The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-05-11

succeed in making them respectable
members of society, and yet leave them
prey to secret sins-covetousness
| in1purity, malice.
There is something CHASTITY in such
virtues.-"whited sepu1chres," indeed,
There is charity there. but the char
ity of the subscription list There is
pity there but the pity or the conven-
tiOnal humanitarian, not OF the good
Samaritan. There is correctness of
speech and manner, yet It seems but
prudery because it Is merely a con-
cession to conventional sentiments Of
the hour-artifiCial ha bits!
So tho first lesson we are grateful
TO mother for, is the lesson of inward
righteousness. the really saved life.
How thankful We ought TO he for
that.
Difference in Training.
Note the contract between those
whose infant lives have been among
the vicious, or have been neglected,
and those who have had Christian
mothers.
The unfortunate child whose in
fancy was passed amid bad examples,
and whose heart received no righteous
instruction from mothers lips, Is like
one who Stumbles in the dark, and
knows not at what he srumbles.
The old ingrained vice comes out
again and again after every attempt
ed reformation. The old shutting hab-
It, the old unhallowed set OF thoughts
and tastes. the old inCTra bic phaT1salsm
always shifting the blame upon other
shoulders. Such a life is like damp
wall in poorly built house. In dry
weather. only the stains are seen, but
those stains are the prophecy or what
will be again when wet weather re-
turns
Note the life stories OF the four
''gunmen" recently electrocuted in New
York. Theirs seemed to be such lives,
Their entire, history has been prepared
and published by men interested IN
crimenology.
The new equal suffrage law in Chi
cago provided that no outcast woman
should vote This was rigidly enforced
but some attempted to vote any way,
One woman dressed as d widow, came
to the booths 10 vote. They question
ed her Have you any brothers? ?"
Yes. three" Have you any sisters
Yes one" rs your mother living?"
She held up until this question came
and then broke down. She was the
queen Of the district" and the name
mother" broke up the fountains Of her
soul. Even when such an one is gen
timely born again. the old hideous nab
its will appear like seams in the char
acter, the temptations will send the
flush along the teu-tale scars.
influences of Home.
On the other hand, a life which
haIlowed home. may al first find much
a which the flesh revolts, and many
time the far country will look al
Turing, but with every step along the
right road strength increases. habits
become fixed, the power Of resistance
becomes greater. settled dignity and
lasting pace gladden. the life There
is real freedom in the life, for the
steps of a spiritual man are not
Strengthened, but are ordered of the
Lord. and lead at last TO perfect day.
With what reverence and gratitude
should we look back upon home with
a cody mother in it!
Honor thy father and mother, that
thy days may be long in the land"
This was a Jewish virtue. 1t is a
Chinese virtue. Is there no connec-
ton between this fact and the fact
that these two races are the oldest,
best preserved on arth:
Many mothers sacrifice. sew, take
boardsrs to keep the child at school