Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-20

Augustine, and OF Richard Cecil, ana
of President Edwards, for the most part
were industrious, Woodworking mothers.
Now. while | congratulate all Christian
mothers upon the wealth and modern
science which may afford them all kinds
Of help. lei me say that every mother
ough, 10 be Observant Of her children
walk. her children's behavior, her chill
dren's food. her chilGren's books, her
children's ccmDanionShips. However
much help Hannah may have, l think
she ought every year, a. lea9,, make one
garment for Samuel The Lord have
mercy On the man who is so unfortu-
nate as to have had lazy mother!
Every child is bundle OF
TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITIES;
and whether that child shall come forth
IN life. its heart attuned to the eternal
harmcnies. and after a life of usefulness
on earth. go 10 a life Of joy in heaven;
or. whether across it shall jar eternal
discords, and after a l.fe Of wrong-do-
Ing on earth, it shall so to home OF
tmpenetrable darkness and an abyss OF
Unreasonable plunge, is being DECIDED
Ey nursery song and Sabbath lesson and
evening prayer. and walk and ride and
look and gown and >sm.le. o, how
many children N glory! crowdlng all
the battlements and lifting a million
voiced hOsanna-brough 70 God
through Christian parentagei One nun
drsd and twenty clergymen were to-
ge,her, and they were telling their ex-
perience and their ancestry; and OF
THE one hundred and twenty clergymen,
how many of them do you suppose as
s.gned. as the means Of their CONVEX
sion. the influence Of a Christian moth
er? One hundred out of the one hun
bred and twenty! Philip Doddridge
was brought 10 God by the Scripture
lesson on the Dutch tile OF the chin
ney fireplace. The mother thinks she
is only rocking a child; but at the same
time she may be rocking
THE DESTINY OF EMPIRES
rocking the fate of nations-rocking
the glor.es of heaven. The same ma
ternal power that may lift child up,
may press a child down. A daughter
came to a worldly mother and said she
was anxious about her s-ns, and she Aa0
been praying all night. The mother
said: 20, stop prayingi I cont be-
lieve in praying. Get ovei all those
religious notions, and I'll give you a
dress that VII cost five hundred COL
lars. and YOU may wear 1t reXt week
10 that party" The daughter TOOK the
dress: and she moved in the gay cir
Gle. the gayest OF all the gay taat night;
oil %
sions were gone, and she stopped pray
ing. A few months after, she came 10
die: and in her closing moments salG:
: Mother. l wish you would brlAS me
that dress that COS, five hundred ool-
lars" The mother thought 1t was
very strange request; but she brought
it to please the dying child. Now
said the daughter, mother, hang that
dress on the foot of my bed aud the
dress was hung there, on the foot Of the
I bed. Then the dying girl got up on
one elbow and looked at her mother,
and then pointed to the dress, and said:
/ Mother that dress is the price u my
sCulr O. what a mOmentOuS thing II
is TO be a mother!
Again. and lastly: Hannah stands be-
/ lore you lO-udN,
THE REWARDED MOTHER.
flor all the coats she made for Samuel;
for all the prayers she offered for him;
for the discipline she eXerted over him,
she got ABUNDANT compensation in the
2iety and the usefulness and the popu-
larity of her son Samuel; and that Is
true in all ages. Every mother gets full
pay for all the prayers and Gears IN pc
/ half Of her children. That man useful
in commercial life; that man prominent
/ in the profession; that master mechanic
why. every step ne takes in life has
/ an echo Of gladness IN the old heart
that LONG ago taught him to be Christian
| and heroic and earnest. The story OF
what YOU have done or what you have
written, OF the influence you have eX-
| erted. has gone back to the old home
s,ead-for there is someone always
ready 10 carry good tidings-and that
story makes the needle N the old moth
er's tremulOus hand Ay quicker, and
the fail in the fathers hand come down
u3on the barn floor with more ytSor-
Gus thump. Parents love to hear good
news from their children. Do you send
/ them good news always? Look out Tor
the Young man who Spea'ls nj his ather
as the governor" the squire, 1t The
odd chap" Look cut for the young
woman who calls her mother her ma
ternal ancestor or the old woman.
The eve that mocketh at his father, and
refusethEo obey his mother, the ravens
of the valley shall pick it out, and the
Young eagles shall eat it. God grant
that all these parents may have
THE GREAT SATISFACTION
of seeing their children grow up Chris
tians. but o, the pang of that mother
who. after a life Of great gadding, and
gossip-retailing. hanging on her chill
/ dren the fripperies and follies of this
world. sees those children tossed out
on the sea of life like foam on the
wave or nonentities in world where
only brawny ard sta, Yart character can
stand the shock But blessed be the
mother who looks upon her children as
sons and daughters Of the Lord AL
mighty. 0. the satisfaction of Hannah
i'm seeing Samuel serving al the altar;
of Mother Eunice in seeing her limo
/ thy learned in the Scriptures. That is
the mothers reCOmpense 10 see chill
dren coming up useful in the world, re-
claiming the lost, healing the sick. pity
ing the gnorant earnest and useful in
every sphere. That throws a new light
on the old family Bible whenever she
reads it: and that will be ointment TO
soothe the aching limbs of decrepu,ude,
and light up the closing hours Of life's
,Iday with the glories of an autumnal
sunset.