The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-11-24

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- " winch they We're entitled. and
nus IN many cases, by her neglect.
'dNeu the way for criminal life. The
castor hit straight from the shoulder
ina MS declarations caused some
| What of a sensation.
/ rev. Mr.. Matthews said in nart.
| woman Is one of two things-she
elther good or bad There is no
hloole ground for a woman. Her in
luehce' work, teachings and example
ue oil Tor the good or for the bad.
one cannot be neutral She is vested
With the power to lift society child
'ooo anu MANHOOD to the very heights
u heaven, or lower them to the depths
u oepravlty. Because of her superior
position and her divine commission
her responsibility is proportionately
greater than that resting upon others
The position of mother is the high
1st IN the kingdom Of earth. Heavens
greatest benediction is consecrated.
christian mother; one who performs
dill the duties of mother, guides with
an inspired hand the destiny of home
ana presents to the world the immacu-
late name and character of godlv
woman. 1t is almost impossible for
the BOY 10 be better than his parents
IL IS difficult, if not absolutely impos-
slple, for the stream to rise higher than
its source.
| society as it is organized today is
detrimental to home and destructive
| u motherhood. No woman can be a
| conscientious, faithful, devoted mother
ana at the same time, the devotee Of
| your vain, empty society The duties
! necessarily conflict, and when she
| chooses to be the mother of society
she must necessarily be the enemy of
motherhood; and, if not in fact, GER
| talnly in spirit, the destroyer of life.
| Society in its present organization
| destroys the real, social, hospitable
| elements of the higher life: it is an
tagonistic to intellectual development;
it is the enemy of health and the fore
| runner of bankruptcy; it is a bubble
| on the stream of time: it is the foam
at the base of impure breath; it is
| the froth around the mouth of insani-
| tN; It IS the emptiness of emptiness. 1t
| leads to dangerous practices and i'm
| moral habits. To illuStrate-there is
no harm, nor is it violation of moral
principle to engage in any game solely
! for amusement or recreation or for
| the purpose of diverting the tired and
| OVertaXed brain: but when game is
played for gambling purposes it de-
| Of women and produces immoral ten
| denotes.
is it not possible for women to
| have occasional card parties without
| turning them into gambling clubs? If
| one We're to attend as an observer
one of the gambling parties, and watch
gray haired grandmothers scramble
and cheat for prizes, would he not be
amazed, astOniShed, Sickened and dis
gusted? A social afternoon or even
| ing with cards could not injure any
one, and if played for the purpose Of
social amusement, free from all prize
getting ambitions, the interest Of
very important element in society
| might be conceived.
Mothers ought to have their clubs
their social functions and their social
meetings. but they should taboo all
tendencies calculated to foster and en-
gender the grasping, gambling, avar-
| icious spirit of this age. They should
convert society into an altruistic fami-
ly, bound together with the cords of
love and charity, in which the music
of absolute harmony, good fellowship
and cheer would always be produced.
Noble men and women have been
led into the empty society Of the pres
ent day, who could, if they would only
turn their attention to the higher and
more serious things of life become the
greatest factors in the development of
civilizat ton, and the advancement OF
Christianity. Beneath the debris OF
vanity and social emptiness lie buried
their noble instincts and grand posi-
bilities They have the latent ability
to feed starving children, and give to
the world noble sons and daughters.
A
blood of manly purity impaired to him
by devoted, cOnSecrated mother;
and he should have transmitted to him
from a cody father, self-reliance, am
bition and courage. These qualities
cannot be given to a child by anyone
except his parents.
THE majority Of Juvenile criminals
walk to the prison, the penitent1ary
and the gallows over a road paved with
the stones of parental neglect; their
immoral habits, practices and tenden-
cies passed into their lives through
the open door of parental neglect; the
nails in their collins were nodded IN
the furnace of parental neglect; their
graves were digged by the agents OF
parental neglect, and the fires of their
eternal hell were kindled by parental
neglect.
I'm the name of motherhood, in the
name of childhood, and in the name
of God, all pure men and women ap-