Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-06-06
Gated instead of the hearth

Do not make the plea / have so often
heard-that you have little children too
Young to go to church and therefore
YOU must stay with them at home.
Take Your babies along. The minister
of the Lord Jesus Christ who would be-
come irritated because a young mother
brings her baby to church Is not spir-
itually fitted to stand in any pulpit
or to preach from any sacred desk.
The greatest honor today which a con-
gregation can have Is to see the pews
filed up with the young mothers who
are fanked by little children on both
sides. | once heard of variety show
giving a performance in a mining
camp in the days Of the California gold
excitement. The rude theater for the
most part was filled with rough men.
While the show was going on little
baby began to cry. That childs cry
nightly affected the miners. They
made the players stop so that they
could hear the voice which recalled the
holy memories Of their eastern homes.
If childs cry can soften the heart
in q theater it can teach gospel les
son in a church service. Oh, mothers
with little children, when you come to
the church bring your babies. When
I used to be taken to church as little
child the sweet influence of the gospel
penetrated my being, though often be-
fore the service closed, in childhood
WEAKNESS. | went to sleep with my
head pillowed on my mothers lap.
No mother can be a true example to
her children unless at the same time
she is q true church member.
The Greatest OF All Examples.
"But." some one may say, you nave
not spoken yet of the greatest OF all
examples which n true mother ought
10 set before her children. She should
and must be a Christian woman. she
cannot be q true wife, daughter, mem
Der of society and of the church un-
less in the first place she fully realizes
her responsibility to her Maker ana
Redeemer and Saviour" Well, my
friend, perhaps | have done wrong IN
not making this thought the first ana
chief heading of my sermon. But, to tell
the truth, have gone upon the sup
position that all the wives and moth
ers assembled in this congregation are
Christian women. | believe that deep
down in your hearts you feel your re-
sponsibility to Christ. ! preach with
another purpose than to bring you as
new converts to Christ. have tried
to show the different directions in
which the river of your spiritual love
should flow. | have tried to show you
this because / want to prove that
vour daughters spiritual love will flow
in the same direction as yours finds an
outlet.
Do you know what impresses me
most about little boy? The fact that
he wants TO be like his father The
little fellow wants to wear the same
kind of suspenders, and the same kind
of a vest. and white shirt and collar
the same kind of laced/ lhoes. lie
Kin,>t.. 4ffrt rt.ffif,tc-s,JiriInVN --rSr' aDUur
little girl? She wants to be Ike hei
mother. "As is the mother. so is hel
daughter" When my sisters were
vounp the first act remember about
them was this: They used to rum
mage i'm mothers closets and get on
her long dresses and pin them aroun'
their waists and play they were grown
women going calling. When little glri
were born in my own home | foun'
they did with my wifc's things JUS
what my sisters used to do with M.
mothers. find the little girls aloni
the streets trying to initiate thel
mothers in the same way.
Mothers in the house and on IN
, street will you not set your chiidre
the right kind of an example whe
vou know your daughters are goln
TO CODY after you? viii you not SUI
I render Yourselves. body, mind and sou
TO the Saviour's service as WIRE
, sister member of sthe church an
2 Of society. so that the Christ low
b. which shines through your face sha
/, shine through theirs? Will you not
a live that your Christian consecrate
+ lives will be to your children an II
s spiration. your death benedictiol
t YOUR resurrection q fact which Wi
Q beckon them on to join you Mt the fo'
J. of Gods white throne? Shall not II
8 rosebush bring forth rose? Sha
e not a maternal song find an echo in
n daughters heart?
e copyright 1903 by Louis Klopsch.1
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