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

babes in your arms, as charge by tim
| 10 raise and care for Every chilu IL pu'
| In n mothers arms as trust from tou,
| and she has to answer to God for the way
| she deals with that child. No mother on
Gods earth has any right to raise hef
children for pleasure, She has no IlBht
70 send them to dancing school ana
haunts of sin. You have no right to do
those things that will curse your children.
THAT babe Ia put in your arms TO tram
for the Lord No mother has any more
right TO raise her children for pleasure
than have to pick your pockets or throw
rod pepper in your eyes. She has no
mora right TO do that than a bank cashier
has to rifle the vaults and take the saw
Inga of the people. One Of the worst
sins YOU can commit Is to be unfalthful
to your trust. - ..--
MOTHERS RESPONSIBILITY.
"Take this child and nurse 1t for me-
That Is all the business you have with It,
That ia a Jewel that belongs to God and
He gives II TO you to polish for Him so
He can set 1t In n crown. Who knows
but that Judas became the goddess, good
for-nothing wretch he was because he had
goddess, good-for-nothlng mother? DO
YOU know7 / don't. Who is more to
blame for the crowded prisons than moth
ers? Who is more to blame for the
crowded disreputable houses than you
are, to let your children gad the streets
with every Tom, Dick and Harry or keep
company with some little jack rabbit
whose character would make black
mark on a piece of tar paper. have
talked with men in prisons who have
damned their mothers to my face. Why?
They blame their mothers for their being
where they are.
Take the child and nurse It for mo
and l will pay you your wages God pays
in Joy that s f1reproof, famine proof and
devil-proof. He will pay you, don't you
worry. So get your name on Gods pay
roll Take this child and nurse It for
Me, and will pay you your wages If
you haven't been doing that, then get
your name on Gods payroll. You have
been drawing wages from the devil. Why
have you bleary-eyed, sickly, cigarette
smoking boy? Why have you girl
whose reputation Is kicked around like
football? Why7 You have been working
for the devil and see what you have.
IF MOTHER FAILS.
Take this child and nurse It for me
and I will pay you your wages Then
your responsibility! 1t Is so great that I
don't see how any woman can fail to be
Christian and serve God. What do you
think God will do II the mother falls?
your unfalthfulness. your boy becomes a
curse and your daughter q blight? What,
If through your neglect, that boy becomes
n Judas. when he might have been q John
or Paul?
Down in Cincinnati some years ago a
mother went to the geological garden and
stood leaning over the bearplt watching
the bears and dropping crumbs and pea
nuts to them. In her arms she held her
babe, year and three months old She
was so interested In the bears that the
baby wriggled itself out of her arms and
fell into the bearpit, and she watched
those huge monsters rip It to shreds
What a veritable hell 1t will be through
all her life to know that her little one
was lost through her own carelessness
and neglect
"'Take this child and raise 1t for me,
and 1 will pay you your wages VIII you
promise and covenant with God, and with
me, and with one another, that from now
on you will try, with Gods help, to do
better than you ever have done to raise
your children for God7
STORY OF AN ANGEL
Il once read the story of an angel who
stole out of heaven and came to this
world one bright. sunshiny day; roamed
through field forest, city and hamlet,
and as the sun went down plumed his
wings for the return flight. The angel
said, Now that my visit is over, before
l return 1 must gather some mementos
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