West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-03-08
A MOTHERS INFLUENCE.
SERMON BY REV. DIR TALMAGE.
he SHOWS How Mothers Treatment
anu Teaching of the Child viii
Crop Out.

In this love letter which Paul. the old
minister, is writing 10 Timothy, the young
minister, the family record is brought out
Paul practically says: Timothy. what n
good grandmother you had. You ought 10
be better than most folks, because not only
was your mother good. but your grand
mother. Two preceding generations OF
piety ought 10 give you n mighty
push in the right direction The
nat was that Timothy needed encourage.
ment He was poor in health, having weak
stomach, and was dyspeptc, and Paul pre-
scrloed Tor him tonic, "a little wine for thy
etonachs sake'-not much wine. but little
WINE, and only as n medicine. And If the
WINE then had been as much adulterated with
iogwood and strychnine as our modern wines
ne would not have prescribed any.
But timothy, not strong physically is en-.
couraged spiritually by the recital of grand
notheriy excellence, Paul limiting TO him, as
hint this day to you, that God sometimes
gathers up ms IN reservoir away back of the
S g,,h generations of today godly in
nuence and then in response IN PRAYER lets
noMn the power upon children AMI grand
children and great grandchildren Tho
world is woefully in want of a table
OL STATISTICS In regard TO what il
tne protractedneSS and immensity ofinfluenco
OF one good woman i'm the church and world
we have accounts of how much evil hns
been wrought by Margaret, the mother of
criminals, who lived near hundred years
ago, and OF how many hundreds OF Grim
tnals her descendants furnished for the neni.
tentlary and the gallows and how mnny
thousands of dollars they cost this countrv
IN Their arrangement and prison support
i % wen as IN the property they burg
hrized or destroyed But will not
some one come out with brain compre-
henslVe enough and heart warm enough and
pen Keen enough TO give US the facts i'm re
gaIG 20 some good woman of hundred
years ago, and let us know how many Chris
tan men and women and reformers and use.
iul people have been found among her do
scendants, and how many asyiums and COZ.
reyes ana churches they built, and how many
millions OF dollars they contributed for mn
manltarian and Christian purposesl
Inc good women whose tombstones were
planted in the 18th century are more alive
ior good in the 18th century than they were
peLore, as the good women OF this 18th cent
ury VIII be more alive for good in the 10Th
century than now. Mark you, / have no
iuea that the grandmothers vero nuv
netter than their granldaughters. You canuo,
~. very Oh people TO talk much about how
nnlngs were when they were bows md Girls
Ihey have reticence and ion-comnittol-
ISM which makes me think they feel them
selves 10 be the custodianS of the reprrntion
OF thelr early comrades. While our dear Old
RlkS are rehearSing the follieS of the t,rasa,,t
you put them on the witness stand mi
cross examine them as to how things were
seventy years ago the silence becomes op-
pressiVe "
A celebrated Frenchman by the name NJ
NoIhey' visited this country in 1896, and he
says OF womans diet in those times: "If n
premium were offe. ed for n regimen most
destructive TO health, none could be devised
more erncaclous for these ends than that in
use among these people" That eclipses
our lobster salad at midnight Every
Dody talks about the designations of
modern society md how WON. MY
health goes down under it, but It was worse
Tr muno' ' years ago, for the chaplain OF
French regiment in our Revolutionary War
WIote In llS!, in his book of American
women, saying: "They are tall and vii
proportional. their features are renernIlv
Iesu.aI, theif complexions are generally fair
ana wlthout color. At twenty years Of oore
Inc women have no longer the freshness Of
youth At thirty or forty they are de-reDit
IN lSlS a foreign consul wrots n book en-.
.;tled; "A Sketch of tho United States at
the Commelice mant Of the Present Centurv y
and he says of tho women OF those time.
AT the age Of thirty MI their chrrIls have
dis ppearet." One glance ut the portraits Of
the wo nan q hu dret years ago and their
style OF dress makes us wonder how they ever
got tleir breath. All tn 5 makes mo think
that tho express riii train is 70 more an i'm
provement ON the oil nal uult or the
telegraph no more an Improvement on tn.
old-time saddlebaSs, than the women OF our
DAY are an Improvement on the women of
the last century.
But still, notwithstanding, TINT tboso .i,o..
were so much worse than ours, there was
glorious race of goiIy women, seventy and n
hundred years ago, who held the world back
rom SIN and intel it toward virtue and
M4thout tEelr exalted and sanctifed influence
before his the last good influence wouId havo
heiIshei from the earth. Indeed all over
TINS land there are seated to.dov
not 50 much in churches, for many
elIen are TOO feeble TO come
great many aged grandmothers Tbe,-
sometimes feel that the world has gone INST
tneIn, and they have an idea they arc of
ntt!e account Their head sometimes pets
aacnlng from the racket Of the grandchildren
uownataiTs or m the next room They st,e,i,.
themselves by the bauisters as they GO M, ana
uo"n. when they get q cold H. hangs ON to
them longer than il used &C. They cannot
Dear TO have the grandchildren punished
even when they deserve il. and bote
30 relaxed their ideas OF famiiv
discipline that they would snoiI all the voupo
s srs OF the household by too great Ienienc99
heSe old folks are the resort when great
Iouoles come, and there is a calniucs and
spOthlng power IN the touch Of an aged hand
s s,lo' - almost supernatural They feel thev
80 almost through with the journey Of
ne ana read re oh book more than
tney used TO- hardly knowing which most
.ney enjoy. the Old Testament or Tine
Wv ana often stop and dwell tcaTfullv
Yer tne family record half way hetwe m.
we bail them to day whether I'm ale hone ~
80 OF AZ the homestead. Blessed is that
m9usenoid that has in 10 a gran mother lois
~ mere she ls angels are lowering round aud
1fi-- ~ -iA iir i"'ii. Alty ncr last days bo
Indian summer. "
never knew the Joy Of having Grand.
mo hei. THAT b. The Ii.ai. antige oil be7n9 tho
yOungest child Of the family Tho Older
uemuers only have that Leuadiafiou Eut
thOuEn shg went mp out Of this life before /
Degan u, have hoard Of her faith i'm God
tnat brought Oh her children into tho KING.
0 et aLd t"c .hem INTO fhe mini-trv. nId
thth Drought oil Her gIanichildre1 into
tno kingdom, myself tho Iast md
least worthy. ls be not time tbat
you ana ] do two things swing opa1 "a
picture gallery II the wrinkl.d faces and
stoOpel shoulders of the past and call down
ron their heavenly thrones thc goIly grand
mothers - give them orr thanks. and tbeu
persuade The mothers OF today that fhev arc
hyin2 Tor all time. and that against the eides
"a every cradle Boo which chilli h. rocked
beat the two cteruit.s
mere we have an uutried unlicensed ord
hne1p.ored subject. You often hear aSruf
your Influence uro1 vou- ch.Iaran-T am roa
lahint about tn7t What about 1our innu.
enc W~u i1e twentieth century. uuon fh1
ulft en- injury ufon The forfeit century.
uL'h tne year tE1 f-uarI. rpou
- 'nnT Ih1 world stool four thousand
year before Christ came t iq az
uH le9nnD.a o. rIuUras That d. may
stand four thoIslnI yalrs af.es fis arr'v at
Fpuf thDut1ul II 1rs The world ra.uUa az Hu
fin, To- ~ thyf1ul yolrs 10 may ba sor.u-i4,
Ht.h luIp rirI o-reur.s By tho ordinary
fatc ~ multiplication OF tba so.lI.e pgprIq
tipD fn century your dreauJanfe will
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