The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-03

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Ger the way"
But like best another roet, who says:
This world is very lovely. Oh, my
Goa,
| thank thee that l live
Oh, these women What would be-
come Of US if they did not pilot US IN
the way that We should go? When
would the men Of Cartersville have
planned and worked a lyceum bureau?
When would they have given Us 4
park where We can rest under the
shade of the trees and see the children
piav upon the grass and Ook with
never-ceaslng wonder upOn the passing
trains? When would the men Of the
church have raised the money to buy q
parsonage? Who keeps up the prayer
meetings that living 90 anguish and
ianguishlnGly do live? Who are the
most faithful in the Sunday-school,
and who nurse and care Tor the infant
children and never tire cf Their loving
work in training them up to duty and
good conduct.
| was ruminatins about our histori-
cai neglect Of the nob.e, faithful, long
suffering mothers Of great men, who
havo lived and led in all these oea
turtles. It is the mother who makes
the man. "Just az the twic is bent,
the tree IS inclned," and it is the
mother who moulds the emotional
character Of her children. while the
father IS q actor OF ner While
the father is in his counting room OF
his workshop, or at the pillow, the
mother is at home with them, and day
by day shielding them from harm and
guarding their tender hearts from evil
influences. Our emotions ere Of fal
more Importance than our intellects,
and these are moulded at our mothers
breast and developed at her knees.
Then. why this historica neglect? Who
knows anything Of the mothers o.
Clay. Calhoun or Webster, OR any o
the presidents, or Of any Of our gov
! errors, or Iii. tingulshed statesmen?
PERHAPS QUO person in q thousand
knows that George Washington's moth
er'a maiden name was Mary Bell, bu'
what else do they know about her.
The best biographical cyclopedias vii
great men from away back, but not
line CD the maternal side. They dix
not mention that John Wesley, @
Whitfield, had q mother. Appleton
and the Century DO sometimes max,
meager mention Of VINO these grea
men married. For instance. Appleton
says that Sin June, 1903, Daniel Web
ster married Miss Grace Fletcher, o
EopHiinton, \. H" Only that ant
nothing more.
This historical neglect Of woman be
gan with Moses, who makes record G
our mother Eve and her skips q thous
and years to Lsmech without mention
ing another woman. Then skips an
other thousand down to Sarah. tn,
wife of Abraham. He tells us that Cali
took unto him q wife. but does no
name her, and that the wives of Noah
sous went into the ark with them, bu
we do not know who they were. Late
on in the centuries he tells us som
rre+tv stories about Rachel and Miriam
and still later ws read Of Ruth an
Na~ni, aud IN the New Testamen
pH,vte dozen wopsn besides Mary
the notLer Of Jesus. orc mentioned
nnd FROM that day low to the reform
<:lon wcuon hos been under tn
ban Of historical neglect. When we oil
people were young there was a glfte
writer by the name Of Headly, T. rel,
) tive Of Dr.. James Headly, the lecture,
who wrote a book called ''Ihe Sacre
! Mountains" and another book Gale
: "Ihe Women Of the Bible aud
) dld his best to make 1t an attractlN
3 volume. but the sacred women wei
' fewer than the sacred mountains, au
he had TO put 1t IN very large type an
: have largo margins to make it . boo
at all.
t But woman Is fast coming to IL
front in this land. aud the lords Of CT,
alton are recognizing her, with b
. virtue, her importance as factors
l civilization, more than in any 9th
, age or time or country. Sue stan,