The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-01


And who are these people in society,
light a. froth, blown every WHITTIER
OF temptation and fashion-the ped.
lers of filthy stories, the dancing jacks
of political parties, the scum of soci.
ETY., the tavern-lounging, store-infest.
ing, the men of low wink, and filthy
chuckle, and brass breastpin, and rot.
ten associations? For the most part
they came from mothers idle and dis.
gushing, the scandal monRers 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 q 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,
letme 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, l 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.
o, 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
tanned down into modesty and polite
ness Rewards for one punishments
for another. That which will make
George will ruin John. The
rod is necessary in one case,
while q frown of displeasure is
more than enough in anoth-
er. 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
ever having their ears boxed.
o, how much care and intelligence
-. La - ~ ~.
dren. But in this day, when there
are so many books on this subject,
no parent is eXcusa BILE in being igno-
rant of the best mode of bringing up a
child. If parents knew more of
iieteties, there would not be so many
1yspeptic stomachs and weak nerves
and inactive livers among children. If
parents knew more of physiology,
there would not be so many curved
spines and cramped chests end infamed
throats and diseased lungs as there are
among children. If parents knew more
If 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
as voices of riot and blasphemy
would not come up with such ecstasy
If 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
I'D goats taught them hundreds of
years ago; the whelps know no more
than did the whclps of ages ago-they
are taught no more by the lions of the
desert; but it is shame that in this
lay, when there are SO many oppor-
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
her prayers, and from the way she
her body to God, / know
she was good. A mother may have
the finest culture, the most brilliant
but she is not fit for
her duties unless she be a Christian
mother. There may be well-read IL
oraries in the house: and exquisite
music in the parlor; and the canvas of
the best artist adjoining the walls; and
the wardrobe be crowded with taste
ful apparel; and the children be won
lerful for their attachments, and make
the house ring with laughter and limo
cent mirth; but there is something
lacking in that house If it be
not also the residence of a Christian
mother. l bless God. that there are
not many prayerless mothers. The
weight of responsibility is so great
that they feel the need of Divine
hand to help, and Divine voice to
and Divine heart to sym
pathize. Thousands of mothers have
been led into the Kingdom of
God by the hands of their little
children. There are hundreds of moth
ers to-day who would not have been
had it not been for the
prattle of their little ones. Standing
some day in the nursery, they be-
thought themselves, this child God