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

in one morning from making call upon
 a poor family. She in substance says:
 "Girls. l have just been visiting Mrs.
 So-and-So. The family have not had any
 food in that house for two days. There are A number of little children there.
 Are you girls willing to give them your breakfasts and go without?' Yes" an-
 swer all four girls Under her directien
 they formed a line. They walked through the village streets, carrying the hot muf- fins and the coffee and the meat, and went over the hills and into the poor
 home and fed the little half starved ba-
 bies That book called Little Women
 was only a history of Louise Alcott in
 the days of her youth. DO you wonder that her mother raised fine girls, Louise
 Alcott Cor Joel among the number? That mothers heart was not only beating with love for her own childrs n, but also for
 every other womans children who were
 in trouble or distress. Do YOU wonder
 that every mother teaches her children
 the laws of gentleness and sympathy ana
 Christian kindness when she herself is
 ready at any hour of the night to gc to
 the sick neighbors home or to place flow
 CTS on the white casket of neighbours
 child?
 The true mother is also always the
 true church member. Nearly all are ready
 to grant that the church of Jesus Christ
 is the great purifying, the great moral
 and spiritual teacher and developer of
 every community in which 1t exists. It
 is the thrashng floor where the grain
 which has ben raised in the nurseries of Christian homes Is separated from the chaff. It Is the holy or holies at whose sacred altars multtudes are convicted of sin and led to humbly kneei and publicly confess their faith in God. Many have been brought up in Christian homes who
 would never have given their hearts to l Jesus Christ except through the church 8 l influence. Where did I surrender my
 heart to Jesus? During time of a re-
 vival in the Brookly Tabernacle, in the | church Where did you, O nearer. sur render your heart to Jesus? In the church. In nearly every case your decis- i ion was made within the four walls of a church
 If the church of Jesus Christ had such
 an infinite influence upon the lives of
 your children ought you not. O wives and
 mothers to cast your influence there2 Ought you not Sunday after Sunday to
 be seen within the four walls of the sa-
 cred sanctuary? It is useless for you to say that you have no time to go to church mother can always arrange her time to admit any duty that she
 knows to be essential to her childrens welfare. Who can tell whether the des- | tiny of your children may not be affected | for all eternity by your bringing them to 1 church? Some mothers find time every week to take their children to dancing | schools. Is not the temple where the people learn about Jesus Christ more i'm portant than the floor where the heels are educated instead of the heart?
 10 not make the plea I 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 become irritated because a young mother brings her baby to church Is not spiritually fitted to stand in any pulpit or to preach from any sa- cred desk. The greatest honor today which congregation can have is to see the pews filled up with the young moth CTS who are ianked by little children on both sides I once heard of a variety show giving a performance in mining camp in the days of the California gold l excitement The rude theater for the most part was filled with rough men.