The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-12
MOTHERS DAY
SERMON At THE
FIRST BAPTIST
REV. EUGENE r. PENDLETON,
TAKING FOR HIS SUBJECT,
"MOTHERs INFLUENCE DE-
LNEREp TOUCHING DISCOURSE
TO LARGE AND ATTENTIVE
CONGREGATION.

Mothers Influence was the sub
ject selected by Rev Eugene r. Pen
dleton, at the First Baptist church,
at the IL a. m. service yesterday, and
1t was q touching sermon. 1t was
heard with rapt attention by a large
number. The sermon follows:
THE SERMON IN DETAIL.
Ills mother was his counsellor"
Chron. 1913.
This sermon falls into two parts
one to mothers, the other, to children.
LIKE MOTHER LIKE SON!
An evil, ungodIy mother will leave
her wicked influence, like putrid
stream, behind her to curse not only
her own but children yet unborn. The
case of this king, Ahaziah, of Judah,
illustrates 1t. A grandson of the good
king Jehosaphat, yet his mother of
the seed OF the wicked Ahab finds
herself queen regent of this youngest
son who ascends the throne at forty
two, TO leave her blight upon it,
reign for one brief, weak, disastrous
year, and pass away dishonored
God pity the child who has a wicked
mother! Wicked parents bring up
children to steal and commit crime,
and revolving cases are known OF
mothers leading their daughters into
sin. A bartender testifes to a sicken-
ing case which broke him up from the
business. 1t was of a drunkard who
brought his little baby daughter to
sing and beg for a drink for her father,
and failing in this, the unnatural
parent took a ring from the child's
hand to offer for the fiery liquid, Your
blood rises in indignation at such
shocking sin in a father or mother, but
Of that other prominent type, the
hend- e-card- table, dance-hal1, or
whiskey- drinking mother of respecta-
BILE standing? Many a child is ire
ligfous because his mother was un-
godly. L pity the child who has to
keep silent about his mother when
others are praising theirs. You are
justly indignant at the Bowery motheS
who teaches her child to steal but
what of the Fifth avenue mother who
teaches her son to gamble, and pre-
Lares her daughter for a dance hail?
Especially when gambling is a mania,
and seventy-five percent of the fallen
women testify that the dance-hal1 was
the beginning of their end, And when
the modern dance has become so indie
cent as to shock the nation,
What Of the mother who rears her
daughter to dress in such a way that
legislatures with alarm are talking of
passing laws TO reform OreSS.
Such are prodigal mothers, more
dangerous than those of the slums, ex-
erting the most baneful influence upon
our civilization today
THE OLD FASHIONED MOTHER
Where is the old fashioned mother
who taught her children to lisp "now
lay me down to sleep" and incul- |
Gated those virtues Of modesty, re-
straint, and reverence which have
made the nation great? She did not |
shine in club and guild, but she did
shine in her iliustrious sons. Such |
were the mothers Of our washingtons, !
our Lees, and our Woodrow Wilson's! |
OF such surely is the kingdom OF |
heaven and the salt Of the earth:
believe in woman's rights, but she |
who does not care for her own IS /
worse than an infidel. I cannot re- |
spect the mother who is so enthused |
over the Hottentots that she negiects |
her own little tots! I have yet to fiud
The good progressive euchre player |
who makes good progressive Chris |
grace in the feet generally lacks it
proportionately at least in the heart.
Many children of such mothers be-
come good Christians, magnifying
grace for the gospel comes to divide |
son against father, daughter against |
mother. in many cases.
But a truly good mother who can |
find? Her price is above rJlbies. She /
1T rs who deserves to be upon the ma
tons pension list. Such a mother Is
religious for her own and her chill |
oren's sake. She gives herself to selF
culture that she may advance with he
children. She hovers over them DAY
and night. and never appears shabby
to them. She will deceive them only
going hungry that they may eat. or
by depriving herself of needed cloth
ing that they may appear well. The
law of kindness is in her lips, and sac
rifice is the foundation stone of her
character
MATERNAL FIDELITY CALLS FOR
FILlAL LOVE.
A child of such a mother is not apt
TO ever be ashamed of her. To him
she will never appear other than as
guardian angel She has royal char
acter which he knows we'll, and is tru-
ly daughter of the king. She has
brought on those wrinkles by sewing
nights to keep him in school, or may
have hardened those once beautiful
hands by ironing his clothes
NEVER NEGLECT MOTHER.
No son should ever neglect his
mother. Pathos reaches its climax in
cases of old and neglected mothers,
east of to die. Many of them are
left without clothing to attend church,
and stay in for years when their
hearts are aching for want of a little
attention.
Brutality rs not as bad as neglect.
One son here got drunk and beat his
poor old mother. broke up her plates
and crockery and made a reign of ter
ror for her. But the most pitiable
case / know was that of an aged and
respectable mother brought here by
her son from Virginia and left to die
IN a poor house. AS I buried her
and looked into her poor. wrinkled