Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-25

A family that is launched in the
morning with family prayers is well
launched. Breakfast over, the family
scatter, some to school, some to house
hold duties, some to business During
the day there will be thousand pcrils
| abroad-perils of the street car, of the
scaifolding, OF the ungoverncd horse, of
the mlsstc p of the aroused temper, of
the multitudinoIs temptations to do
wrong Somewhere between o'clock
in the morning and 10 o'clock ut night
there may be moment when you will
be in urgent need of God. Beside that,
family prayers will be secular adj
vantage. A father went into the war
to serve his country. His children
stayed and cultivated the farm. His
wife prayed. One of the sons said af-
tcrward: Father is fighting, and we
are digging, and mother is praying"
"Ah" said some one, praying and dig
cling and fighting will bring us out of
our national troubles"
oh" says some man, 81 don't feel
competent to lead my household in
prayer" Well, / do not know that it
is your duty to lead. I think perhaps
it is sometimes better for the mother of
the household to lead. She knows bet
ter the wants of the household. She
can read the Scriptures with more
tender enunciation. She knows more
of God. will put it plainly, and say
she prays better. Oh! these mothers
decide almost everything. Ncro's
mother was murdcress. Lord Byron's
mother was naughty and impious. You
might have guessed that from their
children. Walter SCOTS mother was
fond of poetry. Washington's mother
was patriotic. Samuel Budgets mother
was thorough Christian. ST. Demands
mother was undetermined. So you
might have guessed from their children.
Good men always have good mothers
There may, once in ten or twenty
years, be an exception to the rule, but
it is only an exception. benjamin
Vests mother kissed him after she had
seen his first wonderful sketch with
the pencil. benjamin West afterward
said: THAT kiss made me painter"
A young man received furlough TO
return from the army to his fathers
house. Afterward he took the fur
Tough back to the officer, saying: II
would like to postpone my visit for two
weeks" At the end of the two weeks
he came and got the furlough. He was
asked why he waited. WELL" he re-
Piled "when I left home / told my
mother would be Christian in the
army, and ] was resolved not to go
home until / could answer her first
question" Oh the almost omnipotent
power of the mother. But if both the
father and the mother be right, then
the children are almost sure to be right.
o, young man with cheek flushed
with dissipation. how long is it since
you have been out to your fathers
grave? Perhaps the storms Of the last
few days may have bent the head
stone until it leans far over. You had
better go out and see whether the let.
tering has been defaced You had bet
ter 60 out and see whether the gate Of
the lot is closed. You had better go
out and see if you cannot find a SER
mon in the springing grass o, young
man go out this week and see your
fathers grave. Religion did so much
for our Christian ancestry, are we not
ready this morning to be willing to re-
ceive it into our own households? IL
we do receive it, let it come through
the front door, not through the back
door. In other words, do not let us
it in. There are a great
many families who want to be reli-
gious, but they do not want anybody |
outside to know it. They would be
to death if you caught them
ut family prayers They would not
sing in the worship for fear their
neighbors would hear them. They do |
not have prayers when they have COM
pany.
They do not know much about the |
nobility of the western trapper. A
going along was vertaken by
night and storm, and he entered a
cabin. There were firearms hung up
around the cabin. He was alarmed. |
lie had large amount of money with |
him, but he did not dare to venture out |
into the night and storm He did not |
like the looks of the household After |
awhile the father, the western trapper,
came in, gun on shoulder, and when |
the traveller looked at him he was still |
more affrighted. After awhile the fam |
Ily were whispering together in one
corner of the room, and the traveller
thought 10 himself: ''Oh! now my time |
mas come; wish ] was out in the storm |
and in the night rather than here"
But the swarthy man came up to him
md said: ''Sir, we are a rough
people; we get our living by hunt
ing, and we are very tired when
The night comes; but before we go to
bed we always have habit of reading
4 little out of the Bible and having