The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-15
Lee street Presbyterian church.

Lee Street Presbyterian Church.
Rev. w. A. Ferguson had for his
subject yesterday morning "Tht
| Queen Of the Home" Text Heb. Ills
and Gen. 23:2
These all died in faith
Abraham came to mourn foi
Sarah and weep for her"
inspiration does not forget the
Christian deed. God preserves in full
the Sainted Mothers. Sarah the queen
Of the home had faith. Isaac, her joy
the long waited for, was to be slain
by her husband at Gods command.
she knew 1t. The word and knife
were within her knowledge but you
hear no whisper of rebellion. Sarah
trusted when she could not see Mark
her heavy faith suffering in silence.
She suffered trusted and waited. They
also serve who only stand and wait
says our poet.
"Ier sons character too gives rs
an estimate of this queen. Samartlne
said he inspected the home when he
wanted TO know a woman's character.
The son is judged by the mother.
Sarah's influence moulded Isaac's
earlier years. Early years tone the
future of life. The sanity Isaac is
proud Of his instructress. The queen
has more to do with the child than
the king Of the home. The father'n
influence is periodical, the mothers
constant more delicate descending
as the dew, the fathers intermittant
and like the torrent.
I'm Infancy and children the moth
er Is the oracle, the model life. Her,
presence lives the longest How monyI
say Il remember my mother" Faith
er is remembered too. but i'm a diff
ferent sense. When you wer ca child
and Ill treoted, you always said I viii,
tell my mother Father was busy or
could not understand your distress.
'Isaac requited his mothers loving
care, so did Timothy that of Eunicc.
Augustine's conversion he said wa.
due to his mothers prayers. An Isaac
is In the cradle when there Is q Sahah
in the home. The presence of moth
er makes a home. as the presence of
queen makes a palace. Silently and
powerfully the mother rules. rules in
the home. and in church and in state. |
'iMother is above every name. A |
man may rub out his conscience, but
he cannot erase the picture of his |
mother. A man will always spare one !
person of many whom he curses---his !
mother. She survives moral annilia- |
tion in his thoughts. Lincoln, Grant. |
Garfield, Mckinley were trained by
their mother
''The mother Of Grant went into
a room every day during the Civil |
war and prayed for her Ulysses.
Mother you have brought me to
this day said Garfield as he turned |
and kissed his mother after his oath /.
on the Inauguration doy. The
world was lost through wo-
man and she can save It, The fu-
ture Of society is in the hands of the
mothers.
The mother holds the key of the
child's soul, she stamps the coin Of
the child's character. England has |
model homes and why? Queen Vic
tory Is the answer. When her great
Jubilee was observed, nothing could |
have been more beautiful than her
kneelng at the communion alter with
arms thrown around her children and
grandchildren, crying for gladness as
simple mother at the altar Of God.
90 mother. your is the office OF
royalty in training citizens for both
W o r s. Faithful Fothers,
they are kings of tho home. but they
are outmatched and outnumbered BY
the queen OF the home. both on earth
and I'm the crownlng room Of heaven"