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

tut, don't talk like that; let some other
fellows go whose parents can't afford
to give them an education and the life
we can give you. ] wouldn't listen to
it." And they We're taught by their
mother, their first lesson of disobedi-
once to God. Two days later they went
out bathing with friends. Nobody
knows how it happened, but one was
seized with a cramp, the other went to
his aid, and they carried their dead
bodies and laid them at the mothers
feet. ] believe God saw she wasn't
worth trusting with those children and
God said, I'll take them to myself.
gave them to you to raise for me and
you are teaching them to disobey that
which I want them to do God will
send the white hearse around if you
don't do what he wants you to do, and
| II you raise your child for pleasure
for card parties and social beer, wine
and champagne drinking instead of
raising it for him
The Glorious Reward.
And then what? II will pay you
your wages" Take this child and
raise it for me, and I will lpay you
your wages" Don't be afraid, women.
Gods bank never breaks. The cashier
doesn't run away with the money.
Think of the reward Hannah got be-
cause her son Samuel became one .
the greatest men of the world! Think
OF the reward David's mother got be-
cause David became famous! Think of
tie reward Daniels mother received
for what she taught her boy, and when
he Went to Babylon he would not drink
their wine nor eat their sinking meat.
Think of the reward that John the
Baptists 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
as it was on that of Pharaohs, and the
mother of Moses will keep drawing
pay for million years to come.
Take the child and raise it for me
and 1 will pay you Your wages" God
pays in joy that is fire. proof, famine
proof and devil proof. He will pay you,
don't You worry; God will pay you, so
get Your name on Gods payroll Take
this child and raise it for me and will
pay You your wages If YOU haven't
been doing that, then get your name
on Gods payroll and let him pay you.
You have been drawing wages from
the devil. Why have you a bleary-ey
sinking. cigaret smoking boy? Why
have you a girl whose reputation is
kicked around like a football? Why?
You have been working for the devil,
and see what you got.
Take this child and raise it for me
and will pay YOU your wages. Then
Your responsibility! 1t is so great that
IL don't see how any woman can fail
TO be a christian and serve God. What
do YOU think God will say if the mother
fails? / stagger under it. What, if
thru your unfaithfulness, your boy
becomes a curse and your daughter
blight? What, if thru your neglect,
that boy becomes Judas when he
might have been John or a Paul?
Down in Cincinnati some years ago a
mother went to a geological garden
and stood leaning over the bear pit,
watching the bears and dropping
crumbs and peanuts to them. In hef
arms she held her babe, a year and three
months old. She was SO Interested in
the bear that the baby wriggled itself
out of her arms and fell into the bear
pit and she watched those huge mon
sters rip it to shreds. What a hell it
will be thru all her life to know that
her little one was lost thru her own
carelessness and neglect.
Take this child and raise it for me
and will pay you your wages" How
many of you mothers that are chris
tians will promise and covenant with
God and with me, and with one anoth-
i er, that from now on YOU will try, with
Gods help, to do better than you ever
have done to raise your children for
God? All that will promise, lift your
hands with me, will you?