Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05

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your children if You want to inspire
and cheer them
Mothers Music the Best.
There Is power in a mothers song.
too. is the best music the world ever
heard The best music in the world
is the music mother makes. There is
no brass band or pipe organ that can
hold candle to mothers song. Calve,
Melba, Nordica Eames, Schuman-
Helnk-they are cheap skates conf
pared to mother. They can't sing at
all. They don't know the rudiments of
the kind of music mother sings The
kind she sings get tangled up in your
heart strings. There would be disap-
pointment in the music of heaven, to
me, if there were no mothers there to
sing. The song of an angel or of
Seraph would not have much charm
for me. What would you care for an
angels song if there is no mother
song? The song of mother is sweet
er than that ever sung by minstrel or
any poet ever wrote. Talk about SON
nets You ought to hear mother sing
when her babe is at her breast, when
her heart is filed with emotion, Her
voice may not please an artist, but it
will please him if he has q heart in
him. The songs of love that have
moved the world are not the songs
written by great masters. There is
ody the happiness which association
and memories bring. There is nothing
in the world that can nut into your
heart the memory Of that log cabin or
that mother when you were a child,
and l think when we get to heaven it
will be found that some of the best
songs we will sing there will be those
we learned at mothers knee.
There is a power in a mothers love.
A a
love. How God could ever love this
world or ever tell the world that He
loved it. without a mothers help. has
often puzzled me- If the devils in hell
ever turned pale, it was the day when
mothers love famed I'm for the first
time in woman's heart. If the devil
ever got cold feet it was that day,
in my Judgment.
You know a mother has to love her
babe before it is born. and like God,
she has to go into the Shadow of the
Valley of Death to bring it into the
world, and she will love her child, suf-
fer for it, and it can grow up and be-
come vile. and yet she will love. it. She
always apologies for it no, matter how
vile it may be. and I think, women,
that one Of the awful things in hell
will be that there will be no mothers
love there. Nothing but black, bottom
less, endless, eternal hate in hell, no
mothers love, and I thank God for
what mothers love has done for the
world. and l thank God for putting it
into the hearts of mothers to love the
world.
Think of the trust you have! Surely,
| as Moses was put in his mothers
arms as charge by the princess, so
God put the babies in your arms as
trust from God and she has to answer
to God for the way she deals with that
child or children. No mother on Gods
earth has any right to raise her child
rem for pleasure. She has no right to
do those things that will damn her
children. If YOU do. God will damn
you That babe is put in your arms to
train for the Lord. No mother has
any more right to raise her children
for pleasure than ] have to go down
there and pick your pockets or out
rage your womanhood. She has no
more right to do that than bank
cashier has to rifle the vaults and take
| the savings of the people. Not a bit of
right has she to do it. and mother
| who is unfaithfut to her trust, that, Is
one of the worst sins you can COM
| nit.
| Take this child and raise it for me-
| That is all the business you have with
| it, That is a jewel that belongs to
| God and He gives it to you to polish
| for Him so that He can set it in a
crown. Who knows but that Judas
| became the Goddess, good for nothing
wretch he was because he had a god
| less, good for nothing mothero Do you
know? l don't Who is more to blame
| for the crowded prisons than moth
| ers? Who is more to blame for the
| crowded houses of sill-fame than
mothers. To let your children sad
tho streets with every Tom, Dick and
Harry or keep company with some lit
tie jack-rabbt whose character would
| make a black mark on a piece of tar
paper. I have talked with men in pris
ons who have damned their mothers to
my face. Men that cursed their moth
ers. Why? They blame their mothers
| for being where they are.
Rewards of Mothers.
Take this child and raise it for me"
Not for pleasure. For nc" Not for
the world, to let it go to hell. For
mc"-not for society. For me'-not
/ for business. For me- not for the
| bathrooms. For me'--not for
it for me'-not for the saloon.: For
III" mot for the card parties. 'For
me"--not for intidelity. FOR me"--not
! to marry some man who has money
and no morals. For lhc"-not to live
! in respectable prostitution as the wife
OF some foreign count Cor no acCOunO
/ or some rotten duke that the devil
would cross the street to get away
! from if he saw him coming along.
| For nle'---that's what He says. Arc
you doing them If not. women for God S
sake promise God. and the people that
| you Will begin now. Raise it for HIM.
And then what? 81 will pay you
Your wages" Take this child and raise
1t for ME and l will pay you your
| wages. Don't be afraid, women. Gods
| bank never breaks. The Cashier does
! Mt run away with the money. Think
| OF the reward Hannah cot because son
Samuel became one OF the greatest
men of the world! Think of the re-
! ward Darid's mother got because
David became famous: Think of the
reward Daniels mother received for
! what she laugh her boy, and when he
went to Babylon he would not drink
their wine, not eat their sinking meat.
Think of the reward that John the
Raptist's mother received! Think Of
the reward that must come to Mary
/ when she sees her son must bear the
sins of the world, The mother OF
Moses is still drawing pay. Her name
Is just as bright on Gods payroll today
if waS Of