Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-03-26

Daily News is requested to publish
the following synopsis of his re-
marks:
Il consider it great privilege of
having the opportunity of speaking to
the mothers of this community. l
will read from the Bible a text that
doubtless a number of you never
knew was in the Bible. You will find
it in Ezekiel 1874: CAS- is the
mother, so is her daughter"
81 don't know of a text that I
could use that is more sweeping and
searching in its application to moth
ers than this one. If it is true that
some how in the providence of God
the life of mother is reproduced in
her daughter, what a tremendous
thing it is for you to have under your
care the girls of this city. To those
who will stand for Christ and the
home and the right it is a great priv
ilege and consolation; but to those
who live and lead indefinite, careless
and unchristian lives it is a tremen-
dous condemnation.
Now, ladies, you will allow me to
throw myself upon your sympathy as
a son would commit himself to the
heart of his own mother. The things
that I propose to say to you this
afternoon | have said to my own dear
mother more times than l can num-
Der
"A few evenings ago | spoke in this
church on the influence of woman
good and evil. l spoke of her in
fuence in the home, in society and
in the church. l can't do a better
thing than take that same foundation
for a basis of my remarks this af-
ternoon. | want to consider first,
your influence in the home.
ITO God and to all true humanity
the greatest spot on this earth is the
home. Lodges may become corrupt.
Commercialism may become a sys.
tenn of gambling. Societies and var
ious orders may be demoralized. The
rabble of the street may become an
archists; but the country will stand
until the corruption of the streets
lays its Shiny grip upon the Preside.
and hear me- when our homes, the
well springs of this fair land, are
contaminated, society is lost to the
world, the streets are demoralized
and the churches wrecked. There
fore | stand and speak to queens who
sit on thrones and rule with scep-
tiers that no army on earth can ever
conquer You are to make your
home the center of your power. Your
sphere is not politics ultimately. I
had much rather be the queen of a
well organized empire confined with
in the boundaries of one town than
to be the president of every WON.
ans suffrage convention organized
since the civil war You are to make
your homes attractive with the grace
OF Christ You are to allow no evil
to enter your doors. Rule in your
homes with a perfection and attrac-
tiveness that will win your husbands
from the streets at night to sit in the
presence of his family. I want to say
word about your relationship to So
ciety.
Society rests solely upon the wom-
en- OF this country. 1t is with you to
set the pace of society. The stage
was never polluted, the dance hall
was never polluted, until they were
polluted by women. I mean to say
that these are opportunities that are
granted to those who have not the
native modesty and christian purity
and home influence to cling with the
tenacity of an angel to that most beau
tiful of all things-the loneliness OF
womanhood. The thing for which I
despise the stage is that its supreme
object seems to be to take advantage
of womanhood and fiaunt her modesty
1t into an arena of immodesty and
impurity; and if God means what he
said in the language of the text l
read to you in the beginning, there
are eternities resting upon your
conduct as mothers with reference to
your daughters society. There are
many things that you could do more
valuable than spend your afternoons
gathered around the progressive
euchre table. There is so much that
needs to be done right in your midst
| feel that the mothers of this town
should organize themselves into
strong body against the wave of de-
moralizing influence. Take for in
stance the placards on the bill boards
and the suggestive post cards with