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

the mountains of Eternity, then read
! tho mothers names in Gods Hall of
/ Fame and see who they have been in
| this world.
want to tell yon women, fooling
q poodle dog or caressihg a Brindle
Spitz. drinking a society bran mash
and a cocktail and playing cards is
a mighty low business.
To plant thought in a mind that
will stay there and grow is greater
that putting in big crop. Building
character beats building a sky scraper
or q battleship or railroad all to
pieces.
| know mothers, often your work
is discouraging, it's trying, it's hum
BILE and it seems to you to be insig
nificant. Your sacrifices, tears and
trials are all hidden from the world,
know that There is nothing to
show that Moses mother got any
help from his daddy. There is moth
ing to show that he ever cut willow
that was woven into that basket.
| There is nothing to show that he
helped her minute. I suppose the
to kindle the fire with when he
couldn't find chips. That's about all
the dads of some children ever do
help l tell you the devil gets in
i many a boy by getting in his daddy
first. The mother is doing all she
can to train the children for the Lord
and the father is doing all he can
to counteract her influences and train
them for the devil You think what's
the use Of your dressing up and TAX
| ing them to church when your hus-
band will go to a saloon or loaf
around billiard hall. What's the
use of your trying to pray when he
| will cuss and damn. What's the use
of trying to keep them from becom-
| ing a cigaret fiend when your hus-
band smokes pipe or cigar. What's
| the use of trying TO keep them from
chewing tobacco when your husband
sits around and chews and splits and
you are asked to clean the old spit
! toon. I'd throw it as his old dirty
head. And SO know, mothers, that
your work is oftimes, meaningless
and monotonous grind and itseems
awfully discouraging, just the same
thing over and over and very little
good seems to come of 1T.
The Powers Of Mothers.
And If you only knew, mothers,
that in your dark corner, in your
monotonous grind, you are helping
to lift stones and put them in great
temple to rise before God, you would
not be so discouraged. When God
gave the Office of mother to women
it was just like giving you his own
right hand Think OF what import
ance is attached to it! Think of the
mothers power! There is more power
in mothers hand than in kings
scepter BY his mother leading her
boy right Moses headed Gods army
BY faith Moses, when he came to
years, refused to be called the son of
| Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather
to suffer affections Of the people of
God than to enjoy the pleasures of
sin for season There is something
| for you to think about, you old card
playing, beer, wine and champagne
drinking mother!
Moses Got Faith From Mother.
Tell me, where did Moses get his
| faith? From his mother Where did
Moses get his backbone to say 4 won't
be called the son of Pharoah's daugh-
! ter??" He got 1t from his mother.
Where did Moses get the nerve to say
Excuse me. please" to the pleasures
Of Egypt He got it from his mother,
YOU can bank on that. He didn't in
hale 1t from his dad. He got it from
his mother When GOD wants to throw
a world out into space he is not con-
cerned about that. The first mile that
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ity When God throws a child out into
the world He is mighty anxious that
it gets right start. The Catholics
are right when they say Give us the
! children until they are 10 years old.
then We don't care who has them after
| that The Catholics are not losing any
| sleep about losing men and women
that are grown UP. IT is the only
! church that has ever shown us a sem
sbile way to way to reach the masses,
by getting hold of the children and
reaching them. That's the only way
| in Gods earth You will ever solve the
| problem of reaching the masses. You
| get the boys and girls. started right
and the devil will hang crepe on the
| door of hell He will bank his fires
and hell will be for rent.
That was the reason that Moses was
able to choose affliction with the peo-
| pic Of God rather than enjoy the pleas
| ures Of Old Egypt. because God took
| his mother out OF the brick yard and
| field and gave her the privilege of be-
ing his guide. The Egyptian knowl-
! edge could not hurt Moses; Egyptian
| pleasure could not brutalizc him. No.
! Egyptian sins could not ruin him
| Why? Because his mothers hand was
| on his head. There is mighty power
| in the mothers hand.
Before Moses found out anything
about Egypt. he found that his moth
| er's religion was the best thing in the
world and when boy finds that out
| he is safe.
And there is mighty power in Il
mothers kiss; inspiration, courage
hope, in a. mothers kiss. One kiss
made Benjamin West painter. and
! the memory, of it chung to him. One
kiss will drive away the fear in the
dark and make the little one brave
It will give strength where there is
| weakness.
There is power in mothers smile
See the boy. how he will Guido him
self if he knows his mother is watch
| ing him, and it makes the hard places
easy and the dark places light, a
long face and gloomy look are about