The Penn's Grove record., 1894-01-19

every large household. Some OF those mothers
never got rested In this world. Instead OF
the sell rocking cradles OF our day, which,
wound up, will go hour after hour for tho
soiace OF the young slumberer, II was Weary
loot on the rocker sometimes half the day or
half the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. In
stead OF our drug stores filled with all the
wonders OF materia medica and called up
through a telephone, with them the only
apothecary short OF four miles ride was the
Rarret, with lis lunches of peppermint and
pennyroyat and catnip and mustard and
to do everything. Just think of IL Fifty
years OF preparing breakfast, dinner
and supper. The chief music they
heard was that of spinning wheel and
rocking chair. Tagged out, headachy and
with ankles swollen. Those old fashioned
mothers-if any persons ever fitted appropri-
ately into a good, easy, comfortable heaven,
they were the folks, and they got there, and
they are rested. They wear no ~spcctacles,
for they have Their third sight AS they lived
long enough on earth to get their second
stght-and they do not have to pant for
breath after going up the the emerald stairs
OF the Eternal palace, ct, whose window they
now sit waiting for news from the battle.
But IL anyone keeps on asking the ques-
tons where's mother?" / answer, 'She's
In your present character" The probability
Is that your physical features suggest her.
II there be seven children in a household at
least six Of them LOOK like their mother, and
the older o get the more you will like
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, N your father you saw only
mornings and nights. There are no years
in any life so important 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 eowardice, for religion
or skepticism. Suddenly start out from be-
hind a door and Brighten the child, and you
may shatter his nervous system for a life
time. During the first ten years you can tell
him enough spook stories to make him a
coward till he dies. Act before him as
though Friday were an unlucky day, and it
were baleful to have thirteen at the table, or
see the moon over the left shoulder, and
he will never recover from the idiotio su-
perstitions. You may give that girl before
she is ten years old a fondness for dress
that will make her a mere dummy FRAME"
or fashion plate, for forty years. Ezekiel
xvi, A, "As is the mother so is her daugh-
ter Before one decade has passed you can
decide whether that boy will be a Shyloek or
a George Peabody. Boys and girls are gen
orally echoes OF fathers and mothers. What
an incoherent thing for a mother out of
temper to punish II child fol- getting
mad, or for a father who smokes to shut
his boy up in q dark closet because he
has found him with an old stump of q
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 ar
ranged as to repeat her form from all sides
The great English posts loose moral char
acter was decided before he left the nursery,
and his schoolmaster in the sehoolroom
overheard this conversation byron, your
mother is a fool" N 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 II, for remember l had rather all
my sons should fill one honorable
grave thar 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 II is always shut against cow
ards" Agripplna, the mother Of Nero, MUIR
deress, you are not surprised that her son
was a murderer. Give that child an over
dose OF catechism, ard make him reolte
verses of the Bible as u punishment, AMI
make Sunday a bore, and he will become a
stout antagonist of Christianity. Impress
him with the kindness and the genlality AMI
the l~oyeliness OF religion. and he will be it,
|~AtRA VI Nht hilAo AZ NtCi-
nifty.
A few days ago right before our express
train on the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road the preceding train had gone down
through a broken bridge, twelve car falling
100 feet INT then consumed. / saw aat only
one span of the bridge was down and all the
other spans were standing. Plan q good
bridge OF morals for your sons and
daughters, but have the first span of ten
n a Jafaatipa and fhrOnOh that tha,, will
crash down, though all the rest keep
standing. o man, o woman, II you have
preserved your integrity and are really
Christian, you nave first of all to THANK
God. and I think next you have to thank
your mother. The most impressive thing at |
the Inauguration OF James A. Garfield as
President OF the United States was that a-
ter 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. II l had time to /
AXE statistics out OF this audience, and | |
could ask what proportion of you who
are Christians owe your salvation under
God to maternal fidelity, l think about
three-fourths OF you would spring to your
regiment to Charlie, one of their comrades.
''What has made the change In your You
used to like sin as well as any of u.s." Pull
ing from his pocket his mothers letter, in
which, after telling OF someeomforts she had
sent him, she concluded, 1--WE are all pray !
ing oryou, Charlie, thar you may be a Chris
TAIN" he said. 'Boy5, 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 BAT /
tleneld, she had the two bad qualities Of be-
ing dissolute and being too fond of personal |
adjournment. The Bible account says. "Her
wise ladies answered her yea. She returned
h--.1lE. Sun.,n 49, - l
Have they not divided the prey-to every
man a damsel or two, to Slsera a prey OF |
colors, a prey of divers eolors OF
neediework, OF divers coiors of needlework |
both sides?'" She makes no anxious |
about the wounded in bat |
lie, about the bloc lshed. about the |
dying, about the dead, about the prlpci- |
pies involved In the battle going on, a 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 1
she thinks most Of Is the bright colors of the |
wardrobes to be captured and the needie- |
work. $40 Sisera u prey of divers colors, a |
prey Of divers colors OF needlework, of divers |
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 conquests |
than the sword. Pointed at one end aud
with an eye at the other, whether of bone or
ivory, as In earliest time or Of bronze. as in |
time or OF steel, as In modern time ; |
whether laborlously fashioned as formerly BIZ |
one hand, or as now, when 40 workmen in
a factory are employed to MAKE the different
parts Of one needle, it Is an instrument d. |
vinely ordered for the comfort, for the
life, for the health. for the %adornment
OF the human race. The eye of the
needle hath seen more domestic
and more gladdenel power !
and more Christian service than any other
eye. The modern sewing machine has in no
wise abolished the needle, but rather en- |
throned 1t. Thank God for the needlework.
from the tine when the Lord Almighty from
the heavens ordered in regard TO the em-
broidered door of the ancient tabernacle.
shalt make a hanging for the door oil
the tent OF blue and purple n scarlet and
fine twined linen wrought with needlework,s
down to the womanly hands which this
in this tabernacle are presenting
for benevolent purposes their needIe-
But there was nothing ex-
cept vanity and worldliness and social splash
In what Slsera's mother said about the nee
diework she expected her son would bring
home from the battle. And I am not sur
prised to lnd that Sisera fought on the
wrong side when his mother at the window
Of my text in that awful exigeney had her