The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-04-21

If IL had . glimpse Of fair fields with
daisies and buttercups, an impossible
gate would intervene. It was decided,
cajoled, and pampered, until, not know.
ing what its rights were, It became that
veritable nuisance, pet sheep always
in mischief. and always in trouble.
But this wise shepherd whose beauti.
full flocks covered the hillsides, did not
treat his lambs. He gave them natures
simplest food, at proper times, plenty
Of pure air and sunshine, clean bed,
sufficient warmth, and let them alone
to quietly grow.
The child is only helpless animal,
more helpless than the lamb, and it's
needs are very much the same except
that it needs wise Christian mother to
supply them. If it is carefully guarded
from baleful influences, physically and
morally baleful. so that it may grow as
God intended it to grow into a noble
specimen Of physical humanity, the
work Of training its moral nature is
half done. A sound mind is apt to
dwell in sound body aud the spiritual
part Of his being will be in accord with
the highest, purest, best will see in
every created thing the hand of q
Creator, and be able to grasp by faith
the wonderful gift OF Gods love.
We must admit though that fine
physical frame does not always encase
beautiful spirit. We have seen or heard
of the fine personal appearance of Rob
ert J. Ingersoll, yet his mind has &C.
quired bias which has dwarfed his
spiritual self, until one would far rather
be "The poor Indian whose untutcred
mind sees God in the clouds, hears him
in the wind," and who believes that in
the Happy Hunting Grounds his dog
and horse will bear him company"
than to be such man as Ingersoll,
whose eloquence is used to teach our
children that they will go down with
the dog to eternal death.
We who do not know his early life
cannot tell why or where in the road
from childhood to manhood, he imbibed
such theories as he now 80 eloquently
advances. We can only conjecture that
possibly he may have been left to the
care of wicked or ignorant servants who
gave him false teaching in things spir.
itual. But where was his mother
Was she at the Club, or was she out
on business ? Well, no, women didn't
do these.things then. But there were
theaters, and parties, and novels to read
and friends to entertain, and perhaps
she had no time to put him to bed and
hear his evening prayer. She may have
been good woman, on whose should
ers rested the success Of the Christian
Temperance movement, or perhaps she
was writing papers for the Missionary
meetings, or collecting money to sent
the Gospel to the heathen while Bobb,
was in the nursery absorbing the pois
sonous sentiments which he now triel
to diffuse in the name Of higher culture
The mothers of great and good mer
are Justly lauded for their influence OF
the early lives Of these men. Wash
ington, Adams, Garfield, and hundred
Of others like them, attribute their sue
cess in this life and hope of the lif'
beyond to the careful training of thei
mothers.
Rarely we see good son of bat
mother. Occasionally We see the bat
son Of good mother. But when VI
say oi dissolute young man, or way
ward young woman, that 1t is strang
they are what they are when they hav'
such good mother, we may not b.
sure that the fault il not hers.
II she has not from the earliest daw,
of their consciousness trained them h
obedience, truthfulness, honesty
purity, honesty, temperance, godliness
by precept and by example, their sim
may be brought to her account.
II she has consciously given them
father who ID . drunksrd, or an infidel
the missing Of their inheritance ID he
gift and she may not hold herself guilt
les II they follow in his footsteps.
| Christ said. "whoso shall receive on
Of these little ones In my name receivetl
me. But whose shall offend one of thes
little ones it were better that mill
stone were hanged about his neck an
that he were drowned in the midst Q
the Sea-"
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