The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
DUTY OF MOTHERS
They Should Study the Bible
for ChiIdren's Sake.
HOLY Writ Credits in High
School to Be Permanent
BIG OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED
Teachers Have Chance to Get
Close to Students.
Mrs. Menninger to Begin " w.
C. A. Classes Next Week.
BY MRS. c. F. MENNINGER.

Bible study for high school credit
has come to stay. A surprisingly large
number of pupils are taking hold of
the work and in many of the churches
classes are being organized. 1 know
of one Sunday school with more than
others with as many. This wonder
full educational movement gives to
teachers and mothers one of the great
est opportunities to touch the life or
the pupil and child that they have
ever had. The good teacher will be
given added power one hundred fold
because there is a value placed on
the work done in the Sunday school
by the high school world, the greatest,
biggest, most powerful world that
comes into a lifetime, and all who
have themselves been there or lived
the four years through with live
boy or girl. know it. One never
again knows so much.
Now, if every mother who knows
how to be blind in one eye, and deaf
in one ear, and ignorant of much she
really knows, were to take up the
study of the Bible, too, and allow her
self to be taught and helped by her
live wire boy or girl, she might have
many opportunity to put In things
she would like to say but never sees
the time or place to do it, and the
days are so full for young and old that
unless there is some ground for moth
er and child, many heart talks and
be, are lost forever.
Mothers Should Study.
No matter what course is studied,
facts are facts that will be taught in
them all and the point of contact is
ever the same. would urge mothers
to go into Bible classes this winter for
the express purpose of grasping this
great privilege offered through au-
thorities who have the power and are
giving it, of setting new standards in
the home life of the family. I know
how full the days are, but If there Is
boy or girl concerned, no woman can
afford to spend her time on fancy
work that only filters up the house
and troubles the boy 1t may be beau
tiful, but it mems nothing for the
life that really counts. 1t is better to
do real things and life is the only
thing worth while.
No literature m the world can
speak so strong or last so long as that
in Holy Writ, if applied to the lives
of men. No time wasted in playing
cards can ever bring any other return
to a mother than that of a curse In
these busy days. it is time wasted
truly, for it never can be the best
source of development for the grasp
of that in life which will help the in
dividual to shape itself into one of
courage and power, which every life
needs 1t would be best to give a
time for Bible study first, and then
pick up that which does most for in
div1dual recreat1On. we nave many
methods, and each life creates its own
future through the life he lives each
day.
1t May Be Last Chance.
1t might help to look ahead. A pu-
pill in the high school is likely to be
on his last years in the home, and at
any rate he is given in these years the
last chance for doing very much to
materially influence his future life
with much definiteness. High school
days are great days. No one counts
like mother. and because it is so, L
wish this note might lead some earn
est, anxious mother to think, to plan,
to lay aside some things of less i'm
portance. and for one year at least try
studying the Bible in some good Bible
class and then teach or be taught by
the most charming youth in her own
home, and 1 feel sure it would bring
some worth while revelations.
<hese days, every church has a good
1sdult Bible class. You will be well
come anywhere. My own class will
follow the life of Christ. We meet
next Tuesday at 10 O'Clock at the Y
w. c. A. to organize. There will most
likely be a class both morning and
afternoon, after next week.
Mrs Menninger's Bible studies for
hfVh school Co.