The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-11-30

those who neglect their homes in order
that they may attend TO institutions |
that are really excellent and do not |
80 much ask for help as demand 1t, |
am acquainted, as you are, with wom-
en- who are members of so many boards
OF direction of benevolent institutions,
and have to stand at booth in so many
fairs, and must collect funds for so
many orphanages. and preside at SO
many philanthropic meetings, and are
expected to be in so many different
places at the same time that their chill
dren are left to the care of irrespon-
sible servants, and IL the little ones
waited to say their prayers at their
mothers knee they would never say
their evening prayers at all such
woman makes her own home so unat-
tractive that the husband spends his
evenings at the clubhouse or the tav-
ern. The children of that house are
as thoroughly orphans as any OF the
fatherless and motherless little ones
gathered in the orphanage for which
that gadabout woman is toiling so in
dustriously. BY ali means let Chris
tian women foster charitable institu-
tions and give them as much OF their
time as they can spare, but the first
duty of that mother is the duty she
owes to her home.
But no one can take mothers
place. and it is an awful mistake that
that mother makes who sacrifices
home duties for any church meeting,
however important, or any hospital,
however merciful, or any outside benefi-
cence, however glorious and grand.
Not understanding this, we mistake
when we try to give statistics as to how
many Christians there are in our
churches and in the world. We un-
derstate the facts. We look over our
church audiences on the Sabbath or
our week service and conclude that
they represent the amount of piety in
that neighborhood. Oh. no! There are
many most consecrated souls that are
not found in churches. Look into
those houses with large families OF
children and little or no hired help.
For much of the year there is some
one i'll, and a special guardian care
is requisite. How much time can that
ulONltl ElNt W NHNlNllNN anu I'lhg ~
meetings when most of the family are
down with scarlet fever or have colds
that threaten now one kind of dis
ease and now another? That mother
watching at home as much pleases the
Lord as the mother who at church
takes the sacrament or in the mission
school tells the waits of the street how
they may become sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty. That mother
at home is deciding the destiny OF the
state by the way she leads that boy
into right thinking and acting and is
deciding the welfare of some future
home by the example she is setting that
| girl, and though the world does moi
appreciate the unobserved work Heav
en- watches and rewards. On the other
hand, you have known women whC
are off at meetings Humanitarian ant
philanthropic, planning for the desti
tute and the outcast, while their owl
children went unwashed and unkempt
their garments needing repairs, theii
manners impudent and themselves I
general nuisance to the community
in which they live.
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas
culinc or feminine, are sure to get
and that is of scandal distribution
They hear so many deleterious thing,
about others and see so much o.
wrong behavior that they are loaded
mp and loaded down with the faults o
others, and they have their eyes full
and their ears full, and their hand
full, and their mouths full of defamu
ton. The woman who is endowed o
gossip can so easily unite her bonne
strings and sit down to spend the aft
ernoon. A man can afford you a ciga
as retainer if you will patiently hea
all he has to say about those who can
not pay their debts, or are about t.
; fail, or are guilty Of moral mishap, o
have aroused suspicion of embe2zle
ment. All gadabouts are peddlers
who unpack in your presence thei
large store of nuN vomica and night
j shade Such gadabouts have littl
, prospect of Heaven. If they got ther
they would try to create jealous
] among the different ranks of celes
tials and make trouble among tn
4 rels seraphic, and would be on per
petual run. now down this street an
I now up that, now in the house @
p many mansions, and now in the choi
r of the temple. and now on the WALL
. and now in the gates, until they woul
4 be chased down and pushed out int
$ the pandemonium of backbters an
: slanderers after Jeremiah had nc
i dressed them in the words: "Wh
e gaddest thou about so much to chang
i Thy way?"
!, Now, what is the practical use {
y the present discourse? This: Wher,
G as, so many have ruined themselvt
e md ruined others by becoming gao
t lbouts among occupations, among r,
y igious theories, among churche
# among neighborhoods; therefore, r,
y solved, that we will concentrate upo
e what is right thought and right b.