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

imagined how fast Miriam must have
ran.
| see her little feet and legs fly as she
runs down the hot dusty road, and
her mother must have seen her COM
ing one hundred yards or a quarter of
mile away, and she ran to meet her,
and in a little while she had her own
baby put back into her arms and old
Pharaoh giving her Egyptian gold to
take care of her own baby. See how
the Lord does things? So Pharaohs
daughter said to her, "Now you take
this child and nurse it for me and 1
will pay you your wages" She had
the right to say how much it was
going to be. She didn't say, II will
give you $1.00 a week" She said, IT
will give you your wages" and she
could charge Pharaoh's daughter as
much as she wanted to. How quickly
the mother was paid for those long
hours of anxiety and alarm and grief,
and it the angels know what is going
on, what a hilarious time there must
have been in heaven when they saw
| Moses and Miriam back at home, I'M
der the protection of the daughter Of
Pharaoh, and Moses mother being
paid Egyptian gold to take care of her
own baby. I can imagine that she
drops on her knees and pours out her
| heart to God who had helped her so
gloriously, and / imagine she must
have said in a prayer, We'll, Lord, I
knew you would help me, 1 knew you
would take care of my baby when 1
made the ark and put him in it and
put it in the water, but never dream
ed you would put him back into my
| arms to take care of, so would not
have to work and slave in the field
and make brick, and be tortured al
| most to death by the fear that the
soldiers of Pharaoh would find my
baby and kill him. never thought
you would soften the stony heart of
old Pharaoh and make him pay me
for what 1 would rather do than eat
a good meal" I expect to meet
Moses mother in heaven, and am
going to ask her how much old
Pharaoh had to pay her for that job
think that's one of the best Jokes.
that old sinner having to pay the
mother to take care of her own baby.
am going to ask her how much old
Pharaoh paid her. But tell you, if
you give God a chance, it is just like
the Lord, he will fill your heart to
| overfowing. Just give him chance
so this mother had remarkable
| pluck. Everything was against her,
but she would not give up. Her heart
| never played out. She made as brave
fight as any man ever made at the
| sound OF cannon or the call of mus
kerry. The mothers are always brave
when the safety of the childen is
concerned.
A Mothers Pluck.
This incident happened out west
last sumer. "A mother was working in
the garden and the little one was
sitting under a tree in the yard play
Ing. The mother heard the child
scream, she ran, and a huge snake
was wrapping it's coil about the baby.
and as it's head swung around she
leaped and grabbed it by the neck and
tore it from her baby and hurled it
against a. tree. She is always there
when the safety of her children is
concerned.
The fathers often give up. The old
man goes to boozing, gets dissipated
takes a dose of poison and commits
suicide, but the mother will stand by
the home and keep the little brood to-
gether, If she has to manicure her fin
ger nails over washboard to do it.
IT the men had half as much grit as
/ the women have there would be diff
Ierent stories written about good
many homes. Look at her work. 1t
is the greatest in the world; in it's far
reaching Importance it is transcend
antly above everything in the universe
her task is moulding the hearts and
lives and shaping character. If YOU
Want-to,find greatness don't go toward
the throne; go to the cradle, and the
nearer you get to the cradle the
nearer greatness. Now, when Jesus
wanted to give his disciples an imper-
alive object lesson he called in a COL
lege professor, did he? Not much. He
brought in a little baby and said, "Ex-
cept We become as one of these. We
shall in no wise enter the kingdom of
God" He didn't send for some LID
DID,, PXYZ. He just sent and got a
baby. The work is so important that
God won't trust anybody with it but
mother
God Cares for Mothers.
Moses was chosen vessel of the
Lord, and God wanted him to get the
right kind of start, so he gave him
good mother. There wasn't a. COL
lege professor in all Egypt that God
would trust with that baby, so he put
the baby back in it's mothers arms. He
knew the best one on earth to trust
with that baby was it's own mother
When God sends us great men he
wants to have them get the right kind
Of start. Most any old stick will do
for a daddy, but he has to have a good
ma. God is particular about the
mothers.
And so the great need of this coun-
try, or any country, is mothers, and q
believe we have more good mothers in
America %Aan any other nation on God
Almighty's earth. If Washingtons
mother had been like a Happy Hooli-
CAMS mother, Washington would have
, been a Happy Hooligan.
Somebody has said, God could not
be everywhere. so he gave us moth
ers." Now, there may be poetry in it,
but it's true that ''the hand that rocks
the cradle rules the world" and il
every cradle was rocked by a good
mother, the world would be full Of
good men as sure as you breathe. If
every boy and every girl today had
a good mother, the saloons and
brothels would go out Of business to-
morrow.
"A young man one time Joined a
church, and the preacher asked him,
What was it I said that induced you