Connecticut western news., 1896-07-23

--EzSvvS0yyy y one garment for Samuel The Lord have mercy on the man who is so unfortunate as to have had lazy motherl
 Her Intelligence.
 Again, Hannah stands before you to- day as an intelligent mother. From the way in which she talked in this chapter, and from the way she managed this boy. you know she was intelligent There are no persons in community who need to be so wise and well in- formed as mothers Oh. this work of culturing children for this world and the nexti This child is timid, and it must be reused up and pushed out into activities This child is forward, and he must be held back and tanned down into modesty and politeness. Rewards for one. punishments for another. That which will make George will ruin John. The rod is necessary in one case, while a frown of displeasure Is more than enough in another. Whipping and 8 dark closet do not exhaust all the rounds of domestic discipline. There have been children who have grown up and gone to glory without ever having their ears boxed Oh, how much care and intelligence are necessary in the rearing of childreni But in this day, when there are so many books on this subject, no parent is excusable in being ignorant of the best mode of bringing up a child. If parents knew more of dietetics, there would not be so many dyspeptio stom- aohs, and weak nerves, and inactive Eiv- CTS among children. If parents knew more of physiology, there would not be so many curved spiDes and cramped chests, and infiamed threats, and dis eased lungs as there are among children If parents knew more of art and were in sympathy with all that is beautiful, there would not be so many children coming out in the world with boorish proclivities If parents knew more of Christ and practiced more of his reli- zion, there would not be so many little feet already starting on the wrong road. and all around us voices of riot and blasphemy would not come up with such ecstasy of internal triumph
 The eaglets in the eyrie have no ad- vantage over the eaglets of thousand years ago The kids have no superior way of climbing up the rocks than the old goats taught them hundreds of years ago The whelps know no more now than did the whelps of ages ago. They are taught no more by the lions of the desert But it is a shame that in this day. when there are 90 many opportu- mites of improving ourselves in the best manner of culturing children, that so often there is no more advancement in this respect than there has been among the kids and the eaglets and the whelps.
 Her Christian Character.
 Again. Hannah stands before you to- day as Christian mother. From her prayers and from the way she oonse- cIated her boy to God know she was good A mother may have the finest cul- ture, the most brilliant surroundings, but she is not fit for her duties unless she be Christian mother. There may be we'll read libraries in the house, and exquisite music in the parlor, and the canvas of the best artist adorning the walls, and the wardrobe be crowded with tasteful apparel, and the children be wonderful for their attainments and make the house ring with laughter and innocent mirth, but there is something woefully lacking in that house if it be not also the residence of a Christian mother I bless God that there are not many prayerless mothers. The weight of responsibility is 90 great that they feel the need of a divine hand to help and divine voice to comfort and di- vine heart to sympathize Thousands of mothers have been led into the king dom of God by the hands of their little children. There are hundreds of moth CTS today who would not have been Christians had it not been for the pratt tie of their little ones Standing some day in the nursery, they bethought themselves: ''This child God has given me to raise for eternity. What Is my influence upon it? Not being Christian myself, how can l ever expect him to become Christian Lord. help mel"
 Oh, are there anxious mothers who know nothing of the infinite help of re- ligion2 Then l commend to you Han- nah, the pieus mother of Samuel Do not think it is absolutely impossible that your children come Hp iniquitous Out of just such fair brows and bright eyes and soft hands and innocent hearts crime gets it's victimsEextirpating pu- rity from the heart and rubbing out the smoothBess from the brow and quench- ing the luster of the eye and shriveling up and poisoning and putFefying and scathing and scalding and blasting and burning with shame and woe.
 Every child is a bundle of tremendous possibilities And whether that child shall come forth in life, its heart attuned to the eternal harmonies, and after Q life of usefulness on earth. 20 to a life of joy in heaven, or whether across it shall jar eternal discords, and after . life of wrongdoing on earth it shall go to a home of impsnetrahle darkness and an abyss of immeasurable plunge-is be- ing decided by nursery song and Sab bath lesson and evening prayer and walk and ride and look and frown and
 smile, Oh, how many children in glory, crowding ali the battlements and lifting a million voiced hosanna. brought to God through Christian parentagei One hundred and twenty clergymen were together, and they were telling their experience and their ancestry, and of the one hundred and twenty clergymen, how many of them, do you suppose, as- Egned as the means of their oonyer' Eion the influence of a Christian motherl One hundred out of the hundred and twenty. Philip poddridge was brought to God by the Scripture lesson pn the Dutch tile of the chimney fireplace. The mother thinks she is only rocking . child, but at the same time she may be rocking the destiny of empires, rocking the fate of nations, rocking the glories of heaven. Fhe same maternal power that may lift child ap may press z child down A daughter came to 2 worldly mother and said she was anx ious about her sins and she had beer praying all night The mother said !.