The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-28

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ward has sometimes deprived even mothers
OF their mounting power. In the mid
die Of the road opposite my childhood
home the demure cat would sit, and the
swallows that played above and around
the barns gable thought II sport TO sweep
down and vie with one another in daring
the nearest approach to the soft beast OF
prey, SO quiet except for rolling, schem-
ing eye, but underneath the fur we
know that every muscle was tense for
a spring. There were csllow things up
IN the barn root deeply interested, though
they knew IL not, in the result OF the
play outside in the sunshine. Their
little lives depended on the feeding that
perhaps never came to them from the TOO
daring parents without, and sometimes
we picked up from the barn floor the
dead prophecy OF something that strug-
gled too soon out of the nest TO find food
for itself.
HOW SWEET THE YOUNG MOTHER Is,
with her strange. new, winsome Ian
guage, and absorbed face, and marvel
ously sharp ears, that lead her to inter
rupt conversation at the table with
the remark, MY dear, think the baby
is crying" May she remember also that
the central idea OF her life must bo the
revelation to the child of the motherhood
OF God.
The young mother is proud OF her baby.
Is she proud OF him when he IS fourteen.
Does her pride begin 10 wane at just the
time II should begin TO grow? That this
child is at birth well-rounded little
darling tipping the scales where the
weight is read In two figures, may be
matter OF some credit TO her. But the
question 10: what is he at twenty?
Twenty years, not pounds. Humanity
weighed by the manner in which II
goes up, not down. A son OF God is test
ed by his aspiration after his Father In
heaven. Boys weigh too much at twenty
and their mothers are not then so proud
OF the besetting sins that cling to them.
They have taken on too much, and on
the mother rests the task OF attaching
wings, not weights God gives 10 most
children preacher more persuasive
than they hear in church. OH
MAKE THE BOY FLY UPl
Plan the girls life so that it shall be
seen to depend not On the blush oftwerty,
but on the eternal glory OF righteousness,
and the beauty OF face where on the sun
tints OF heaven have photographed q re-
production Of the Christ.
III you have become little callous TO
the source of what is best in you, let US
gather up these scattered threads OF
thought and wind them around our
hearts.
i. Our mothers were Young once.
z. To some one cur own mother
seemed beautiful. IL is an honor we can
do him to see beauty in her still.
3. Most Of us are deeply in debt to
God for a other-yes, to have lived is a
blessing to be grasped at, under almost
any circumstances. And mon who have
cursed their mothers, and hated the days
OF their birth have sometimes been un-
Willingly links in the line of ancestry
that has blessed the race since.
All mothers now are survival OF
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descent, and how innumerable they are;
and how every man today Is a chosen one
of God from thousand generations; the
only surviving branch, In many cases,
preserved through your mother tor life
in the best century of the world.
8. Only q mother can know how much |
ycur life is worth what Ii ought to reach;
what there is behind it, when We think
1t is without meaning.
o. Our life is the product OF the gath |
cred gifts OF our mother. The best of her |
life has been given for us-its pain, its
work, its thought. Such as we are, here |
We are, with enough material rightly |
used, for great results Some of the poor |
est painters have the best facilities. The |
raw material is cheap to US, but II is ex-
pensive TO others, and there is none 80
poor that he has not the making of a
man in his soul, or In God, ready to be
given him.
Now this mother-spiirt is not confined
to mothers, nor to women;
ONLY 1T is BEST SEEN IN THEM.
What is in a good mother is just faint
glimpse of the motherhood OF Coda
side light of His character. 1t is the care
taking spirit. This was what Paul found |
in Lydia, the seller OF purple. / have said |
hat she supported the church, for the |
worship was in her house She took up |
the care OF the church. God gave her |
he means to do 1t and she did not offer |
1t merely, but she besought the disciples |
for the privilege.
This spirit appears In founding |
asylums. II some mother is recreant |
some other does more than her part. IL |
appears in hospitals, In the fresh-sir fund |
idea, In day nurseries, in the Red Cross |
Society, organized, or as just pure ma
ture, where the soldier boy looked up
and thought:
'was that plying face his mothers? Did
she watch beside her child?
All his strange words with meaning her
woman's heart supplied.
With her kiss upon his forehead, Mother
murmured he, and diedl"
II is worth while for q woman 10 live
for reward IKE this-to be a source of |
consolation, TO save life unto
eternity, and TO receive the homage OF q
world which she has blessed.
Mother,
THE WOMEN WHO HAVE MOULDED THE
WORLD,
he women who nave loved longest, the |
women who reigned in life and were On
shrined in death, the women who were |
centers OF Joy and blessing, the women
whom men loved best were best loved OF |
God Oh, womanl fidelity and devotion |
10 the everlasting Father will give you |
the everlasting fidelity and devotion OF |
menl
1t is worth noticing that after Lydia
entered the church her fam lily followed |
her. "Sho was baptized, and her house
hold. y IL is the first privilege OF mot hers |
to feed their children, We read that they |
brought little children to Jesus that be |
might touch them. Who brought themY |
The mothers, OF course. They desired |
their children TO drink in the water OF |
life. They had not reached the view OF |
some modern mothers that II was better |
TO wait until the children could choose |
for themselvs. l have met a considera bic |
mber of mothers who told me with an |
mir OF wisdom that they never sought to |
influence their children about religionl |
Suppose the mother OF a little babe