Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

lions den. Everywhere around Won
were lions Of temptation, ready TO eat
you up. There were the lion Of false
hood, the lion Of theft, the lion of
drink, the lions of lnnumerable dlshon.
estes. "Oh," you said, what Is the
good Of my trying to live right when
So many of my business associates are
dishonest and trying to overrench 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 kneel
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 bncl,
true man to your work. Toll me
honestly. would you be the Christian
man you are today II your wife's faith
had not been as a sheet anchor holding
you to the cross? Am wrong when
say that God giveth the word, but the
Christian wives who surround us and
publish the tidings are grent host?
But the second proper name of this
old New England epitaph Is even more
suggestive than the first: "a Sarah to
her husband, a Eunice TO her chill
dren" Who was Eunice? She was
the mother OF young Timothy. the ia
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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 cpistle TO Timothy
with this salutation: When I call to
remembrance the unfeigncd faith that
is in thee, which first dwelt 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 n
Christian cradle Timothy had been
rocked. Neither "a Il n very difficult
matter for some Of MS TO be good when
we look back upon the influence which
our Christian mothers had over us dur
lilE OUT lUlaUcI anu CHlluilOON.
A Eunce to Her Children.
Would you like to picture this wom-
an, who was Sarah to her husband
and q Eunice to her children? Why.
she was just the same kind Of a
Eunice rs your mother was 10 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 dsguerreotype which,
though faded, still showed what q
pretty and fun loving girl your mother
must have been. But one day the an
ear solemn secret Then serious
look came to her eye. Then. when she
was tempted to any inconsistency. the
first question thai always sprang to
her lips was: "Shoud | do that What
will be'the example for my chid""n?'
All, yes. | can understand why in the
last chapter Of Proverbs Lemuel'S
mother describes the good wife in thC
words, Many daughters have done
virtuously, but thou excellest then
all" The purity and nobility OF 6
woman's life are never so gloriously
developed as when she. mother
walks daily as spiritual example
before her children. God bless tho
Eunices! God bless them for the
prayers they are lifting for their chill
dren and for the constant sacrifice:
they are making for their homes
But IL child cannot always remain
child. Neither can young mother al
ways remain young. Time Is no re
specter Of persons. First comes tn,
blossom, then the fruit Then tn,
green leaves of the trees take upol
themselves the variegatod hues OF au
tumn. Then comes the Indian summe
of life. The smooth cheeks Of youn.
womanhood change into the wrinklet
skin of old age. The black hair 0
Eunice changes into he whitene.
locks Of Lois, the children grow up
and the grandchildren come Tn
mother, who once sat at the head o
the table, now sits at the side Tn
easiest chair in the sitting room i
grandmother's. And yet a Lois exer
cises her influence upon young limo
thy, and it is very good. Paul ever
mentions the grandmothers in1uenc
before he mentions the influence o
Eunice. Why is that? think | cal
tell you why. 1t is on account Of tn
melowing influence of orr grandmotl
ers
Tho Mothers Busy Life.
When young mother has larg
brood of little ones growing up in tn
home, her life is one of ceaseless actiy
ity. She works from morning until ia
into the night. How tiled her finger
get with the needle, How tired he
. head. There are endless duties a
calling at the same tine. Come au
look after me. Come and look afte
me-" Mother does not rock the young
or babies in her lap as much MS sh
did her first born; she has not tn
, time. She does not take the little jour
neys to the seashore, as some mother
do, because she has so many duties a
home. Sometimes her nerves get askew
and she becomes irritable. Ii is diffe,
, emit with Grandmother Lois. How ger
tie she is. She never seems to be S
happy as when one Of the babies