The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-19

rivers pour in. and all the states and
territories between the Alleghany and
Rocky mountains ma kc contribution.
Now. in order to test the power Of a
mothers influence, we need TO come IN
off the ocean of eternity and sail up to-
ward the one cradle. and we will hnd
10000 tributaries Of influence pouring
in and pouring down But it is. after
all. one great river Of power rolling on
and rolling forever. Who can fathom
it? Who can bridge it? Who can stop
it? Fad not mothers better belntenSlty-
ing their prayers? Had they not bet,
ter be clevating their example: Had
they not better be rousing themselves
with the consideration that by their
faithfulness or neglect they are start
ing an influence which will be stupeHc-
Gus after the last mountain OF earth IS
flat. and the last sea has dried up, ana
the last fake Of the ashes ola consumed
world shall have been blown away, and
al the telescopes OF other worlds dl-
rrcte6 to the track around which our
world once swung shall discover not so
much as a cinder Of the burned down
and swept off planet? In Ccylon there
isa granite column 50 square feet III
Size which is thought by the natives to
decide the worlds continuance. An
angel with robes spun from zephyrS Is
once century to descend and sweep
the hem Of that robe across the granite,
and when by that attrition the column
is worn away they say time will end.
But by that process that granite column
would be worn out of existence before
mothers influence will begin to give
way.
If a 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 ma ke
him liar, and the echo Of that false
alarm may be heard after 10 genera
tions have been born and have expired:
! If a mother promises child reward
for good behavior and after the good
behavior forgets to give the reward, the
cheat may crop out in some faithless-
ness half thousand years farther on.
If mother cultivate a chllds vanity
and eulogize his curls and extol the
night black or sky blue or nut brown
OF the child's eyes and cali out IN his
presence the admiration Of spectators,
pride and arrogance may be prolonged
aftar half dozen family records have
been obliterated If mother express
doubt aboutsome statement Of the Holy
Bible in a child's presence, lorg 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 blasphemer. But, on the
other hand, if mother walking with a
child see suffering one by the wayside
and says, My child, give that 10 cent
piece tothat lame boy" the result may
be seen on the other side OF the follow
ing century 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 SAY
iour's example, Of the Importance OF
truth and the horror of a lie and the
virtues Of industry and kindness and
sympathy and self sacrifice, long after
the mother has gone and the child has
gone and the lettering on both the tomb,
stones shall have been washed out by
the storms Of innumerable winter:
there may be standing as a result Of
those trundle bed lessons flaming evan
gels, world moving reformers seraphlf
Summerfelds, weeping Paysons, thun
dering Whiteields, emancipatlnE
Washingtons.
Good or bad influence may skip one
generation or two generations, but i
will be sure to land in third or fourth
, generation, just as the Ten Command
ments, speaking Of the visitation OF Goo
on families, says nothing about the
. second generation: but entirely skip
the second and speaks Of the thiit
: and fourth generation-''7isiting tn
: iniquities of the fathers upon the ttlr(
r and fourth generation of them that he
z me- Parental influence, right ant
: wrong, may Jump over generation, bu
: it will come down further on as sure a
D you sit there and | stand here. limo
5 thy's ministry was projected by nj
0 grandmother, Lois. There are me-
b and women here, the sons and daugh
r tiers of the Christian church, who ar
f such as rusult of the conservation 0
e great-great- -grandmothers. Why, VIII
: do you think the Lord is? You talk a
: though his memory was weak. He ca
t as easily remember pracer offered fv
n centuries ago as prayer offered nv
. minutes ago. This explains what "
u often see-some man or woman dlstlr
: guished for benevolence when the fathe
S and mother were distinguished fo
t penuriousness, or you see some youn
f man or woman with bad father and
r hard mother come out gloriously fc
e Christ and make the church sob an
5 shout and sing under their exhortatlon;
$ We stand in corners Of the vestry an
!. whisper over the matter and say, 'Ho
: is this, such great piety IN sons ali
! daughters Of such parental worldlines
! and SIM" will explain it to You
e YOU will fetch me the old family Bib
f containing the full record. Let som
,e septuagenarian look with me clear upo
the page of births and marriages an
= tell me who that woman was with tt
d old fashioned name Of Jemima or Bets
}e or Mehitable All, there she is, tt
A. old grandmother, or great-grandmothe
st who had enough religion to saturate
If century.
a. You must see those women Of t