Milford chronicle., 1903-06-05

oL lue cilllu ana lHe importance o.
that influence being of a kind tha
goes to the formation and develop
ment of pure and noble womanhood
The text is Ezekiel xvi, A, LAS is the
mother, so is her daughter"
The Philadelphia mint is one Of the
chief sights for the traveller in the
Quaker City. 1t has many wonderful
pieces of machinery, not the least OF
which are the powerful stamping ma.
chimes. cutting the gold and silver bars
into pieces the size Of ten cent piece
or a dollar. Then. with one terrific
pound they stamp them into United
States coins These stamping ma
chimes are powerful enough to crush
the hard metal into forms of eagles
bearing the impress of the Goddess of
Liberty, and yet they are capable of
doing very delicate work. If a plain
piece of wet tissue paper is placed
under their stamp they can cut out of
that wet paper a round piece the size
OF a silver dollar more neatly and ac-
curately and surely than could he done
by any sewing girls scissors or any
surgeons knife.
1t is wonderful that machine should
have the power of thus producing from
the hard metal thousands of coins eX-
actly alike each bearing accurately
the same impression; but l want to
speak to you today of something still
more wonderful in our social and fam
lily life. 1t is the power inhering in
every mother to mold her daughters
into her own image and to impress
upon them her own characteristics.
An old college president was wont to
give this parting advice to his boys
when they were about to graduate
from his institution: My sons. you are
now to 20 forth into the great battle
of life. 1t is right and must needs be
that most of you will soon marry and
start homes Of your own. 1t is Of
vital Importance that you marry the
right kind Of girl. Therefore l am
going to give you the best test of what
a future wife viii be. Always look at
the mother of the young lady whom
you would marry more than to the
young lady herself. For "as is the
mother, so is her daughter
This trenchant truth is we'll illus
trated by an old yet ever new story:
A young farmer wanted to find fru-
gal and careful helpmeet. He started
out from home on his important jour
ney. Coming to a farmhouse, he in
quired of the farmers wife for some
dough which had been left in her bread
pan. He said he had sick horse and
he heard that dough could cure him.
The farmers wife said. oh. yes. we
have plenty" She brought forth two
handfuls. The young man took it and
in silence drove away. At the next
farmhouse he asked the same question.
The farmers wife said: Il wish l could
help you, but that is impossible. We
never have any dough left in the
bread pan Of this house. always
scrape my bread pan clean. There is
no dough left" "Ahr said the young
man. This is the home where. per-
haps. can iEd my bride. For if
the mother is so frugal her daughters
will surely be the same" And it was
there that he won his bride. For he
was of the prophets opinion. "As is
the mother. so is her daughter"
The mothers life is inevitably pro-
duced in the lives of her little girls
whom she rocks in the cradle. This
will happen whether she is conscious
of it or not. How important then is It,
for the sake of those children and for
the sake of those whom they in their
turn will influence that the influence
of the mothers life should be of the
and benehcent kind! The
girls will be Ike her as they grow up,
and her faults will reappear in them.
therefore, the object Of this sermon
IS to show how the true wife and
mother should live. She should not
only be true to her husband. but also
tue TO her father and mother, broth
ers and sisters, and TO her God, as well
US directly to the little daughters who
will soon follow in her footsteps. As
she thinks. they will think. AS she
does. they will also do.
The true mother should, first. be a true
wife. The butteray's wing is developed
In the chrysais. The autumnal fruit
will not hang heavily from the tree
branch as nuggets of gold unless the !
apple blossoms We're fragrant in the
lpringtime. The summer song Of the |
nest is only a sweet encore of the June /
song, which once softly echoed its way
through the pillared halls in tho temple |
Df the woods. Neither can the rich. |
spotless robe of maternity ever be |
woven in the home unless it comes |
from a loom in which brides pure |
md consecrnted fingers have alrady |
woven out of uniarnished web. per-
'umed with the orange blossoms, the !
'obe Of true wifehood.
Some Foolish Wives.
This statement is axi0nntic. Yet !
here are some women foolish enough /
o suppose thnt the names wife and
mother are not Siamesp twins and have /
10 connection or aftiliatinn. They are
o blinded hat they cannot see that I
he silver letters Of true motherhood
re written upon the golden back
round Of true wifeboo1 and that the
trOpgpst and bpet cradle Is flint cut 4