Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 October 1898 — Page 3

I THE FAMILY RECORD. The Effect of Parental Influence en Generationi to Come. e««. l»r. DNhm that tht SssU nuud la $k« CkUd WU1Osrmiasts OwwiHim In the following discourse Rot. T. DeWitt Talmage pictures parental Influence and its offset on children’s children. The text is: The unfeigned faith .that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois.—IL Tim--•th, L.5.

U UUI puwnu «UW wuieu SAW* Du old minister, U writing to Timothy, the young minister, the family accord is brought out. Paul practically says: “Timothy, what a good grandmother you had! You ought to be,better than most folks, because not •only was your mother good, but your grandmother was also good. Two preceding generations of piety ought to give you a mighty push in the right direction. "The fact was that Timothy needed encouragement. He was, in poor health, haring a weak atomach, and was a dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for him a tonic, “a little wine foe thy stomach’s lake”—not ranch wine; but a little wine, and only as medicine. And if the wine then bad been as much adulterated with logwood and strychnine as our modern wines, he would not hare prescribed *°6ut Timothy, not strong physically, is encouraged spiritually by the recital of grandmotherly excellence, Paul hinting to him, as 1 hint thia day to you, that God sometimes gathers np as in a reservoir, away back of the actire generations of to-dsy, a goodly influence, and then; in response to prsyer, lets down the power upon children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The world is woefully iu want of a table of statistics in regard to what is the protracted ness and immensity of influenoe of one good woman in the church and world. We have accounts of how much evil has been wrought by a woman who lived nearly 100 years ago, -and of how many criminals her descendant* furnished the penitentiary and the gallows, and bow many hundreds of thousands of dollars they coat cur country in their arraignment and prison support, as well as in the property they burglarised snd destroyed, will, not some one come out with brain comprehensive enough, and heart warm enough, and pen keen enough to give ns 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 descendants, snd how many asylums snd colleges and churches they built, snd how many millions of dollars they contributed for humanitarian and Christian purposes? The good women whose tombstones were planted in the eighteenth century are more alive for good in the nineteenth century than they were before, as the good women of this nineteenth century will be more alive for good in the twentieth century than now. Mark you, I have no idea that the grandmothers were any better than their granddaughters. You can not get Tery old people to talk much about how things were when they were boys and girls. They have a reticence and s non-committalism which snakes me think they feel themselves to be the custodians of the reputation of their early comrades. While our •dear old folks are rehearsing the follies of the present. If we put them on the witness stand snd cross-examine them as to how things were 70 years ago. the silence becomes oppressive.. The celebrated Frenchman, Volney. visited this country la 1TM, and he says •of woman's diet in those tiaras: “If a premium was offered for a regimen most destructive to health, none could he devised more efficacious for these

ends lun toil in use among inese people. "Thai eclipses our lobatar salad at mldnijrht. Everybody talks about the dissipation of modern society and how womanly health foes down under it, but it was worse 100 years ago, for the •chaplain of a French regiment in our (revolutionary war wrote in 1T83, in his “Book of American Women," saying: “They are tall and wall proportioned, their features are generally regular, their complexions are generally fair and without color. At 90 years of age the women hare no longer the freshoeaaof youth. At 30 or 40 theey are decrepit." In 1818 a foreign consul wrote a book eatitled, “A Sketch of the United States at the Commencement of -the Present Century," and ha says of Urn woman of those times: “At the age of 30 all their charms have dlsapLnearad.” One glanee nt the portraits Wt the women 100 years ago and their Kyis of dress makes us wonder how rthey aver got their breath. All this [makes me think that the express rail train is no more of an Improvement -on the old canal boat, or the telegraph so more an improvement on the old* time saddle-bagr, than the women of ■our day are an improvement on the 'women of the Inst century. But still, notwithstanding that those 'times were so much worse than ours, there wee n glorious race of goodly women, TO and 100 years ago. who bald the world back from sin and lift--ed It toward virtue, and without their ■exalted and sanctified influence before this the last good influence would have perished from the earth. Indeed, mil over this land there are seated today—not so much in churches, for many «f them are too feeble to come— a great many aged grandmothers. They sometimes feel that the world 1st gone past them, and they have an Men that they are of little account. Their heads sometimes get aching from the racket of the grandchildren down stairs or in the next room. Thar ..Am**/:

steady themselves by the btniitin as they go up and down. When they get a cold it hangs on them longer than it used to. They can not bear to hare the grandchildren punished even when they deserve it, and have ao relaxed their ideas of family discipline that thejr would spoil all the youngsters of the household by too great leniency. These old folks are the resort when great troubles come, and there is a oalming and soothing power In the touch at an aged hand that is almost supernatural. They feel they are almost through with the journey of life, and read the old book more than they used to, hardly knowing which most they enjoy, the Old Testament or *the New, and often stop and dwell tearfully over the family reeord halfway between. We hail them to-day, whether in the house of God or at the homestead. Blessed is that household that has in it a grandmother Lois. Where she is, angels are hovering round and God Is in the rooom. May her last days be like those lovely autumnal days that we call Indian summer!

Is it not time that yoa end I do two thing*—swing open e picture gallery of the wrinkled feces end stooped shoulders of the pest, end oall down from their Heavenly thrones the god? ly grandmothers, to give them our thanks, end then to persuade the mothers of to-day that they ere living for ell time, end that against the sides of every cradle in which a child is rocked beat the two eternities? Here we have an untried, uadis* cussed, 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 thirtieH^tsehiury, upon the fortieth century, upon the year 2000, upon the year 4000, if the world lasts so long? The world stood 4000 years be* fore Christ came; it is not unreasonable to suppose that it may stand 4000 years sfter His arrival. Four thousand years the world swung off in sin, 4000 years it may be swinging back into righteousness. By the ordinary rate of multiplication of the world’s population in a century, your descendants will be over 300, 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. And if in four centuries your descendants shall have with their names filled a scroll of hundreds of thousands, with some angel from Heaven, to whom is given the capacity to Calculate the number of stars of Heaven and the sands of the seashore, step down and tell us how many descendants you will have in the four thousandth year of the world’s possible continuance? Do not let the 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 mothers of the last century are to-day in the person of their descendants, in the senates, the parliaments, the palaces, the pulpits, the banking houses, the professional chairs, the prisons, the almshouses, the company of midnight brigands, the cellars, the ditches of this country. You have been thinking about the importance of having the right influence upon one nursery. You have been thinking of th« importance of getting those two little feet on the right path. You have been thinking of your child’s destiny for the next eighty years, if it should pass ou -to be an octogenarian. That is well, but my subjeet sweeps a thousand years, a million years, a quadrillion of years. I can not stopv at one cradle, I am looking at the cradles that reach all around the world and across all time. I am not talking of mother Eunice. I am talking of grandmother Lois. The only way you can tell the force of a current is by sailing up stream; or the foroe of an ocean wave, by running the ship against it. Running along with it we can not appreciate the force. In estimating maternal influence we

generally run along with it down the stream of time, and so we don't understand the full force. £et us come up to It from the eternity side, after it has been working on for centuries, and see all the good it has done and all the evil it has accomplished multiplied in magnificent 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 starting from the Utile Lake Itaaka, seven miles long and oae mile wide, and Its mouth at the gulf of Mexico, where navies might ride. Between the birth of that river and its budial in the aea the Missouri pours in, and the Ohio pours in, and the Arkansas poors in, and the Bed and White and the Tasoo rivers pour in, and aU the states and territories between the Allegheny) and Rocky mountains make contribution. Now, in order to test a mother's influence, we need to come in off the ocean of eternity end anil up toward the one cradle, and we will find 10,000 tributaries of influence pouring in and pouring down. But It is after all one great river of power rolling on and rolling forever. Who can fathom Uf Who can bridge Uf Who can stop itf Had not mothers better be intensifying their prayers? Had they not better be elevating their example? Had they not better be arousing themselves with the consideration that by their faithfulness or neglect they an starting an influence which will be stupendous after the last mountain of earth is fist, and the last sea m dried up, and the last of ashes of a consumed world shall have been blown away, and all the telescopes of other worlds directed to the track around which our world once swung shall discover not oo much aa a cinder of the burned down and swept oft planet. In Cigdo* them la a granite column U

•quart feet in size, which It thought by the natives to decide the world’* continuance.’ An angel with robe spun from zephyrs is once a oenturjr 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 that process that granite column would be worn out of existence before mother’s influence will begin to give way. If a mother tell a child he la not good some bugaboo wm come and catch him, the fear excited may make the child a coward, and the fast that he finds that there is no bugaboo may make him a liar, and the echo of that false alarm may be heard after fifteen generations have been bora and have expired. If a mother promises a child a reward for good behavior, and after the good behavior forgets to get the reward, the cheat may crop oat in some faithlessness half a thousand years further on. If a mother cultivate a child’s vanity and eulogise his curls and extol the night-black or skyblue or nut-brown of the child’s eyes and call out in his presenoe the ad

mirtaion of spectators, pride and arrogance may be prokmger after half a dozen family records hare been obliterated. If a mother express doubt about some statement of the Holy Bible in a child’s presence, long after the gates of this historical era have closed and the gates of another era have opened, the result may be seen in a champion blasphemer. But, on the other hand, if a mother walking with one child see a suffering one by the wayside and says: “My child, give that ten-cent piece to that lame boy,** the result may be seen on the other side of the following oentury in some George Muller building a whole village of orphanages. If a mother sits almost every evening by the trundlebed of a child and teaches it lessons of a Saviour’s love and a Saviour’s example, of the importance of truth and the horror of a lie, and the virtues of industry and kindness and sympathy and self-sacrifice, long after the mother has gone , and the child has gone, and the lettering on both the tombstones shall have been washed out by the storms of innumerable vHntera, there may be standing, as a result of those trundle-bed lessons, flaming evangels, world-moving reformers, seraphic Summerfields, weeping Paysons, thundering Whitefields, emancipating Washingtons. Good or bad influence may skip one generation or two generations, but it will be sure to land in the third or fourth generation, just as the Ten Commandments, speaking of the visitation pf God on families, says nothing about the second generation, but entirely skips the second, and speaks of the third and fourth generation: “Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the third and fourth generation of them that hate 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 here. Timothy’s ministry was projected by his grandmother Lois. There are men and women here, the sons and daughters of the Christian church, who are such as the result of the consecration of great-great-grandmothers. Why, who do you think the Lord is? You talk as though His memory was weak. He can as easily remember a prayer offered five centuries ago as a prayer offered five minutes ago. There she is, the dear old soul, Grandmother Lois. In beautiful Greenwood cemetery there 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—eloquence and evangelism. In the same tomb sleeps his grandmother, Isabella Graham, who was the chief inspiration of his ministry. Yon are not surprised at the poetry and Bathos and pulpit power of the grandson when you read of the faith and

devotion ox ms wonaemu ancestress. When you read this letter, in which she poured out her widowed soul in longings for a son's salvation, you will not wonder succeeding generations have been blessed; New York, May SO, 1T91.—This day my only son left me in bitter wring* ings of heart; he is again launched on the ocean—God's ocean. Hie Lord saved him from shipwreck, brought him to my home, and allowed me once more to indulge my affections aver him. He has been with me but a short time, and ill have -t improved it; he Is gone from my sight, and my heart bursts with tumultuous grief. Lord, hare mercy on the widow's son, i “the only son of his mother.** I wait for thy salvation. Amen. With such a grandmother, wopld you not have a right to expect a George W. Bethune? And all the thou* sands converted through his ministry may date the saving power back to Isabella Graham. Mothers, consecrate yourselves to God and you will help consecrate all the agoi following! Do not dwell so much on your hardships that you miss your chance of wielding an influence that shall look down upon you from the towers of an endless future. I know Martin Luther was right when he consoled his wife over the death of their daughter by saying: “Dont take on so. wife; remember that this is a hard world for girls.** Yes* I go further and say: It is a hard world for women. Ay, I go further and say: It is a hard world for men. But for all women and men who trust their bodies and souls in the hand of Christ the shining gates will soon swing open. Don't you see the sickly pallor on the skyt That is the pallor on the cold cheek of the dying night, Don’t you see the brightening of the ektods? That is the flush on the warm

HI 11SI. Iff. }., ■ .—— Tli« Nation’s Chief Executive the Henored Guest of the Future Great. GIVEN A MOST ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME. A Bmj Day Pvt In Mi* Fu.4. of iNHt, TUI tl*( tlM Mmhutf Kxekmmse, Rldimg About tb* City mmdAp* purtu Bo form Two Iwmm Audi**c— *t tb* BtomKIo*. St. Louis, Oct. 15.—Hon. William Mo* ivinley, president of tile United States, is the guest of St. Louis. The train bearing the presidential party arrived at Union station at 9:15 a. m., and its coming was greeted by a pandemonium of steam whistles and the welcoming shouts of ten thousand or more people who occupied every foot of available space around" the station.

EnrjMMi; <ru rrompt The programme of the committee ol arrangements was admirably carried out. Everybody was prompt. The Twelfth United States infantry and Battery E, First United States artillery, from Jefferson barracks, had arrived on the ground and taken their stations; the various posts of the Grand Army of the Republic were in line with remarkably full ranks of gray-haired veterans; Chief of Police Campbell, with a large detail of mounted police, and the reception committee, in carriages, were all in position, so that no delay was necessary in escorting the city's guest to his hotel. A Dmm Thron*. It was one thing to have the different portions bf the escort in position, but quite another to move it with facility? indeed it was with the utmost difficulty that way was made through the dense masses of people, who good-naturedly pressed forward tc get a glimpse of our honored chief magistrate, who was vociferously cheered as he alighted from the train and passed through the open ranks of the reception committee to the waiting carriage on the arm of ex-Gov. Stone. The Parade Moved Promptly. The sun shone brightly, but the air was cool, so there was no lingering in starting the procession to the Southern hotel, the entire route to which was densely packed with the waiting throngs, who vociferously cheered the pi-esident as soon t* he came in sight, and then cheered again and again as the old veterans ar d the new veterans came along. The}' were particularly demonstrative over the returned regulars from Santiago, who formed the military portion o# the escort. Rpvtowad 1 b« Parade. Arrived at the {Southern hotel the presidential party was escorted to the balcony of the hotel, from which the parade was reviewed, the president rej> peatedly doffing hh hat in response to the salutes of the marchers. He seemed to be particularly moved at the sight of so many of his old comrades in arms, many of them feeble, but still with vim enough left to make a good bluff at keeping step to the music. Raeepttoa c i Cfcaaga. After the parade had passed the party took a brief r est in the elegantly appointed rooms prepared for them and' about noon wi.s escorted to the merchant^* exchange, where the president made s> brief address in response to addresses of welcome by President Sharp and Mayor Zkgenhein. At 1:30 lunch was partaken of at the hotel, and at three o’clock the president and party,with the committee,in carriages, started on a drive through the principal residence portion of the city. At Um Kxs>mIUm.

At night the distinguished visitor was present at the (deposition, where an enormous throng, filling to repletion the great coliseu aigreeted him enthusiastically, There he again made a brief address, in response to a welcoming speech by President Sampson. Later the president appeared on the stage of music hall, in the exposition building, where he addressed another large crowd, and then partook of a lunch with the directors of the exposition, after which he was escorted to the Union station whence he departed tor Chicago. THE INDIAN TROUBLE. The qsssOsa of Panes sir War r»|ii!U So bm Bssa Definitely Settle* by Cast was ns. MianaapnliSi Minn., Clct. U.—A Journal special from Walker, Minn., says: There ia confidence here that the question of peaoe or w ar will be settled definitely at the conference in progress of Indian Commissioner Jones with the hostile ». The rumor that at least three of t he ringleaders would surrender themwelves at this council is, however, received with a good deal of skeptic Urn. Two of those wanted were pre <Jnt at Thursday’s conference, and were urged hi vain by the older men to give themselves up. Chicago, Oct. 15. —- Computations which threaten to assume greater proportions than the clash between federal and state authority during the railway strike under Aligeld’s administration, promise to gre w out of Gov. Tanner's seizure of the Alton rood at Virden. General Solicitor Brown of the Chicago A Alton left for Springfield yesterday aa the result of a conference between the officials of the road. The governor will be sought by Solicitor Brown, who will assume

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