Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-01

I 49, bA'NAh "a buc AoWCt FOuttA az AAN0
the opening of the front door Of heaven!
Find me one man or one woman who I'D
all the rounds Of pleasure and selfishness
/ has found "A piece of happiness as large
as that half-dolar which the benevolent
! and Chrjstlike soul puts into the palm of
the hand OF that mother whose children
are crying for bread. Queen Victoria rid
| ing in triumph through London 1T her ju4
| bilee was not so sublime a figure as
| Queen Victoria in a hut near Balmoral
castle reading the New Testament to
| poor dying man. Let all the gadabouts
/ for happiness know that in kindness and
usefulness and self-abnegation are to be
| found a satisfaction which all the gave
ties of the world Aggregated cannot af-
| ford.
NegIeCting Ones Home.
Among the race of gada bouts are those
who neglect their homes in order that
| they may attend to institutions that are
really excellent and 10 not so much ask
! for nelp as demand it. ! AN acquainted,
| as you are, with women who are mem-
/ bers of so many boards Of direction of
| benevolent Institutions, and have to
! stand at booth in ~ many fairs, and
must collect funds for So many orphan
ages, and preside at SO maay philan-
thropic meetings, and are expected to
| be in so many different places at the
| same time that their children are left to
the care of Irresponsible servants, and
| II the little ones waited to say their
| prayers ut their mothers knee they
would never say their evening prayers at
all. Such woman makes her own
home so unattraCtiye that the husband
| spends his evenings at the club house or
| the tavern. The children Of that house
| are as thoroughly orphan as any Of the
| fatherleSs aud mothcrlcss lIttlc ones gath
cred in the orphanage for which that
gadabout woman is toiling 81 Industrious
| ly. BY all means let Christian women
foster charitable Institutions and give
them as much OF their time rs they can
spare. but the first duty Of that mother
| is the duty she owes 10 her home.
Hired help is a great advantage to the
| homestead that can afford ii, and we
have all had in our homes 4 fidelity on
the part of such employees az win stir
our gratitude as long as life shall last.
How they watched in time Of sickness
and always gave the medicine at the right
time, and but for their vigilance there
! are members of our families now living
who would long ago have Disappeared
from the home circle Blessed the ships
that brought those employees to our,
shoresl And who will ever 10 Justice 10
| those who were affectionately called and
/ believe are still called the "mammies'
of the South? | have had Governors and
| Senators of the United States with tears
| in their eyes talk to me about those old
cOlored women Of the South who rOekeG
them in their cradles and bound up their
wounds when they got hurt. and wept
| with them at graves, and looked in from
the hall door at the weddings, and greet
ed them home from college Or from the
wars with motherIy eudearment.
The Mistake of Mothers.
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 impor-
tant, or any hospital, however merciful,
or any outside benehceuce however glo-
rious and grand. Not understanding this,
we mistake when we try TO give statis-
ties as to how many Christians there are
in our churches ana in the world. We
understatc the facts. We look over our
church audiences on the Sabbath or our
weekly service and conclude that they
represent the amount Of piety in Il It
neighborhood. On no, There are many
most consccrated souls that are not found
in churches. Look into those houses
with large families ~ children and little
or no hired help. For much Of the year
there is some one i'll, aud II special guard
ian care is requisite. How much time
can that mother give - churches and
prayer meetings when most Of the family
are down with scarlet fever or have colds
that threaten now one kind u disease and
now another That mother watching at
! home as much pleases the Lord as the
mother who at church takes the sacra-
ment 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 fli-
! ture home by the example she is setting
| that girl, and though the world does not
! appreciate the unobserved b, Ork heaven.
watches and rewards. On the other
! hand you have known women who are
/ off at meetings Humanitarian and philan-
| thropc planning for the destitute and
| the outcast. while their own children
went unwashed and unkempt. their gar
iil'IlAS htFAibE IFphiSy LNF'lT UduDFT5 I'M
pudent and themselves general nuisance
to the community in whGh they live.
Practical Suggestions.
Now, what is the practical use Of the
present DISCOURSE This. Whereas, 50
many have ruined themselves and ruined
others by becoming gadabouts among oc-
equations, among religious theories,
among churches. among ueghb0rhoods;
Fxvg a.
trate upon what is right thought and
right behavior and waste no time in vaciI-
lations and indecisi0ns aud uncertainties.
running about in places whore we have
no business 10 be. Life is SO short we
have no time 10 play with it the spend
thrift. Find out whether the Bible is
true and whether your nature Is immor-
tai, and whether Christ Is the divine and
only Saviour, and whether yon must have
him or be discounted, and whether there
will Droba bIy ever he a mora 9usnipiOt,