Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-30

ciety and let your children go to hell.
and when you get home you find that
the children have gone. We are drift
ing away and our children are going
to the devil If we had our homes as
we should have them our children
would not be on the way to hell. Tom
Hood says:
II remember the house where was
born,
And the little window where the sun
came peeping in at morn.
1t never came a wink too soon nor
stayed too long the day.
But now often wish the day had
drawn the night away.
remember the fir trees, and how
used to think their slender top
was close against the sky.
1t was childish ignorance, but now tits
little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
than when l was a boy"
Mothers Are Prototypes.
Look out! No leader is more closely
followed than the mother. Mothers are
the prototypes. George Washington
would have become midshipman in
the British navy had it not been for his
mother, and that site on the banks of
the Potomac would bear different
name today. Mothers are prototypes,
down to the Spartan mother whose
son complained that his sword was too
short. She said: add a step to it,
my boy" Mothers are prototypes
with God in the creation of souls and
the development of character, and no
greater responsibility can devolve upon
a human being than to be the mother
of child to train for glory. Father
may fall, but if the mother falls Go1
pity the boy and girl. The web of this
nation is made from the thread that
is spun in the home. If you run a pri-
waite beer garden In your home don't
growl at the man that runs a public
beer garden. I have known mothers
to set beer and wine before their chill
dren, then they come to me begging
that 1 try to do something to save
their boy, who is not yet out of his
teens. No wonder you have son like
that!
The home ought to be synonymous
with all that is grand and good. The
grandest work in the world is to be
done by true mother. The training
of a Martin Luther, or of a John Bun
yam, or of a Lincoln is greater than
the training of aNCaesar or a Napoleon.
When i touch a boy see that touch
the future fifty years. 1 touch boy
and I touch the future seventy-five
years from tonight. 1t is a great
thing. 1t is a great responsibility that
God puts upon you. The man who
builds railroad does great thing;
the man who builds battleship does
great thing, but the man or woman
that builds character does a greater
thing-the greatest thing in the world.
1t is great thing to launch a battle
ship or cruiser, but it is a greater
thing to launch a boy or a girl for
Jesus Christ.
One day father and his little son
were out walking when they came to
a crooked tree. The father said: 81
wonder what did that?" And the boy
said: Il guess somebody stepped on
it when it was little"
The burden you put on a child when
it is small will stick to it all it's days.
You put a burden on that child by the
atmosphere you live in. The nation
has no better friend than the mother
who teaches her child to pray. And
the world has no worse enemy than
Ia good-for nothing, card-playing,
dancing, theater- going, beer drinking,
frivolous mother.
Mother All Powerful.
I heard conundrum: .eWhy is a
boy like vinegar" The answer is
Because the more mother he has in
him the better
Mothers, hear me moment, will
you? You are the home-makers and
the home-keepers. Bob Ingersoll said:
1t takes thousand men to make a
regiment, but only one mother to make
home" What an honor upon you.
AT Y. M. C. A. international con-
vention, where there were 1900 promi-
nent men of the United States, the
question was asked: How many of
you had christian mothers? How many
of you attribute your christianity to
the influence of your christian homer
And every man of the 1900 stood UP
and IN that mute way paid the most
Aiio 10 tQc CHRISTIAN
character of motherhood.
John Randolph of Roanoke, with his
excitable temperament, said I would
be an infidel if it were not for the
memory of my godly mother. who
taught me to kneel by her side, shut
my eyes and say, Our Father who az
in heaven"
The world owes a debt of gratitude
to our mothers, and the greatest men
of the world were mother made men
Augustine, Martin Luther, Constantine
Oliver Cromwell, all mother-made men
Susanna Wesley was not only the
mother of John and Charles, but The
mother Of Methodism as we'll
You love to revel midst the paint
ings Of Benjamin West in Windsor
castle, do you not? Yes. And as you
| gaze upon them you are reminded Of
the fact that he said it was his moth
-er's kiss that made him an artist.
That glitteringS pillar on the banks
Of the Potomac is not only George
Washington's monument, but Martha
Washington's monument, too. for wha,