The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-10
Sermon to the People
 
BY THE REV. c. c. BRUCE.
Moses mother was used to trust

was confident Thou wouldst as.
 sist he in my hour of need. Some
 now l felt that making an ark for
 baby, although it was a trial of my
 faith to do it, and placing him in
 the water. while little Miriam watch
 ed, would save the boy. but Lord , never dreamed Thou wouldst give 1 aim hack to my arms again.
 know his little hands and feet got
 tangled up in my heart strings, and
 am so glad he is safe with us.
 We can raise him right. cant we 1 Lord? l don't understand what
 that princess meant about paying ] me wages for caring for my boy, 1 but thou knowest, Lord, and We are workers together"
 If you will give God chance He will help you rear your boy. But ] God himself cant make a man of
 him unless He gets chance at | him. His mother was willing to give God chance and history tells u3 the result We don't hear any
 thing about the father helping. | There is not a word to tell he
 cut single papyrus to make that
 ark of safety. If you listen, though, ] 'Ou 'StiA AANNA4 iIiiii S7i U VI HIS. -hdIls d mother is doing all she can to
 train up the child and the old man if off lOafing around the club. the saloon, t"e district, the gambling table. or reading lot of rot against | the Bible. Fathers left with the ! chud1en to care for give up easily. alld go to boozing, or end with a i dose Of poison. while mother files
 off I
 rather than give up one of her babes.
 Trace the early history of the great men and women of the world and you find it centered in a good mother Captain Jack Crawford kept from drinking because of a 1 promise to his mother. Abraham 1 Lincoln said all that he was he owed ! to his angel mother. Henry W Grady, tired and nervous from over work, went back to his mothers home. She cooked for him as only a mother can. she softened his bed and smoothed his pillow, his head buried in her lap as when a boy, with gentle hand she loved the pain out Of his temples, and with part ing kiss sent hlm to the annual dinner of the New England society, in New York city, where on Decem- Der l2, 1886 he delivered, The Old South and the New" speech
 that made him at the time na-
 Jional figure,
 Sucn work is so important that God will not trust anybody with it but mother. God wanted Moses
 to make history for the world so He gave him back to his mother. he h 1d 6 people to free from slay cry, 6 system Ot laws to give to tie nations upon which every civilized
 race would found it's jurlsp prudence, and He knew such influence must
 come from the heart of a mother.
 The mothers are responsible for all the great and good things We know. Who is responsible for the saloons? The mothers? Who is responsible for the gambling hells and the white slavers? The mothers? Who is responsible for the freeing of criminals, the curse of tobacco,
 the high-b brows questionable club, the customs and laws that curse a
 woman for crime and free a man for the same disgrace? The moth CTS? Here is another place to stop
 and think.
 If Washington's mother had been
 like a Happy Hooligans mother, Washington would have been a Happy Hooligan.' God could not be everywhere so he gave us moth CTS The hand that rocks the
 cradle rules the world" If every
 boy and girl had a good mother the
 saloon and brothel would go out of
 business and the police and the
 preacher would live on Easy street. The greatest work today is the
 work with the youth. Train up a child in the way he should go and even when he is old he will not de-
 part from it." is the utterance of Solomon and he ought to know.
 The girls and boys of today will
 be the women and men of tomor- row. The kind of women and men they will be largely lies with their mothers.
 God had a big job for Moses but He had a bigger job for his mother. If it had not been for this early training the school of Egypt would
 have ruined him, and so God let his
 mother place in his mind and heart the principles that would help save
 the world. The people who are
 working with the children are mak- ing the history of the next genera
 ton. A boy or q girl doesn't make
 character or ruin it in day. You
 can see the imprint of the early training all along the way Get at
 the heart thoughts of the youth and you know the failure or victories of the next quarter century,
 To be sure, mothers get tired and discouraged and lose heart, for it takes time to work reforms. Yet every faithful Christian mother has
 the encouragement that nothing com- pares with molding a child's life
 for good Building character beats 1 building sky-scrapers, Panama can
 als, railroads and world wars. Just
 keep on with your Christian teach
 ings for it will finally win. You
 have tried to "bottle-up" booze and
 you are seeing the victory coming apace. You will yet see the end
 of the white slayer the tobacco
 curse, worldwide wars and bad
 laws Mother, mother, bless her!
 She has helped us out of paradise,
 she has given us about all the paradise we have ever had, and if
 we ever get to Paradise it will be l because of her!