The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-01

70 l1to OF JOY IN heaven, or, Wnothox
across IL shall jar eternal discofds, and
after . life of wrong-doing on earth, It
shall 90 to . homo of impenetrable
darkness and an abyss Of immeasura-
bic plunge, Is being decided by nursery
song and Sabbath lesson and evening
prayer, and walk and ride and look
and frown and smile o, how many
children in glory! crowding all the
battlements and lifting q million.
voiced hosanna-brought to God
through Christian parentagel One hum
dred and twenty clergymen were to-
gether, and they were telling their
experience and their ancestry; and Of
the 100 clergymen, how many Of them
do you suppose assigned, as the means
Of their conversion, the influence Of
Christian mother? One hundred
out of 120i Philip Doddridge
was brought to God by the
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-rockihg the glories of
Heaven. The same maternal power
that may lift child up, may press
child down. A daughter came to
a worldly mother and said she
was anxious about her sins, and
she had been praying all night.
The mother said: 20, stop pray
ing! I don't believe in praying. Get
over all those religious notions, and !
will give you dress that win cost
$500, and you may wear it next week
to that party" The daughter took
the dress, and she moved in the gay
circle, the gayest of all the gay all
night; and, sure enough, all religious
impressions were gone, and she
stopped parying. A few months
after, she came to die; and in
her closing moments said; "Mother,
l wish you would bring me that
dress that cost $780, The mother
thought it was very strange request,
but she brought it to please the dying
child Now" said the daughter,
mother, hang that dress on the foot
of my bed" and the dress was hung
there, on the foot of the bed Then
the dying girl got up on one elbow
and looked at her mother. and then
pointed to the dress and said: Mother,
that dress is the price of my soulv' O,
what a momentous thing 1t is to be q
mother!
Again, and lastly. Hannah stands
before you to-day the rewarded
mother. For all the coats she made
for Samuel; for all the prayers she of
fered for him; for the discipline she
exerted over him, she got abundant
compensation in the piety and the
usefulness and the popularity of her
son Samuel; and that is true in all
ages. Every mother gets full pay
for all the prayers and tears in
behalf of her children. That man
useful In commercial life; that man
prominent in the profession; that mas
ter mechanically every step he takes
in life has an echo of gladness in the
old heart that long ago taught him to
be Christian and heroic and earnest
The story of what you have done or
what you have written, of the influ-
ence you have cxerted, has gone back
to the old homestead-for there is some
one always ready to carry good tidiugs
and that story makes the needle in
the old mothers tremulous hand fly
quicker, and the fail in the fathers
hand come down upon the barn-foo
with more vigorous thump. Parents
love to hear good news from their chill
dren. Do you send them good news al
ways? Look out for the young
man who speaks of his father
as the governor" the squire"
or the ''old chap" Look out
for the young woman who calls
her mother her maternal ancestor"
or the ''old woman" THE eye that
mocketh at his father, and refuseth to
obey his mother, the ravens of the val-
ley shall pick it out, and the young
eagles shall eat it." God grant that all
these parents may have the great salts
faction of seeing their children grow
up Christians.
But, o, the pang of that mother who,
after life of street gadding, and gos-
hanging on her children
the fripperies and follies of this world,
see those children tossed out on the
sea of life like foam on the wave,
or nonentitics in a world where only
brawny and stalwart character can
stand the shock! But blessed be the
mother who looks upon her children as
sons and daughters Of the Lord AL
mighty! o, the satisfaction of Hannah
in seeing Samuel serving at the altar,
of Mother Eunice in seeing her
Timothy learned in the Scriptures;
that is the mothers recompense--tos see
her children coming up useful in the
world retaining the lost, healing the
sick, plying the ignorant, earnest and
useful in every sphere. TbSt throws
a new light back on the old family
Bible whenever she reads it; and that
will be ointment to soothe the aching
limbs of decrepitude, and light up the
closing hours of life's day with the
glories of an autumnal sunset!
There she sits-the old Christian
for Heaven Her eye
sight is almost gone; but the splen-
doris of the celestial c1ty kindle up
her vision. The gay light of Heavens
morn has struck through the gray locks
which are folded back over the
wrinkled temples. She stoops very much