Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-13
FEWER DIVORCES RESULT
IF MOUTH IS KEPT SHUT
MARGARET RoTToME PLACES
VALUE ON SILENCE
Founder and Head Of Kings Daughters
and Sons Advises Husbands and
Wives to Cultivate Accomplishment
Of Refraining from Hasty Language

Wash your dishes in his name
Keep the home in order and it is the
work he has given you to do If you
see it clearly. Certainly the dishes have
to be washed. 1t is Just as great a
work to wash your dishes in HIS name
as 1t Is for the pastor of the church
to stand in the pulpit and preach.
And then-keep silence. 1t is a great
thing to keep your mouth shut We
would have less divorces if at some
time the husband and the wife had kept
their mouths shut" said Mrs. Mar
garet Bottome, founder and head of the
Kings Daughters and Sons, in an ad-
dress on the work of the order last
evening at the First Congregational
church.
The church was filled to its utmost
seating capacity many standing
throughout the service. The Emmanuel
Baptist church united In the service,
following which those present wishing
to become members were presented to
Mrs. Bottome in the social parlors.
In her address Mrs. Bottome spoke
of the Importance of reaching the
young girls. saying that Miss Helen
Gould Joined the order at the age of
fifteen, and that she had received a
letter from the noted phianthropist
stating that all her present work of
Daughters. Mrs. Bottome said in part:
I'm the forty-ffth Psalm. where we
took the name of the order, it says:
The kings daughter Is all glorious
within This tells us that If Jesus
Christ is within the climate of our
souls will be like this beautiful Cali
fornia climate. All the church needs
today is an inward God-God all glori-
Gus within.
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king of kings and lord of lords, and
we are his daughters So never say
simply kings daughters, but the Kings
Daughters, for 1t means so much more
to us.
THE two articles of the order are:
First, for deeper spiritual life; and,
secondly, the quickening of Christian
activities. All who are in accord with
these principles and who wish to serve
the king of kings are welcome to this
order
Your first duty after accepting
Jesus Christ as your king is your home
and your mother comes first How
many mothers have thanked me, say
ing that the order has made their
daughters unselfish. Do you think
that is a little thing?"
'I am glad we have one order that
does not jump the home. About the
with. The only cash you pay is ten
cents-that is the fee You put your
name and that of your church and
pastor on the application card and you
become one of the Kings Daughters.
No one in the order can say it is your
place to do this or that. No one knows
what you should do. Ask the Lord
God earnestly and he will tell you.
II have been in Paris many time and
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corner of the Louvre where there is a
picture called The convent Kitchen
There an angel is putting up the dish
es and another angel is cutting up the
fowls for dinner. There are little
cherubs on the floor shelling peas and
preparing the vegetables. My first
thought when 1 saw those angels in
the kitchen was of my own mother.
She was a good deal in the kitchen.
After your work in the home the
next step is to go to your own pastor.
There is a great deal of work young
girls and women can do outside for the
church to bring souls nearer God.
After the church there is the great
outside and there is where the circles
come in. 1t matters not what church
you belong to, for there is no sec
tartan lines. Our order don't belong
to any church but it is in all churches.
"I don't believe that we have fully
taken in the meaning of ministering
in his name In doing so we minister
to him personally, He did not say
7 saw you feed the hungry But I
was hungry and We fed me- "
A meeting will be held Friday after
noon to perfect the organization of n
local circle of the order. The meeting
will be held in the First Congrega-
tional church.