Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-13


so implicitly trusts you, and so gain
today by fraud what God has prom
| ised to give you tomorrow in honor"
And Jacob did as his mother told him.
And the day came when his sons lied
| to him, well nigh to the breaking Of his
heart. The day came, nearly 300 years
after, when the children of his wronged
brother stood with drawn sword at the
borders Of their land and said to the
children of Jacob: March the weary
march around our possessions; pas
| lures for your flocks and clear running
| springs for your fainting little ones we
have, but you, oh children of the sup
planter, you shall not taste Them So
runs the wrong of foolish mothers S
evil counsel through the ages.
Mothers Evil Counsel
| Here stands daughter before her
| mother, the flush of triumph on her
beautiful face; her pulses leaping with
| joyous excitement-'Mot So pleased
is the king with my dancing and
| beauty that he has promised to make
me such a gift as queens might crave!
Anything g-anything 1 will, even unto
the half Of Herod's kingdom! Tell me,
mother, for what shall 1 ask?"
Hate flames in the mothers eye
unholy revenge Kisses like the voice
of serpent between her clenched
teeth-"Ask for the head of John the
Baptist" And the girl who might
have had a little Kingdom for her
dover, led by her mothers counsel, re-
ceives CORY head of murdered man,
at the red hands of a common heads
mana mothers gift for her daughter
Mother, one day your boy may stand
at the parting of the ways. One path
will lead to worldly fame, and high
| place among men, and glittering wealth,
and years of selfish ease and comfort,
the days stained little with dishoner,
with trickery, with touch of fraud In
the winning. And the other will lead
down among the toiling sons and
daughters of men; along shadowed
ways Of obscurity, through long hours
of poorly requited labor; among homes
of squalor; ways Of pain; haunts Of
sorrow; there will be disappointments;
there will be thorns for his heart
such thorns as pierced the temples of
the dying Son Of God-have a care,
mother, how you advise him.
Your daughter will stand before you
one day, where the paths diverge. She
will come to you, because her mother
| Is a girls confidant. Before her lies a
primrose path smooth and fair to the
eye, where she may dance with light
heart and graceful feet through song
and music and laughter and wealth.
All the way lined with flowers. But
there will be a taint of sin In the odor
of the roses; a stain upon the petals
Of the lilies; a mocking strain in the
measures of the music. And the other
way will be watered with a woman's
tears of self-sacrifice; with hours of
loneliness; with the WEAKNESS of soul
service, the longing for some of the
| life-happiness that is so dear to the
heart of woman but the flowers along
her way will. be the lilies of Gethse-
name, made stainless through suffer-
| ing and renunciation; made whittier
than sunshine with the beauty of holi-
ness. She will stand before you, say
| ing, Mother, what shall 1 choose?"
How to Choose
| Good daughter of a good mother,
choose for the boy and the girl as
though you were the angel of God,
sent on the earth for that work deed
The broad and turbid Nile, fretted
with thousand dangerous eddies an6
haunted by cruel monsters of the deer
is no place for baby, and the rough
ark is poor cradle for the little ont
that needs the mother arms. Launcl
the tiny craft lightly and with all con
fidence, Oh, Jochabedl God the AL
mighty is the pilot and see-he guides
the frail boat straight to the arms OF
the Princess of Pharaohs house; the
little ones wailing signal of distress
melts her heart, and 10, the timbrels
of Miriam and the voices of the sing
ing women sound the triumph DER
Egypt's dark sea-"Jehovah hath tri-
umphed!"
Here is mother in the land of
promise listening to the words of mes
senger of God. who has promised her
son, Eat thou not of anything that
cometh of the vine; drink neither wine
nor strong drink, nor any unclean
| thing" Let the mother sanctify her
| life before God to clean living, clean
| thinking; to the best and the noblest
and the purest in thought and word
and deed; let hers be. the life of an
handmade of the Most High, and then
let the lions Of temptation roar out
against Samson in the way; let the
! hosts of sin swarm out upon him in
hostile paths; let hate and malice set
it's watch, and bar and chain its gates
upon him; let treachery bind his arms
with human cunningham will be
pastime and strife will be laughter for
him so long as he walks in the ways
his mother taught him. Nothing shall
ever be able to overcome him but his
own treacherous self.
| Be constant, o beautiful eleanor OF
Bethlehem, be constant as only woman's
love can be in this changing world;
renounce home and country, friends
and kin for the God of righteousness
and his people; cry aloud to the Wis
dom that has taught thy soul Alright,
'Whither thou goest I will go; where
thou lodgest 1 will lodge; thy people
shall be my people and thy God my
God" oh, wise choosing daughter of an
accursed nation, birth and heredity
and environment and education have
all done their worst against you-but
you have chosen God. Now, Ruth the
Moabitess, cleaner of Bethlehem. name
thy children In their God-blessed gen
erations-Obed. Jesse, David, Jesus of
Bethlehem. Pray for the little one be-
fore God lays him in your arms, o
loving Hannah, with the mother yearn-
ing, then bring him before the altars
singing, my heart rejoiceth in Jehovah
I rejoice in thy salvation" Then give
him to God, that the world, so long as
it stands, may remember Samuel,
prophet and teacher and judge without
stain or reproach, purest among the
noblest of men.
LlncoIn's Real Mother
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