Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-07-29

ton, and of St Augustine, and of Rich
ard Cecil, and President Edwards,
Tor the most part were industrious.
Woodworking mothers. Now, while 1
congratulate all Christian mothers
upon the wealth and modern science
which may afford them all kinds of
help, let me say that every mother
ought to be observant of her children's
walk, her children's behavior, her chill
dren's food, her children's books. her
children's companionships. However
much Hannah may have, / think she
ought every year, at least, make one
garment for Samuel The Lord have
mercy on the man who is so unfortunate
as to have had n lazy mother!
Again: Hannah stands before YOU
to-day rs an intelligent mother. From
the way in which she talked in this
chapter, and from the way in which
she managed this boy, you know she
was intelligent. There are no persons
In community who need 10 be so wise
and well-informed as mothers. o,
this work of culturing children for
this world and the next. This
child is timid, and il must be
reused up and pushed ont into ac-
tivities. This child is forward, and he
must be held back, and tanned down
into modesty and politeness. Rewards
for one, punishments for another
mat which Will make George and ruin
| John. The rod is necessary in one
case, while frown of displeasure is
more than enough in another. Whip
ping and dark closet do not
| exhaust all the rounds of domestic dis
cipline. There have been children
who have grown up and gone to
| glory without ever having their ears
! boxed. o, how much care and intelli-
gence is necessary in the rearing of
children! 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 child.
II parents knew more of dietetics there
would not be 50 many dyspeptic
stomachs and weak nerves and in
active livers among their children. If
parents knew more of physiology there
would not be so many curved Spines
and cramped chests and inhamed
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 boorish proclivties. If parents knew
more OF Christ and practiced more of His
religion, there would not be so MANY
| little feet already starting on the
wrong road and all around us voices of
riot and blasphcmy would not come up
with such ecstacy of Internal triumph.
The eaglets in the eyrie have no adj
vantage over the eaglets of a 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 so
many opportunities of improving our
selves in the best manner of culturinp
children, that so often there is no more
advancement in this respect than there
has been among the kids and the eap-
lets and the whelps.
Again: Hannah stands before Won to-
day as Christian mother. From her
prayers and the way she consecrated
her boy to God, / know she was rood.
"A 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
be well-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 crowed 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 wofully lacking in
that house if it be not also the residence
| of Christian mother. bless God
that there are not many praverlcss
mothers The weight of responsibility
is so great that they feel the need of a.
divine hand to help, and divine voice
to command, and divine heart to SYM
pathize. Thousands of mothers have
been led into the kingdom OF God bv
the hands OF their little children.
There are hundreds of mothers to-day
who would not have been Christians
had 1T not been for the prattle of their
| little ones.
Standing some day in the nursery.
they besought themselves. This child
God has given me to raise for eternity.
What is my influence upon itP Not he
ing Christian myself. how can I ever
| '''''A W b'NOlllt a. CHRISTIAN.
Lord, help me!' o, are their anxious
mothers who know nothing Of the
infinite help of religion2 Then /
| commend you TO Hannah. the pious
mother Of Samuel DO not think IL is
absolutely impossible that your chill
dren come mp Ubiquitous. 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 trernen.
/ dous possibilities; and whether that
/ child shall come forth in life. its heart
| attuncd TO the eternal harmonics. and
\ after lie Of usefulness on earth. go
TO a life Of joy in Heaven: or whether
/ across IL shall jar eternal discords and
/ after life Of wrong-doing on earth. IL
/ shall go 10 a home OF impcnctrablc
| darkness and an abyss Of immcasura-
/ bic plunge is being decided bv nursery
song and Sabbath lesson and evening
prayer, and walk and ride and lool,
I and frown and smile. o. how MANY
/ children in glory. crowding all the b at
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