Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-23

this world and the next This
child is timid, and it must be
reused up and pushed out into ac-
tiyitics. This child is forward, and he
must he held back, and tanned down
into modesty and politeness. Rewards
for one, punishments for another.
That which will make George and ruin
John. The rod Is necessary in one
case, while a frown of displeasure is
more than enough in another. Whip
ping and dark closet do not
exhaust all the rounds of domestic dis
ciplinc. There have been children
who have grown up and gone TO
glory without ever having their ears
boxed. q, how much care and intelli-
gencc is necessary in the rearing of
children. But in this day, when there
are 81 many books on this subject, no
parent is cNcusablc in being ignorant
of the best mode of bringing upa child.
If parents knew more of dictCtics there
would not he so many dyspeptic
stomachS and weak nerves and in
active livcrs among their children. If
parents knew more of physiology there
would not be So many curved spincs
and crampcd chests and inflamed
throatS and diseased lungs as there are
among children. If parents knew more
OF art and were in sympathy with all
that is beautiful. there would not he so
many children coming out in the world
with booriNh proclivties II parents knew
more of Christ and pra cticcd more of Ills
religion. there would not he so many
little feet already starting on the
wrong road and all around us voices of
riot and blasphe any would not come up
with such ecstacy of internal triumph
The caglcts in the eyrie have no add
vantage over the caglets 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 whclpS know no
more now than did the whelpS of ages
ago-thcy are taught no more by the
lions of the desert; but it is a shame
that in this day, when there are so
many opportunities of improving our
selves in the best manner of culturing
children, that 50 often there is no more
advancement in this respect than there
has been among the kids and the Gag
lets and the whelps.
Again: Hannah stands before you to-
day as a Christian mother. From her
prayers and the way she consecrated
her boy to God, | know she was good.
mother may have the finest culture,
the most brilliant surroundings: but
she is not fit for her duties unless she
be Christian mother. There may
bc wcll-read libraries in the house,
and exquisite music in the parlor,
and the canvas of the best artist
adjoining the walls, and the wardrobe
be crowcd with tasteful apparel. and
the children he wonderful for their
attachments, and make the house ring
with laughter and innocent mirth; but
there is something wofully lacking in
that house if it be not also the residence
of Christian mother. | bless God
that there are not many prayerless
mothers. The weight of responsibility
is so great that they feel the need of "a
divine hand to help, and a divine voice
to command, and a divine heart to SYM
pathiZe. Thousands of mothers have
been led into the kingdom of God by
the hands of their little children.
There are hundreds of mothers to-day
who would not have been Christians
had it not been for the prattle of their
| little ones.
Standing some day in the nursery,
they bcsought themselves, This child
God has given me to raise for eternity.
What is my influence upon it? Not be-
ing Christian myself, how can | ever
expect him to become n Christian.
Lord, help me!' o, are their anxious
mothers who know nothing of the
infinite help of religion? Then l
commend you to Hannah, the pious
mother of Samuel. Do not think it is
absolutely impossible that your chill
dren come up iniquitous. Out of just
such fair brows and bright eyes and
soft hands and innocent hearts, crime
| gets its victims-eXtirpating purity
from the heart, and rubbing out the
smoothness of the eye, and shriveling
and poisoning and putrefying and
scathing and scalding and blasting and
burning with shame and woe.
Every child is bundle of tremen-
dous possibilities; and whether that
| child shall come forth in life, its heart
| attuned to the eternal harmopies, and
after life of usefulness on earth, go
to a life of joy in Heaven; or whether
across it shall jar eternal discords, and
after life of wrong-doing on earth, it
shall go to n home of impenetrable
darkness and an abyss of inlmeasura-
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 bat
Elements and lifting a million-voiced
hosanah-brought to God through Chris
tian parentage! One hundred and
twenty clergymen were together, and
they were telling their experience and
their ancestry; and of the 100 clergy
men, how many of them do you suppose
assigned, as the means of their CONVEX
sion, the influence of Christian
mother2 One hundred out of the 1901
Philip Doddridge was brought to God
by the Scripture lesson on the Dutch
tile of the chimney fireplace. The
mother thinks she is only rocking a
child; but at the same time she may be
rocking the destiny of empires-roek-
ing the fate of nations-rocking the
glories of Heaven. The same maternal
power that may lift child up, may
press child down. A daughter came
10 worldly mother and said she was
anxious about her sins, and she had
been praying all night.
The mother said: 20, stop prayingl l
don't believe in praying. Get over all
these religious notions, and I'll give
you a dress that will 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 that night; and sure enough,
all religious impressions were gone,
and she stopped praying. A few months
after she came to die, and, in her clos
ing moments, said: Mother, Iwish you
WOULD bring me that dress that cost
$500" The mother thought it was a
very strange request, but she brought
1t 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:
sfMother that dress is the price of nv