The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-19
4 MOTHERS POW ER.
Rev. Dr.. TaInage breaches on
influence Of Heridity.
ALL GOOD HANDED DOWN.
Mother Responsible for Future OF
Her Children. Woman's Quail
tiles Are Transmitted to
Her Offsprings.

mage here sets forth While olscouLsInS
about one of the grandmothers OF blole
lines The text is II Timothy J, .,
The unfeisned faith that is IN thee.
which dwelt first in thy grandmother
Lois. ,,n
In this pastoral letter which Paul,
the old minister, is writing to Timothy:
the Young minister, the family record
is brought out. Paul practically says:
Timothy what good grandmotheryou
had. You ought to be better than most
folks. because not OILY was your mother
good, but your grandmother was good
also. Two preceding generations OF
piety ought to give you a mighty push
in the right direction, The fact was
that Timothy needed encouragement.
He was in poor health. having weak
stomach, and was a dyspeptic, and
Paul prescribed for him a tonic, a
little wine for thy stomachs sake
not much wine. but little wine, ana
only as medicine. And II the wine
thsn had been as wuch adulterateo
with logwood and strychnine as eur
modern wines he would not have pre-
scribed any. ,..;oo,,,.
But Timothy. not strong physically;
is encouraged spiritually by the recital
Of grandmother excellence, Paul hln1-
ipg to him, as l hint this to you, tha'
Cod sometimes gathers UP as IN res
ervoir, away back Of the active genera,
tions Of today, godly influence and
then. in response to prayer, lets down
the power upon children and grandeh1Il-
dren and great Grandchildren. The
world is woeful in want Of table OF
statistics in regard to what is the pro
tractedness and immensity Of influence
Of one good woman in the church and
world. We have accounts Of how much
evil has been wrought by woman who
lived nearly a hundred years ago. and
of how many criminals her descendants
furnished for the penitentlary and the
gailows, and how many hundreds OF
thousands Of dollars they cost our coun-
try in their arraignment ana PRISON
support, as we'll as in the property they
burelarized and destroyed, but will not
some one come out with brain compre;-
hensive enough and heart warm enough
and pen keen enough to give US the
facts in regard to some good woman OF OF
hundred years ago and let US know
how many Christian men and women
and reformers and useful people have
been found among her descendants:an :anG
how many asylums and colleges and
churche they built, and how many
millions of dollars they contributed to-
humanitarian and Christian purposes!
The good women whose tombstone:
were planted in the eighteenth centur!
are more alive for good in the nine
teenth century than they were before
as the good women Of this nineteenth
century will be more alive for good II i
the twentieth century than now. Mars
Won. have no idea that the grand
mothers were any better than tnel
ganddaughters. You cannot get ;er!
Old people to talk much about how
things were when they were boys ane
girls. They have reticence and non
committalism which make me thln!
they feel themselves to be the custodl
ans Of the reputation OF thelr ear.
comrades. While our dear old folk
are rehearsing the follies Of the present
if We put them on the witness stan'
aad cross examine them as to ho'
things were 70 years ago the slienc
becomes oppressive.
The celebrated Frencbman, Eolney
visited this country in 1896, and n
saws Of vomaD's diet in those times
ssif premium was offered for regl
men most destructive to health, non
could be devised more efhcaclous 10
these ends than that in use anon
these people" That eclipses our lo5
ster salad at midnight. Everybod
talks about the dissipation OF mooes
society and how womanly health goe
down under it, but it was worse ~
years ago, for the chaplain OF trenc
regiment in our Revolutionary wa
Wrote in 1852 in his Book {
American Women, saying: They al
tall and we'll proportioned; their lea,
ures are generally regular; their con
plexions are generally fair and wlthor
color. At 20 years Of age the wome
have no longer the freshness OF youtt
At 80 or 20 they are decreplt.
1912 foreign consul wrote book el
titled, "a Sketch Of the United State
at the Commencement Of the Preser
Century" and he says Of the women
- those times, cat the age Of 30 all the
charms have disappeared. One gIant
at the portraits of the women 100 yea
ago, and their style Of dress makes
wonder how they ever got their breatl
All this makes me think that the e:
press rail train is no more an lmprov
ment on the old canal boat or the te!
graph no more an improvement on II
cid time saddlebags than the women
our day are an improvement on II
women of the last century.
Do not let the grandmothers any 10
ger think that they are retired al
sit clear back out Of sight from II
world, feeling that they have no rel
tion to it. The mothers Of the Ia
century are today in the person OF the
descendants, in the senates, the parli
nents, the palaces, the pulplts, t!
banking houses, the professional chal
the prisons, the almshouses, the COZ
pany of midnight brigands, the cellar
the bitches of this century. You ma
been thinking about the importance
having the right influence upon o
nursery. You have been thinking
the importance Of getting those t
little feet on the light path. You ma
been thinking Of your child's destl
for the next 50 years if 1t should P;
on to be an octogenarian. That IS We
but my subject sweeps thousand yea
.;ll;or uanrs a nnadrilliOn years.