Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-24


VIII make George Will ruin John. Tn
rod is necessary in one case. while n frowi
Of displeasure is more than enough in an
other. Whipping and dark closet do 10
exhaust all the rounds of domestic disci
| pline. There have been children who hay,
grown up and gone 70 glory without eve
having had their ears 'boxed Oh, how
much care and intelli gcnce are necessary II
the rearing of childrenl Bet in this day
/ when there arc 50 many books on this sub
] ject, no Parent is eNcus'sblc In being igno
rant of the best mode Of bringing up
| child If PARENTS knew more of dietetics
there would not be so many dysIeptit
st0machs ard weak nerves and inactive
livers among children. II parents knew
more Of physiology, there would not be SC
many curved spines and cramped chests
and inhmned Threats and diseased lungs as
| there are among children. If parents know
more of art, and were in sympathy with
] all that is beautiful, there would not be SO
many children coming out in the world
/ with bOOrish procliyitics. If parents knew
/ more of Christ and practiced more Of his
religion, there would not be so many little
! feet already starting on the wrong road,
and all around us voices of riot and bias
phemy would not come up with such &c
I stasy of internal triumph. The eaglets in
the eyrie have no advantage over the ca
glets Of 1000 years ago; the kids have no
superior way of climbing up the rocks
than the old goats taught them hundreds
Of years ago; the whclps know no more
now than did the whelps Of ages agO-they
are taught no more by the lions of the
desert, but it is u shame that in this day
when there are so many opportunities Of
improving ourselves in the best manner of
culturing children, that so often there is
no more advancement in this respect than
there has been among the kids and the
eaglets and the whelps.
Hannah's Piety.
Again, Hannah stands before you today
as a Christian mother From her prayers,
and from the way she cOnsecrated her boy
to God, l 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 l,e-l Christian moth
or. There may be well read libraries in
the house, and exquisite music in the par
lor and the canvas of the best artist adorn-
ing the walls, and the wardrobe be crowd
ed with tasteful apparel, and the children
be wonderful for their attachments and
make the house ring with laughter and in
nOcent mirth, but there is something woe
fully lacking in that house if it be not also
the residence Of Christian mother l
bless God that there are not many prayer
less mothers. The weight of responsibility
is so great that they feel the need of di-
vine hand to help, and u divine voice to
comfort, and divine heart to syupathize.
Thousands of mothers have been led into
the kingdom of God by the hands of their
little children. There are hundreds of
mothers today who would not have been
Christians had it not been for the prattlc
of their little ones. Standing some day in
the nursery, they bethought themselves;
This child God has given me to raise for
eternity. What is my influence upon it?
Not being n Christian myself, how can
ever expect him to become n Christian.
Lord, help mep Oh, are there anxious
mothers who know nothing of the infinite !
help of religion? Then 1 commend TO you |
Hannah, the pious mother of Samuel. Do
not think it is absolutely impossible that
your children come up ubiquitous Out Of |
just such fair brows and bright eyes and /
soft hands and innocent hearts crimo gets /
its Misunderstanding purity from the !
heart, and rubbing out the smoOthness
from the brow, and qucnching the luster
of the eye, and shriveling up and poison
ing and putrefying and scathing and scald-
ing and blasting and burning with shame
and wO6
Every child is bundle of tremendous
possibilities, and whether that child shall
come forth in life its heart attuned to the
eternal harmonics, and after life of use
fulness on earth go to n life of joy in heav-
en-, or whether across it shall jar eternal
1iscords, and after n life of wrongdOing
on earth it shall go to home of impene-
5rable darkness and an abyss Of immeasur-
able plunge, is being decided by nursery
song and Sabbath lesson and evening
prayer and walk and ride and look and
frOwn and smile Oh, how many children
in glory, crowding all the battlements and
lifting a million voiced hosanna-brought
10 God through Christian parentagel One
hundred and twenty clergymen were to-
yether and they were telling their expert
snce and l,eir ancestry, and of the 100
;lergymen, how many of them do you sup
pose assigned as tho means Of their con-
iersion the influence Of Christian moth
~ One hundred out Of the hundred and
twenty Philip Doddridgo was brought to
iOd by the Scripture lesson on the Dutch
lie of the chimney fireplace The mother
thinks she is only rocking child, but ut
he same time she may be rocking the des-
iny of empires, rocking the fate of ma
ions, rocking the glories of heaven. The
anne maternal power that may lift child
Up may press child down. A daughter
anne to "a worldly mother and said she was
lnxiOus about her sins and she had been
'raying all night. The mother said: "Oh,
top praying / don't believe in praying
let over all those religious notions and
IL give you dress that will cost $500,
nd you may wear it next week to that
arty." The daughter took the dress, and
he moved in the gay circle, the gayest Of
II the gay that night, and, sure enough,
II religious impressions were gone and
he stopped praying. A few months after
he came to die, and in her closing mo-
nents said, Mother, ! wish you would
ring me that dress that cost $500. - The
lother thought it was very strange re-
uest but she brought it to please the dy-
ng child. "Now, said the daughter, +
mother, hang that dress ON the foot of .
ny bed " And the dress was hung there on :
he foot of the bed. Then the dying girl :
OF up on one elbow and looked ut her !
lother and then pointed to the dress and :
hid, Mother, that dress is the price Of I
ny soulp' Oh what a momentous thing !
is to be a motherl r
Again and lastly, Hannah stands before !
on today the rewarded mother For all /
ne coats she made for Samuel, for oil the /
rayers she Offered for him, for the discl- I
line she exeFted over him, she got abuns q
ant compensation in the piety and the
sefulness and the popularity Of her son r
and that is true in all ages
very mother gets full pay for all the 4
rayers and tears in behalf of her children. I
hat man useful in commercial life, that 4
IAN prominent in the profession, that I
iaster mechanie-why, every step he takes
4 life has an echo Of gladness In the old
cart that long ago taught him to be Chris.
Gsl and heroic and earnest. The story Of
Sat you have done or what you have a
-ritten, of the influence you have exerted,
as gone back to the old homestead, for
mere is some one always neady to carry v
God tidings, and that story makes the
eedle in the old mothers tremulous hand I
y quicker and the fail in the fathers =