Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-07-18


superior way If climbing up the rocks
than the old goats taught them hundreds
Of years ago; the whclps know no more
now than did the whclps Of ages ago-thcy
are taught nn more by the lions OF the
desert. hut IL Is a shame that In this day,
when there are 50 many opportunities of
improving ourselves I'm the best manner Of
culturing children that often there Is
no more advancement In this respect than
there has been among the kids and the
eaglcts and the whclps
Hannah's Plety.
Again. Hannah stands before you toda,
ms Christian mother From her prayers,
and from the way she consecrated her boy
To God. ] know she was good. A mother
may have the finest culture, the most bril-
liant surroundings. but she Is not fit for
her duties unless she bc Christian moth
err There may bc well read libraries in
the house, and exquisite music in the par
Tor, and the canvas of the best artist adorn-
ing the walls. and the wardrobe bc crowd
cd with tasteful apparel. and the children
be wonderful for their attachments and
make the house ring with laughter and in
noccnt mirth, but there is something woe
fully lacking in that house II il he not also
the residence Of u Christian mother.
bless God that there are not many prayer
less mothers. The weight of responsibility
is 50 great that they feel the need Of di-
vine hand Ia help, and "A divine voice to
comfort, and divine heart to sympathize.
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 il not been for the prattle
n Ia.
the nursery. they bcthought themselves:
This child God has given me To raise for
eternity What is my influence upon its
Not being "a Christian myself how can l
ever expect him to become Christian.
Lord. help met oh, are there anxious
mothers who know nothing Of the infinite
help Of religion: Then | commend to you
Hannah. the pious mother Of Samuel Do
not think it is absolutely impossible that
your children come up iniquitous Out of
just such fair bruws and bright eyes and
soft hands and innocent hearts crime gets
its victims-cxtirpating purity from the
heart, and rubbing out the smoothncss
from the brow. and qucnching the luStcr
of the eye. and shrivcling up and poison
ing and putrcfying and scathing and scald-
ing and blasting and burning with shame
and woe.
Every child is a bundle Of tremendous
possibilities, and whether that child shall
come forth in life, its heart attuncd To the
eternal harmonics, and after life of use
fulnc>S on earth 20 to life Of joy in hcay-
en-, or whether across il shall jar eternal
discortlS. and after u life of wrongdoing
on earth il shall 90 to Il home Of impcne-
trablc darkness and an abyss of immcasur
able plunge, il being decided 10y nursery
song and sabbath lesson and evening
/ prayer and walk ana ride ana look and
frownand smile. Oh, how many children
in glory, crowding all the battlemcnts and
| lifting a million voiced hosanna-hrough
TO God through Christian parentagei One
hundred and twenty clcrgymcn were to-
gcthcr, and they were telling their expert
encc and their ancestry. and of the 40
clergymen, how many Of them do you sup
pose assigned as the means OF their con
version the influence of "a Christian meth
er: One hundred out Of the hundred and
twenty! Philip Doddridgc was brought to
God by the scripture lesson on the Dutch
tile Of the chimney fireplace. The mother
thinks she Is only rocking child, but at
the same time she may I've rocking the dcs-
tiny of empires, rocking the fate of ma
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oues, hut She hro,,,,b, 1, N ,,l,.ass m. Nv.
| inn child "No,. s,i5 Tho d,,-h,er
"m,,hrr han, ,h,, drrss nm tho foot ~
| nay bcd Apd tho arcss was hun, tbersor
the foot az tho h.d J;c, tho DYING s,ir,
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mo,bcr and ,bcn noiptcd N the ,lrcss and
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the coats she made for Samuel, for all the
prayers she Offered for him, for the disci-
pine she cxertcd over him, she got album
uant compensation IN the plcty and the
usefulness and the popularity of her son
| samuel, and that Is true in all ages.
| Every mother gets fun pay for all the
! prayers and tears in bchalf Of her children.
| That man useful in commercial life, that
man prominent in the profession, that
master mechanic-why, every step he takes
/ ia has .ht Ia h.. old
| heart that long ago taught him to he Chris
| tian and heroic and earnest. The story Of
/ what you have done or what you have
| written. of the influence 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 mother 5 trcmulous hand
;ly quicker and the fail in the fathers
hand come down upon the barn floor with
n 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 odd chap" Look ont for the young
| woman who calls her mother her mater
| nal ancestor or the old woman THE
eye that mocketh at his father and rcfuseth
to obey his mother the ravens of the val
| lev shall pick IL out. and the Young eagles
shall eat il. God grant that all these
parents NAV have the great satisfaction of
| seeing their children grow mn Christians