The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-24

across 1t shall Jar eternal dlscOrdS. ana
after life of wrong-doing on earth, 1T
shall go to a home of impenetrable
darkness and an abyss of lmmeasur-
able plunge, is being decided By nurs-
cry song and Sabbath lesson and even
ing prayer, and walk and ride and
look and frown and smile. o. how
many children in glory! crowding all
the battlements and lifting a mill
| lion-voiced hosanna-brought to God
through Christian parentage! One
| hundred and twenty clergy
men were together, and they were
| telling their experience and their an
cestry; 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 1921 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 he rocking the destiny
of empires-rocking the fate of nations
rocking the glories of Heaven.
The same materna, power that may
lift a child up, may press the child
down. A daughter came to a worldly
mother and said she was anxious
about her sins, and she had been pray
ing all night The mother said: 80,
stop prayingl l don't believe in pray
| ing. Get over these religious notions,
and I'll give you dress that will cost
$500. and you may wear it next week
/ To haf ~ Tho Aanrrhnr fnnlT the
dress; and she moved in the gay
circle, the gayest of all the gay
that night; and sure enough, all
the religious impressions were
gone, and she stopped praying. A few
months after, she came to die; and in
her closing moments said: Mother, 1
wish you would bring me that dress
that cost $500" The mother thought
it was a 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 ying 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 soulr' o, what a momen-
tous thing it is to be a motherl
Again, and lastly: Hannah stands
before you to-day the rewarded moth
er. For all the coats she made for
| Samuel; for all the prayers she offered
| for him; for the discipline she exerted
over him, she got abundant compensa-,
ton in the piety and the usefulness
| hn III Of hny- CO
uel; and that is true in all ages.
Every mother gets full pay for
all the prayers and tears in be-
half of her children. That man USE
full in commercial life; that man
prominent in the profession; that.
master 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 exerted, has gone back
| to the old homestead-for there is
some one always ready to carry good
tidings-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 door with more vigorous thump.
| Parents love to hear good news from
their children. Do you send them
good news, always? 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
/ - - ~. \
woman" THE eye that mocketh at
his father, and refuseth to obey
his mother, the ravens of the
valley shall pick it out, and the
young eagle shall eat it" God grant
that all these parents may have
the great satisfaction of seeing
their children grow up Christians
But o the pang of that mother
who, after life of street gadding, and
gossip-retailing, hanging on her chill
dren the fripperies and follies of this
world, sees those children tossed out
on the sea of life like foam on the
wave, or Donentities in world where
only brawny and stalwart character
can stand the shock! But blessed be
the mother who looks upon her chill
dren as sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty! o, the satisfac-
ton of Hannah in seeing Samuel
serving at the altar; of NJ other
Eunice in seeing her Timothy
learned in the Scriptures. That is the
mothers recompense; to see children
coming up useful in the world, re-
claiming the lost, healing the sick,
plying the ignorant, earnest and use
full in every sphere That 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 clos
ing hours of life's day with the glories
of an autumnal sunset!
There she sits-the old Christian
mother-ripe for Heaven. Her eye
sight is almost gone; but the splendOrs
of the celestial city kindle up her
vision. The gray light of Heavens
morn has struck through the gray
locks which are folded back over the
vyrin killed. femnles She StooDS vary