Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-23
A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE
or the Christian Parent After Long
Life of Duty Done.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and
Guides the Child's First Steps WieIds n
Mighty Power for Future Good or
Evil-Dr. TalmHGe's sermon.

oi'I tue yearly SaCrlnce'
The stories of Deborah and Abigail
are very apt to discourage woman'S
soul. She says within herself: 1T is
impossible that | ever achieve any such
grandeur of character, and | don't
mean To try as though a child should
refuse To play the eight notes because
he can not execute q William Tell. :"
This Hannah of the text differs from
the persons just named. She was an
ordinary woman. with ordinary in
tcllcctual capacity. placed in ordinary
circumstances, and yet, 10y cNtraordi-
nary picty, standing OUT before all the
ages to come, the model Christian
mother. Hannah was the wife of FL
kanah, who was a person very much
like herself uuromantic and plain.
never having fought a battle or been
the subject of a marvellous escape.
Neither of them would have been
called a genius. just what YOU and
might Ice, that was Elllanah and liam
nah The hri"htc>t time in all the his
tory of that family was the birth
of Samuel Although no star ran
along the heaven, pointing down
To hi> birthplace. think the angels
of God stopped at the coming of 50
wonderful prophet. A. Samuel had
brcn given in answer Ia prayer. FL
lanah and all his family. save Hannah
| started up To Shiloh To offer sacrifices
of Thanksgiving. The cradle where
III" child slept was altar enough for
llannah's grcatful heart; but when the
boy was old enough she took him to
Shiloh, and took three bulloclls and an
cphah of flour and Il bottle OF wine,
and made Offering of sacrifice unto
| the Lord, and there, according TO Il
previous vow, she left him; for there
he WAS to stay all the days of his
life, and minister in the sanctuary
Years rolled on, ana every year Han
nah made with her own hand a gar
mcnt for Samuel, aud took il over to
| him. The lad would have got along
well without that garment. for sup
pose he was well clad by the ministry
of the temple; but Hanna could not be
contcntcd unless she was all the time
doing something for her darling boy.
Moreover. his mother made him Il
little coat and brought it to him from
year 10 year when She came up with
her husband to offer the yearly sacri-
fec"
Hannah stands before you. then, to-
day, in the first place, as an industri-
Gus mother. There was no need that
she work. Elkanah, her husband, was
far from poor. lie belonged to dis
tinguiShed family, for the Bible tells
us that he was the son of JcrOham,
the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu,
the son of Zuph. who were they?'
you say. do not know, hut they
were distinguished people, no doubt,
or their names would not have been
mentioned. Hannah might have
seated herself in her family, and,
with folded arms and diShevelcd hair,
read heyels from year to year. if there
had been, any to read; but when 1 see
her making that garment and taking it
over to samuel, l know she is indus
trious from principle as wcll as from
pleasure. God would Lot have another
become drudge or aslayci lie would
have her employ all Abe helps possible
lin the Fearing of II enldrcn. But
Hannah ought neves 10 he ashamed to
be found making . coat for Samuel
| Most moih"-s necGl no counsel in this
direction. The wrinkles on their brow,
the pallor on their check, the thimble
mark on their finger. attest that they
are faithful in their maternal duties.
The bloom and the brightness and the
yivacity of girlhood have given place
to the grander dignity and usefulness
and industry of motherhood. But
there is heathenish idea getting
abroad in some of the families of Amer
| leans; there are mothers who Danish
themselves from the home circle. For
three-fourths of their maternal duties
they prove themselves incompetent.
They are ignorant of what their chill
dren wear, what their children eat, and
what their children read. They in
trust 10 irresponsible persons these
| young jmmortals and allow them to be
under influences which may cripple
their bodies, or faint their purity, or
spoil their manners, or destroy their
souls. From the awkward cut of Sam
! uers coat YOU know his mother Han.
nah did not make ii. Out from under
flaming chandeliers, and off from i'm
ported 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 life, ready to be
caught in the first whirl of crime and
sensuality. Indolcnt and unfaithful
mothers will make indolent and un
faithful children. You can not expect
neatness and order in any house where
the daughters See nothing bpt slat
ternliness and upside downativeness ia
their parents. Let Hannah be idle
and most certainly Samuel will grow
up idle. Who are the industrious
men in all ogr occupations and
professiops2 Who are they man
aging the merchandise of tht
world, building the walls, timing the
roofs, weaving the carpets, making the
laws. governing the nations, making
the earth to quake and hcave and roal
and rattle with the tread of gigantic
enterprises9 Who are they? For the
most part they descend from industri
GUS mothers, who, in the old home
stead, used to spin their own yasR
| ana weave Wv II BNlSs am
plat their own doormats, and flag
their own chairs, and do theil
own work The stalwart men ant
the influential women of this day
ninety nine out Of a hundred Of them
game from such an illustrious ancestry
of hard lynuekles and homcSpun Ant
who are these people in society, ltgh
. as froth, blown every whittier of temp
tation and fashion-thc peddlers o
filthy stories, the dancing jacks of pc
)itical parties, the scum of society, thu
tavern -ioupgina, store infesting, Thu
men of low wink, and filthy chnckle
and brass breastpin, and rotten associa
tions2 For the most part they came
from mothers idle and disgusting, thu
scandal mongers OF society, going iron
: house TO house attending to every
! body's business but their own, believ
: ing in witches and ghosts, and horse
, shoes 10 keep the devil out of th'
cburn, and b34a goddess life setting tn
: children on the yrrY verge 9f hell
The mothers OF Samuel johnson, ap'
of Alfred the Great, and Of Isaac New
ton, and of ST. Augustine, and of Rich
, ard Ceeil, and President Edwards
for the most part were industrious
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