The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-11
BETTER BABIES"
PASTORS THEME
Address IN LOCAL CHURCH EN-
pHASIZES NEED OF PAREN-
TAI EXAMPLE

an interesting sermon was preached
At the NJ. f.. church on Sunday
evening by the pastor. Rev. j. u.
Collins, who took for his subject
Better Parents; Better Homes;
Better Babies"
After relating some interesting eX-
p%eriences of spinsters and bachelors
giving advice to parents on child
raising. the preacher said: Perhaps
il will be well if | tell you that
although | vas once designated as
only . raw BOY fro"1 the coultly,
really have had ac experience
which qualified me rs a baby mind
Ell. For | was the eldest of IA. auu
Washed them and dressed them
and led them n nut them tn ii.
So ! can speak vita a sei ain
mount IA authority on babies.
The object of our service is II
of tremendous Importance. Better
Parents, Better Homes; Better
Babies a combination of sub
iects each bound up in the other,
far more perhaps than W imagine.
a constellation of stars of the high-
est magnitude. and not till we see
them thus shall we as men and
women rise to cur highest duty.
In this order they follow II
another in a perfectly natural WAY.
Without better parents, We cannot
have better homes. and without bet
ter parents and better homes, we
cannot have better babies. The
t.,.., l,I.- .I,a l., ana IN ha vary
highly commended and depends
first and last and altogether on the
better parent principle.
somewhere saw this motto,
Better Mothers mean Better Ba-
hies.' but what about the fathers
Where TO they come in? If one
parent lie good mentally and physi-
cally and the other bad and diseased
i'm mind and body. how doesthat work
out? No WI must not put on tn
woman an impossible task, if We
really mean hat we want better
babies. then let us go in for ;he
real and proper thing, better hu5-
bands, better wives, and there VIII
follow. as "A natural result, better
babies.
In tn S matter men must be as
interested as the women. The wild
beasts care for their young till they
can AXE care of themselves and no
man has Il right to deliberately
leave his wife and children to cara
for themselves. Truly we need to
pray: God make us wise to know
how strong the stalk must grow that
rears so fair a flower AS men we
mus; establish the great fact that
there is no double standard of NOR
ais 1u, for the nan md anotl'r
TO to oman, we T. il are equally
responsible to our Creator. we
need not so far to find babies who
have been damned into life By
worthless parents.
Boys. it will oon come to this,
unless we mend our ways, thar
women will demand. and rightly 50,
tina, we all pass a rigid medical OK
animation before marriage. They
vii! say we must lie as pure in mind
.anC body as We expect them to be,
and | for one hope soon to see that
dav A perfect marriage is m9df
onN in the heaven OF love, no Il
mere fancy, which in most cases
would pass away if we had to wait
three weeks after getting the Ii
ren,sc before being married. And
by perfect love marriages only DO
we get Letter babies, which in thee
cases are perfect babies, because
they are love children.
Tn the story before us of tha
Nulan & Shunem, we have first n
perfect home. where the husband
and wife wa X together because they
are agreed. to whom comes to MAKO
u NOR IclIect a baby boy; Go1S
ptCatnst 81 I 10 men, and receiving
il in trust fer Him, they both takc
an equal interest in the child's wei
fare. The father goes out to II
C. rIfield and the boy goes with hilD
As 500 as the little fellow falls
sita the wise father sends him to
the right place. to h mother. Who
can do better for us when SICK
than mother?
"The woman goes at once win
her trouble to the right place, as we
al will find ii best to do Ana
oh, that every n OF us could as
truly say as did this noble woman,
Il: is well,' The prophet asked,
'Ie il well with thee? Is il well
vith thy hushaid? Is il well witr
III child?' and she answered 1T is
Wcl1' o, what mighty faith, elcn
aien the child lay dead upon the
.ro4 nets bed.
- seems - .ac when a i'ttle
bah, comes to our home it is a gift
dil"ct from God. lie says, in won
derous love: Take this child All
nurse il for Nc and will pay thee
tn, wages Happy the father aud
Lhn mnihnr whn live and work TO.