The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25

be held back, and tanned down
into modesty and politeness. Rewards
for one,p punishment for another. mat
which will make George Will rum
John. The rod is necessary IN one
case, while n frown of displeasure Is
more than enough in another. Nhlp-
ping and a dark closet do not exhaust
ALI the rounds of domestic discipline.
There have been children who have
grown up and gone to glory without
ever having had their ears boxed.
q. how much care and intelligence is
necessary in the rearing of children!
But in 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 a child: III
Darents knew more of dietetlcs, there
would not be so many dyspeptlc stom-
achs and weak nerves and inactive Nv
ers among children. If parents knew
more of physiology, there would not
he so many curved spines and cramped
chests and infamed throats and dis
eased lungs as there are among chill
dren. 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
he 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 ecstacy OF in
fernal triumph.
The eaglets in the eyrie have no ad-
vantage over the eaglets of a thousand
wears ago; the kids have no superior
way Of climbing up the rocks than the
old goats taught them hundred of
wears ago; the whelps know no more
now than did the whelps of ages ago
they are taught nc more by the lions
of the desert; but it is a shame that IN
this day, when there are so many OPP
~portunities of improving ourselves IN
the best manner of culturing children,
that so often there is no more advance
ment in this respect than there mas
been among the kids and the eaglets
and the whelpS-
Again: Hannah stands before you as
a Christian mother. From her prayers,
and from the way she consecrated her
bow to God, 1 know she was good. A
mother NAV have the finest culture,
the most brilliant surroundings; but
she is not fit for her duties unless she
be a Christian mother. There may be
we'll read libraries 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 tasteful apparel: and the chill
|. dren be wonderful for their attain
. ments, and make the house ring with
. laughter and innocent mirth; but
there is something wofully lacking in
that house if it be not also the resi-
= dence of a Christian mother. bless
God that there are not many prayer
: less mothers. The weight OF RESPONSE
!, bility is so great that they feel the
: need of a divine hand to help, and a
. divine voice to comfort, and n divine
heart to s~ympathlze.
. Thousands of mothers have been led
/. into the kingdom of God by the hands
4 of their little children. There are
! hundreds of mothers to-day who would
y not have been Christians had it not
/ been for the prattle of their little
y ones Standing some day in the nurs-
!. erv, they b~ethought themselves, This
u child God has given me to raise for
! eternity. What is my influence upon
IL? Not being a Christian myself,
), how can | ever expect him to be
u come a Christian. Lord, help me!
H. Ike LnC1S ohaAOo 1850
. know nothing of the infinite help
70 of religion? Then ! commend to you
!, Hannah, the pious mother of Samuel
- Do not think it is absolutely impossi
= BILE that your children came up iniqui
tous. Out of just such fair brows ano
l. bright eyes and soft hands and limo
= cent hearts, crime gets its ictims-eX
u tirpating purity from the heart ant
: rubbing out the smoothness from thu
!. brow, and q~uenching the luster of the
= eve, and shriveling up and poisoning
- and putrefying and blasting and burn
:" ing with shame and woe.
. Every child is n bundle of tremen
- dous possibilities; and whether tina
- child shall come forth in life, it's hear
" attuned to the eternal harmonies, an'
l after a life Of usefulness IN earth, g
to a life of joy in Heaven: or, whethe
- across it shall jar eternal discords, an
- after a life of wrong-doing on earth,
shall go to a home of impenetrabl
darkness and an abyss of immeasur
able plunge, is being decided By nurs
:. cry song and Sabbath lesson and even
: ing prayer and walk and ride an
- look and frown and smile. o, hoV
many children in glory crowding a
~ the battlements and lifting a mil
lion-voiced hosanna-brought to Go
through Christian parentage! On
g hundred and twenty clergy
=, men were together, and they wer
in telling their experience and their an
cestry; and of the 100 clergymen, hoy
q many of them do you suppose assigned
as the means of their conversion, tn
"A influence of u Christian mother? On
~ hundred out of 100! Philip Doddridg
was brought to God by the Scriptur
lesson on the Dutch tile of the chime
fireplace. The mother thinks she
only rocking a child; but at the sam
r time she may be rocking the destin
of empires-rocking the fate of nation
rocking the glories of Heaven.
The same materna. power that ma
lift a child up, may press the chi
~ down. A daughter came to a world
mother and said she was anXiou
about her sins, and she had been pray
20 ing all night. The mother said: &C
va stop praying! l don't believe in pray
ad ing. Get over these religious notions
re and I'll give you a dress that will cos
$500, and you may wear it next wee
in to that party" The daugher took tn
=. dress; and she moved in the ga
10 circle, the gayest of all The ga
~ that night; and sure enough, al
IN the religious impressions wer
n gone, and she stopped praying. A fe'
months after, she came to die; and j
Is her closing said: Mother,
nd wish you would bring me that dres
lie that cost $500" The mother though
nv it was a very strange request; but sh
brought it to please the dying child
&C. "How," said the daughter, ''mothel
IN hang that dress on the foot of my bed;
q, and the dress was hung there, on tn
foot of the bed. Then the d ying gin
nd got up on one elbow and looked at he
IS mother, and then pointed to the dress
ey and said: Mother, that dress is tn
q, price of my soulT" o, what a momeI
ng tous thing it is to be a mother!
70 Amin and lastly: Hannah stand