The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-31

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 1 congratulate all
Christian mothers upon the wealth
and the modern science which
may afford them all kinds of help,
let me 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, / 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 q community who need to be SO
wise and well-informed as mothers.
o, this work of cultivating children for
this worlG 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 frown of displeasure is
more than enough in anoth-
err 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
without ever having their ears boxed.
o, how much care and intelligence
is necessary in the rearing of chill
dren. But in this day, when there
are so many books on this subject,
no parent is excusa ole in being ignO-
rant of the best mode of bringing up
child. II parents knew more of
dieteties, there would not be so many
dyspeptic 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 and inflamed
threats and diseased lungs as there are
children. If parents knew 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 proclivities. If
parents knew more of Christ, and
practiced more of His religion, there
would not be so many little feet start
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us voices of riot and blasphemy
would not come up with such ecstasy
of Internal triumph The eaglets in
the eyrio have no advantage over
the eaglets of a thousand years ago;
the kids having no superior way
of climbing up the rocks than the
old goats taught them hundreds of
years ago; the wheIps know no more
than did the whelps of ages agO-they
are taught no more by tue lions of the
deserC; but it is a shame that in this
day, when there are so many oppor-
tunities of improving ourselves in the
best manner of culturing children,
that so often there is no more advance
Inent in this respect than there has
been among the kids and the eaglets
and the wheIpS.
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 Christian
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braries 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
full apparel; and the children be won
lerful for their attainments, and make
the house ring with laughter and innO-
cent mirth; but there is something
woefuify lacking in that house if it be
not also the residence of Christian
mother. / bless God that there are
not many prayerless mothers. The
weight of responsibility is SO great
that they feel the need of Divine
aud a Divine heart to SYM
Dathize. 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
Christians had it not been for~th
orattle of their little ones. Standing
some day in the nursery, they be-
thought themselves, this child God
has given me to raise for eternity.
What is my influence upon it? Not be-
ng Christian myself, how can ever
expect him to become a Christian.
Lord, help me!' o, are there anxious
mothers who know nothing of the
help of religion? Then
commend to you Hannah, the
Dious mother of Samuel Do not
think it absolutely impossible that
your children come up Ubiquitous. Out
IF just such fair brOws and bright eyes
Ind soft hands and innocent hearts
rhine gets its Misunderstanding
purity from the heart. and rubbing out
he smoothness from the brow, and
luenching the luster of the ey., and
up and poisoning and putre-
ying and scathing and scalding and
blasting and burning with shame and
voc.
Every child is bundle of tremen-
lous possibilities, and whether that
;hild shall come forth in life, its heart
stunned to the eternal harmonies, and
after life of usefulness on earth, go
o life of JOY in Heaven, or, whether
Lcross it shall jar eternal discords, and
lfter life of wrong-doing on earth, it
hall go to a home of impenetrabl BILE