The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-09
SERMON ON MOTHERS
MAKES HUNDREDS WEEP

was not made known. she is Mrs. S.
A. Thatcher. OF Moundsville, a woman
who has devoted her life 10 the COM
fort OF the soldiers and sailors and
the unfortunate creatures who Ian
guish in the prisons.
Sermon Opens.
For the subject OF his sermon Rev.
Sunday took from the book OF Moses,
Take this child and nurse 1t, and l
win pay you
Il think the story OF Moses is one
OF the most graphic in the Bible.
When he was born Pharaoh has just
issued orders TO kill every Jewish
child in the land The mother OF
Moses was a slave. and she prayed
God for her child, as all mothers 90.
For three months she had to hide
this baby In a different place every
day. / don't think that Moses mother
expected that God would have old
Pharaoh's daughter find her child
for her.
Il tell you hiding n baby in a differ
ent place each day for three months
is a difficult Job. A growing baby can
make a lot of noise. believe the
plans for building that ark in which
Moses. was placed were whispered TO
Moses, mother OF God. When she
was in sorrow God whispered in her
ear. II some OF you mothers are as
careful about the books your children
read. the pitures they look at and the
other things they do as Moses mother
was in selecting that ark the world
would not have so much sinful lust.
Calling Children.
Il can just imagine the last night
that the mother spent with Noses, be-
fore putting him adrift. Some OF you
may remember the time when a white
hearse backs up in front OF your door
and a white casket Is carried out
They may all sleep in that house but
the mother like Moses mother did
not close her eyes.
1T seems hard when we look at
their little shoes that will never again
be worn. the little picture books that
their little dimpled hands left the fing
er prints on. the toys that they will
never see them play with again.
These things make us bitter some
times when We pray and wonder why
our child was called and mothers not.
"Eut. when We think they are wait
ing fos US in heaven and walking the
streets OF gold II Is different. They
were called while they we're pure.
Yes all the others slept but Moses
mother did not sleep.
Angels Guard.
Some people wonder how the
angels are kept busy. I think that
many OF them were kept busy keeping
old Pharos soldiers from finding
Moses
with tears streaming down
her face. the mother placed the
child in'the ark and then set him
adrlft. She prayed that God would
help her In her trouble. Some OF
the angels were kept busy keeping
the croekadIIes on the other side
OF the Nile. No. they were not
oUt al some bridge whist party
or q Dutch Iureh, they were guard
Ing the baby.
At last the ark was discovered by
Pharo's daughter and she had one %
her servants bring n 20 the bank.
Then looking IN she probably saw a
baby Kicking " i,s fee. like babies
do sometimes The baby looked INTO
the strange faces ana started crying
This probably saved him from an un-
kindly fate Some % me angels were
probably there and pinched him
"This princess hao q ~onsn's
hear ard ~nen a ~orar's heart
ara . babys tears meet Trey are
go'rs 20 give ire oeVii pneuronis
sad - NiiI Get cold feet
She forgot all about the orders -
her father % kil al the Jewish chil
trsn. She knew fhs baby was n IeE.