The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-31

accumulate a little CAP. "a
ually and yet surely you PR. Moau
until now you own your home, and
you have been able to put aside some
money for rainy day What hus-
band today is not willing to thank God
for the financial reinforcement his
wife has been to him by her domestic
economies?
The Wife's Faith.
And, then, has she not been a moral
and spiritual reinforcement as well
as financial helper? When you left
home in the morning you felt that, like
Daniel of old, you We're entering the
lions den. Everywhere around you
f; were lions of temptation. ready to eat
| you up. There We're the lion of false
| hood, the lion Of theft. The lion of
drink, the lions of innJ 1. r., /. tlishon-
| estes. oh" you said. -, t is the
| good of my trying to live II 1t when
so many of my business associates are
dishonest and trying to overreach me-"
When you came home at night and she
| came to greet YOU at the door, as you
looked into her honest blue eyes you
knew that no impure or dishonest
thought had passed through her mind.
When you saw her gather the children
about her for prayers and then kneeI
to commend her own soul and the souls
of her husband and dear ones to the
Heavenly Father somehow all your
evil thoughts disappeared. Through
the touch of her hand you went back
true man to your work. Tell ne
honestly, would you be the Christian
man you are today if your wife's faith
had not been as a sheet anchor holding
say that God giveth the word but the
Christian wives who surround US and
publish the tidings are a great host?
But the second proper name of this
old New England epftaph is even more
suggestive than the first: "A Sarah to
her husband, a Elnice to her chill
dren." Who was Eunice? She was
the mother Of young Timothy, the ia
yorite cO-Worker and protege of the
Apostle Paul. The greatest of all the
apostles loved him not only for his
own sake. but for the sake of his
mother and his grandmother He be-
gins his second epiStie to Timothy
with this saiutation: when | call to
remembrance the unfeigned faith that
is in thee, which first dweIt in thy
grandmother Lois and thy mother
Eunice.' All, yes, it was not difficult
for Paul to trust and to love Timothy
when he knew in what kind of
Christian cradle Timothy had been
rocked. Neither is it very difficult
matter for some of US to be good when
we look back upon the influence which
our Christian mothers had over us dur
ing our infancy and childhood
A Eunice TO Her Children.
Would you like to picture this wom-
an, who was Sarah to her husband
and Eunice to her children? Why,
she was just the same kind of
Eunice as your mother was to you.
Once, like Sarah of old, your mother
was fair to look upon. After your ia
Their died you found among his treas
ures an old daguerreotype which,
though faded, still showed what a
pretty and fun loving girl your mother
must have been. But one day the an
gel of the Nativity whispered in her
ear a solemn secret. Then serious
look came to her eye. Then, when she
was tempted to any inconsistency. the
first question that always sprang to
her lips was: SHOULD l do that? What
will be the example for my children?"
All, yes, | can understand why in the
last chapter Of Proverbs Lemuels |
mother describes the good wife in the |
words, Many daughters have done
virtuously, but thou eXcelIest them |
ALL" The purity and nobility of a
woman's life are never so gloriously |
developed as when she, a mother, |
walks daily as a spiritual example |
before her children. God bless the |
Eunices! God bless them for the |
prayers they are lifting for their chill |
dren and for the constant sacrifices |
they are making for their homes!
But child cannot always remain a
child. Neither can young mother al |
ways remain young. Tine Is no re- |
specter of persons. First comes the |
blossom, then the fruit Then the |
green leaves of the trees take upon |
themselves the variegated hues of au-
tumn. Then comes the Indian summer
of life. The smooth cheeks of young
womanhOod change into the wrinkled |
skin of old age. The black hair of |
Eunice changes into the whitened |
locks of Lois, the children grow up.
and the grandchildren come. The
mother, who once sat at the head of |!
the table, now sits at the side The
easiest chair in the sitting room is |
grandmother's. And yet Lois exer-
cises her influence upon young limo
thy, and 1t is very good. Paul even
mentions the grandmother's influence
before he mentions the influence of
Eunice. Why is that? ! think l can