The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-17

lot clap your hands together on tnat'
for II would stamp you a miserable
old hypocrite, for your old hides are
full OF booze now. perhaps. God pity
you, God pity your children. God pity
your husbands, God pity society with
which you mingie when you use
your woman's virtue to drag people
down TO that level.
I say to you I! is. the web of a ma
ton Is made from the thread that IL
spun in the home, and you nev will
save this city. you will never save
] New York Or P~hiladeiphia: you never
/, ~,n@ sayc BAH~s~. Nsss~eNA La IL
cisco. or any other city from intern
perance and degradation and ruin
when you run a bar-room in your
own homes and keep wine and cham
payne on the sideboard.
have them come to me and wiring
their hands say. MY God, Mr.. Sun
day. do something to save my boy!'
How old is hep"
Seventeen. The dew Of youth or
! his brow"
Save my grill"
How old is she?"
A little frizzied headed sissy.
What's the matter? Drinking. Some
of them become dope-fiends. Some
damnahle dope, and ninety-nine times
out IF one hundred those same par
ents serve beer in their own homes
and keep it on the sideboard.
Now the graBdest wor is don by
the true mother. God did a great
work through Moses but he did a
greater work through his mother. The
mother of Moses did more for the
world than the King of Egypt who
buiIded the pyramids or the Sphinx,
and the mother OF Wesley did more
for the world thar many a man who
has his mug cast iii bronze or painted
on the canvass or carved in marble.
The training of n Luther, OF a
Runyan. or a Calvin or a Lincoln;
that is greater than to be a Caesar, OF
a. Napoleon, or an Alexander the
Great. or a Charlenagne. or a Hannt-
bal.
Oh, TO launch a boy, to launch a
! gfrt, to tive for Jesus Christ anA-riF-
tue and the truth, Oh. that is great
er than to launch a battleship with
eighteen inches of hard"iron steel. and
men enough on her TO make a city.
Now this nation has no better
friend than the mother who will teach
her boy or girl to pray. This nation
has no worse enemy than the one
that teaches them to sheer at God and
at Jesus Christ and his truth. The
mothers are the home makers and
the home keepers. and the place
where we are treated the best is the
place where some of us knock and
growi the most. Bob Ingersoll said
ut takes q hundred men to make 9
company. but only n woman Il
maxi a home"
At an International Y. NJ. c. A
Convention fifteen hundred of thu
picked men from all the civilized
world were there as delegates and
this question was asked, "How many
of you men attribute our salvation
to the influence OF your mothers
stand up"
Every one of those fifteen hundre'
men arose and in that mute way pal
one of the most glorious tributes &
the memory and power of Christian
womanhood that this country ha
ever gazed upon. and / say to you. tn
world owes a. debt OF gratitude to tn
mothers.
The greatest men were mother
made men. Augustine the Great, Mar
tin Luther. Constantine. Oliver Crom
well. Susanna Wesley, oh, she wa
not only the mother of John ant
Charles, but she was the mother of tn
Methodist church that m~arshalled st.
millions OF Christendom.
Oh We love to revei In the paint
ings OF Benjamin Castle, and as we d
we are reminded of the fact that h
said II was his mothers kiss that mad
him a painter. When a little boy sevel
years old. playing with his sister an
some little friends. with some kitten
and puppies. he took a pencil an
paper and sketched them so perfectl.
that you could look on and recogntz
them. His mother anne in, threw he
arms about little Benjamin. kissed hin
and said:
Money. YOU will make r great art
list some day" and Benjamin said n