The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-04

coat and brought it to him from year
to year when she came up with her
husband to offer the yearly sacrifice
There's a whole volume of mother love
and thoughtful care and tenderness in
that short sentence!
Then to turn from that sweet story
to that of Aggrippina in her ambitious
plans and schemes to place her son on
the throne of the Roman empire-not
so much for his sake either as for her
own aggrandizement-and read of The
plots and intrigues into which she en-
tered and the atrocious crimes she
committed even to the murder of her
own husband, thus raising up a son
who, in his turn, murdered his mother:
we see contrast so striking and so
forcible we are impelled to cry out:
Give us religious mothers TO train our
sons and daughters for the positions
they are to occupy in life"
But the contrast doesn't end here.
Let US look at the end of these two
sons. We read in 1st Sam. 25th chap
ter. and first verse: And Samuel dit d
and all the Israclites were gathered to-
gether and lamented him"
But when the tidings of Nero's death
were brought into the city of Rome,
the people went wild with joy. And
the whole city INDUCED in the most ex-
travagant demonstrations of gladness
and rejoicing.
Yes. we need Christian parents,
Christian homes. And by a Christian
home I do not mean one simply where
the father and mother are nominal
Christians, attend church regularly and
send their children to Sunday school.
Something more than this is needed.
The family altar the daily, prayerful
study of Gods word; and, more than
all. the spirit of the loving Christ mani
fest in all the relationships of the home
life
Dear brothers and sisters we must
awake from our Indifference to the
spiritual training of our children! Do
we not know that the church Is years
from will be composed of the boys and
girls of to-day? Will they be fitted for
its responsibilities? Efficient in carry
ing on the Lords business, Jealous in
extending the Masters kingdom?
Some parents think it sufficient if
their children attend the Sunday school.
But do you not realize that in that way
you are creating in the child's mind
an indifference to the church, which is
Gods own holy institution?
The best way is for the father and
mother both where possible, but at
least one of them, to attend Sunday
school with the children. tAnd none
are too we'll versed in the scriptures
for an hour once a week in good
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the child will take far greater interest
in the Sunday school if papa and mann
ma are a part of it and will be more
willing to remain with you to the
church services and make it to feel
that the services are as much for it as
they are for you.
Again, parents sometimes say they
do not wish to force or urge their chill
dren to attend religious services for fear
it will set them against such things
And so if they say, Must we go to
Junior meeting this afternoon" the re-
ply is: You needn't go if you don't
want to-" and so with other services of
the church.
When Monday morning comes, if the
should say. Must ! go to school this
morning. would you say, you needn't
go if you don't want to-"
In the first place, the child would not
ask the question. 1t has been trained
differently from that. Its impressions
from babyhood have been that to go
to school five days out of the week are
as much a part of it's life as to go to
the dining room three times day.
How does 1t come that 1t hasn't i'm
bbed the same impressions concern
ing the services of Gods house?
And does the fact that you insist