The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 8, 1885, Page 6

Simple Language The Duties of the Christian Woman. seeee Hannah, the Mot the Prophet | Samuel, Depicted as the Model for Ages. taking his year when she came up with her hus- | - yearly sacrifice.’ and to offer The story of Deborah and Abigail 8 is very apt to courage a woman’s | i soul. She says within herself, ‘‘It} i is impossible that I ever achieve any such grandeur of character and 1} ; don’t mean to try ;’’ as though a child | | shou!d refuse to play the eight noies | j because he cannot execute a ‘*Wil- ham Tell.’ This Hannah of the text differs from the persons I just She was an ordinary ordin intellectual } now named. with woman, lary circum- ced in ordi stances, by piety standing out betore the ages to capacity, p and yet, extraordinary | come, the model ristian mother, Hannen was the w of Elkanah, | who was a person very much hke herse!{—unromantic and plain, never abs or been the having ious marvelous H subject of a escape. Neither of them would have been called a genius. Just what you and I might be, that was Elkanah and Hannah. The brightest time in the history of that family was the birih of Samuel. Althou; ian along the heavens pointing down to no. star his birth place, I think the angels of ot t. As Samuel at prot had been given in answer to prayer, God stooped wonderful a he t Elkanah and all his family save F Hannah started up to Shiloh to ofter uw thanksziving. The cradle where the E j child slept was altar enough for t Hannah's grateful heart; but when i the boy was old enough she took him | to Shiloh and took three bullocks and f i an ephah of flour and a botde of wine and made offering of sacrifice unto the Lord, and there, according to a preyious vow, she lett him; for there he was to stay all the days ot his life and minister in the temple. Years rolled on and every year Hannah made with her own hand a garment for Samuel and took it oyer to him: The lad would have got along well without that garment for I suppose he was well clad by the ministry of the temple, but Hannah could not be contented unless she was all the time doing something tor her darling boy. made him **Morever his mother a httle coat and brought it to him from came up with her husband to offer the yearly rifice.’ year to year when she sac- oe ae nee eee TE EIGN Hannah stands before us then in the first place as an industrious moth- There was no need for her to work. her husband, far from poor. He belonged to distinguished {family, for the bible Jero- | son of ple. ‘*Who I donot know } er. rhe } Elkanah, was a Re menerr tells us that he was the son of Elit the ot Z you say. ham, the son of Tohu, the were they? but they were or their name would not Hz erseli in her son seem i # dist ished people have been have mentione seated d, with | folded arms and di ead from year t if there had nov FS been any to read; but when I see her | 4 making that garment and taking it| f over to Samuel, I know tf she 1s} a industrious trom principle as well as 2 from pleasure. God would not 4 a mother becomea drudge i He would not have her em { the help possible m this d ay fin ¢ i ! dren, but Hannah ! be ashamed to chon. f dire bloom vivacity for the ness abroad @ mat ——— influences W First Rate Mother, as text: 1. Samuel, 1i., 19. ‘*Moteover | his mother made him aj little coat} and brouzht it to kim from y to - | ported carpets, | children in this day, untra | and well They are ignorar what r euler wear and and what tl hey emrust to 1: 1. aad oll mortals, and ali odies and ta andeliers and off from,im- d down the gra eat crowd ot stairs there is co gre ned,saucy. meompetent for all practical purpos- es of life, ready to be cat and first whirl of crime ensuality. Indolent and unfaithful mothers will make indolent and unfaithful childrea You cannot expect neatness and or- der in any house where the daughteis see nothing but slatterness and up- side-downativeness in their parents. Let Ha annah be idle, and most cer- nuel will grow up idle. tainly § Who are the - tions and professions? in dustr Ss ipen all our occupa Who are chandise o walls, tin the carpets, making t the nations, makir quake and heave and rc rattle with the tread of g enterprises? Who are they? the most part they descended from industrious mothers who in the old homestead use to spin their own yarn and weave their own carpets and plait their own door mats and flag their own chairs and do their own work. The stalwart men ana influential women of this day, nimety- nine out of a hundred of them, come from such an illustrious ancestry hardknuckles and homespun. And who are these people in so- ciety, light as froth, blown every whither of temptation and fashion— the the peddlers of filthy stories, dancing jacks of political parties } ? the scum of society, the tavern lounging, the store infecting, the men of low wink and filthy chuckle, and brass breastpin and rotten associations? For the most part they come from mothers idle and disgusting—the scan- from to everybodys bus- dal mongers of society, going house attending iness but their own; believing in witches ghosts and horssehoes to keep the devil outof the churn and by a godless'life setting their children on the verge of hell. The mothers of Samuel Johnson and of Alfred the Great and ot Isaac Newton and otf Saint Augustine and of Richard Cecil ot President Edwards tor the most part were dustrious, hard mothers. Now, while I congratulate all Chris- tian mothers upon the wealti and Ae working the modern science which may them all kinds of help, let me say that every mother ought to be cb- servant ot her.children’s; walk, her children’s behavior, her tood, her children’s books, ren’s companionshii help Hanna as an inte whic way in chapter, and from aged this boy, intell community you know The who need igent re perso: ed as iniorn must Land it ed out into is forward back and tc and pol ed down ess. Rewards Th ment for another, ot | { Americans; there are mothers who | O : WORDS | FOR MOTHE Re. a sh themselves from the home | 1s necessary! SR es | f i ! Sut when ircle. For three-fourths of their| dren! Bu n The Rev. Dr, Talmaze Describes in | “7° Hs ve Seis staan : j ouee {my influence upon it? i Chr the {E parents knew more of Christ | same mater Head practiced more ot his reli )a child pikes et: would not be so m | A dau to a worldly already starting on the wrong road, | mother and said s! Was anxious and all around us voices of riot a ; about her sins and she ad been blasphemy would not come up with ecstacy of Syntace over the xo; the kids have no superior | years ag imbing up the taught way ot cl the old years | now | ago— are taug no more by s betore From 1 she Ch and irom th secrated her boy to God I know asyood. A mother may asa prayers € way ] } t har 1 est culture, the most brilliant sur is not be roundings ; but she unless she a There hbraries in the | music in the pi of the adorning the walls and the wardrobe be with duties mother. best artists crow ded tastetul apparel, and the children be wondertui for their attainments, and make the house ring with laughter and innocent mirth; but there is something woeful-looking 1m that be not also the residence I bless God house if it t of a Christian mother. that there are not many prayerless mothers—not many of them. The weight of responsibility is so great that they feel the need of a diyine hand to help and a divine voice to comfort and a divine beart to sym- Thousands of mothers have God children. pathize. been led into the by the hands of therr little kingdom of There are hundreds of mothers who been Christians had their would not have it not been for the pratile of Standin they iu day them- has given eternity. What Not bemg can Lever « Christisn. th little ones. g some the nursery thought “Thi tor selves, ild God me to raise 1s a a istian myself, how a o pect him to becom Lord, ious m Oo are ho know help me the inf quenching I shriveling tu nd dous poss tne child shall come heart attuned t pray? in pr [wk ng alln “Oh, hose re- give you a You may impressi she stopped praying. were gone A months atter she came to die her few closing moments said: you would r, | wish a very Sstran, .**moth rid the daug er hang that dress on the toot of my t * and the dress was there e foot of the bed. nthe dyi l got up on one elbow and looked at her mother and then point- , said: **Mother, that ir » peice of my soul!”? Oh, what a momentous thing it is to bea mother! Again andlasdy. Hannah stands before us as the rewarded mothe For all the coats she made for Samuel; for all the prayers she o fered for him: for the discip'ine she exerted over hin, she got abundant and the her compensation in the piety usefulness and the popularity son Samuel; and that is true in all ages. Every mother full pay tor all prayers and tears in behalt of mm ot gets That man useful thatman prominent ber children. commercial life: in the profession; tnat master me chanic—why, every step he takes in hfe has an echo ot gladness in the old heart that long ago (aught him to be Christian and heroic and ear- nest. The story of what you have done or what you have written, of the influence you have exerted, has gone back to the oid homestead—ior ready to someone always there 1s carry good tidings—and that story makes the needle in the old mother’s tremulous hand fly quicker and the flail in the tather’s hand come down floor more to upon the barn with a love arents orous p- i j hear good news trom their children. Do you send them good news al- ways? Look yy the young man 10 speaks ot his fatner as the or the There e sits € e iy Het evesig . »s the sple s s city kindle vis corre g vt “ : uples. She s . “ the es s tor She sits too astic s c + Ae fe n t \ Sago tr 1 arouad rarme r ' riefs and | joys } sorrows —those children are gone now Some c up into a {better relm where they shall never | die and others out in the broad | world attesting the excelleuce of a | mother’s discipline. 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