The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-31

are tney managing LAG hclCno''>>
Of the world, building the walls, tin
ming the roofs. weaving the carpets
making the laws, governing the ma
tions, making the earth to quake and
heaye and roar and rattle with the
tread of gigantic enterprises? WINS
are they? For the most part they
descended from industrious mothers
who. in the old homestead, used &c
spin their own yarn, and weave then
own carpets, and plait their own door
mats, and flag their own chairs, ano
do their own work. The stalwart men
and the influential women OF this day
ninety whine GU t of hundred OF theH
came from such an illustrious ances'
try of hard knuckles and homespun'
And who are these people in society
light as froth, blown every whlther
of temptation and fashion-the ped
lers of filthy stories, the dancing Jacks
of political parties, the scum OF socl'
ety, the tavern-lounging, store-infest'
ing, the men of Tow wink, and tlithy
chuckle, and brass breastpin, and rot
ten associations? For the most part
thew came from mothers idle and dis
gusting, the scandal mongers OF So
ciety, going from house to house at
tending to everybody's business but
their own; believing in witches and
ghosts, and horse shoes to keep the
devil out of the churn, and by god
less life setting children on the very
verge of hell. The mothers of Samuel
johnson, and of Alfred the Great, and
of Isaac Newton, and of st. Augustine,
and of Richard Cecil, and of President
Edwards, for the most part were in
dustrious, Woodworking mothers.
Now. while l congratulate all
Christian mothers upon the wealth
and the 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 children's
food, her children's books, her chill
dren's companionships. However much
help 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 unfortu-
nate as to have had lazy mother!
Again: Hannah stands before you
to-day as 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 to be SO
wise and well-informed as mothers.
D, this work of cultivating children for
this world and the next. This child is
timid. and it must be reused up and
pushed out into activities. This child
IS forward; and must be held back and
famed down into modesty and polite
ness. Rewards for one punishments
Tor another. That which will make
George will ruin John. The
rod is necessary in one case,
while a frown of displeasure is
more than enough in anoth-
,r. Whipping and dark closet do not
exhaust all the rounds OF domestic
discipline There have been children
who have grown UP and gone to glory
without ever having their ears boxed.
., how much care and intelligence
IS necessary in the rearing of chill
1ren. But in this day, when there
ire so many books on this subject,
no parent is excusa BILE in being igno-
rant of the best mode of bringing up
child. If parents knew more of
lieteties, there would not be so many
lyspeptic stomachs and weak nerves
and inactive livers among children. Ii
parents knew more of physiology,
there would not be so many curved
spines and cramped chests and intiamed
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 be
so many children coming out in the
world with boorish proclivities. If
parents knew more of Christ, and
more of His religion, there.
would not be SO many little feet start
ing on the wrong road, and all around
us voices of riot and blasphemy
would not come up with such ecstasy
of Internal triumph The eaglets In
the eyrie have no advantage over
the eaglets of thousand years ago;
the kids having no superior way
of climbing up the rocks than the
old goats taught them hundreds of
years ago; the whelps know no more
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 oppor-
tunities of improving ourselves in the
best manner of culturing children,
that so often there is no more advance
ment in this respect than there has
been among the kids and the eaglets
and the whelps.
Again: Hannah stands before you
to-day as the Christian mother From