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

this connection live upon the higher
planes of virtue and their laws would
close the bar-room and brothel and
abolish crime, Women have ruled
WELD the sword or the sceptre, but
that which is mightier, the ballot. or
mightier than all, shape the heart that
leads the nation!
1T is impossible to exaggerate the
value to us of those first tendencies
received in the Heaven of Mothers
arms.
John Patton. distinguished mission
airy, pays tribute to his home in
Scotland, where his parents lived In
a hut Of two rooms, but where his faith
er had secret place of prayer which
John learned to regard as the source
of his fathers shining face, and hap
py life.
A woman of social prominence says:
AS a child ! learned to consider God
as my mothers very best and most in
innate friend whom she always de-
lighted to honor.
AS child I discovered my mother
resort to a secret room from time to
time, and curious TO know why, / ask
ed, and was told she went TO pray for
her children. ! learned to think OF
that place as holy.
The Mother Love.
We learn to love what and whom
our mother loves. If my infancy is
spent among those whose main
thought is Ito get rich" | acquire i'm
perceptibly the love of money. L can
not nationally explain my love, but it
is ingrained. But If In infancy live
with those whose love is wholly CEN
tered upon religion, upon living d
righteous life. ! may. IN after years,
be seduced from her holy ways, but l
am always haunted by the feeling that
l have left my firse love, / am rest
less and uneasy until ! can win back
that old hride-look of earlier days"
a certain trend is given to all my
thoughts. An instructive aversion
leads me to shun the wicked and for
ward.
DR.. P. s. Henson tells of meeting a
school boy companion after they had
both grown to be men. The old time
friend had been around the world many
times. Il have tried every religion,
and lived every kind of life," said he,
but l have been miserable until now.
l have just returned home to bury my
mother. here is a stick cut from the
old burylng ground and here is a
piece of brick dug from the church
house where she uSed TO worship. I
have decided after all her religion IS
the best, and l have decided to give my
heart to Christ and it has made me
happier than ever before in my life"
Others have not departed from
mothers law. One of the finest defini-
tons Of Woodrow Wilson's secret Of
success is given by a recent writer in
Harper's Weekly. 1T Is the lifelong
convictions speaking and acting ex-
temporaneousiy.
The first thing, then, that you and
1 have to be thankful for Is an at
mosphere in which to grow up. Most
of us have the Christian mothers,
therefore we have learned to associate
the honors and rewards OF life with
character and eternal things.
But the example Of godly mothers is
not all. We have received from them
definite instruction in the highest
wisdom, more priceless than the rar-
est jewels, worth selling all to buy.
The discipline seemed hard some
times. 1t is difficult, especially for
q parent with one child. to keep the
child from becoming a despot, but ere
now you ought TO be thankful for
those years of pruning.
The wise mother early realizes the
problems of training the child are too
complex for human brains and she