The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-03-26
SERMON TO WOMEN.
SAM JONES' PLAIN TALK TO MOTHERS.
He.Preaches toa oaCongregation of 8 900
Ladies-TaIked of the Evils of So
ciety-Dancing and DecoIIette Gowns
Points His Hearers to the Work
Wherein Their Influence Might Be
Great.
Atlanta Constitution.

afternoon and took their medicine.
Now, | want you women to take your
medicine. l know it will be a little
hard but it will do you lot of good.
| will take this text:
"I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God that ye present
your bodies in living sacrifice to God. ,
Il beseech you therefore, sister, |
will say. There are three adjustments
in this world. No one is adjusted un-
til they first adjust themselves to God
Then adjust yourselves to society and
then to yourself. Now, with these
three points carried you need have no
trouble that you cannot overcome.
"There is no relation in this world
from which SO much good can flow to
the world than that Of mother. There
is no relation in this world that is
dearer and brighter to man than that Of
wife. There is no relation in this
world that requires more piety, more
goodness than that of mother. To
mother let me talk few moments.
There is no relation in this world from
which SO much prayer and thought is
required than a mother for her chill
dren. Woman has vantage ground
that no man ever had. There's no
great man who didn't have first good
mother and then good wife.
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down from Heaven and announce that
some mother had given birth to some
immortal child in Atlanta. How the
people would come from all over the
country to se this child. And sup
pose it was announced also that if
the mother reared this child right it
would live in glory forever, but if she
neglected it, it would die and go down
to woe forever and forever. Do you
not think that people would rush TO
Atlanta from all over the country to
see that child? All the people would
say what pains they would take in
training that child, SO that it would
live and be immortal forever. But,
listen, mother, every child that is born
into your home is just that sort Of
child, and if you will nurture and
train it right it will do right and be
immortal. 1t is a fact that if you
train it right twill live with God for
ever
"There are some texts in the Bible
that we can explain on no other hypo-
thesis unless we consider that there are
good mothers. In Atlanta are 1000
temptations for It's young ladies. Good
God, give every man good mother
and lei them live by a molher1ha will
anchor them to the right and preserve
them to the good of this country.
cat mothers convention held in
! the east one mother arose and said: Il
think we should begin to train a child
at six years of age Another mother
said she thought five wears old was the
proper time and SO on down. Then
an old gray haired grandmother got up
and said: '.l'll tell you when to Obegln
to train your children. Begin twenty
years before the birth of the child to
It's mother.
! "Whatever i, true of mother is true
of wife Listen. Ill tell you there's
many a man who would never have
walked a step in righteousness if il
| hadn't been for his wife. When d
man is better than his wife there is
something going wrong right there in
that home.
NINETEENTH CENTURY MONSTROSITY.
81 believe the greatest monstroslty o
the nineteenth century Is goddess
woman-a goddess woman. / can un
derstand why man sins. can un-
dersland why he will curse, and drink
and play cards. | have 81 died these
things. But the greatest mystery IN
this world TO me is that mother wh,I
sits and locks into the eyes OF her sweet
angel children ami says am not Cap
able of training these children in the
right way. Oh, how | pity woman
who acknowledges that she canno,
raise her children Alright.
.Tne days are evil. Sister, your
husband needs all the help he can get,
and God has placed you in position
where you can help him more than
any one else in this world. (Amens
from the women.) don't believe
there is one mother in thousand that
makes up her mind that she will sever
herself from everything that will is
lead her children. There are thous
ands Of little boys in Atlanta to-da,
who are orphans in the most awfu
sense of the word (amens.) Every
woman in this house ought to have re.
ligion that you know you have got.
I'd hate to admit that | had religion
and didn't know it. There's no en-
joyment in such religion. l heard one
old woman say that she enjoyed good
health. That's right. If you've go1
religion you ought to enjoy it.
81 want to say word to some o.
you mothers here. When you say the
grand old Episcopal church don't OBJ.
ject to card playing, dancing, betting
and drinking you misrepreient your
own church. And when you say the
Methodists, Presby,erians, Catholic:
and Bapiis,s don't object to these
things you misrepresent these churches
If wanted II quit running after the
flash and fht. devil I'd inst omit luin G