ehldrsa-t
sn aoC taking abo1E that W hat aboas
yoCr Lndu ace gpsn tue Twentieth centurys
upon Chs lh1rliefa century. upon the foFEleth
csnE1ry, upon the year : 90, upon the Year
400, n tbe world lasts 50 long Tie worLd
stood 4 30 years before Christ came i 3
nol unreasonable - suppose thai it may
stand 40o0 years after his arrival FOar
thousand years the world sNu4g or IN sin,
4Co0 years Il may he swinging hack into
r. rgh1e1usncss. By the ors.inary rate Of nlul-
tiplicstion. OF the worlds population ia .
century yoc- descendants wlil ID over GO,
and b. tSo centuries ~ least over 10000,
perhaIs $4,000. AID upon every one Il them
yoa, the mother x todly. siil have al intia-
enes for good or evil And II in
two centuries your descendants shan
have With their names filed q scroll
q hundreds Of thousands, VIII some angel
ffom heaven u whom IS giyea the capacity
70 calculate the number Of the stars Of
heaven and tie sands OF the seashore. step
down and tell Us how many descendants you
viii have in the 4. .0oOth year Of the worlds
possiole continuance Do rot let the grand
mothers any longer think that they are re-
tired, and sit clear back out OF sight from the
world, feeling that they have no relation 10
10 The mothers Of the last century are TO
day IN the ssnstes, the parliaments, the pal
aces. the pUipits, 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 influences upon one nursery.
Yoa have been thinking Of the importance Of
getting those two little feet on the right path
You have been thinking Of your childs des-
tiny for the next eighty years, IL il should
pass on 20 be an octogenarian. That
is well: but my subject sweeps a thousand
years. a million years, a quadrillion OK
years cannot stop at one cradle, am
looking az the cradles that reach al round
the world aud across all time ! am not
Grandmother Lois. The only way you can
tell the force OF a 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 il down the stream OF time,
and so we don't understand the full force.
Let Us come up 20 il from the eternity side,
and see all tho good it has done and all the
evil il has accomplished multiplied in mag
nifcent OF appalling compound interest. The
difference between that mothers influence
on her children now and the influence when
il 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 Itssca, seven miles long
and one wide, and It's mouth at the Gulf Of
Mexico, where navies might ride. Between
ths birth Of that river and its burial in the
sea the Missouri pours in, and the Ohio pours
IN, and tho Arkansas pours in, and the Red
and White and Yazoo rivers pour il, and all
tie states and territories between the Ale
ghany and Rocky mountains make contribu-
ton Now. in order 10 test the power Of
the ocean of eternity and sail up toward the
one cradle, and we will fin5 10000 tributaries
OF influence pouring In and pouring down
But it is, after all, one great river OF power
rolling en- and rolling forever. Who can
fathom iti Who can bridge it, Who can
stop it, Had not mothers better be intensi-
fying their prayersl Had they not better be
elsvaslng their examplel Had they not
bette" be rousing themselves with the
consideration that by their fsithfulness or
neglect they are starting an influence which
will be stupendous after tho last mountain OF
earth Is fat. and the last sea has been dried
up. and the last fake Of the ashes Of con-
suued world shall have been blown away,
and all the telescopes of other worlds directed
30 the track around which our world once
swung shall discover not so much rs a cinder
os the burued-down and swept-oR planet
In Ceylon there is granite column Of thirty
SIX square feet in size. which IS thought by
the natives to decide the worlds continuance.
An angel with role spun from zepbyrs is
once century TO descend and sweep the hem
Of that robe scross the granite, and when by
that attrition the column is worn away they
say time win end. But by that process that
granite column would be worn out OF exist
fLlC AtANt8 - kltAAFt Att.ll -
give away.
r. a mother tell child he + not good,
sorne bugaboo viii come and catch him. the
fear excited mag make the child a coward,
and the fact that he finds that there is no
hugaboo may make him a liar. and the echo
OF that fai-e alarm may be heard after fifteen
generations have been born and have sx-
pircd II a mother promise child a reward
FOR good behavior and after the good be
bavior forgets 70 give The reward. the cheat
may crop oGt Ia sons faithlessness SEQ years
further on. II mother culturs child's
vanity sad euiCgize his curls and extoi the
night black OF SKY bige CT nuS brown Of the
chiid's eyes. and cal ont i8 bis presence tie
admiration OF sVectato-s. pride and arrogance
nav be Frciorged sftsr half dozen farnily
records have been otasersted II a mother
express doubt about some statement q Tire
Holy Bible in a childs presence. long after
the gates ~ this historical era have closed
a-d the gates o. another era have opened.
sts result naT be seen IN champion bias.
rhemer Rot. On ths other hand. II =
mother Waking vitb child Sc a suffering
one By the wsyslds, anI says, Ny child.
give that ten csns piece 70 that iars hoy.
tie result mar % seen Oh The other side of
the following century in sonie George Muller
building vhols village of orphsnages u
= mother sie siIrost everT everinz BIZ the
t-,,,fle trss - a child anj teach fs leS<orS O