Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-01-19

mother so is her daughter" Before
one decade has passed you can decide
whether that boy shall be a Shylock or
a George Peabody. Boys and girls are
generally echoes of fathers and
mothers. What an incoherent thing
for mother out of temper to punish
child for getting mad, or for father
who smokes to shut his boy up in a
| dark closet because he has found
him with an old stump of cigar
in his mouth; or for that mother
to rebuke her daughter for staring at
herself too much in the looking glass,
when the mother has her own mirrors
SO arranged as to repeat her form
from all sides The great English POI
cts loose moral character was decided
before he left the nursery, and his
schoolmaster in the school room over
heard this conversation: byron, your
mother is fool" and he answered, 81
know it." You can hear through all
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
Der had rather all my sons should I'LL
one honorable grave than that one of
| them should turn his back on an enemy.
Go and remember, too, that while the
door of my cottage is open TO all brave
men, it is always shut against cow
ards" Agrippina, the mother of
Nero murderess, you are not sur
prised that her son was murderer
Give that child an overdose of cate
chism, and make him recite verses of
the bible as punishment, and make
Sunday bore, and he will become
stout antagonist of Christianity. I'm
press him with the kindness and the
geniality and the loneliness of religion
! and he will be its advocate and exem-
plar for all time and eternity. A few
days ago right before our express train
on the Louisville & Nashville railroad
the preceding train had gone down
through broken bridge, twelve cars
falling a hundred feet and then con-
sumed. / saw that only one span of
the bridge was down and all the other
spans were standing. Plan a good
bridge of morals for your sons and
daughters but have the first span of
ten years defective and through that
they will crash down, though all the
rest keep standing. Oh man! Oh
woman! if you have preserved your
integrity and are really Christian,
you have first of all to thank
God, and l think next you have to
thank your mother. The most impress
sive thing at the Inauguration of
James A. Garfield, as President of the
United States, was that after he had
taken the oath of Office he turned
round, and in the presence of the SUI
preme court and the senate of the
United States, kissed his old mother
If had time TO take statistics out of
this audience, and could ask what
proportion of you who are Christians
owe your salvation under God to ma
ternal fidelity, l think about three
fourths of you would spring TO your
feet. "Ha! haw said the soldiers of
the regiment to Charlie, one of their
comrades, What has made the change
in you? you used to like sin as well as
any of us" Pulling from his pocket
his mothers letter in which. after tell
ing of some comforts she had sent him,
she concluded: I'VE are all praying
for you, Charlie, that you may be a
Christian" he said, Boys, that's the
sentence"
The trouble with Sisera' S mother was
that while sitting at the window of my
text watching for news of her son from
the battlefield. she had the two bad
qualities of being dissolute and being
too fond of personal adornment. The
bible account says Her wise ladies
answered her, yea, she returned
answer to herself: Have they not
sped? Have they not divided the prey;
to every man damsel or two to Sisera
a prey of divers colors a prey of divers
colors of needleworll, of divers colors
of needlework on both sides?" She
makes no anxious utterance about the
wounded in battle, about the blood
shed, about the dying, about the dead,
about the principles involved in the
battle going on; a battle so important
that the stars and the freshcts took
part, and the clash of swords was
answered by the thunder of the skies.
What she thinks most of is the bright
colors of the wardrobes to be captured,
and the needlework. ITO Sisera a
| prey of divers colors, n prey of divers
colors of needleworlS, of divers colors
| of needlework on both sides"
Now neither Sisera's mother nor any
one else can say too much in eulogy of
! the needle. it has made more useful
conquests than the sword. Pointed at
one end, and with an eye at the other,
whether of bone or ivory as in earliest
time, or of bronze, as in Piiny's time,
or of steel as in modern time; whether
.laboriously fashioned as formerly by
one hand. or as now, when hundred
workmen in a factory are employed to
make the different parts Of one needle.
it is an instrument divinely ordered
for the comfort, for the life, for the
health, for the adornment of the hui
man race The eye of the needle hath
seen more domestic comfort and more
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