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TALMAGE SHOWS HOW WOMEN SHAPE DESTINY. What la Bred In the Done The Infln cncri of Ileredltr It la the Home Thai Makea the Nation Mature Xev- ,'er Forjjeta. Copyright, 1S38. by American Press Asso ciation. Washington, Oct. 9. vtfbe augmen tation of parental influence aa the cen turies go by, Dr. Talmage hero sets forth, while discoursing about one of the grandmothers of Bible times. The text is II Timothy i, 5, "The unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois." In this pas-, toral letter which Paul, the old minis ter, is writing to Timothy, the young minister, the family record is brought out. Paul practically sayS: 'Timothy, what a good grandmother yon had! Yon ought to be better than most folks, because not only was your mother good, but your grandmother was good also. Two preceding generations of piety ought to give you a mighty push in the right direction." The fact was that Timothy needed encouragement. lie was "In poor health, having a weak stomach, and was a dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for him tonic, 'a little wino for thy stomach's sake" not much wine, but a little wine, and only as a medicine. And if the wine then had been as much adulterated with log wood "and strychnine as our , modern wines ho would not have prescribed any. ' But Timothy, not strong physically, is encouraged spiritually by the recital of grandmotherly excellence, Paul hint ing to himj as I hint this day to you, that God sometimes gathers up as in a reservoir, away back of the active "gen erations of today, a godly influence, -and then in response to prayer lets down the power upon children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The world is woefully in wantcf a table. of statistics in regard to what is the protractedness and immensity cf Influence of one good woman In tho church and world. We have accounts .cf how much evil has been wrougnt oy a .woman wno uvea nearlv 100 Years arra and of how many f -v , - criminals her descendants furnished for J tho penitentiary and the gallows, and how manyj hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost our country in their arraignment and prison support as well as in the property they burglarized and destroyed. But will not somo one come out with brain comprehensive enough and heart warm enough and pen keen enough to give us the facts'in regard to some good woman of 100 years ago and let us know how many Christian men and women and reformers and useful people have been found among her de scendants lUld 'Low iliuuy usluiiia and colleges and churches ' they built and how many millions of dollars they con tributed for humanitarian and Christian purposes? i " The Women Who Won. Tho good women whoso tombstones wero planted in; tho eighteenth century are more alive for good In the nine teenth century than they wero beiore, as tho good women of this nineteenth century will be more alive for good in the twentieth century than now. Mark you, I havo no idea that the grandmoth ers wero any better than their grand daughters, j You cannot get very old peo ple to talk much about how things were when they were., boys and girls. They have a reticence and a noncommittalism which makes me think they feel them selves to be the custodians of the repu tation of their early comrades. While our dear old folks are rehearsing the follies of tho present if we put them on tho witness stand and cross examine them as to how things were 70 years ago tho Bilence becomes oppressive. The celebrated Frenchman, Volney, visited this country in 1796, and he says of woman's diet in those times, "If a premium was offered for a regimen molt destructive to health, none could be devised more efficacious for these ends than that in uso among these peo ple." That eclipses our lobster salad at midnight. Everybody talks about the dissipation of modern society and how womanly health: goes down under it, but it was wors4 100 years ago, for the chaplain cf a French regiment in our .Revolutionary war wrote in 1782 in his "Book of American Women," saying: "They aro tall and well proportioned, their features are generally Tegular, their complexions are generally fair and without color. At 20 years of age the women havo no longer the freshness of. youth. At 80 or 40 they are decrepit. " In 1813 a foreign consul wrote a book entitled "A Sketch of the United States at the Commencement of the Present Century," and he says of the women of those times, "At the age of SO all their charms have) disappeared.. One glance at the portraits cf the women 100 year ago and their stylo of dress makes us wonder bow they ever got their breath. All this makes me think that the ex press rail train 'is no more an improve ment on the eld canalboat or the tele graph no moro an improvement on the old time saddlebags than the women of our day are an improvement on the women cf the last century. Honor the Afted. But still, notwithstanding that those times were so much worse than ours, there was a glorious race of godly wom en 70 and 100 vears ago who held the world back from sin and lifted it toward virtue, and without their exalted and sanctified influence before this the last good influence would have perished from the t earth. ! Indeed all over this land there are seated today not so much in churches, fur many of them are too fee ble to come a, great many aged grand mothers. They sometimes feel that the woild has gone past them, and they have an idea that they are of little ac count. Their heads sometimes get aching from the racket of the grandchildren dow stairs or in the next room. They steady themselves by the banisters as they go up and down. When they get a cold, it fcans cn them longer than It used to. ; They caDnot bear to have the grandchildren punished even when they deserve jit and have so relaxed their ideas of; family discipline that they would spoil all. the youngsters of the household by too great leniency. These old folks'are the resort "when great trou bles corcp, and there ,is a calming and soothing power in the touch of an aged hand that is almost supernatural. They feel they are almost through with the journey of Jife and read the old Book more than they used to, hardly know ing which most they enjoy, the Old Testament or the New, and often stop and dwell tearf nlly over the family rec ord half way between. We hail them today, whether in the house of God or at the homestead. Blessed is that house hold tha has in it a Grandmother Lois. Where se is angel? are hovering round, and God iis In thu ror-sa. Alay her last days be like those lovely autumnal days that we call Indian summer! Is it not time that you and I do two things $wing open a picture gallery of the wrinkled faces and stooped shoul ders of jtho past and call down from their heaVenly thrones the godly grand- ! mothers,! to give them our thanks, and then to persuade the mothers of today that they are living for all time and that agrinst the sides of every cradle in which a'l-hild is rocked .beat the two eternitie? j ; v' CrAdlea Across All Time. Here we have an untried, undiscussed and unexplored, subject. You often hear about your influence upon your own children.' I am not talking about that What about your influence upon the twentieth century, upon the thirtieth century, upon the fortieth century, up on the year 2000, upon the year 4000, if the world lasts so long? The world stood 4,000 years before Christ came. It i3 nci unreasonable to suppose that it may stand 4,000 years after his ar rival. Four thousand years the world swung ofif in sin, 4,000 years it may be swinging back into righteousness. By the ordinary rate of multiplication of the world's population in a century vonr descendants will be over 800. and by two centuries over 50,000, and upon every one of them you, the mother of today, will have an influence for good or evil; j And if in four centuries your descendants shall have with their names filled a scroll of hundreds of thousands will sorpe angel from heaven, to whom, is givenj the capacity to calculate the numLerjof the stars of heaven and the sands of tho seashore, step down and tell us how many descendants you will have injlbe four thousandth year of the world'si possible continuance? Do not let tho 'grandmothers any longer think that they are retired and sit clear back out of sight from the world, feeling that they have no relation to it. The moth ers of tho last century are today, in the person of their descendants, in the sen ates, tWs parliaments, tne paineoo, tho pulpits,! the banking houses, the profes sionar chairs, the prisons, the 'alms houses, ithe company of midnight brig ands, thocellars, the Pitches of this century ffou have been thinking about tho importance of having the right in fluence iupon one nursery. You have been thinking of the importance of get ting thdse two little feet on the right path. You have been thinking of your child's destiny for the next 80 years if it shouljd pass on to be an octogenarian. That is- well, but my subject sweeps a thousand years, a million years, a quadrillion of ."years!- I cannot stop at one cradle ; I am looking at the cradles that reach all around the world and across ill time. I am not talking of Mother Eunice. I am talking of Grand mother Lois. The only way you can tell the force cf a current is by sailing up stream, lor the force of an ooean wave by running the ship against it. .Running along with it we cannot appreciate the f orca j ' In estimating maternal influence we generally run along with it down the stream pf time, and. so we don't under stand the full force. Let us come up to it from j the eternity side, after i it has bee working on for centuries, and see 11 the good it has done and all the evil it has accomplished multiplied in mag nificent'or appalling-compound interest. The difference between that mother's influence on her children now and the influence when it has been multiplied in hundreds of thousands of lives is the difference between the Mississippi'river away up .at the top of the continent 6tartingT from the little Lake Itasca, even miles long and one wide, 'and its mouth tit the gulf of Mexico, where na vies might ride. Between thef birth of that river and its burial in the sea the Missouri pours in,' and the Ohio pours in, and the Arkansas pours in, and the Red and White and the Yazoo rivers pour in.jand all the states and territo ries "between the Alleghany and Rocky mountains make contribution. Now, in order toftest the power, of a mother's influence, , we need to come in off the ocean of eternity and sail up toward the one jradle, and we will find 10,000 tributaries cf influence pouring in and pouring down. But.it Is, after all, ont great river of power rolling on and roll ing forever. Who can fathom it? Who can bridge it? ,Who can stop it? Had not.mothers better be intensifying their prayers?? Had they not better be elevat ing their example? Had they not better be rousing themselves with the consid eration jthat by their faithfulness or neglect jthey are starting an influence which Will be stupendous after the last mountain of earth is flat, and the last sea has dried up, and the last flake ofl the asha of a consumed woria snail have been blown away, and all the tele scopes of other worlds directed to the track arjound which our world once swung shall discover not so much as a cinder of the burned ;down and swept off planet In Ceylon'there is a granite column 36 square feet in size, which is thought by the natives to decide the world's jcontinuance. An angel with robe spun from, zephyrs Is once a cen tury to descend and sweep the hem of that robe across the granite, and when by that attrition the column is worn away they say time will end. But by I . .: ! - ; .: . , i , . - ' . . - - - OCTOBER 35, 1898. - . : that process that granite j column would be worn out of existence before mbth- ; ers' influence will begin .to give way. on tne ureat xuviae. - : ;i If a mother tell a child if be is not good some bugaboo will come and catch him, the fear excited may make the child a coward, and the fact that he finds that ; there is no bugaboo -may make him a i liar, and the echo of (that false alarm may1 be heard after 15 generations have been born and have expired. If a moth er promises a child a reward for good behavior and after the j good behavior forgets to give the reward, the cheat . xuhjt crop uuk la buiuu uuiics&ucca iiuix. I a thousand years further on. If a mother cultivate, a child's vanity and eulogize his curls and extol thie night black or sky blue or nut. brown: of the child's eyes and call out in his presence thej ad miration of spectators! pride and arro gance may be prolonged after baff a dozen family records nave been obliter ated. If a mother express doubt about some statement of thet Holy Bible In a child's presence long after the gates of this historical era hare closed andjthe gates of another era have opened,! the result may be seen -in achampion blas nhamer : hnt. on the I Other hand, if a I X , i M ! mother walking with a child see a fuf- lering one ny tne waysiae ana says, "My child, "give that j 10 cent piecjo to that lame boy, " the result may be seen' on the other side of the following cen tury in some George Muller building a whole village of orphanages. If a mother sit almost every evening by the trundle bed of a child and teach it lessons Of a Saviour's love and a Saviour's example, ,of the importance of truth and the Jbor ror of a lie, and the virtues of industry and kindness and sympathy and self jj sac rifice long! after the J mother has gone: and the child has gone and the letter ing on both ' the tombstones-shall iave been washed out by the storms. tf innu merable winters, there may be standing, as a result of those trundle bed lesspns, flaming evangels, world moving reform ers, seraphic Summerfields, weeping Paysons, thundering Whitefields, eman cipating Washingtonsi I j Nature Kever: Skips. ! Good or bad influaaoe may skig one generation a two gimtlona hft' it will be sure to land J In the thijrd or fourth generation, just as the Ten 0om mandments; speaking of the visitation of God on families, says nothing 4bout the second generation, but entirely skips the second and speaks of the third and fourth 4 generatloh--ri si ting thq in iquities of the fathers : upon the jthird and fourth generation of them thatjhate me." Parental ; influence, right and wrong, may jump over a generation, but it will come down further on as sure as you sit there and I stand fbere. Timothy's ministry was projected by his grandmother, Lois. There are; men and women' here, Ihe ; eons and daugh ters of the Christian i church, wh! are each on a result Of r thjB consecration of great-great-grandmothers, why, j wno do you think the Lord is?' You talk as though his memory was weak. Hp can as easily remember a prayer offered five centuries ago as a prayer offered five minutes ago. This explains what we often see some man or woman distin guished for benevolence when the fa ther and mother were distinguished for penuriousness, or you see some yjoung man or woman with' a bad father and a hard mother come L out gloriously for Christ and make the church sob and shout and sing under their exhortations. We stand in corners of the vestry and whisper over the matter and 6ay, 'How is th.is, such great; piety in sons and daughters of such parental worldliness and sin?" I will explain it to you if you will fetch me the old family Bible containing the full 'record. Let some septuagenarian look with me clear Jupon the page of births land marriages? and tell me who that woman was with the old fashioned name of Jemima or Betsy or Mehitabel. Ah, there she is, the old grandmother or great-grandmotheri who had enough religion ;to saturate a cen tury.'" , ! ' ! i iV-: ' 1 . Why Some Men Win. f There sue is, the dear . old soul, Grandmother Lois. In beautiful Green wood cemetery tlere Is the resting place of George W. Bethune, once a minister of Brooklyn Heights, his name never spoken among . intelligent Americans without suggesting two things elo quence and evangelism. In the same tomb sleeps his grandmother, Isabella Graham, who was the chief inspiration of his ministry, - j You are not surprised at the poetry and pathos and pulpit power of, the grandson when you read of the faith and devotion of his wonder? ful ancestress: ' When you read thislet ter, in which she poured out her wid owed soul in longings for a son's salva tion, you will notiwender that succeed ing generations have been blessed:: : "New Yobk, May 20, 1791. "This day my only son left me in bit ter wringings . of; heart .He is again launched on the? ocean God's r ocean. The Lord saved .him from shipwreck, brought - him to 'my home and allowed me once more to - indulge my affection over him. Si bi betn wlla ma tt a short time, and Ul have I improved it; he is gone from my Eight,, and my heart bursts with tumultuous grief. Lord, have mercy on the widow's son,' 'the only son of hi mother; ' ... "I ask nothing I In- all this world for him ; I repeat my petition, Save his soul alive, give him salvation from sin. It is not thedangejr cf the seas that dis tresses me; it is ; not; the hardship be must undergo; itj jisj not the dread of never seeing him' more in this world; it is because I cannot discern the fulfill ment of the promise! in him. t cannot discern the new birth nor its,fruit but every symptom ; of captivity to satan, the world and self will. This, this is what distresses me, iand in connection with this his being shut out from ordi nances at a distance from Christians; shut up with those who forget God, profane his name 'and break his Sab baths; men who j often live and die like beasts, yet are accountable creatures, who must answer f or every moment cf time and every word thought and ac tion. O Lord, many wonders hast thou 11 . , , ; , j,- r: ' , C no. si. shown tne! Thy ways of dealijiff with me and mine have not been common ones. Add this wonder to the resi Call, convert, regenerate and establish a sail er in the faith. Lord, all thfngs are possible with thee. Glorify thy $on and extend his. kingdom by sea and land; take ihe prey, from the trong. I roll him over upon thee. Many friends try to comfort me ; miserable comforters are they alL Thou art the God )f con solation. Only 'confirm to me tjhy pre cious word, on which thou causcjdst me to hope in the; day when they saidst to me, 'Leave thy fatherless children; I will preserve them alive. Only e this life be a. spiritual life, and I put a blank in thy hand as to all temporal -things. 'I wart for thy salvation. Amen." Old Fashioned Women. I .With such a grandmother wbtlld you not have' a right to expect a George W. Bethune? And all the thousands con verted through his ministry my date the saving power back to Isabella, Gra ham. . ; '- : v ''; -: ' . J God fill theearth and the heavens with such grandmothers. 'We must some day go up' and thank these dear old souls. Surely God will let us gojup and tell them'of the results of their influ ence. Among our first questions in heaven will be, "Where is grandmoth er?" They will point her out,' for we would hardly, know her even if jwe had 6een her ,on jearth, so bent over with years once and thero so straight so dim of eye through the blinding of Jeatthly tears and nqw her eye as clear 4s heav en, so full of , aches and pains once and now so agile with celestial health, the wrinkles blooming into carnatijbn roses and her step like the roe on th moun tains. Yes, I must see her, my grand mother on my father's side,. Mary Mc Coy, descendant of the Scotch. -jWhen I first spoke to. an audience in Glasgow and felt somewhat diffident, Jbeing. a stranger, I began by telling them my grandmother was a Scotchwonan, and then there went up a shout of vj el come, which made me feel as eqsy as Ido here. I' must see her. f You 'must see those womenf of the early part of the nineteenth century and those of the eighteenth century! the an wat f whose prayer In yjjmr wel fare today. God blesa all the ag'ed wom en up and down the land and in all lands! What a happy thing for Pom ponius Atticus to say when making' the funeral address of his mother, Though I have resided with her 67 yeafsjl was nevser once reconciled to herj because there never happened, the least discord between us, and consequently tpcre was no need of reconciliation." j Make it as easy for the old folks aa you can. When they aro sicK, get for them the best doctors. Give tLpu your arm when the streets aro slippery- Stay with them all the time you can. Go home and see the old folks. Find the place for them in the hymn booli. Never be ashamed if they prefer styl4s of ap rarp.l which are a little antiquated. Never say anything that implies that they are in the way. Make thelroad for the last mile as smooth as yotf &in. Oh, my, how you will miss her when she is gone! How much would I give to see my'motherl I have so manyj things I would like to tell .her, things tpat have happened in the 30 years since phe went away. Morning, noon and night let us thank God for the good.influences that have come down from good mdjthers all the way back. Timothy, don It forget your mother Eunice, .and dont forget your grandmother Lois. Aiid hand down to others this patrimony jof bless ing. Pass along the coronets. Make re ligion an heirloom from generation to . . . . i : generation. Motners, consecrate your selves to God, and you will help conse crate 'all the ages following Ij Do not dwell so much on your; hardships that y ou miss your chance of wielding an in fluence that shall look down ilpon you from the towers of an endless future. I know Martin Luther was rightjwhen he consoled his ; wife over the ijleath of their daughter by saying: "Don't take on so, wife. Remember thet Jthis is a hard world for children. ." Yes, I go farther and say it is a hard orld for women. Aye, I go further and: say it la a hard world for men. But for fall wom en and men who trust their bodies and souls in the hand of Christ th4 shining gates will soon swing open. Efon't you see the sickly pallor oh the sky? That is the pallor on the cold cheek of the dying night. Don't you see thfe bright ening of - the clouds? That is jbe flush on the warm forehead of the morning. Cheer up, you are coming within sight of the Celestial City. Ills Qnestlon Answered. There have been several boy babies born in Atlanta this past spring and summer. This 4s not intended rts a star tling i piece of ' news, because their ar rivals hiivt: been duly and appropriately chronic! . .1. but it is only stated as the basis of ii little joke. 1 ' Some i1 its ago four of th happy young rthers, all of whom ;had fine boys at j L aie, met ' in one of Hhe dry goods e citi All of them completed theif jrrfcaKS abost lb eaflta time. As they were all leaving the Itore,' in speaking distanee of each other a fresh young clerk, in an effort to be pleasant, fired the stereotyped question At one of them, "How is the boy today?' In an instant four beaming fac were turned toward him, ana four! pleased voices answered in chorus, vph, he's all right, thank yon., 'me cier rainr- ed. Atlanta Constitution. 1 A Big Difference. The only difference existing between ourselves and the Americans j is tnas thev ceennv themselves with material interests and the organization of public wealth while we write verses 04 liberty and sonnets to the moon as ajsolution to our yerj terrestrial problem.J We are supporters and followers of id4als and the muses, while, they are stajnch de nptiAers uiion realitv and earthly things. We are of; heaven, and they art) of the parth- Victory therefore cahnot be doubtful unless we change otir tastes and ambitions and temperament Ha vana La Lucha.- . Wakar at Last. In McClure'a Magazine there if aa nterestingj account of Dr. Sven Iledin, a young Swedish traveler, who has been doing some remarkable work in Asia, in an attempt to cross the hitherto unex plored TakJa-Makan desert His party entered thi desert ApriJ 10, 1893. The water gave out the camels died, and one by one 'all the servant succumbed. "I went ( on alone," say Dr. Hedih. 'The forest waa very denm and tho night black. I had eaten almost noth ing for ten days; I had drunk nothing for five. I crossed the forest crawling on all fours, tottering from tree to tree I carried the haft of tho spado aa a srutch. At last. I came to an open tpaco. Hie forest ended like a devastated plain. This was a river bed. It was quite dry. There was not a drop of water. "I went on. 1 meant to live, j I would find water. I was very weak, tut I crawled oc all fours and. at last I eras ed, the river bod. . It was throe kilome ters wide. Then, as I reached the right bank of th river, I heard tho sound of a duck lifting and the noiso of splafeh- ing water, and found water. I crawled in that direction a largo pool of clear, frenh "I thanked God first and thru I felt my pulse I wanted to seo tho t.ffect that drink ing wojuld have on it It Was at 48.' ' . ' . , . : "Then I drank. I drank fearfully. I drank and jdrank and drank. It was a lovely feeling. I felt my blood liquefy ing. It began tb run in my vein ; my pores opened. My pulso weut up at onco to 53, I felt quito fresh and living." Undaunted by hi first terriblo ex perience, Dr. Hcdin crossed tho desert again froni Vouth to north, and, was re warded by tho discovery of a "vcry old town." ? '! -" . " ' T The W'ronc Leg- r j , Thero is an enterprising Liverpool tailor who has never been known to ao- knowledge that ho didn't havo anything a possiblo customer might ask for.j One day a customer entered the shop and asked if h(S had any trousers made Mpccially for obo lwggud uiso. I "What kind do you want?" 4 ' Dross trousers, 1 ' said tho man. beet you've got " ; ! Ilurrvinff into tho rear of the The stbrt, the1 enterprising merchant snatched up rviir of trousers and sninDed off the right leg with a pair of scissor. Hastily turning under the" edge, he presented them to the customer.-. ,1 j. That's the kind I want What's the price?" . . r . j"' "One guinea. " ' ' i "Well, give mo a pair with the left leg off." : ; . . -I- I-) ' :. A month latei;the merchant wa pro nounced convalescent and on tho high rni to recovery. Pearson's Weekly. Why rrirrsp'oM X'.i:vi!eil t l!ie CleT:.-nda kiioi'tl, ;:iicr (ho. ' iimoval Mi the Cleveland family to I-finevln tui un married laay, a .tioho. fritnd efl Mr.' Cleveland, was vLsitiias her,' - jcrites a closo friend of tho foriuer hiibtrcVs of tho Whito House in The Ladies Home Journal. "One day whilo tao two vo meniwero in tho nursery with thej three little Cleveland girls, the friend tald jokingly to Mrs. Cleveland: I " 'Mercy mo, Frances, how nrp you ever going Xu get fall your daughters married off? 'Yon tac from mo that Miam-. ma could not do it in New York. Exactly,' replied Mrs. Clcveiaua. 'But what -better nlace could thero IjO than a college town liko Princkmi, X should liko to know?' " Q Thv let vour neighbors know it? . l And whv cive them a; chance to guess you are even; flvejor ten years morcr t Better eive them good reasons for guessing the other way. It is vry easy; for inbthing tells of age so quickly as gray nan. , ) la a Youth-rentver It hides the age Mr a luxuriant growth of bair the color of youth. It ntver falls to restore color to gray hair. It will step the Jiair from coming out also. It feeds the hair bulbs. Ttiin hair becomes thick hair, and short bair becomes long hair. It cleanses the scalp; re moves all dandruff, and prevents its formation. , We have a book on the Hir which we will gladly send you. - It too do not obtain an tha ben, flta tou expected troea tha nta ot tho VlRor. wrfta tho doctor alHo It. Probably tbero la eomo difflculty wk Mnr Bf.amnl iTttem whlcn xtrbeaUr remoTod. Addrett, Dir '-9- Ayer, LoweU, AUaa. 7"! kffW i 1 V -'I 4i 3 i i a - r:
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Oct. 15, 1898, edition 1
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