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


REV. TALMAeE. to give mighty
push in the right direction" The
fact was that Timothy needed encour-
agement. He was in poor health, hav-
ing weak stomach, and was dys-
peptic, and Paul prescribed for him
tonic, "a little wine for thy stomach's
sake" mot much wine; but a little
wine, and only as medicine. And If
the wine then had been as much adul-
terated with logwood and strychnine
as our modern wines, he would not
have prescribed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically,
is encouraged spiritually by the recital
of grandmotherly excellence, Paul
limiting to him, as l hint this day to
you, that God sometimes gathers up as
in n reservoir away back of the active
generations of to-day, goodly influ-
ence, and then in response to prayer
lets down the power upon children and
grandchildren and great-grandchil-
dren. The world is woefully in want
of a table of statistics in regard to
what is the protractedness and immen-
sity of the influence of one good woman
in the church and world. We have ac-
COuHbS VI nOW huCn CIVIL bGtb
wrought by woman who lived nearly
100 years ago and of how many crimi-
mails her descendants furnished for the
penitentiary and the gallows and how
many hundreds of thousands of dollars
they cost our country in their arraign-
ment and prison support, as well as in
the property they burglarized and de-
stroyed, but will not some one come
out with brain comprehensive enough,
and heart warm enough, and pen keen
enough to give us the facts in regard
to some good woman of 100 years ago,
and let us know how many Christian
men and women and reformers and
nseful people have been found among
her descendants, and how many asy-
lums and colleges and churches they
built, and how many millions Of dol
lars they contributed for humanitarian
and Christian purposesp
The good women whose tombstones
were planted in the eighteenth century
are more alive for good in the nine
teenth century than they were before,
as the good women OF this nine eenth
century will be more alive for good in
the twentieth century than now.
Mark Eou, l have no idea that the
grandmothers were any better than
their granddaughters You cannot
get very old people to talk much about
how things were whom they were bows
and girls. They have a rcticence and
non-committalism which makes me
think they feel themselves to be the
custodans of the reputation of their
early comrades. While our dear old
folks are rehearsing the follies of the
present, If we put them on the witness
stand and cross-cNamine them as TO
how things were 10 years ago the
silence becomes oppressive.
There was glorious race of godlv
women, 20 and 100 years ago, who held
the world back from sin aud lifted it
toward virtue, and without their ex-
allied and sanctihed influence before
this the last good influence would have
persisted from the earth. Indeed, all
over this land there are seated to-day
not so much in churches, for many of
them are too feeble to come-a great
many aged grandmothers. They some.
times feel that the world has gone past
them, and they have an idea that they
are of little account. Their heads
some times get aching from the racket
of the grandchildren downstairs or in
the next room. They steady them
selves by the banisters as they go up
and down. When they get cold it
hangs on them longer than IL used TO-
They cannot bear to have the grand
children punished even when they de-
serve it, and have so relaxed their
ideas of family discipline that they
would spoil all the youngsters of the
household by too great leniency.
These old folks' are the resort when
great troubles come, and there is a
calming and soothing power in the
touch of an aged hand that is almost
supernatural. They feel they are
almost through with the journey of
life and read the old Book more than
they used TO, hardly knowing which
most they enjoy, the Old Testament
or the New, aud often stop and dwell
tearfully over the family record half
way between. We hail them to-day,
whether in the house of God or at the
homestead. Blessed is that household
that has in it a 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
things-swing open picture gallery
of the wrinkled faces and stopped
shoulders of the past, and call down
from their heavenly thrones the godly
grandmothers, to give them our
thanks, and then to persuade the
mothers of to-day that they are living
for oil time, and that against the sides