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


they used to, hardly knowing which
most they enjoy, the Old Testament
or the New. and often stop and dwell
tearfully over the family record half.
way between. We hail them to-day,
whether In the house Of God or AZ the
homestead. Blessed is that household
that has In il n grandmother Lois
Where she is angels are lowering
round and God is in the room. May
her last days be like those lovely
autumnal days that we call Indian
summer.
Is IL not time that you and | do two
thincs-swing open q picture gallery
Of the w-inkled faces and stopped
shoulders of the past, and call down
from their heavenly thrones the cody
erandmothers. 10 give them our
thanks aud then 10 perscade the
mothers OF to-day that they are living
for all time. and that againstiho sides
Of every cradle in which a child il
rocked beat the two eternitiess Here
we have an untried, undiscnssed. and
explored subject You often hear
abou, your influence upon your 1--WE
children; l am not talking about that
What about your influence upon the
twentieth century. upon the thirtieth
century. upon the iortieth century,
upon the year 1000, upon the year 1000,
II h world lasts so longe The world
stood 1000 years before Christ came; it
Is not unreasonable to suppose that IL
may stand 1000 years after His arrival.
Four thousand years the world swing
of In sin, 1000 years it may be swing
ing back into righteousness By the
ordinary rate of multiplication Of the
worlds population in a century, your
descendants will be over 800, and BY two
centuries over 50. 900, and upon every
one Of them, you, the mother OF to-day,
will have al influence for good or
evil. And II In four centuries your de-
scendants shall have with their names
filled a scroll of hundreds Of thou
sands with some angel from Heaven.
to whom is given the capacity 10 cal.
cuiAte the number of stars Of
Heaven and the sands OF the
seashore step down and tell
us how many descendants you will
have In the four thousandth year of
the worlds possible continuance 10
not let the grandmothers any Logger
think that they are retired, and sit
clear back out of sight from the world,
feeling that they have no relation to
It The mothers OF the last century
are to-day In the person OF their de-
scendants, 10 the senates, the parlia-
ments, the palaces, the pulpits, the
banking HOUSES the professional
shAirA the prisons, the a~lmshouses,
the company o. midnight brigands, the
cellars, the bitches Of the country.
You have been thinking about the i'm
portance Of having the right influence
upon one nursery. You have been
thinking Of the importance of getting
those two little feet on the right path.
You have been thinking Of your child's
destiny for tho next 50 years, IL it
should pass on TO be an o~ctogenariau.
That 10 well, but my subject sweepa Z
thousand years, n million years, a
quadrilliou Of years l cannot stop at
one cradle, l am looking at the cradles
TIA, rasoh ali ,r,rrd \ - -
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Mother Eunice. I am talking of
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