The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-14

ing century in some George Muller
building a whole village of orphan
ages. If mother sits almost every
evening by the trundle-bed of a child
and teaches it lessons of Saviour's
love and "a Saviour's example, of the
Importance of truth and the horror OF
n lie, and the virtues of industry and
kindness and sympathy and self-sacri-
fee, long after the mother has gone
and the child has gone and the letter.
ing on both the tombstones shall
have been washed out by the storms
of innumerable winters, there may be
standing, as a result of those trundle-
bed lessons, flaming evangels, world
moving reformers seraphic Summer
fields, weeping Paysons, laundering
Wbitefields, emancipating Washing
tons.
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
Commandments, speaking of the visi-
tation of God on families, says moth
ing about the second generation, but
entirely skips the second, and speaks
of the third and fourth generations:
Visiting the iniquities of the fathers
upon the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me-" Parental in
tluence, right and wrong, may jump
over n generation, but it will come
down further on as sure as you sit
there and | stand here. Timothy's
ministry was projected by his grand
mother Lois. There are men and
women here, the sons and daughters
of the Christian church, who are such
as a result of the conservation of
great.great-grandmo Why, who
do you think the Lord isP You
talk as though His memory was
weak. He can as easily remem-
Der n prayer offered five centuries
ago as a prayer offered five minutes
ago This explains what we often see
some man or woman distinguished
for benevoleuce when the father and
mother were distinguished for penuri-
business, or you see some young man
or woman with bad father and a
hard mother come out gloriously for
Christ, and make the church sob and
shout and sing under their exhorta-
tions We stand in corners of the yes
try 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 rec
ord. Let some septuagenarian 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 or Mehita-
bel. All, there she is, the old grand
mother, or great-graudmother who
had enough religion To saturate CEN
fury.
God fill the earth and the heavens
with such grandmothers; we must
some day go up and thank these dear
old souls. Surely God will let us go up
and tell them of the results of their
influence. Among our first questions
in Heaven will be, where is grand
mother?" They will point her ont, for
we would hardly know her, even if we
had seen her on earth, so bent over
with years once and there so straight.
so dim of eye through the binding of
earthly tears and now her eye as clear
as Heaven, so full of aches and pains
once and now so agile with celestial
health, the wrinkles blooming into
carnation roses, and her step like the
roe on the mountains. Yes, must see
her, my grandmother on my fathers
side, Mary Mccoy, descendant of the
Scotch. When | first spoke To an au-
dience in Glasgow, Scotland, and felt
somewhat diilident being stranger,
| began by telling them my grand
mother was Scotch woman, and then
there went up shout OF welcome
which made me feel as easy as | do
here. ] must see her.
You must see those women of the
early part of the nineteenth century
and those of the eighteenth century.
the answer OF whose PRAYERS is in
your welfare to-day God bless all the
aged women mp and down the land
and In all lands! What happy thing
for Pomponius Atticus to say when
making the funeral address OF his
mother: "Though / have resided with
her q years, | was never once recon-
ciled to her, because there never hap
pcned the least discOrd between us,
and consequently there was no
need of reconciliation" Make it
as easy for the old folks as
you can. When they are sick
get for them the best doctors Give
them Your arm when the streets are
slippery. Stay with them all the time
you can. Go home and see the old
folks Find the place for them in the
hymnbook. Never be ashamed if they
prefer styles of apparel which are u
little antiquated. Never say anything
that implies that they are in the way.
Make the road for the last mile as
smooth as you can. Oh, myl how you
will miss her when she is gone! How
much would | give to see my motherl
! have so many things | would like to
tell her, things that have happened in
the 80 years since she went
away. Morning, noon and night let
us thank God for the good influences
that have come down from good moth
ers all the way back. Timothy, don't
forget your mother Eunice and don't
forget VOur grandmother Lois And