The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-01

watching them lifting the huge block.
of granite and he became interested
in what sort OF motive power they
employed. So he stepped around te
the walls and there he saw an old
horse that had "A hind hoof worn on
straight, and he felt like saying "Old
fellow. your work is monotonous but
il you could see that you arc helping
build one OF tho greatest buiidings
that Is going to do the world 10 much
good. you would prance around here.
;, ..,s~s.A assNssrse sfrs~ .,skR a Ss.~..j u
you AZ mothers you are doing > won
derful thing.
Then | learned another lesson, too
OF a mothers great power.
There Is power in mothers hand
and by leading her boy right she head
ca Gods great army.
By faith Moses was come TO years,
When twenty-one he refused to be-
come the son OF Pharaoh's daughter
and to enjoy the pleasures Of sin for
It season. There is something for you.
some of you old card-piaying. beer
guzzling, champagne hxzling crowd.
That is something for you to think
about. BY faith Moses when he was
come 10 years refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and
the daughter nagged and begged him
and said, Let me call YOU my son.
ii he had allowed himself to be
called the son of Fharaohs daughter,
ne might have worn the crown OF Jew
els OF Egypt and sat on the throne of
Egypt, but he could not do that and
lead Gods chosen people out OF Egypt
10 the promised land.
If he had allowed himself to be
called The son OF phaxaoh's dangh-
ter he never would have been Moses
he would have been an Egyptian
mummy.
He could not be Moses and rhAra-
obs daughter y son, too, So he made
his choice.
You cannot serve the devil and the
Lord, too; YOU cannot be IA drunkard
and go TO heaven, too. Make up your
mind what you are going to do,
Now. where did Moses get his faith !,
He got it from his ma. Why. Ills
mother taught him at her knee, and
she said: Honey, I arm your ma"
And so when Pharaohs daughter
said: BE my SON" he said. ''Nothin'
dom"
Where did he get his nerve, girls.
to say. Excuse me, please" to the
pleasures and sins OF Egypt You
bet your life he got ii from his
mother, That is the reason he stood
pat.
Moses was learned in all the wis
dom OF the Egyptians He read il,
but II did not hurt him, for he was no.
concerned with it.
Train up child in the way It
should go, and when II is old II will
not go far from il
l think the Roman Catholic church
< iNsh -ha.,,
child until il is ten years old and we
90 not care who has ii after that"
The Catholics are. not losing any sleep
over fear of losing grown up men and
women from their mem bershiu. They
have shown us the only sensible way
to reach the masses. and that in by
reaching the children and getting
them started right
You get the boys and girls to live
right, and the devil Will hang creme
on their door, bank his fires and he'll
viii be for rent before the Fourth OF
July
The Religious Mother.
Moses was able to choose with the
people Of God because his mother
was taken out of the brick yard to
guide him Egyptian knowledge
could not ruin him because his moth
er's hand was on his head, and before
ne found out anything about the
| White Way about the speedy bunch
he found out that his old mother had
the old-time religion. That In the
first thing he learned, and when a
boy knows that. or girl, take !,
from me, they are safe. because they
will get some OF 1t that their mothers
got.
Emerson said: Men are what thei,
mothers make them" and If the moth.
ors today were all true. then you could
trust your boy TO go away from home
to school and not come back a little
dried-up, weakened. good for not hine
bookworm OF inf1delity. because he was
influenced by some good for nothing
God-forsaken, hell-born person.
That Is one trouble today with a
great many of our great institution.
of learning. They have a lot OF God
Pforsaken professors that will not rec.
ognize the faith of our boys and girls
who go there. tell you the students
are all right, II is tho faculty who
are all wrong
have preached In institutions oil
learning from one end of the land tc
tho other. The only one have ever
kept out OF was Princeton. I wen,
No"'i tA'' qua iFIFdttfeu III tHr pFeSt-
dents church. and six hundred OF tbs
clean fellows walked down and said
Il take Jesus Christ for my Cod"
preacher Al the University OF
Pennsylvania three times, and six hun.
dred Of those men said the same thing
went up to Dartmouth one OF ths
most democratic Institutions in Amer
lea and when was in Boston l wen;
up there ana / went up and preached
To everybody in tho gymnasium in the
afternoon and in Webster Hall In the
evening. went over to Cornell
Spoke twice, and it was estimated that
| twenty five hundred took their stand
ana Cornell has thc' finest looking
bunch you ever laid your eyes on. The
student body are all right. God bless
them. There is no power on earth
that can lift TO heaven and shove to
hell.
oh. the heautifu! hanass that never
tired at the call of The children. and
on The rosary Of a mother they are
counting another bead.
read an article some time ago by
a police commissioner OF New York
Arthur Wood, and be said some OF
the most remarkable things some
body had asked the question on WIN
girls go wrong. and said 1t was a mat
ter of fathers and mothers and home
rather than economies But the near