Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 January 1894 — Page 7

MOTHER ROVE. Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses Upon af Homely Topic. The Lore of tho Mother Krtr rreiwrnt !■ the llamas Character—The Home ' Question: “Where U Mother?” The following discourse Was delivered by Rev. 1'. DeWittlTalmagej in the Brooklyn tabernacle, toeing ba^etl on • the text: The mother of Sisera looked oat a t a Window.—Judges v.. 23. Spiked to Lbe ground of JaeVs tent lay the dead commander-in-chief of the Canaanitish host, Gen. Sisera, not far from the River Kishon,!which w^is obly a dry bed of pebbles when in JSSO. in Palestine, we crossed It, hut the gullies and ravines which ran into jit indicated the possibility of great freshets like the one of the text. Gen. Sisera had gone ont with nine hundred chariots, but he was defeated, and his chariot . wheels interlocking- with the wheels of other chariots, he could not retreat ’fast enough, and so he leaped to the ground and ran till exhausted. He went into jJael's tent for safety. She had just been chwrning, and when he asked for water "she gave him buttermilk, which in the

east is rconsiuerea a most reiresHing drink. JVery tired, and supposing- he was sate, he went to sleep upon the floor, butJael. who had resolved, npon his death, took a teat-pin, long and round and sharp, in one hand and a hammer in the other, and putting the sharp end o 1 the tent-pin to tike forehead of Siseni, with her other hand she -lifted the hammer and brought it down on >hediead of the pin with a stout stroke, when Sisera struggled ito rise, arm she struck him again, and he straggled to rise, and the third time sbejstruck him, and the commander-in-chief of the Canaanitish hod l*,v dead. Meanwhile in the distance Sisera's mother sits amid surroundings of wealth and pomp and scenes palatiel. waiting for his return. Every mother expects her son to be victorious, and this mother looked out at the -window, expecting to see him drive up in his chariot, followed by wagons loaded with embroideries and also bv regiments of roem'vanquished and-enslaved. I see her now sitting at the window, in high expectation. She watches the furthest turn of the road. Slue looks for the flying dnst of the swift hoofs. The first fhuh of the bit of fine horses’ bridle she will catch. The ladies of her court stand round and she tells them of what they shall have ithen her son comes up—chains of gold, and carcanets of beauty and dresses of snch wondrous fabric and splendor as the Bible only bin ts at but leaves us to imagine. “He ought to be here by this time,” says his mother, “that battle is surely over. I hope that freshet of t he River Kishon has not impeded him. 1 hope those strange appearances we saw last night in the sky were not ominous, when the stars seemed to fight in their courses. No! No! He is so brave in battle I know he has won the day. Be will soon be here.” Bui; alas for the disappointed mother; she will not see the glittering head-gear of the horses at 'full gallop bringing her son home from'victorious battle.' As a solitary messenger ar^rivihg in hot haste ride* up tq> the window at which the mother of ti isera sits, and cries: “Your armies are defeated and your son is dead,” there is a scene of horror and anguish from which we turn away. ’ Now j-ou see the full meaning of m3' short text: “The mot tier of Sisera looked out of a window.” .Well, my friends, we are all out in the battle of life; it is raging now apd the most of us have a mother watehiag and waiting for news of our victory and defeat. If she be not sitting at the window of earth she is sitting at a window of Heaven, a ad she is going to.hear all about it.

“Where's mother?” is the Question roost frequently asked in many households. It is asked by the husband as well as the child coming in «t nightfall. “Where’s mother?” It is asked by the lit de ones when they gat hurt and come in crying with the pain. “Where’s mother?” It is asked by those who have seen some grand .sight or heard i»me good news or received some beautiful gift. “Where’smother?” She sometimes feels wearied by the question, for they all ask it and .keep asking it sill the time. She is not .only the first 1o hear every case of perplexity, but she is the judge in every court of domestic appeal. That is what puts the premature wrinkles .on so many maternal faces, and powders white so many maternal foreheads. You see it is a question -that keeps on for all the years of childhoo.i. ^t comes from the nursery, and from the evening stand where the boys and girls are learning their echpol lesson, and from the starting out in the morning, when the tippet or hat or slate or book or overshoe is lost, .until at night all out of breath the youngsters come in and shout until you can hear them from cellar to garret, and from front door to the back fence of the back yard:. “Where’s mother?” Indeed a child’s life is so full of that question that if he be taken away one of the things that the mother most misses and the silence that most oppress* is her. is the. absence of that question, which she will never hear on earth ajffaan, except she hears it in a dream which sometimes restores the 1 nursery just as it was, and then the '-voice cbmes backs so natural, and so sweet, and so innocent, and so inqnirjing, that tbe dream breaks at the 1 words: “Whore's mother?” If that question were put to most of j us this morning; we would have to say, ! if we spoke truthfully, like Sisera’s mother, she is at the palace window, , She baa become a queen unto God for- ' ever, and she is pulling back the rich • ! folds of the King’s upholstery to look j down at ns. We are not told the particulars about the residence of Sisera’s ( mother, but there is in that scene of [ the book of Judges so much about em

i broideries and needlework and ladies I in waiting' that we know her residence ! must hare been princely and palatial. So we bare no minute and- particular description of the palace at whose window our glorified mother sits, bnt there is so much in the closing chapters of t the good old book about crowns* and pearls big enough to make a gate of one of them, new songs and marriage suppers, and harps, and white horses I with kings in the stirrups, and gold-* en candlesticks, that we know the ] heavenly residence of our mother I is superb, is unique, is colonnaded, | is domed, is embowered, is fquntained, | is glorified beyond the power of pencil I or pen or tongue to present, and in the ! window of that palace the mother sits. ; watching for news from the battle. ! What a contrast between that celes- | tial surrounding and her once earthly j surroundings. What a work to bring | up a family in the old-time way, with little or no hired help, except, perhaps, for the washing day, or for the swine slaughtering, commonly called “killing day.”* There was then no reading of elaborate treatises on the best modes of rearing children, and then leaving it all to hired help, with one or two visits a day to the nursery to see if the principles announced are being carried out. The most of those old | folks did, the sewing, the washing, the mending, the darning, the patching. the millinery,, the mantua

making-, and housekeeping anu i in hurried harvest-time helped spread i the hay or tread down the load'm the mow. They were at the same time caterers, tailors, vloetors, chaplains and nurses for a wmple household all together down with Ineasles or scarlet fever, or round the Mouse with whoop-ing-coughs and croups and run-round fingers and earaches, and all the infantile distempers which at some time swoop upon every- large household. Some of those mothers never got rested in this world. Instead of the selfrocking cradles of .our day, which, wound up. will go holir after hour for the solace of the young slumberer, it was weary foot on the rocker, sometimes half the day or half the nightroe k—rock—rock—roek. Instead of our drug stores filled with all the wonders of materia mediea, and called up through a telephone with them the only apothecary short of four miles’ ride was the garret, with its bunches of peppermint and pennyroyal and catnip and mustard and camomile flowers, which were expected to do everything, .lust think of it! Fifty years of preparing, breakfast, dinner and supper. The chief music they heard was that of spinningwheel and rocking-chair*, Fagged out, headachey, and with ankles swollen. Those old-fashioned mothers—if any persons ever fitted appropriately into a good easy, comfortable heaven, they were the folks, and they got there and they are rested. They wear no spectacles, tor they have their third sight —as they lived long enough on earth to get their second sight—and they do not have to pant for breath after going up the emerald stairs of the eternal palace, at whose window they nowsit waiting for news from the battle. But if anyone keeps on asking the question: ‘‘Where’s .mother?” I answer, she is in your present character. The probability is that your physical features suggest her, if there be seven children in a household at least six. of j them look like their mother, and the j older you get the more you will look like her. But I speak now especially of your character, and not of yoor looks. This is easily explained. During the first ten years of your life j^ou were almost all the time with her. and your father you saw only mornings and nights. There are no years in any life so important for impression as the first ten. Then and there is* the impression made for virtue or vice, far truth or falsehood, for bravery or cowardice, for religion or skepticism. Suddenly start out from behind * door and frighten the child and you may shatter his nervous system for a lifetime. Daring the

nrst ten years you can tell trim enough spook stories to make him a coward till he dies. Act before Irani as though Friday were an unlucky day. and it were baleful to have thirteen at the table, or see the moon over the left shoulder, and he will never recover from the idiotic superstitions. You may give that girl before she is ten years old a fondness for dress that will make her a mere “dummy brame,” or fashion-plate for forty years. Ezekiel, xvi.. 44. “As is the mother so is her daughter.” Before one decade has passed you can decide whether that i bov shall be a Shylock or a George Peabody. Boys and girls are general- j ly echoes of fathers and mothers. What an incoherent thing for a moth- ; er out of temper to punish a child for getting mad, or for a father who smokes to shut his boy up * in a dark closet because he has found him with an old stump of a .cigar in his mouth; or for that mother to relAike her daughter for staring at herself tod much in the looking-glass, •when the mother has her own mirrors so arranged as to repeat her form f*om all sides. The great English poet's loose, moral character was decided before he left the nursery, and his schoolmaster in the school room overheard this conversation: “Bryon, your mother is & fool,” and he answered: “I know St” Yon can hear tlfroKgh all the hetrcic life of Senator Sam Houston the awards of his mother, when she in the wss- of 1813 put a masked in his hand and said; “There, my son, take this and never disgrace it, for remember I had rather all my sons should fill one honorable grave than, that one of them should turn hisbaek on an enemy. . Go, and remember, too, that,'while the door of my cottage is open to all brave men, , it is always shut against cowards.” Agrippina, the mother of Nero, a murderess, yon are not surprised that her son was a murderer.- Give that child an overdose of catechism and make him recite verses of the Bible as a punishment and make Sunday a bore, and he will become a I stout antagonist of Christianity. Im~ i press hi41 with the kindness and the

geniality ami the loveliness of religion and he will be its ad vocate and exemplar for all time and eternity. A few days ago right before onr express train o® the Louisville & Nashville railroad the preceding train had pone down through a broken bridge, twelve cars falling a hnndred feet and then consumed. I saw that one span of the bridge was down ■ and all the other spans were s tanding. Plan a good bridge of morals for your sons and daughters, but have the first span of ten years defective, and through that they will crash down, though all the rest keep standing. Oh man! Oh woman! if you have preserved your integrity and are really Christian, you have first of all to thank. God, and I think next you have to thank your mother. The most impressive thing at the inauguration of James A. Garfield as president of the United States was tbat after he had taken the oath of office be turned around;, an4 in the presence of the supreme court and the senate «of the United States, kissed his old mother. If I had time to take statistics out of this audience. and I could ask what proportion of you who ate Christians owe jour salvation under God to maternal fidelity. I think about three-fourths of you would spring to your feet. “Ha! ha!” said the soldiers of the regiment

to Charlie, one of their comrades, "what has made the change in yon? You used to like sin as well as any of US.” Pulling- from his pocket his mother's letter in which, after tellijrg jf some comforts she had sent him, she concluded: “We are all praying- for you, 'harlie. that you may be a Chistian,” He said: “Boys that's the sentence.” How many disappointed mothers railing at the* window. Perhaps the panes of the window are not great glass plate, bevel-edged and hovered *ver by exquisite lambrequin, buft the vindow is made of small panes. I should say about six or eight of them, In summer wreathed with trailing vine and in winter pictured by the Raphaels of the frost, a real country window. The mother sits there knitting, or »usy with her ' needle or homely repairs, when she looks tip, and sees coming across the 3 ridge of the meadow brook a Stranger, who dismounts in front of the window. He lifts and drops the heavy knocker pf the farm house door. ‘Xjome in!” is the response. He gives Ms name, and says: “I have come on » sad errand.” ‘“There is nothing the matter of my son in the city, is there?” ■s ae asks. “Yes!” he says, “your son got into an unfortunate encounter with a young man in a liquor saloon last r ight, and is badly hurt. The fact is, he can not get well. I hate to tell ,y >u all. I am sorry to say he is death” “Dead!” she cries, as she totters back. “Oh, my son! my son! my son! Would Gad I had died for thee!” That is the ending of all her cares, and anxieties, and counsels for that boy. That is her pay for her self-sacrifices in his behalf. TUat is the bad news from the battle. So the tidings-of derelict or Christian so as travel to the windows of earth, or "the windows of Heaven at which mothers sit. ‘But,” says some one, “are-you not m staked about my glorified mother hearing of my evil doings since she went away.” Says some one else: “Are you not mistaken about my glorified mother hearing of my self-sacrifice and moral bravery and struggle to do fright?” No! Heaven and earth are an constant communication. There are trains running every five mi antes—trains of immortals ascending- and descending—spiritsr going from earth to Heaven to live there. Spirits de eending from Heaven to earth t<J minister and help. They hear from ns ma ny times every day. Do they hear go >d news or bad news from this battle. this Sedan, this Thermopylae;.this Amterlitz, in which every one of ns is fig iting on the right side or the wrong side. Oh God! whose I am, and whom lam trying to serve, as a result of thi .sermon, roll over on all mothers a n »w sense of their responsibility, and tape n all children, whether still in the nursery or out on the tremendous esd -aelon of middle or old age, the fact, that; their victories or defeats sound •clear out, clear up tb.the windows of sympathetic maternity. Oh, is not this the minute when the cloud of blessing filled with the exhaled tears of anxious mot hers shall burst in showers of mercy on t his audience?

3 lere is one -thought that is almost too render for utterance. I almost fear toe art it lest I have not enough control of my emotion to conclude it. As wfeemwe were children we so often ca»:In from play or from a hurt or tram., some childish injustice practiced apm us. and as soon as the door was open ed we cried: “Where’s mother?” and she said: “Here I am,” and we burkid our weeping’ faces in her lap; so after awhile when we get limmgh with the pleasures and hurts ■of this life, we will, by the part! ming mercy Of Christ, enter the Heavenly home, and among the first ques ions, not the first but among the first, will be the old question -that we used jo ask, the question that is being aske in thousands of places at this very nonest—the question; “Whereas mother?” &nd it will not take long for ns to find her or for her vx> find us, for she will have been watching at the window for our c !>ming, and with the other children of our household of earth we wi!3 again gather ’around her, and she will say: ‘Well: bow did you get through the battle of life? I have often heard from >thers about yon; bet now I want to hear It from yonr own souls. Tell l ie . about it, my children!” And then we will tell her of al] our e irthly experiences, the holidays, ;he marriages, the birthxhours, the b trials, the heart-breaks, the losses the gains, the victories, the defeats, «nd. she will say: “Never mind, it is al over now. I see each one of you ha » * c rown which was given you at the gate as you came through. Now c; st it at the feet of the Christ who s tved you and saved me and saved >: s all. 'Thank God, we are never to part and for all the ages of eternity you ,wi 11 never again have to ask; >4Wher t’s mother?5*

FAR MING IN FOREIGN LANDS | This copious rains and wan:a weather which followed the great drought*in ) England led to the production of j second crops of strawberries, raspberries, and even apples. The South African Sugar company, limited, was recently oirgaoized at Capetown. The company will manufacture beet-root sugar from roots raised on its own land. Foe: the first time in more than half a century, Ireland is pronounced free r from contagious pleuro-pnetimonia. no j case having been detected among its cattle in twelve months. Tvro grass-fed bullocks, recently • exhibited at a cattle show in New South Wales, Australia, weighed respectively 2,284 and 2,178 pounds. They were fattened wholly on natural pasturage. Air a recent sale of Shetland ponies from the stud of the Marquis of Londonderry. a diminutive animal, only 34 ineties high, brought the top price, 40 guineas, or $210. The ostrich farmers of South Africa suffer losses from the effects of a small wire-worm, Strongylus Douglassi, which infest the young ostriches in such numbers as frequently to produce fa till results.

MISSING LINKS. Heal agate marbles arc made from •gate found in Obersteia. near the Rhine. SErsnnois was once only a nighboor, or the boor or farmer who lived nearest. Coal is dearer in South Africa than any other part of the world; it is cheapest in China. ' l ' I A Canadian court has defined the word “boodier” to mean “the very meanest class of thieves.” Roman treaties, laws and public documents of importance wer i written on tablets of brass. > ■ 4 • The manuscripts of Fenc Ion show no changes. It is said there are not ten erasures in a hundred page s. A large part of the w ^rks of Ren Jonson were destroj ed in manuscript by a fire which burned his house. The only'source o fthe great lakes is the rain that falls within their basin, which averages forty inches per year. The number of people who die inside of the city limits of London every year would fill a cemetery of twentythree acres. | A wind blowing at the r ite of nine- i teen miles per hour exert;, a pressure of but one and four-fifths pounds to the square foot. PERSONALS. 'Mantela Paeido, of Madrid, is the only woman lawyer in Spain. The shah of Persia will visit Berlin, St. Petersburg. Paris and Vienna . next spring. The late Marshal MacMahon first .met his wife while saving her from a fire at the risk of his own life. Alexander IIockadat, -of Ilarrison county, Ind., recently celebrated what he claimed to be his 114th birthday. He has voted at every presiden tial! election this eentury. Baron Schichleb did tolerably well this year on the French turf, on which his winnings foot up for ti e season nearly £35.000. He is a Frenchified German Plunger Walton. Mrs. Martha Swain, who was born December 17, 1792, and didn’t change her name when she married, celebrated her iOlst birthday recently in Lee, Mass. She is remarkably bright and active. j j - Capt. Gerrt Bassett, of Hyannis, Mass., is 84 years old and son of a revolutionary pensioner. He re members | back to 1814, when an English privateer chased a cotton loaded schooner into j Hyannis harbor, where the captain ran his vessel ashore. THE SCHOOLS. , Cornell has an endowmen t of $8,000,000. C The living graduates of Princeton number 3.587. • * k There are 383,034 teachers in the , United States. The Girard college fund amounts to over $13,000,000. Italy h^s twenty-one universities with 600 professors and 9.000 students. . »■

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HALM’S ARTI-RHEUMATIC AND ANTI-CATARRHAL CHEWIN6 RUM | Cures aril P~e rents Kii< 4 ^I’eethflnd Promotes the Appetite. Sweetens I»y spepsi^JJeartbnrn, Cutarrh and Asthma’ Usef uljpWFal tism. Indigestion,! > ---rrh amt Asthma. . laria and Fevers. Gieattses the - ) nmoies the Appetite. Sweetens' l the Breath. Cures the Tateco Habit. En- . | ' dorsed by the >1 ml teat Faculty. Send lor iSL < . 15or 25cent pacIcuiM^ lie convinced. . 4 I Silver, Stamp* or Postal Xote. | t "Om. It. Halo, 140 W. SBth at.,TS. JC. . H fortable sleep; effects eiiree where others fail. ■ rrial conriitcre the most si optical. Price, M» eta. si ■ $1.00. of Druggists orb] mail. Sample FAIKE f< ■stamp, dk. &. acamgAinr. st. Paul. ~~

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