Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-02-01

4 sistent thing for a mother out OF TEN
! per to punish child for getting mad
or for father who smokes to shut bis
/ boy up in dark closet because he has
| found him with an old stump of cigar
in his mouth; or for that mother to re
bule her daughter for staring at her.
self 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 poet 5
| loose moral character was decided be-
fore he left the nursery, and his school
master. in the school room, overheard
this conversation: Byron, your moth
er is a fool, and he answered, Il know
| it." Iou can hear through all the he
4 role life of Senator Sam Houston the
words of his mother, when she, in the
/ war of 1872, put musket in his hand,
and said: There, my son, take this,
and never disgrace it, for, remember, !
had rather all my sons should fill one
! honorable grave than that one of them
should turn his back on an enemy. Go,
and remember, that while the door OF
my cottage is open to all brave men.
1t is always shut against towards.
| Agrippina the mother of Nero. a muir
deress. YOU are not surprised that her
son was a murderer.
Give that child an overdose of cate
chism. and make him recite verses Of
the Bible as punishment, and make
Sunday a bore, and he win become a
stout antagonist of Christianity. I'm
press him with the kindness and the
| geniality and the loneliness of religion
and he win be its advocate and eXem-
plar for all time and eternity. A few
days ago. rig 1T before ourexpress train
| on the Louisy lie x Nashville railroad
the preceding train had gone down
through bro zen bridge twelve cars
falling hun lred feet and then con-
sumed | saw that only one span Of
the bridge was down and the other
spans were standing. Plan good
bridge of morals for your sons and
daughters. blt have the first span of
ten years defective and through that
they will crash down, though all the
rest keep standing. o, man! O, wo'
man. If you have preserved your integ'
rity and are really Christians, you havu
first of all to thank God, and | think
next you have to thank your mother.
The most impressive thing at the in
auguration 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 pres
ence of the supreme court and the SEN
ate of the United States, kissed his old
mother. If had time to take Stats
ties out of this audience, and | could
ask what proportion of you who are
Christians owe their salvation under
God to maternal fidelity, think about
three fourths of you would spring to
your feet. "Elal 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 u.s." Pulling from his pocket
his mothers letter, in which, after
telling of some comforts she had sent
him, She concluded: "We are praying
for you, Charlie, that you may be a
Christian" he said: ''Boys, that's the
sentence
The trouble with Sisera' mother was
that while sitting at the window of my
icAl MatNhllS III iCHo Vi iiti sun a. Oth
the battlefield, she had the two bad
qualities of being dissolute and being
too fond of personal adornment- Tho
Bible accounts say: "Her wise ladies
answered her, yea, she returned an.
swer to herself: Have they not sped+
Have they not divided the prey; to
every man damsel or two: to Sisera
prey of divers colors, prey 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; battle so important
that the stars and the freshets took
part, and the clash of swords was an.
swered by the thunder of the skies
What she thinks most of is the bright
colors of the wardrobes to be captured,
and the needle work. To Sisera a prey
of divers eolors, prey of divers eolors
of needlework, of divers colors of
needl ework 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
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 Pliny's time,
or of steel, as in modern time; whether
laboriously fashioned as formerly by
one hand, or as now, when a hundred
worlSmen in factory are employed to
make the different parts of one needle
1t 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 has
seen more domestic comfort and more
gladdened poverty, and more Christian
service than any other eye. The mod
ern sewing machine has in no wise
abolished the needle. but rather en-
throned it. Thank God for the needle |
work, from the time when the Lord |
Almighty from the heavens ordered in |
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