The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-14
REV. DIR. TALMAGE
THE NOTED DIvIEE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects "a Christian Mother"

20 year when she came up with her husband
20 ouer The yearly sacrifice ~ samuel 81.
The stories Of Deborah and Abigail are
very apt 90 discourage q w0mah's soul. She
says within herself, at Is impossible that i
ever achieve any such grandeur OF charac.
| yer, and don't mean 10 try, AZ though a
enid should refuse 10 play the eight notes
because he cannot execute n civilian Tell"
Ihls Hannah Of the text differs from the por-
sons ] just named She was an ordinary
| woman, with ordinary intellectual capacity.
| placed in ordinary circumstances. aud vet
| 10y extraordinary piety standing out before
an the ages % come the ideal Christian
mother Hannah was the wife Of Elkanah,
"no was person very much Ike herself
ulFomantic and plain. never having fought
a battle or been the subject OF marvellous
| escape. Neither Of them would have been
sa'lgd genius. just what you and might
% that was Elkanah aud Hannah The
brightest time In ali the history OF that fam
/ NY was the birth Of samuel. Although no
stlar ran along the heavens pointing down 20
/ ns birthplace, / think the angels Of God
stopped at the coming Of so wonderful a
prophet. As Samuel had been given In an
swer 70 prayer, Elkanah and all his family
save Hannah started up 90 Shiloh 20 offer
sacrifices Of thanksgiving. The cradle where
the child slept was altar enough for Ham
nah's grateful heart, but when the boy was
old enough she took him TO Shiloh and took
three bullocks and an epah Of -four and a
bottle OF wine and made Offering Of sacrifice
unto the Lord. and there. according 10 a
previous vow, she left him, for there he was
70 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 for
Samuel and took Ii over 10 him. The lad
would have got along we'll without that gar
ment. Tor / suppose no was we'll clad BY the
ministry Of the temple bat Hannah could
not be contented unless she was all the time
doing something for her idolized boy. More
over, his mother made him little coat and
1 Drought Il to him from year TO year when
she came up with her husband to oier the
annual sacrifice"
Hannah stands before you. then, to-day.
IN the first place, as an industrious mother.
| There was no need that she work. ElkanRh.
her husband, was far from poor. He be-
longed to a distinguished family, for the
| Bible tellsus that he was the son OF Jeroham,
the son OF Elihu, the son OF Tohu, the son Of
| Zuph. who were they?" you say. do
not know, but they were distinguished peo-
pie, no doubt, or their names would not have
! been mentioned. Hannah might have seated
herself in her family, and, with folded arms
and dishevelved hair, read novels. from
year to year, If there had been any to read;
but. when ! SEQ her making that garment
/ and taking It over to Samuel, / Know si6 fs
industrious from principle as we'll as from
I pleasure. God would not have mother be-
come drudge pr a slave; be would have her
employ all the helps possible In this day in
the rearing Of her children, But Hannah
ouS9y never to be ashamed to be found
making Goat for Samuel. Most mothers
need no counsel In this direction, The
Wrinkles on their brow, the pallor on their
cheek, the thimble mark on their finger, at
test that they are faithful in their motherly
duties. The bloom and the brightness and
the vivacity Of drlhOod have given
place to the grander dignity and useful
ness and industry OF motherhood. But there
Is a heathenish idea getting abroad in
some Of the families OF Americans; there are
mothers who Danish themselves from the
home circle. For three-fourths OF their ma
ternal duties they prove themselves incom-
petent. They are ignorant OF what their
children wear, and what their children eat,
and what their children read. They inirust
to irresponsible persons these young i'm
mortas and allow them to be under infu-
ences which may cripple their bodies, or
faint their purity, or spoil their manners, or
destroy their souls. From the awkward cut
of SamuePs coat you know his mother Han
nah did not make II.
Out from under flaming chandeliers, and
of from imported carpets, and down the
granite stairs there is coming great crowd
Of children in this day, unframed. saucy,
incompetent for all the practical duties OF
Of life, ready to be caught In the first whir
OF crime and sensuality. Indolent and un.
faithful mothers will make indolent and I'M
faithful children. You cannot expect neat
ness an1 order in any house where tbs
daughters see nothing but slatternliness
and upside downRtiveness In their parents
Let H1nnBh be idle, and most certainly
Samuel will grow up idle Who are the in.
dustrious men In all our occupations ant
professions? Who are they managing
the merchandise OF the world, build
ing the walls, timing the roofs
weaving the carpets, making the laws
governing the nations, making the earth Il
4 quake and heave and roar and rattle will
the tread OF gigantic enterprises Who ar
theyS For the most part they descended
from industrious mothers who in the ok
? homestead used TO spin their own yarn ant
weave their own carpets and plat their Owl
doormats and nag their own chairs and d.
q their own work. The stalWart men and thu
{ influential women of this day, ninety-nin
I out OF 100 of them came from such an illus
= trious ancestry Of hard knuckles and home
spun. And who are these people In society
light as frotb, blown every whittier of temp
9 tation and fashion-the peddlers OF filth
q stories, the dancing jacks OF political par
ties, the scum of society, the tavern loung
!. ing store infesting, the men Of low win
d and filthy chuckle and brass brsastpin an
4 rotten associations2 For the most part the
. came from mothers idle and disgusting. tn
= scandal mongers Of society, going fror
u house to house attending TO everybody
q business but their own, believing in witche
- and ghosts and horseshoes to keep the dew
1, out Of the churn, and by a goddess life sci
d ting their children on the very verge of hel
% The mothers of Samuel Johnson and of A
fred the Great and OF Isaac Newton and {
st. Augustine and Of Richard Cecil and {
President Edwards for the most part wei
industrious, hard working mothers.
Now, while ] congratulate all Ohrlstie
II mothers upon the wealth and the moder
science which may afford them all kinds
:. help. let me say that every mother ought
q be observant of her childrens walk, her chi
le dren's behavior, her children stood, her chi
dren's books, her children's companionshl
However much help Hannah NAV have