The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-10
Description Given Of National
Christian League for the
Promotion of Purity.

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The announcement that DR.. John
4 Aspinall McCuaig VIII speak at 1880
O'Clock tonight in the First Baptist
church on How to Love-" and again
at 8 o'clock in the First Methodist
Episcopal church, at the close of ali
the regular services Of the day on
mistakes about Marriage" viii be
hailed with delight by many remarka-
bic addresses Of the last week.
The popular interest in DR.. Nc
5Cuaig's work, which throughout
West Virginia has attracted men Of
all degree from the chief executive
OF the state to the man of the street
and people of all grades OF scholar
ship from the university president to
the untaught laborer, can perhaps
best be accounted for by the sacred
pre-eminence given by him to. the
home and to parenthood. This out
standing pre-emfnence is most pragh-
tcally reflected in a toast recently
proposed by DR.. McCuaig to "our
Parents. the text of which is as
follows:
Had I been asked to speak to
the health and honor of the preH-
dent. I might have exalted the worth
and glory of rule. Had been
requested to declare the fair fame
and future of the church, 1 might
have eulogized the greatness Of the
second greatest institutional among
men. But for me to attempt to pay
tribute to "Our Parents',-to father
hood and motherhood-is as for a
child to attempt to throw sparks
upon the sun.
ut is out Of parenthood we have
the very life we breathe. It is
through the parental touch that the
wonder OF manhood awakens within
us. And when men are tired for
the last time with the great adven-
ture of life. 1t Is to the arms Of par
ents they come again. wrinkled and
grizzled, to fall asleep for the long
rest. to the soft low music or the
lullaby.
ITO speak the praises of the mo.
theirs Of men. all tints Of the painter.
all notes of the singer and all breath
insg of nature have been blended.
The brush Of the artist could not
picture God. so the artist painted
madonna. The roundest. sweetest
notes Of the singer could not reach
Deity. so they fell. into the lap OF
motherhood. No incense could climb
the heights Of heaven. SO the chill
dren Of the woman gathered the
rose that speaks OF love and the car.
nation that speaks Of purity, and the
violet that speaks Of the unreliable,
and wove them into crown and gar.
land and spray for her head and
her shoulders and her breasts.
A Grand Monument.
IF all the true words, and all the
tender words, and all the sweet
words that have been spoken to mo
theirs. and Of mothers, and for mo-
theirs from the beginning Of time
were fathered together and erected
Into lasting monument dedicated
to mothers only. there would be NO
true words. or tender words, or
sweet words left for any other use
whatever. In any language under tn,
sun. h
And what history does not sneak
OF the greatness Of fatherhood? Il
- out of the father passion that wild
beasts have been driven hack into
\ the jungle. that all. clearines have
been made in the forest. that waste
places have been redeemed. and
mountains tunnelled, and riyeru
bridged, and oceans, .ploughed. ana
continents spanned. and even Tho
sun itself taught to be the servant
Of man, and. bring warmth and radi.
ance and beauty. to the home.
Proves and Tenderness. s.
4 $50 has God married prowess and
tenderness IN fatherhood and mo.
therhood, and out of proves and
tenderness we have had our birth,
A and in proves and tenderness We
are learning to live, that through
Iprowess and tenderness We may pro.
ject our kind.
$50 would fip tonight the crys-
Ital with the choicest nectar OF
heaven. and all the extract Of. all
graces and all charms. and dash
with the foam Of eternal youth to
drink to our parents to the health
and honor of father and. mother
The tiunat Christian League for
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