Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-28
ton from the fields. Jefferson from the
EmInent Statesmen From Farms.

fields.
Eminent Statesmen From Farms.
The Presidential martyrs, Garfield and
Lincoln, from the fields. Henry Clay from
the fields Daniel Webster from the field.
Martin Luther from the fields.
Before this world is right, the overfiowing
populations of our crowded cities will have
to take to the fields.
Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to
who shall sell that one apple, we want at
least eight of them to go out and raise ap-
piles. Instead of ten merchants desiring to
sell that one bushel of wheat, we want at
least eight of them to go out and raise
wheat. The world wants now more hard
hands, more bronzed cheeks, more muscular
arms. To the fields. When the shepherd 8
crook was that famous night stood against
the wall of the Bethlehem khan,it was pro-
phecy Of the time when thresher's fail and
farmers plow and woodmans AK and
ox's yoke and sheaf-binder's rake shall
surrender to the God who made the country,
as man made the town.
Behold, Also that on that Christmas night
God honored motherhood. Two angels on
their wings might have brought an infant
Savior to Bethlehem without Mary's being
there at all. When the villagers, on the
morning of December 25 awoke, by divine
arrangement, and in some unexplained way, 4,
the Child Jesus might have been found in
some comfortable cradle of the village. But
no. no.. Motherhood for all time. was to be
consecrated.
Good Mothers of Famous Men.
Inall ages God has honored good mother
hood. John Wesley had good mother; St.
Bernard had a good mother; Samuel Bud
gett, q good mother; Doddridge, a good
mother; Walter Scott. good mother; Benja-
min West, a good mother. In 8 great audi
ence, most of whom were Christians, asked
that ali those who had been blessed of Chris
tian mothers arise, and almost the entire as
portant it is that all motherhood be conse-
Grated.
why did Titan the Italian artist, when he
sketched the Madonna, make it an Italian
face? Why did Rubens, the German artist,
in his Madonna, make it a German facef
Why did Joshua Reynolds, the English art
face? Why did Murillo the Spanish artist
in his Madonna, make it a Spanish face? 1
never heard, but l think they took their
own mothers as the type of Mary. the mother
of Christ. When you hear some one, in SER
mon or oration, speak in the abstract of a
good, faithful, honest mother, your eyes fill
with tears, while You say to yourself, THAT
was nv mother"
The first word a child utters is apt to be
''Mother" and. tho old man, in his dying
dream, calls "Motherl mother!" 1t matters
not whether she was brought up in the sur
roundings of q city, and in aff1uent home,
and was dressed appropriately, with refer
ence to the demands of modern l1fe or
whether she wore the old time cap, and
own make, and knit your socks with her
own needles, seated by the broad fireplace,
with great log ablaze on winter night.
Tribute te the Worlds Madonnas.
1t matters not how many wrinkles crossed
and recrossed her face, or how much her
shoulders stopped with the burdens of a
long life, if you painted q Madonna, hers
would be the face. What a gentle hand
she had when we were sick, and what
voice to soothe pain, and was there any one
who could so fill up room with peace, and
purity and light? And what a sad day that
was when we came home and she could
greet us not, for her lips were forever still.
Come back, mother, this Christmas Day,
and take your old place. and as 10, or 90, or
80 wears ago. come and open the old Biole as
YOU used to: read and kneel in the same
placewhere you used to pray and lookupon us
as of old when You wished us Merry Christ
mas or Happy New Year. But no! That
would not be fair to call you back. You
had troubles enough, and aches enough.
here. Tarry by the throne, mother, till we
join you there: your prayers all answered,
and in the eternal homestead of our God we
shall again keep Christmas jubilee together.
But speak from your thrones, all you glori-
fed mothers. and say to all these, your sons
and daughters, words of love, words of
warning, words of cheer. They need your
voice for they have travelled far and with
many heart break since you left them, and
YOU do well to call from the heights of
heaven to the valleys of earth. Hail, en-
throned ancestry, We are coming. Keep
place right beside you at the banquet.
Slow-footed years! More swiftly run
Into the gold of that unsetting sun.
HOmesic6 we are for thee,
Calm land beyODu the