Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
Mother Gives Him Faith.


Tell me, where did Moses get his
faith? From his mother. Where did
Moses get his backbone to say 'T
won't be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter? He got it from his mother.
Where did Moses get the nerve to say,
Excuse me, please" to the pleasures
OF Egypt? He got 1t from his mother.
you can bank on 1t. He didn't inhale
1t from his dad. He got it from his
ma. Moses was learned in all the
wisdom of Egypt, but that didn't give
him the swelled head. When God wants
to throw a world out into space he is
not concerned about THAT. The first
mile that world takes settles its course
for eternity. When God throws a
child out into the world he is mighty
Catholics are right when they say:
Give me the children until they are
ten 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.
1t is the only church that has ever
shown us the only sensible 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
Grape 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-
pie God rather than enjoy the
pleasures of old Egypt because God
took his mother out of the brick yard
and the field and gave her the privilege
of being his guide. The Egyptian col
lege could not hurt Moses: Egyptian
pleasures could not brutalize him. No,
Egyptian sins could not ruin him.
Why? Because his mothers hand was
on his head. There is mighty power in
Ia mothers hand.
Before Moses found out anything
about Egypt he found that his mothers
religion was about the best thing in
out he is safe.
Quotes From Emerson.
Emerson says: Boys are what their
mothers make. them.' And that's Just
as true as anything in the bible. They
are what their mothers make them,
and it the mothers of today are true to
their trust, then she can send her boy
to college and need not be afraid of
his coming back little jackass in
fidel, like most of them do. There is
no power on earth that can lift to
heaven or shove to hell like the touch
Of mothers hand. Everywhere men
have been brought back from the valley
of the shadow of death simply by the
touch of a mothers hand.
"A friend of mine had to go to the
hospital for an operation. They thought
she would be frightened, but she said:
II don't care if mamma will be there
and hold my hand" They prepared her
for the operation, led her in the room,
put her on the table, put the cone over
her face and saturated it with chloro-
form and she said: Nov, mamma,
take me by the hand and hold it and
III not be afraid" And the mother
stood there and held her hand The
operation was performed. and when
she regained consciousness and was
able to go home they said: Bessie,
weren't you afraid when they put you
stood there and held my hand. /
wasn't afraid.
There is mighty power in moth
el's hand. "a
}5nPower in Mothers Kiss.
And there is a mighty power In a
ncther's kiss; Inspiration, courage,
hope in a mothers kiss. Ole 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. ii
will give strength where there is weak
ness.
was in town one day and saw a
mother out with her little boy, and he
had great steel braces on both legs
clear to his hips, and when 1 got near
enough to them 1 learned by their con-
versation that wasn't the first time
the mother had had him out She had
him out trying to get exercise so as to
get the use of his limbs He was
struggling, and she smiled and said:
You are doing fine today; better than
You did yesterday and she stopped
and kissed him, and the kiss of en-
couragement made him work all the
harder. and she said: You are doing
great, son." and he said. Mamma,
I'm going to run; look at me-" And
he started, and one of his toes caught
on the steel brace on the other leg and
he Went to fall, but she caught him
and kissed him and said: THAT was
fine, son; how fine you did it," Now
he did it because his mother had en-
couraged him with a kiss. HE didn't
do it to show off. There is nothing
that will help and inspire like a
mothers kiss.
1T we knew the baby fingers pressed
against the window pane
Would be cold and still tomorrow
never trouble us again,
Would the bright eyes of our darling
catch the frown upon our brow ?
Would the prints of little fingers yey
us than as they do now?
Let us gather all the sunbeams lying
all around our path, a
Let us keep the wheat and roses, cast
ing out the thorns and chaff!
We shall find our sweetest comforts in
the blessings of today,
And with a patient hand removing all
the briers from our way
Power in Mothers Smile,
There is power in a mothers smile
See the boy, how he will Guido himself
III he knows his mother is watching
him, and It makes the hard places
easy and the dark places light A long
face and a gloomy look are about the
last things you ought to give to your
children IL you want to inspire and