Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-01-31

Is that YOUR physical features suggest her.
| If there be seven children in a household at
( least six of them look like their mother, and
| the older you get the more you will look like
Z her. But speak now especially OF your
| Character and not OF your looks. This IS
! easily explained. During the first ten years
/ of YOUR life YOU were almost all the time
with her, and your father you saw onv
| mornings and nights. There are no years
| in apv life so tmportant for impression as.the
[ first ten. Then and there is the impression
made for virtue or vice, for truth or false
hood for bravery or coTardice, for religion
/ or skepticism. Suddenly start out from be-
| hind a door and frighten the child, and you
/ may shatter his nervous system for life
time. During the first ten years you cantell
! him enough spook stories to make him a
coward till he dies. Act before him as
I though Friday were an unlucky day, and II
/ were baleful to have thirteen at the table, or
/ see the moon over the LEFT shoulder, and
/ he will never recover from the idiotic su-
perstitions- You may give that girl before
I she IS ten years old a fondness for dress
/ that VIII make her a mere dummy frame"
or fashion plate, for forty years. Ezekiel
I xvi, a, "As is the mother so is her dauSh-
| ter" Before one decade has passed you can
decide whether that boy will be a Shyiock or
| q George Peabody, Boys aud girls are gen
| orally echoes OF fathers and mothers. WHAT
an incoherent thing for mother out OF
/ temper to punish a child for getting
a
/ his boy up in a dark closet because he
/ has found him with an old stump of a
| cignr IN his mouth, or ior that mother to
/ rebuke her daughter for staring at
herself too much in the looking glass when
the mother has her own mirrors so ar
ranged az TO repeat her form from all sides
1 The great English poets loose moral char
acter was decided before he left the nursery,
and his schoolmaster in the schoolroom
| overheard this conversation: byron, your
mother is a-fOOl," and he answered, 81
know IT," You can hear all through the
| heroic life of Senator Sam Houston the
words OF his mother when she In the war
| of 1912 put a musket in his hand and said
| There. my son, take this and never
disgrace il, for remember l had rather alt
NV sons should fill one honorable
grave than that one or them should turn his
/ back on an enemy. Go and remember, too,
/ that while the door Of my cottage is open to
| al brave men il is always shut against cow
7 qr .s.n Agrippina, the mother of Nero, mur-
Eafs=s, vou ara not surprised that her son
was a murderer. Give that child an over
/ dose Of catechism, and make him recite
| verses of the Bible 6s a punishment, and
make Sunday bore, and he will become n
stout antagonist OF Christianity. Impress
him with the Kindness and the geniality AMI
| the loveiinass OF religion. AMI he will be its
advocate and eIemp.ar for all time AMI eter-
nifty.
4 few DAYS ago r..at before our express
train on the Louisville AMI Nashville raj
road the preceding train hal gone dOwu
through rrOEen bridge, twelve cars falling
/ 100 feet and then consumed. / saw that only
ouN span O. tine i.ri lgr was down IN all the
n-aar spans wara standing. Pan good
bridge of morals for your sons aul
! daughters. Iut have the first span OF ten
yelrs defective, and through that they will
crash down, though all the rest keep
! t4uaiDr. man, woman. If You have
| preserved your integrity AMI arS really
/ Christian, You have first OF all to thank
Col, and 1 think next you have to thank
your mother The most impressive thing AT
ne inauguration OF James A. Garfield as
President OF the United States was THAI Sf-
I tar he hal taken the oath OF office he turned
round and in the presence of the Supreme
! Court and the Senate OF the United States
kissed his old mother. II 1 had time to
tlse statistics out Of this audience, and l
could ask what proportion OF You who
are Christians owe your salvation under
| God TO maternal fidelity, l think about
rhrae-iourths Of you would spring to your
/ lear VIA! ha! = said the soldiers OF thu
regimen. 90 Charlie, one OF their comrades.
'.FFHlt HHs made the change in you? IOu
g=. 3 to like sin as well as any OF us Pull
| lu, from bis pocket his mothers letter, in
T Ii.h. % O. AZ telling Of some cOmiSrts she hai
-.ut him. she concluded. I'VE are all pray
/ ing .urvou. Cla-.ie, that You may be Chris
en 70" ua-tit. "EDys that's tns sentence.
while sitting at the window Of my text
Watching for news OF her son from the bal
t..Hr.I. -HH Ial the two bad qualities Of be
I ing 6is-l'G.e and being too fond Of personal
! aIurumaLr. the Bi1le account says: Her
wise ladies answered her yea. She returned
/ answer 20 herself: Have they not spel2
Have they urt divided the prey-to every
man q 6lus"I or two, 20 Sisera prey of
lIvar~ e1.grs. a prey OF divers cOlOrs o.
neeiIew0-;. nf divers ro'ors OF needleworl
on both :. ls-: Sls makes no anxious
uusrauge about tn. wounded in bat
! he. about tla bloc leIs !, about the
lying. about tue Head. about the princi-
pies involved i'm the battle going on, \ battle
| so importInt that the stars and the freshs;s
| took part, and the clash Ci swords was an
| swa-a . h- the thunder of the sSies. What
| she thinks most Of is the bright cDlOrs of the
rarIrohas to De captured ani the needle
w1-.-. ''Lo S.7erl prey of divers colors. a
| prey Of divers solOrS Of neeiiework, Of divers
| s7.ors ofueailevork on both sides"
Now neither Sisera's mother nor any ons
..-e can say too much in euloSy OF tnH
| needle. lt has made more useful conqupsts
sHau tine sv0-d. Pointed at one enl an!
with AN ers at the other, whether OF bone or
yorv. as iu earliest time or Of bronze. A. in
P .Tuv'- tfr-n. or Of steel. as in modern time (;
THalG .Lapr.oE-iy fashioned rs formerly uy
| on. hand, ora now. when 100 worSmen ia
| q factory are employed TO make the different
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vInalv urt0Eai for the comfort. for tie
life. for tine health. for the aiOrEmPlt
| of the hUU~n race. The eye OF tls
| u0alHe EGtb seen more domestic
comfort aul more gladdenei povgr-
| ry AMI more Christian service than any other
eve. The modern sewing machine has in NJ
wise abolished the needle, but rather en-
yhrylgd il. Thank God for the needleHOrG.
from the time when the Lord Almighty from
| the heavens ordered in regard to the en-
L 81. ST. i
/ ''Ihou shalt make a hanging for the door OF
tho tent OF blue and purple and scarlet and
fine tW,Eei linen wrought with needlework,"
down TO tho womanly hands which this
winter in this tabernacle are presenting
for benevolent purposes their needle
! work. But there was nothing
I oCpt vanity and worllliness and social splash
in what Ssrra's mother said about the nee
d.swOrE she expected her son would bring
home from the battle. And l am not sur
prisad to find that Sisera fought on the
t-yrOn- side when his mother at the window
of my text in that awful ezigency had her
chief thought on dry goods achievement and
/ social display. God only knows how many
homes have made shipwreck on the ward
robe. And that mother who sits at the win
dow watching for vainClorious triumph oi
- TL.IueTv and fine cOiOCs and domestic pa
gaantry will, after a while, hear as bad news
from her children out in the battle OF life as
N-5-ra's mother heard from the struggle at
But II you stilI press the question. "Wheres
wotlar?' 1 will tell you where size is not,
though once she was there. Some OF you
started with her likeness in your face and
her principles in your soul. But you have
cast her ont That was an awful thing for
you TO- but you have done it. That hard,
grinding dissipated look you never got from
her. II you had seen any one strike her you
would have struck him down without much
care whether the blow was just sufficient or
fatal; but my boy, you have struck hef
d1wu-struCk her innocence from your facs
and struck her principles from your soul.
You struck her down! The tent pin that
Jael drove three times into the skull OF Sisera
was not so cruel rs the stab you have made
more than three times through your mothers
heart. But she is waiting yet, for mothers
are slow TO give up their boys-waiting at
some window, it may be a window on earth
or at some window in heaven. Aud others
may cast you OF. Your wife may seek
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