Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-13
MOTHERS SANCT|TY
BURDETTE'S THEME
NATIONAL CONGRESS HEARS
SPECIAL THEME
Pastor Of Temple Baptist breaches to
DeIegates-National President
and State President
Make Addresses


Make Addresses
"Motherhood: It's Purity, Beauty and
Sanctity," was the theme Of DIR. Rob-
ert ]. Burdettes sermon yesterday
morning. at the Temple Baptist
church, before the delegates of the
National Mothers congress in session
in Los Angeles. Several hundred dele
gates were present to hear the noted
divine, and before his sermon MIS-
Frederic Schoff of Philadelphia, presi-
dent of the national congress, and Mrs.
w. w. Murphy, president of the CAN.
fornia state congress, delivered br1ef
addresses.
Preceding the sermon a splendid
musical program was rendered Inc
chorus sang an anthem and roland
Paul sang a tenor solo. In sacred
adaptation Of Donizettfs famous sex
tette from Lucia, Mrs. Bessie Ives Har
rison sang the beautiful but d1fncult
soprano part in a highly creditable
manner.
DR.. Burdette chose his text from II
Timothy, 1876: II thank God, whom
I serve, from my forefathers in a pure
conscience, how unceasing is my re-
membrance of thee in my supplications,
night and day, longing to see thee, re-
membering thy tears, that I may be
filled with joy; having been reminded
of the unfeigned faith that Is In thee;
which dwelt first in thy grandmother
Lois, and thy mother Eunice."
Two Good Mothers
"Thy grandmother Lois and thy
mother Eunice." Two good mothers
one the daughter of the other. No
wonder Timothy was such q son as
commanded the esteem and the love
of such a man as Paul-Paul, one Of
the noblest figures in the worlds gal
lery of great men. A Christ-like man
among the heroes of faith. great
man and busy man. A wonderful
man. In the midst of imprisonments,
scourgings, five times under jewish
lashes, thrice under Roman rods, snip
wrecks, perils of rivers, sea, robbers,
heather, countrymen, labor and ira
vail, watchings, hunger and thirst, cold
and nakedness, rests upon him constant
ly "that which presseth upon me daily
anxiety for all the churches"-in the
midst of all this, this wonderful man
finds time not for hasty note, but
ample, leisurely time for long,
thoughtful, loving letter to Timothy,
my beloved child
And as soon as he begins the letter,
as he thinks of Timothy's call to the
ministry, his gifts and qualifications,
he straightway falls to thinking of the
young mans mother and grandmother.
Look over the preachers shoulder. He
| is writing a letter that will outlast the
most pretentious literature of his day.
| A letter to a young friend that will be
read and studied and discussed by all
sorts and conditions Of men, more than
any profound treatise or essay by any
| 20 NJ that time
men who had never heard Paul preach
if indeed they had ever heard Of Paul
| the man. And how does he begin this
| great letter? IT knew your grand
mother and your mother" IT thank
| God for his unfeigned faith that Is In
thee, which dwelt first in thy grand
mother Lois, and thy mother, Eunice.'
Three Christian Generations
Why, the gospel of Christ had been
preached only about seventy years, and
here is pedigree of three generations
of Christians, and the third Is a
preacher! And that led the greatest
preacher in the world to thank God for
grandmothers and mothers. Paul must
have known when he was a boy that
priceless treasure of a grandmother.
''Do you git many lickins'?" asked an
urchin with the tears drying on his
grimy face, Of companion of school
and street. "Naw!" indignantly. 1--WE
got a grandmother" Hers, the dear
gentle, wrinkled hand that so often
stays the rod. Has she then forgot
ten the precept of Solomon? No; but
she has brought UP better children
than ever Solomon did.
Mother" said the young daughter
in-law, with the young mothers anx-
iety, "you will spoil the baby
Just as I spoiled your husband" re-
piled grandma, grimly; and the young
wife was silent If not convinced.
The dear, sweet, old-fashioned
grandmother, who loved the title and
dignity that went with 1t, and didn't
try to conceal the fact by dressing like
her granddaughters, making one at the
gayest theater parties, enjoying the
little supper afterwards, and romping
home in an automobile at midnight.
She was never so gowned, even on Sun
day, that the youngest child couldn't
climb into her lap. She didn't shine in
her general knowledge of house venti-
lation, practical plumbing, village sani-
tation, general sewage and filtration
systems as applied to great cities; mind
cure, brain storms, therapeutic sugges-
ton, applied hypnotism, physical cul-
ture and a great many other wonder
\ful things which were not invented
until grandmother had passed on to
the world where all things are known.
but the entire neighborhood shook
their heads and looked sadly at the
doctor if his diagnosis differed ever so
little from grandma.
And her children! Your mother is
one of her children, and your uncle Jim
is another. And the generations don't
improve much on that style of training,
do they?
Improve a Little
But they do, little. For If every
succeeding generation of mothers were
not wiser than the generation which
bore them, the old world would stand
still. Add to the old fashioned grand
mother the new fashioned mother who
has justified grandmother's wisdom
where it was the best, and has cor
rected it where it was faulty, and has
improved upon it in score of ways as
science and study, experiment and in
vestigation have again and again
trimmed the wick and replenished the
oil in the lamp Of knowledge, and we
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