The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-07-20
CHRISTIAN MOTHERS.
A Sermon That Will Have Practical Re-
suits In Many Homes.
RASNAR'S YEARLY PRESENT TO her SON.
She Made Samuel Garment and Car
ried tito Him--Advice to Moth
ers About Their Children.

This radical discourse viii no doubt have
its practical result in many homesteadS
throughout ChTistendom. The text was
Samuel i:l9. Moreover his mother made
him a little coat. and brought it to MIN
from year to year. when she came up with
her husband to offer the yearly sacrihce"
Tie stories of Deborah and Abigail are
very apt TO discourage a woman's soul
She says within herself: "1t is impossible
that L ever achieve any such grandeur
Of character and | don't mean to try as
though n child should refuse to play tho
eight notes because lie cannot execute
william Tell This Hannah of the text
differs from the persons L just named. She
was an ordinary woman, with ordinary
intellectual capacity, placed In ordinary cir
cumstances, and yet, by extraordinary in
tellectual capacity, standing out before all
the ages TO come, the model Christian moth
sr Hannah was the wife of Elnanah,
who was a person very much ike hotseli-
unromantic and plain, never having fought
q battle or been tine subject of marvel
Gus escape. Neither of them would nave
been called a genius. Just what you and
[ might be. that was Elkanah and Han
nah The brightest time in all the his
tory Of that family was the birth of sam
uel. Although no star ran along the
heavens pointing down TO his birth place,
/ think the angels Of God stopped at the
coming of SO wonderful prophet. As
Samuel had been given in answer 10 pray
er. Elkanah and all his family. save Han
nah, started up to Shiloh TO Offer a9eri-
fees Of thanksgiving. The cradle waere
the child slept was altar enough for Han
nah's grateful heart; but when the boy
was old enough She took him to shiloh.
and took three bullocks and an epnah OF
-four and a bottle of wine. and made Of
fcrings OF sacrifice unto the Lord, ana
there according to a previous vow. she lett
him: for there he was TO stay all the days
of his life and minister in the sanctuary.
Years rolled on, and every year Hannah
made with her own hand garment LOT
Samuel and took il over to him. Inc l"u
would have got along well without mat
garment. for l suppose he was Wen clad
b& the ministry of the temple; but hannah
could rot be contcnted unless she was all
the time doing something for her daring
bov. Moreover his mother made him
little coat. and brought It to him from
wear to year. when she came up Win
her husband TO offer the yearly sacrihce.
Hannah stands before you, then, touaN'
in the first place. as an industrious moth-
or There was no need that she work. Ill
kanah her husband was far from poor.
lie belonged 10 a distinguished family LOT
the bible tells US shat he was the son OF
Jeroham. tho son Of Elihu. the son Of tohh'
,he son of Zuph "Who were they: you
saw. do not know. but they were dis
would not have been mentioned. fannah
might have seated herself in her family,
ard. with folded arms. and disheVcled hor'
read novels from year 10 year, II tHeI'
had been any to read, but when see heT
making that garment and taking it over TO
samuel. ] know she is industrious from
principle as wen a from pleasure God
would not have a mother become a drueSe
or a slave. ne would have her employ al
tho k.lr's possible in this day in the yeariqs
OF her children. But Hannah ought never
ta be \ -bameI to ga found making a coat
r.r samuel. Most mothers need mo- cotn-
eel an This direction. The wrinkles ON 'n@lr
brow, Tho pll!or On Their check, tNe u.iin-
ile mark on their finger aUcsts mat lney
are faithful IA thcir maternal '.Ni.@. mo
bloom and the brightness and the Fhaclty
Of riflhood have given place 10 the gfanaef
dignity and usefulness and industry Of
BROTHERHOOD. Iiut there IS a hcatheIish idea
getting abroad in some of the families OF
Americans. there are mothers WHO ban'sh
themselves from the home circi". cor
thrc,-fourths Of their maternal duties they
r.roxe themselves incompetent. They are
ignorant OF what their children wear, and
what thtir children eat, and MAal their
children read. They intrust = nrespohsl-
lie persons these young mmorta'o ana az
low them 10 be uuarr the ulil-
enceS which may cripple their oodiea,
or faint their purity or spoH
From the awkward cut OF SamUt4S coat
No,l know mis- mother Hannah did not make
ii out from under flaming chandeliers,
aud oil FROM imported carpets, and down
tine granite stairs, There is cou.ne "a great
crowd uf children ia tins day, unframed,
sauly, incompetent for all the practical
duties of life, ready 20 bee caught IN TIE
arst wAIl OF crime and sensuahty. ILdo-
leut and uufithful mothers viii make IN
dolrut and unfaithful children. you cannot
expect uoatacss and order IN any house
where The daughters SEE nothing bat slat-
tcrnl-ncss aud upside doWnaliNcaeaa I'm
their parents. Let Hannah be idle, aad
most certainly Samuel viii grow mp Idle
WHO are the industrious men IN all OR
occupations and Professions? " no are they
mauaelg the merchandise OF the world.
building the walls, Timing the roofs, wcaF-
Hg the carpets. making the laws, sovcI IL
ing the nations. making Tie earth 10 quake
and hcaNe ana roar ana rattle with The
tread OF gigantic enterprises? " no aIe
thry2 For the most part they descended
from industrious mothers. WHO. in me old
homestead. used TO spin their own yarn
and weave tEcir own carpets, and pIat
lner own dOOrmats ana nag their own
chars, and do their own WORK. Inc stall
MarL men and the influential women OF
this day, nincty-nine out of 4 hundred Of
them, came from such an illustrlOus an
cestry OF hard Rnucklcs ana homespun.
And who are these people in society, hight
ton ami iashion-the peddIers OF nltny sto-
ries, the dancing-Jacks OF political pdrues
the scum of society, the tavern iOungiiAS,
storc-iutcsting, the men of low wink and
Mlthy chucNle, and brass broastpin and rot
ten associations? For the most part they
came rom mothers idle and disgusting, the
scandal mongers of society, going from
house TO house attending to every bOdy's
business but their own; believing in witches
and ghosts, and horse shoes TO keep the
devil out Of the churn, and by a goddess
life setting their children on the very verge
OF he'll. The mothers of Samuel johnson.
ana OF Alfred the Great, ana OF Isaac New
ton and Of st. Augustine, and OF Richard
Cecil and of rPesident Edwards, for the
most part were Industrious, hard working
mos hers Now, while / congratulate all
Christian mothers upon the wealth and the
modern scicnct which may afford them all
kinds of help. let me say that every moth
er ought 10 be obserVaut of her children's
walk her childreu's behavior, her children's
food. her children's books, her children's
companionship. However much help Han
nan may have, I think she ought every
year. at least make one garment for sam
uel The Lord have mercy on the man who
is so unfortunate to have had a lazy
mother,
Again: Hannah stands before you today rs
an intelligent mother. From the way in
which she talked in this chapter, and from
the way she managed this boy. YOU know
she was intelligent. There are no persons