The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-09


the sides Of ev9y cradle n which chill
ID rocked beat tire two stsfnities!
Here we have 40 untried. undiseasse,
and unexplored subject. You efSsn hen,
about your influence upon your ehildren-
am NOT talking about thak Whist aboa
your influence upon tho twentieth cent
ury. upon the thirtieth century. upon tn
fortieth century, upon the year two thou
sand. upon the year four thsusand, II Oh
world lasts 80 longi The world stood fou
thousand years before Christ came; Il 4
not unreasonable to suppose fiat it msy
stand -four thousand years aftsr His NJ
rival Four thousand years the worli
swung OF in sin; four thousand years Il
may be swinging back into righteousness
By the ordinary rate Of multiplication ol
the worlds pOpui ation, In q century you
descendants will be over six hundred, and
BY two centuries at least over one hun.
cred thousand. perhaps two hundred thou
sand. and upon every one Of them you.
the mother Of today, will have IN ln1u'
ence for good or evil. And IL in two
centuries your descendants shall have
with their names filled . scroll of hun.
dreds Of thousands. will some angel
from Heaven to whom Is given the
capacity to calculate the number
Of the stars Of Heaven and the sands of
the seashore, step down and tell rs how
many descendants you will have in the
four thousandth year Of the worlds pos.
sible continuance! Do not let the grand.
mothers any longer think that they are
retired, and sit clear hack out of sight
from the world. feeling that they have no
po1A kfnv~ - - 4. -
century are to-day in the senates, the
parliaments the palaces, the pulpits, the
banking houses, the professional chairs,
the prisons, the almshouses, the company
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 Importance Of
getting these two little feet OF the
right path. You have been thinking of
your child's destiny for the next eighty
years, il it should pass on to be an octo-
genarian. That is well, but my subject
sweeps a thousand years. million years,
Quadrillion of years. can not stop at
one cradle, am look ing at the cradles
that reach all round the worl1 and across
all time. I am not talking Of Mother
Eunice, I am talking of Grandmother
Lois. Tho 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 il. Running along with
1t We can not appreciate the force. In
maternal influence we gen.
orally run along with It down the stream
of time, and SO we don't understand the
full force. Let US come mp 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
The difference between that
influences on her children now
and the influence when it has been multi
piled in hundreds of thousands Of lives is
the difference between the Mississippi
river way up at the top of the con tinent, ,
starting from the little Lake ltasca, 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
in, and the Ohio pours in.
and the Arkansas pours in, and the Red
and White and Yazoo rivers pour In, and
all the States and Territories between the
and Rocky mountains make
Now, in order to test the
power Of mothers influence, we need to
come in of the ocean of eternity and sail
mp towards the one cradle, and we will
flnd 10000 tributaries of influence pour.
ing in and pouring down.
But it Is, after all, one great river Of
power rolling on and rolling forever.
Who can fathom it! Who can bridge IL:
Who can stop it? Had not mothers better
be intensifying their prayers! Had they
not better be elevating their examplel
Had they not better be rousing them.
selves with consideration that by their
or neglect they are starting
an influence which will be stupendous
after the last mountain of earth is fat
and the last sea has been dried
up, and the last flake of the ashes
Of consumed world shall have
been blown away, and all the telescopes
Of other worlds directed to the track
around which our world once swung shall
discover not SO much as . cinder of the
and swept-oR planet. In
Ceylon there is q granite column thirty.
Z square feet in size, which IL thought
BY the natives to decide the worlds con.
tinuance. An angel, with robe spun from
zephyrs, is once q century to descend and
sweep the hem of that robe across the
granite, and when by that attrition the
is worn away they say time will
end. But by that process that granite
col umn would be worn out Of existence
before mothers influence will begin to
3 i've away.
II mother tell child 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 liar,
and the echo of that false alarm may be
heard after fifteen generations have been
born and have expired. II Q mother prom.
Use child . reward for good behavior,
and after the good behavior forgets to
give the reward. the cheat may crop out
in some faithlessness half . thousand
years further on. II . mother culture a
rhild's vanity, and eulogise his curis, and
sxtol the night.b black, or sky. blue. or nut.
brown Ct the child's eyes, and call out in
his presence the admiration of spectators,
pride and arrogance may be prolonged
after half dozen family records have
been obliteratsd. II q mother express
1oubt about some statement of the Holy
Bible in a child's pre- 'ence, long after the
yates of this historical era have closed and
The gates Of another era have opened,
he result may be seen in q champion
But on the other hand. IL q
mother walking with . child see Q suffer.
ng one by the wayside and says: my
child, give that ten-cent piece to that
anne boy" the result may be seen on the
,ther side OF the following century in
some George Mullen building . whole
village of orphanayes II mother sit al
most every evening by the trundle bed Of
, child and teach 1t lessons.of Saviour's
Of the importance Of truth and
he horror OF q lie, and the virtues Of in.