Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-10

that process that granite column would
be worn ont of existence before moth
ers' influence will begin to give way.
On the Great Divide.
Tf mother tell child if he is not good
some bugaboo 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 a
liar, and the echo of that false alarm
may be heard after Is generations have
been born and have expired. If a moth
er promises child reward for good
behavior and after the good behavior
forgets to give the reward, the cheat
may crop out in some faithlessness half
thousand years further on. If a mother
cultivate a child s vanity and eulogize
his curls and extol the night black or
sky blue or nut brown Of the child's
eyes and call out in his presence the adj
miration of spectators, pride and AFRO
gance may be prolonged after half a
dozen family records have been obliter-
ated. If a mother express doubt about
some statement Of the Holy Bible in a
child's presence long after the gates Of
this historical era have closed and the
gates of another era have opened, the
result may be seen in a champion bias
phemer; but, on the other hand, if a
mother walking with child see suf
fering one by the wayside and says,
my child, give that 10 cent piece TO
that lame boy the result may be seen
on the other side of the following CEN
fury in some George Muller building
whole village of orphanages. If a mother
sit almost every evening by the trundle
bed of child and teach it lessons of
Saviour's love and a Saviour's example,
of the Importance of truth and the hor-
ror of lie, and the virtues of industry
and kindness and sympathy and self sac
rifice long after the mother has gone
and the child has gone and the letter
ing en- both the tombstones shall have
been washed out by the storms of innu-
merable winters, there may be standing
as a result of those trundle bed lessons,
flaming evangels, world moving reform
ers, seraphic Summerfields, weeping
Paysons, laundering Whitefelds, eman-
cipating Washingtons.
Nature Never Skips.
Good or bad influence may skip one
generation or two generations, but it
will be sure to land in the third or
fourth generation, just as the Ten Com
mandments, speaking Of the visitation
of God on families, says nothing about
the second generation, but entirely skips
the second and speaks of the third and
fourth generation-"visiting the in
Equities of the fathers upon the third
and fourth generation of them that hate
me. Parental influence, right and
wrong, may jump over a generation,
but it will come down further on as
sure as you sit there and I stand here
ministry was projected by
his grandmother, Lois. There are men
and women here, the sons and daugh-
tiers of the Christian church, who are
such as a result of the conservation of
great-great- grandmothers. Why, who
do you think the Lord is? You talk as
though his memory was weak. He can
as easily remember a prayer offered five
centuries ago as a prayer offered five
ago. This explains what we
often see-some man or woman distin-
guished for benevolence when the IA
Their and mother were distinguished for
9enuriousness, or you see some young
man or wO1San with bad father and
hard mother come out gloriously for
Christ and make the church sob and
shout and sing under their exhortations.
We stand in corners of the vestry and
whisper over the matter and say, "How
is this, such great piety in sons and
daughters of such parental worldliness
and sin?' [ will explain it to you if
you will fetch me the old family Bible
containing the full record. Let some
look with me clear upon
the page of births and marriages and
tell me who that woman was with the
old fashioned name of Jemima or Betsy
OF Mehitabel All, there she is, the old
or great grandmother, who
had enough religion to saturate a cen.
fury.
why Some Men Win.
There she is, the dear old soul,
Lois. In beautiful Green
wood cemetery there is the resting place
Of George w. Bethune, once a minister
of Brooklyn Heights, his name never
spoken among Intelligent Americans
suggesting two things-elo-
luence and evangelism. In the same
tomb sleeps his grandmother, Isabella
Graham, who was the chief inspiration
Of his ministry. You are not surprised
at the poetry and pathos and pulpit
power of the grandson when you read
Of the faith and devotion of his wonder
full ancestress When you read this let
ter, in which she poured out Der wild
owed soul in longings for a SON. S saliva
ton, you will not wonder that succeed
ing generations have been blessed:
"NEw YORK, May 20, 1891.