Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-13

Here we have an uniricd. undi,-
cusscd and uncxnlorcd subject. You
often hear about your innh ne, unuu
Your own children; am not talking
about that. What about Your influence
unon tine twentieth century. upon III,
thirticth century. upoI the forlicth
century. upon the year 1000. upon the
year 1000, il the worl lasts so long?
The world stood 1000 wears before
Christ came; il is not unreasonable to
supnoSc that it may >tanl 1000 years
after his arrival Four thousand ', ars
the world swung or in >ia 1000 year,
1t may Inc swim ring back into right
c"u>neS>. l;y the ordinary multiple
Gallon of the words pur ulrtiun in
century your dcsc,ndan,~ will hc over
800, and 10y two centuries over -. 900.
and upon every one of them YOU. the
mother of to-day, will have an inilu.
cncc, for Tond or evil. and If in our
centuries your descendants shall have
with their names filed scroll of hum
drcd> OF thousands, viii some angel
from Heaven, To whom j. given the
capacity tu ca!Cu ate the number of
the stars of heaven ami the sands
of the sca>hurc, step ii, wn and tell
Us how many Gr. ccudants Won will
have in III" four thuusandih wear
of the w"rld'> possible continuance?
DO not let the grandmothcrs any long
cr think that they are retired. ami SIT
clear acl out of i rht from The world,
feeling that they have no relation t.
II. The mothers of tine last cent. ry
are to-day in the person of their de-
sccndapts, in the senatc>, the parlia-
mcnts, the PALACES, the lulpitS, the
banking houses, the professional
chairs, the prisons, the almShousrs.
the g. mrany of midnight br;gands. the
cellars. the bitches of this century. You
have been thinking about the imr ort-
ance of having the right influence mp
ON one nursery. You have been think
ing of the Importance of getting those
two little feet ON the right path. You
have been thinking of Your cnitd's
destiny for the next - years, if il
should lasS on To DE an ociogcnarian.
That Is well, but my subject sweeps a
Thousand years, a million years, qua
driilion OF wears. can not stop at
one cradle. | am looking al the cr3 Il: :
that reach all around the world ami
| across all time. am not talking az
! Mother Eunice. am talking Of Grand
mother Lois The only way YOU can
! tell the force of a current i bv sailing
/ NJ stream: or tine force of an ocean
wave, by running the shin against il.
Eunnin" along with it we can not APP.
! pre-, late the force.
In estimating material influence We
/ generally run alon" with it down the
| stream of time, and 80 We don't un-
! dcrstand tJc iull force. Let us com.
| up To it from the eternity side, after ii
has been working on for g. INJURIES, and
see al tine good II has done and all the
evil it has accomplished multiplied in
magnificent or appalling compound
! interest. The difference between that
mothers influence on her chiiGr, n now
and the influence when it has been
multiplied in hundreds of thousands of
| lives, is the difference between the
| Mississippi river away up at the top of
the continent, starting from the
| little Lake ltasca, seven mics long
and one wide, and its mouth at the
ride. Between the birth of that river
and its burial in the sea the Missi>sip-
| pi pours in, and the Ohio pours in, and
! the Arkansas pours in, and the Red
and White and Yazoo rivers pour in.
and all the states and territories be-
tween the Allegheny and Rocky noun
tains make contribution. Now. in
order T., test the power of a mother 5
} influence, we need come in off the
: G sean - .acieraity an,lssil w toward
tlc oUo 'adle, and we will find 10. 900
tributdr.ls of influence pouring in
and pouring down. But it is after all
one great river OF power rolling on
and rolling forever. Who can fathom
il? Who can bridge it? VINO can stop
| it? Had not mothers better be inten-
styling their example? Had they not
better be rou>ing themselves with the
consideration that by their faithful
ness or neglect they are starting an
influence which will be stupendous
after the last mountain of earth is Hat.
and the last sea has dried up, and the
last flake of the ashes of consumed
world shall have been blown away,
and all the telescopes of other worlds
directed to the track around which our
world once swung shall discover
not SO much as a cinder of the burned
down and swept-off planet In Csylon
there is granite column Sc square
feet in size, which is thought by the
natives to decide the worlds continu-
ance. An angel with robe spun from
zephyrs is once a century to descend
and sweep the hem of that robe across
the granite, and when by that attri-
ton the column is worn away they
cess that granite column would b.
worn out of existence be ore mothers
influence will begin to give way.
II a mother tell n child if he is not
good some bu-aboo will come and
catch him, the fear excited may make
the child a coward, and the fact that
he finds that there is no bugaboo may
| make him liar, and the echo OF that
false alarm may be heard after II gen.
erations have been born and expired.
If mother promises child Il reward
| for good behavior, and after the good
behavior forgets to give the reward
| the cncat may crOD out IN some
faithlessness half thousand years
further on. If mother cult
vate child's vanity and culogizC
his curls and extol the night-blaclS OF
sky-blue or nut-brown of the child's
eyes and call out in his presence the
admiration of spectators pride ana ar,
rogance may he prolonged after half q
dozen family records have been oblit-
Grated. II n mother express doub,
about some statement of the HOLY
Bible in a child's presence, long after
the gates of this historic era have
closed and the gates of another era
have opened the result may be seen in
a champion blasphemcr
But, on the other hand, If a mother
walking with child sees suffering
one by the waysidc and says, MY
child, give that ten-cent piece To that
lame boy the result may be seen or
the other side of the following cen
fury in some George Muller building
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