The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-01

all our joys, and they sympathized
with eoplous tears and resounding
laughter.
The Mistake of Iothers.
But no one can take a 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 bene-
teence. 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 in the world. We understate
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 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
mother give to churches and prayer
meetings when most Of the family
are down with scarlet fever or have
colds that threaten now one kind OF
disease and now another? That moth
er 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
not appreciate the unobserved work
heaven watches and rewards. On the
other hand, you have known women
who are of at meetings humanitarian
and philanthropic. planning for the
destitute and the outcast, while their
own children went unwashed and un-
kempt, their garments needing repairs,
their manners impudent and them
selves a general nuisance to the com
munity in which they live.
The Distribution of Scandal
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas
culine or feminine, are sure to get
and that is of scandal distribution
They hear SO many deleterious things
about others and see so much ol
wrong behavior that they are
loaded up and loaded down
with the faults of others, and
they have their eyes full, and theil
ears full, and their hands full, an6
their mouths full of defamation. Th'
woman who is endowed of gossip car
SO easily unite her bonnet strings anC
sit down to spend the afternoon. 4
man can afford you a cigar as a re
tainer if you viii patiently hear all h
has to say about those who cannot pa.
their debts, or are about TO fail, or ar
guilty Of moral mishap, or hav
aroused suspicion of embezzlemeni
All gadabouts are peddlers, who un
pack in your presence their large stor
of nux vomica and nightshade. Sue
gadabouts have little prospect OF hea
ven. II they got there, they would tr
to create jealousy among the differen
ranks of celestials. and make troubl
among the heavenly neighbors, an
start quarrels seraphic. and would b
on perpetual run, now down thi
| street and now up that, now in tn
house of many mansions, and now /
the choir of the temple, and now o
the walls. and now in the gates, unit
they would be chased down and push
ed out into the pandemonium Of bach
biters and slanderers after Jeremia
had addressed them in the word
| "Why gaddest thou about so much
change thy way?"
Practical Suggestions.
, Now, what is the practical use
/ tba nreeont dfecourse9 This. Whprl