The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-07-29


WASHINGTON, July 19 This radical
discourse will no doubt have its prac-
teal result in many homesteads
throughout Christendom. The
was l Samuel ii, 19, Moreover nis
mother made him a little coat and
brought it to him from year to year
when she came up with her husband
to offer the yearly sacrifice
The stories of Deborah and Abigail
are very apt TO discourage q woman's
soul. She says within herself, 1T is
impossible that | ever achieve any
such grandeur Of character, and l
don't mean to try" as though a child
should refuse to play the eight notes
because he cannot execute William
Tell" This Hannah of the text diff
fers from the persons l just named.
She was an ordinary woman, with or
dinary intellectual capacity, placed
in ordinary circumstances, and yet by
extraordinary piety standing out be.
fore all the ages to come the model
Christian mother. Hannah was the
wife of Elkanah, who was person
very much like herSelf-unroEantlc
and plain, never having fought bat
tie or been the subject OF a marvellous
escape. Neither OF them would have
been called genius. Just what you
and might be, that was Elkanah and
Hannah. The brightest time in all
the history of that family was the
birth of Samuel. Although no star
ran along the heavens pointing down
to his birthplace, I think the angels Of
God stopped at the coming of SO won
derful 8, prophet. AS Samuel had
been given in answer to prayer. Ell
kanah and all his family, save Han
nah, started up to Shiloh to offer sac
ri6ces of thanksgiving. The cradle
where the child slept was altar enough
for Rannah's grateful heart, but when
the boy was old enough she took him
to Shiloh and took three bullocks and
an ephah of -four and a bottle of wine
snd made offering of sacrifice unto
the Lord, and there, according to q
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, and every year
Hannah made with her own hand a
garment for Samuel and took it over
to him. The lad would have got
along well without that garment, for
suppose he was well clad by the
ministry of the temple, but Hannah
could not be contented unless she was
all the time doing something for her
darling boy. Moreover his mother
made him little coat and brought It
to him from year to year when she
came up with her husband to offer the
yearly sacrifice. )"
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. He belonged to a
distinguished family, for the Bible
tells us that he was the son of Jero-
ham, the son of Elihu, the sun OF To
hu, the son of Zuph. "Who were
theys" you say. I do not know, but
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 disheveled hair read
novels, from year to year, If there had
been any to read. But when I see her
making that garment and taking 1t
over to Samuel, ] know she is indus
trious from principle as well as from
pleasure. God would not have a
mother become a drudge or a slave;
heWouH have her employ all the helps
possible in this day in the rearing OF
her children. But Hannah ought
never to be ashamed to be found max
ing coat 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, attest that they are faithful in
their maternal duties. The bloom
and the brightness and the vivacity 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 Americans.
There are mothers who Danish them
selves from the home circle. For
three-fourths OF their maternal duties
they prove themselves incompetent.
They are ignorant of what their chill,
dren wear,, and what their children
eat, and what their children read.
They intrust to irresponsible persons
these young immortals and allow them
to be under influences which may
cripple their bodies, or taint their
purity, Or spoil their manners, or de.
stroy their souls. From the awkward
cut of Samuel's coat you know his
mother Hannah did not make it.
Out from under flaming chande-
liers, and off from imported carpets,
and down the granite stairs there Is
coming great crowd of children IN
this day unframed, saucy, incompe.
tent for all the practical duties OF life,
ready to be caught in the first whirl
of crime and sensuality. Indolent
and unfaithful mothers will make In
dolent and unfaithful children. You
cannot expect neatness and order in
any house where the daughters see
nothing but slatternliness and upside
downativeness in their parents. Let
Hannah be idle, and most certainly
Samuel will grow up idle. Who are
the industrious men in all our occu-
pations and professionsa Who are
they managing the merchandise Of the
world, building the wall, timing the
roofs, weaving the carpets, making
the laws. governing the nations, max.
ing the earth to quake and heave and
roar and rattle with the tread of gigan-
tic enterprises2 VINO are they? For
the most part they descended from IN.
dustrious mothers, who in the old
homestead used to spin their own yarn
and weave their own carpets and plalt
their own doormats and flag their
own chairs and do their own work.
The stalwart men and the influential