The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-06-06

shall rejoice in time to come. She
openeth her mouth with wisdom; and
in her tongue is the law of kindness.
She looketh we'll to the ways Of her
household, and eateth not the bread
of idleness. Her children arise up,
and call her blessed; her husband
also, and he praiseth her. Many
daughters have done virtuously, but
thou excellenth them all. Favor is de-
ceitfuI, and beauty is vain: but Wo-
man that feareth the Lord, he shall
be praised. Give her of the fruit of
her hands: and let her own .orks
praise her in the gates
The greatest forces in nature are
silent and hidden. Silently the spring
time its crown of verdure weaves and
all the trees on all the hills put forth
their thousand leaves. The spheres
swing in their vast orbits through IL
limitable space held and kept by the
silent, hidden forces that Hold them
in their eternal places. The Power
Of ;Wbman! Hidden-silent-profoUnd
sterious-quiet,- -gentle-unseen
it knits hearts together in the truest
union-it is, if not divine, the most
nearly so of any human attribute.
A beautiful young woman in every
sense of the word-a beautiful ma
tron in every sense of the word-no
one ever came under the influence Of
the character of Miss Mary Jane
Scruggs, or, as she was destined to
be, Mrs. H. Clinton Summers, but
what that person received an impress
sion that raised all humanity in his
or her estimation to higher plane.
The lessons and influences that
such life teaches and exrets are
not written or recorded in characters
material and tangible and visible to
the bodily sense, but they are none
the less effective and none the less
:mperishable. They live and are a
light. They live in others lives.
They will appear to work for good
IN this world in hearts as yet unborn.
In the aggregate they mould a peo-
ple-'tis they inspire nations to love
the paths of virtue and of purity and
of honor. The home-makers are the
character builders under their Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, whom He
chooses above all other instrumental
ities-whether preacher, or poet, or
philosopher, or statesman, or law
giver, or teacher to build character,
and thus to make the world better
and sweeter and cleaner by laying
the foundations in the hearts and
minds of men and women for the su-
perstructure of higher and better as
pirations and achievements.
The priestess that presides at the
altar of the home knows the doctrine
of love above all others, and if there
be one creature under heaven or on
earth that can teach the theologian
even what is the love of God it is the
mother.
We say, 'She has gone" In one
sense, yes. But in a thousand ways,
no. No one of US can ever tell how
far the potent influences set in mo-
ton and radiating from one good
woman's sphere of action shall reach
and reform and redeem. Such an in
fuence, so emanating, is an endlesS
chain for good. 1t is an ever-Widen-
ing power. The future has its hope
in the home. The home is what the
mother may make it. No stream can
rise higher than its source. Our
daughters are our richest assets. The
example and the precepts and the life
of such women as she upon whose
new made grave is laid this tribute
Of respect are the lessons that may