The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-11-26

" I give q mighty
push In the right direction" The
fact was that Timothy needed encour-
agement He was in poor health, hav-
ing . weak stomach, aud was = dys-
peptic, and Paul prescribed for him q
tonic, "a little wine for thy stomach's
sake not much wine; but 9 little
wine, and only as a medicine And IL
the wine then had been as much adul-
terAted with logwood and strychnine
Is our modern vines he would not
have prescribed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically,
is encouraged spiritually by the recital
Of grandmotherly excellence. Paul
limiting 70 him, As l hint this day IN
you, that God sometimes gathers up as
In q reservoir. away back OF the active
generations Of to-day. . goodly inAu-
ence. and then In response TO prayer
lets down the power upon ehidsen and
grandchildren and grestgrandchii.
dren. The world 10 woefully In want
Of q table Of statistics In regard to
what 10 the protrsetedness andimusn-
atty Of the influences Of one good woman
In the church aud world. We have 90
counts OF how much evil has been
wrought BY 4 woman who lived nearly
100 years ago and Of how many crimi-
mails her descendants furnished for the
p~snitentiary and the gallows. and how
many hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
they cost our country in their arraign.
ment and prison support a well a. In
the property they bu~rglarissd and de-
stroyed, but will not some ous come
out with brain comprehensive enough,
and heart warm enough. and pen keen
enough 70 give US the facts In regard
TO some good woman Of 100 years ago,
and let Us know how many Christian
men and women aud reformeYs and
useful people have been found among
her descendants, and how many ssy.
lums and colleges and churches they
built, and how many millions Of dol
lars they contributed for humanitarian
and Christian purposesf
The good women whose tombstopss
were plsuted In the eighteenth century
are moro alive for good In the nine
tenth century thar they were before,
as the good ome Of this ninetsenth
century will be more alive for good 10
the twentieth century than now.
Mark you, l have no idea that the
GRANDMOTHER were any better than
their granddaughter You eannot
get very old people 10 talk much about
how things were when they were bows
and girls. They have q retieense and
q non-committalism which makes me
think they feel themselves to be the
custodians Of the reputation OF thar
early comrades While our dear old
folks are rehearsinR the follies Of the
present II we put them on the witness
stand and cross-exhmine them a. "a
how things were 10 years ago the
silence becomes oppressive.
There was o glorious race OF 0odiv
women, 70 and 100 years ago, who held
the world back from sin and lifted n
toward virtue, and without their az
allied and sAnetihed influence betora
this the last good influence would have
persisted from the earth. Indeed. ali
this land there are seated today
not so much in churches, for many Of
them are too feeble TO eome-a great
many aged Rrapdmothers. They some.
times feel that the world has zone past
them, and they have an idea that thew
are Of little account Their heads
sometimes get aching from thu RACKET
OF the grandchildren downstairs or In
the next room. They steady them.
by the bauisters as they 20 IN
and down. When they get a cold Il
on them longer than IL used 10.
They cannot bear 10 have the grand.
children punished even when they de-.
serve II, and have so relaxed their
IDEAS Of family discipline that they
wonld spoil all the youngsters of the
household by too great leniency.
These old folks' are the resort when
great troubles come. and there ia a
calming and soothing power In the
touch Of an aged hand that Is almost
supernatural They feel they ara
through with the journey of
We aud read the old Book more than