Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-22
BILLY" SUNDAYS SERMONS

summer. mother was working in 6
| garden and the little one was sittine
under a tree In the yard playing The
mother heard the child scream; she ran
and huge snake was wrapping It's coils
| about tho baby, and as its head swunR
around she leaped and grabbed 1t by the
neck and tore 1t from her baby and
hurled 1t against a tree. She is always
brave when the safety OF her children is
concerned.
FATHERS GIVE UP.
Fathers often give up The old man
often goes to boozing, becomes dlssl-
pated, takes dose of poison and com
mlts suicide but the mother will stand
by the home and keep the little band
together II she has to manicure her
finger nails over n washboard to do 1t.
If men had half as much grit as the
women there would be different stories
written about a good many homes. Look
at her work! 1t is the greatest in the
world; in its far-reachng Importance 1t
is transccndently above everything in the
universe-her task in moldlng hearts
and lives and shaping character. If you
want to find greatness don't go toward
the throne; 10 to the cradle, and the
nearer you get to the cradle, the nearer
to greatness. Now when Jesus wanted
to give His disciples an impressive OBJ
Ject lesson, he called in college pro-
fessor did he? Not much. He brought
in little child and said: Except va
become as one OF these. ye shall In no
wise enter the kingdom of Cod The
work Is so important that God will not
trust anybody with 1t but mother. The
launching of n boy or girl to live for
Christ is greater work than to launch
battleship
Moses was chosen vessel of the
Lord and God wanted him to get the
right kind of start, so He gave him
Il good mother. There wasn't a college
professor in all Egypt that God would
trust with that baby, so He put the
child back in its mothers arms. He
knew the best one on earth to trust with
that baby was its own mother. When
God sends us great men He wants to
nave them get the right kind of a start.
SO He sees to it that they have a good
mother. Most any old stick will do for
a daddy. God is particular about the
mothers.
GOOD WORKERS NEEDED.
And so the great need of this country,
or any country. Is good Mothers and
believe we have more good mothers in
America than any other nation on earth.
II Washington's mother had been like a
Happy Hooligan's mother, Washington
would have been Happy Hooligan.
Somebody has said, God could not be
everywhere, so He gave us mothers.
Now there may be poetry in it, but It's
true that the hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world, and If every cradle
was rocked by good mother, the world
would be full of good men as sure as
you breathe. If every boy and every
girl today had good mother, the saloons
and dtsreputable house would go out Of
business tomorrow.
"A young man one time Joined a church
and the preacher asked him. What was
1t | said that induced you to be a Chris
tian?' Said the young man: Nothing
that l ever heard you say, but 1t is the
way my mother lived / tell you an
ounce of example outweighs forty mill
ion tons of theory and speculation. If
the mothers would live as they should,
we preachers would have little to do.
Keep the devil out of the boys and girls
and he will get out of the world. The
old sinners will die off II we keep the
young ones clean.
THE biggest place in the world Is that
which is being filled by the people who
are closely in touch with youth. Being a
king an emperor or president is mighty
small potatoes compared to being a
mother or the teacher of children,
whether in public school or In a Sunday
school. and they fill places so great that
there isn't an angel in heaven that
wouldn't be glad to give a bushel of dia-
monds to boot to come down here and
take their places. Commanding an army
is little more than sweeping Il street or
pounding an anvil compared with the
training of a boy or girl. The mother
of Moses did more for the world than
all the kings that Egypt ever had. To