Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-27

down. When they get a cold 1t hangs
| onto them longer than 1t used to. They
cannot bear to have the grandchildren
/ punished, even when they deserve It, and
have so relaxed their ideas of family dis
cipline that they would spoil all the
youngsters Of tie household by too great
lenieEcy. These old folks are the resort
when great troubles come, and theye is 2
calming and soothing power in
the touch OF IN aged hand
that is almost supernatural. They
feel they are almost through with the
journey OF life and resd the old book more
| than thsy used 10, hardly knowing which
most they enjoy, the Old Testament or
the New, and often stop and dwell tear
falIy over the family record half Wsy be-
tween. We hail them to day whether in
the house of God or at the homestead.
Blessed is that household that has In it d
grandmother Lois. Where she is angels
are lowering round and God is in the
rocm. May her last days be like those
LOVELY AUTUANAL DAYS
that we call Indian summer.
never knew the joy of having grand
mother; that is the disadvantage of being
the youngest child of the family. The
elder members only have that benedlc-
ton. But though she went up out OF this
| life before l began it, l have heard
Of her faith in GOO, thkt
brought all her children into the
kingdom and two Of them into the min
! istTY, and then brought ell her grand
children into the kingdom, myself the last
and least worthy. Is it not time that you
and do two things, swing open picture
gallery Of the wrinkied faces and stopped
shoulders Of the past, snd 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 tnat against the
sides of every cradle in which a child is
rocked beat the two eternities.
Here We have an untried, undiscussed
and UNEMPLOYED subject. You often hear
about your influence upon your own
chfldren-I an not talking about that.
What about your influence upon the
Twentieth Century, upon the Thirtieth
Century, upon the Fortieth Century
upon the yesr 1000, upon the year 1000.
If the world lasts so long. The world
stood 1900 years before Christ came; II
is not unreasonable to suppose that it may
stand 1000 years after his arrival. -Four
Thousand years the world swung of IN
sin, 1000 years it may be swinging back
into Righteousness. By the ordinary rate
OF multiplication, of the worlds popula-
ton in a century your descendants will be
over 600, and by two centuries at least
over 100, 900, perhaps 100000, and upon
every one of them you, the mother of to-
day, will have sn influence for good OF
evil. And if in two centuries your de-
scendants shall have with their names
FILLED 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 sesshorei
step down and tell us how many descend
ants you will have in the 4000lt
year of the worlds possible continuance
Do not let the grsndmothers any longer
think that they are retired, and sit Clesl
back out Of sight from the world, feeling
that they have no relation to il. The
mothers of the last century sre to-day II
the senates, the parlisments, the pslsces
the pulpitE, the banking houses, the pro
iessional chairs, the prisons, the aims.
houses, the company Of midnight bri-
gsnds, the cellars, the DIT hes of this
century. You have been thinking abou
tee Importance of having the right ir6u-
ence upon one nursery You have beef
thinking Of the Importance Of getting
those two little feet on the right path
, You have been thinking Of your child!
destiny for the next eighty years, il i
should pass on to be an octogensrisn
Thst is well, but my subject sweeps
thousand years, million years, q quadrll
lion CT years. l cannot stop at ont
cradle, an looking at the cradles ths
reach all round the world and across al
time. am not talking Of mother Eunice
, am talking Of grandmother Louis. Tn;
only way you can tell the force Of cur
) rent is tY sailing up stream; or the fore
of an ocean wave, by running the shil
against it. Running along with 1t W,
cannot appreciate the force. In estimat'
) ing maternal influence we generally rur
along with it down the stream Of time
and so we don't understand the full force
, Let us come up to It from the eternity
side, after it has been working on TO
, centuries, and see all the good it has don
! and all the evil it has accomplished null
tiplied in magnificent or appalling com
q pound interest. The difference between
, that mothers influence on her childrel
, now and the influence when it has beef
. multiplied in hundreds Of thousand
! of lives, is tie difference betWeel
the Mississippi river way up q
p the top of the continent startin:
from the little lake Itaeca, seven mile
2 long and one wide, and its mouth st IN
Cult of Mexico, where ngvies might ride
Q Between TIL birth OF that river and 1t
burial in the ses the Missouri pours In
. and the OHIO pours in. and the Arkansa
? pours in, and the Red and White ant
. Yazoo rivers pour in, and all the state
. and terrific lies between the Alleghan
\ aud Rocky mountains make contribution
4 NV, in order to test the power Of
i MOTHERS INFLUENCE,
e we need to come in Of If he ocean G
eternity and Sail up towsrd the one cradle
: and we will fad ten thousand tributsrie
+ of influence pouring in and pouring
r down. But 1t is after ell one crest rive
i of power rolling on and rolling forever
Who can fathom itP Who can bridge II
Who can stop M Had not mothers Del
~ ter be intensiiying their prayersH Hs
/ they not better be elev.ting their exsm
t pie? Had they not better be rousin
: Themselves with the considerable
e that by their t4ithfulness or neg
= lect they are starting an II
e fiuence which Will be stupendou
d sitter the last mountain of earth is is
IS and the last Sea has been dried up, Sd
/ the last fake of the ashes of q consume