Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-17

perstitions. You may give that girl be-
fore she is 10 years old fondness for
dress that will make her mere 'dum-
my frame" or fashion plate, for 40
years. Ezekiel xvi, Al, "As is the mother
30 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 a child for getting
mad, or for a father who smokes to shut
bis boy up in a dark closet because he
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 sidesl The great English poet 8
loose moral character was decided be-
fore he left the nursery, and his school
conversation: Byron, your mother is
fool" and he answered, II know it. p"
You can hear through all the heroic life
of Senator Sam Houston the words of
his mother when she in the war of 1919
put a musket in his hand and said:
There, my son, take this and never
disgrace it. for remember l had rather
all my sons should fill one honorable
grave than that one of them should turn
his back on an enemy. Go and remem-
Der, too, that while the door of my cot
tage is open to all brave men it is al
ways shut against towards" Agrip-
pima, the mother of Nero, murderess,
you are not surprised that her son was
a murderer. Give that child an over
dose of catechism, and make him recite
verses of the Bible as a punishment,
and make Sunday bore, and he will
become a stout antagonist of Chris
tianity. Impress him with the kindness
and the geniality and the loveliness Of
religion, and he will be its advocate
and exemplar for all time and eternity.
A few days ago right before our ex-
press train on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad the preceding train had
gone down through broken bridge, 10
cars falling 100 feet and then con-
sumed, saw that only one span of the
bridge was down and all the other spans
were standing. Plan good bridge of
morals for your sons and daughters,
but have the first span of 10 years de-
fective, and through that they will crash
down, though all the rest keep stand
ing. o man. o woman, if you have
preserved your integrity and are really
Christian, ycu have first Of all to thank
God, and think next you have to
thank your mother. The most impress
I've 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 supreme 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 maternal fidelity, think about
three-fourths of you would spring to
your feet. ''Ha! hal'' 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 sho had sent him,
she concluded, I'VE are all praying for
you, Charlie, that you may be Chris
tian," he said, Boys, that's the SEN
tence.
THE NEEDLE ENTHRoNED.
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, prey of divers colors
of needlework, of divers colors of nee
dlework on both sides?' -. She makes
no anxious utterance about the wound
ed in battle, about the bloodshed, about
the dying, about the dead, about the
principles involved in tine battle going
on, battle so important that the stars
and the freshets 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 prey of divers colors, prey of
divers colors Of needlework. 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. 1t has made more useful
than the sword. Pointed at
one end and with an eye at the other,
whether of bone or ivory, as in earliest
lime; or of bronze, as in Pliny's time;
or of steel, as in modern time; whether
fashioned as formerly by
one hand, or as now, when 100 work
men in a factory are employed to make
he different parts OF one needle, 1t is
IN instrument divinely ordered for the
comfort, for the life. for the health, for
he adOrnmept of the human race. The |