The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

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culturing children for this world and
the next! This child is timid, and it
must be reused up and pushed out into
activities. This child is forward, and
he must be held back and tanned down
into modesty and politeness. Rewards
for one, punishments for another. That
which will make George will ruin
John The rod is necessary in one case,
while a frown Of displeasure is more
than enough in another. Whipping and
q 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. Oh, how much care and
| intelligence are necessary in the rearing
of children! But i'll this day, when there
, are so many books on this subject. no
parent is excusable in being ignorant of
the best mode of bringing up child.
! If parents knew more of dietetics, there
would not be SO many dyspeptic stom-
achs, and weak nerves, and inactive liy-
ers among children. If parents knew
more OF physiology, there would not be
SO many curved spines and cramped
chests, and inflamed throats, and dis
eased lungs as there are among 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 III the world with boorish
proclivities. If parents knew more of
Christ and practiced more of his reli-
gion, there would not be so many little
feet already starting on the wrong road,
and all around us voices of riot and
blasphemy would not come up with such
ecstasy of internal triumph.
The eaglets i'll the eyrie have no I'D
vantage over the eaglets of thousand
years ago The kids have no superior
way of climbing up the rocks than the
old goats taught them hundreds of years
ago. The whelps 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 a shame that in this
day, when there are so many opportu.
mites 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 whclps.
Her Christian Character.
Again, Hannah stands before you TO-
day as Christian mother. From her
prayers and from the way she conse-
Grated her boy to God 1 know she was
good Another may have the finest cul-
ture, the most brilliant surroundings,
but she is not fit for her duties unless
she be Christian mother There may
be well read libraries in the house, and
| exquisite music i'll the parlor, and the
| canvas of the best artist adorning the
walls, and the wardrobe be crowded
with tasteful apparel, and the children
be wonderful for their attainments and
| make the house ring with laughter and
| innocent mirth, but there is something
woefully 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 hand to help
and q divine voice to comfort and di-
| vine heart to sympathize. Thousands of
| mothers have been led into the king
dom of God by the hands of their little
children. There are hundreds of moth
ers today who would not have been
| Christians had it not been for the pratt
tie 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 Christian
| myself, how can | ever expect him to
become Christian. Lord, help met"
Oh, are there. anxious mothers who
know nothing of the infinite help of re-
ligion? Then l commend to you Han
nah, the pious mother of Samuel. Do
not think it is absolutely impossible
| that your children come up iniquitous.
| Out of just such fair brows and bright
| eyes and soft hands and innocent hearts
| crime gets its victims-eXtirpatlng pu-
| rity from the heart and rubbing out the
| smoothness from the brow and quench'
ing the luster of the eye and shriveling
up and poisoning and putrefying and!
scathing and scalding and blasting and
| burning with shame and woe.
Every child is Il bundle of tremendous
possibilities And whether that child
shall come forth in life. its heart attuned
| to the eternal harmonies, and after q
| life of usefulness on earth, go to a life.
Of joy in heaven, or whether across it
shall jar eternal discords and after
life of wrongdoing on earth it shall go
| to a home of impenetrable darkness and
| an abyss of immeasurable plunge-iS be-
| ing decided by nursery song and Sab
bath lesson and evening prayer and
| walk and ride and look and frown and
smile. Oh, how many children i'll glory,
crowding all the battlements and lifting
a million voiced hosanna, brought to
God through Christian parentagel One
hundred and twenty clergymen were
| together, and they were telling their
experience and their ancestry, and OF
| the one hundred and twenty clergymen,
how many of them, do you suppose, as
signed as the means of their conver-
sion the influence of Christian mother!
One hundred out of the hundred and
twenty. Philip Doddridge was brought
to God by the Scripture lesson on the
Dutch tile of the chimney fireplace. The
mother thinks she is only rocking
child, but at the same time she may be
rocking the destiny of empires, rocking
the fate of nations, rocking the glories
of heaven. The same maternal power
that may lift child up may press
child down. A daughter came to
worldly mother and said she waS anx-
ions about her sins and she had been
praying all night The mother said:
"Oh, stop prayingi l don't believe IN
praying. Get over all those religious
notions, and I'll give you a dress that
will cost five hundred dollars, and you
may wear it next week to that party
The daughter took the dress, and she
moved in the gay circle. the gayest OF
all the gay that night, and, sure enough,
all religious impressions were gone, and
she stopped praying. A few months aft
er, she came to die and in her closing
moments said, Mother, l wish you
would bring me that dress that cost
$780," The mother thought it was a
very strange request, but she brought 1t
to please the dying child. Nov, said
the daughter, mother, hang that dress
on the foot of my bed. F" And the dress
was hung there on the foot of the bed.
Then the dying girl got up on one ell
bow and looked at her mother and then
pointed to the dress and said, Mother,
that dress is the price of my soul. . Oh,
what a momentous thing it is to be
motherl
Again, and lastly, Hannah stands be-
fore you today, the rewarded mother
Eo,. oil the coats she made for Samuel,