The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-07

While the show was going on little ba- by began to cry. That chi1d's cry might fly 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 a child's cry can soften the heart in theater 1t can teach a gospel lesson in a church service. Oh, mothers with little children, when you come to church bring your babies. When l used to be taken to church as little child the sweet influence of the gos- pei penetrated my being, though often be- fore the service closed. In childhoods s weariness. I went to sleep with my head pillowed on my mothers lap. No mother can be a true example to her children un- less at the same time she is true church member
 The Greatest of All Examples. But" some one may say. you have not yet spoken of the greatest of all ex- amples which a true mother ought to set before her children. She should and must be Christian woman. She cannot be true wife, daughter. member of so- ciety and of the church unless in the first place she fully realizes her respon- sibility to her Maker and Redeemer and Saviour" Well my friends, perhaps have done wrong in not making this thought the first and chief heading of my sermon. But. to tell the truth. I have gone upon the supposition that all the wives and mothers assembled in this con- gregation are Christian women. I believe that deep down in your hearts you feel your responsibility to Christ. I preach with another purpose than to bring you as new converts to Christ. have tried to show the different direction in which the river of your spiritual love should l flow. I have tried to show you this be- cause want to prove that your daugh- | ter's spiritual love will flow in the same direction as yours finds an outlet.
 | Do you know what impresses me most
 about a little boy? The fact that he wants | to be like his father. The little fellow | wants to wear the same kind os suspend
 CTS, and the same kind of vest, and | white stirt and collar the same kind of | laced shoes. He wants to initiate his 1 fathers good habits as we'll as his bad. Do you know what impresses me most about a little girl? She wants to be like her mother. "As Is the mother. so Is her daughter" When my sisters were young, the first act 1 remember about them was this: They used to rummage in mother g closets and get out her long dresses and l them around their waists and play they were grown women going calling. When little girls were born in my own
 
 home I found they did with my wife's things just what my sisters used to do with my mothers. I find the little girls along the streets trying to initiate their mothers in the same Way.
 Mothers in the house and on the street, will you not set your children the right kind of an example when you know your daughters are going to copy after you? Will you not surrender yourselves, body, mind and soul. to the Saviour's service as wife. sister. a member of the church and of society, so that the Christ ] love which shines through your face shall shine through theirs? Will you not so live that your Christian consecrat ted i lives will be to your children an inspira- | tion, your death benediction, your re- | surrection fact which will beckon them | on to join you at the foot of Gods white | throne? Shall not the rosebush bring forth rose? Shall not maternal song | find an echo in daughters heart?