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TIIE GREATER ROWER.
HOW IT MOULDS CHABACTER.
BY SIDNEY HERBERT.
IHTBOECCTOnT—FinST PAI'EB.
“Is there any power for good or evil greater
than the inllnenco of him who leads the family,
who propagates his own character in the pier
sons and the souls of his children, who lives his
own life over again in the lives of those whom
he has begotten?”
This vital question, under the head
of “Like Father, Like Family,” has
been asked through the columns of the
New York Independent, by Rev. Theo
dore L. Cuyler, D.D., but seemingly
for no other purpose than to follow it
up in the same breath with a reply
embodying his own peculiar views upon
the subject.
“Like father,” says he, “like family.
Set it down as a philosophical princi
ple. Occasional exceptions do not
undermine the rule ; it is an organic
one. The father impresses himself
upon his children just as undesigned
ly, but just as surely, as I impress my
shadow on the ground when I walk
into the sunshine. The father cannot
help it, if he would. The father leads
by God’s decree. He makes the
home law; fixes the precedents;
creates the home atmosphere, and the
‘odor of the house’ clings to the gar
ments of the children, if they go around
the globe.”
For the past fifteen or twenty years
I have made the subject of maternal
influence a special study, reading
every book on this question that has
come within my reach, and closely ex
amining the biographies of the most
eminent men of all countries and each
century, and yet, in all my researches,
this is the first instance in which I
have found a man bold enough to put
on record an opinion that Paternal
Influence is a greater power in the
family than Maternal Influence in the
formation of the characters of the
children.
The answer which Rev. Dr. Cuyle"
has given to his own question, and
with such positiveness, does not touch
the vital point which grows out of this
all-important question,and I propose,in
this article and succeeding articles, to
bring that point clearly to view. Nor
shall I weary the reader with my own
ideas on the subject, but glean from the
fields of my past researches and pre
sent the views of men eminent for
their piety, their learning and their
eloquence—men who, in every sense,
are the peers of the distinguished
divine with whose peculiar views their
utterances are to be brought in conflict.
The Rev. Thomas W. Chambers,
D.1)., meets the issue squarely when
he says: “A father’s influence is un
doubtedly very important, but it is
vastly exceeded by the mother's in
that important period when the
seeds of the future are planted. An
assertion of this kind has sometimes
been called ‘romantic gallantry;’ but
it is, on the contrary, actual fact, as
proven by innumerable cases. . . Let
every mother remember that she is
daily reproducing her own character
in that of her children. Other things
being equal, as she is, so will they be."
A careful reading of these two an>-
swers will reveal the fact that they are
in the most perfect antagonism to each
other. The Rev. Dr. Cuyler says,
“Like father, like family,” while the
Rev. Dr. Chambers says, of the mother,
“As she is, so will they [the children]
be.” Happily, however, the Rev.
J• T. Leftwich, D.D., a Presbyterian
divine whose ripe experience and va
ried learning cannot he questioned,
steps in and unties this tie in the fol
lowing concise manner:
“In the issue joined between Rev.
Dr. Cuyler and Rev. Dr. Chambers, I
concur fully and emphatically with the
latter eminent divine. 1 hold it to be
a proposition well nigh self-evident,
that, of the influences exerted in form
ing human character, the strongest em
enates from the mother. ‘As the twig
is bent, the tree will be inclined,’ and
beyond all doubt the original, and,
therefore, the determinative impulse
given to the career of the child, pro
ceeds from the hand of the mother.”
Few men have studied home life
and home influences more thoroughly
than Mr. 1. S. Arthur, whose writings
or this subject are numerous and
widely known. “As is the mother’s
rule at home," this author affirms,
“so, in a large measure, will be the
character of her children. By the
mother is determined the future of her
offspring. She may bend their natural
impulses to good, or point young life,
in its first eager activities, to take on
evil forms that will forever mar the
beautiful aspects of humanity.”
“I do not doubt,” writes Col. H. D
Capers, son of the revered and saintly
Bishop Capers, of South Carolina, “but
that in the main the child receives the
impress of character more from the
mother than the father. Certain it is,
that from the first lullaby of infancy
throughout childhood and youth, the
mother’s watchful care, her gentle
caress, her words of reproof and love,
her prayers, her smiles and tears, fol
low close to the hope that was born
in her heart when the new bud was
grafted and the new flower appeared.”
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-V7ESTERN BAPTIST - June 27.
The Rev. John F. W. Ware, D.D.,
was the son of a noble father, yet it is
from his gifted and cultured pen that
such a positive sentence as the follow
ing flows : “No other person or thing
has so much to do with the present
and the future of a child as the moth>-
er, and this of necessity, and by the
law of our own being. It is said that
children partake more largely in the
characteristics of the mother than the
father, her influence dating back be
yond its conscious being, and we very
well know that all the earlier in
fluences of its life come from her. It
is her smile that first arrests its won
dering gaze, and calls out the first re
sponse of an intelligence it has awaken
ed. Day by day, by look, caress, ac
cent, endearment, she fashions its
growing spirit; up through childhood
she not merely leads its tottering steps,
but guides its opening mind, and upon
its facile being engraves her own men
tal and moral image. Consciously by
precept and by word, unconsciously
by manner and example, and in a
myriad nameless, unrecognized ways
she acts upon it, establishing herself
within its being as the one guide and
rule of life, the one mighty and resist
less influence.”
It would be easy to give a hundred
more replies of this kind to Rev. Dr.
Cuyler’s question, but I forbear, and
simply quote a single sentence from a
writer on this subject, in Harper's
Weekly, touching the reason why the
maternal influence is more powerful
and lasting than the paternal. “Wo
man,” says this nameless writer, “above
all other educators, educates humanly.
Man is the brain, but woman is the
heart of humanity ; he its judgment,
she its feeling; he its strength, she its
grace, ornament and solace. Even
the understanding of the best woman
seems to work mainly through her
affections. And this, though man may
direct the intellect, woman cultivates
the feelings, which mainly determine the
character. While he fills the memory,
she occupies the heart. She makes
us love what he can only make us be
lieve, and it is chiefly through her that
we are enabled to arrive at virtue.”
In closing this introductory article
on the power of maternal influence, I
cannot refrain from applying to it, as
I send it forth on its mission of love,
the appropriate words of the revered
poetess, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney :
“Say to mothers what a holy charge
la tlieira—with what a kingly powor their love
Might role the fountains of the new-born mind.
Warn thorn to wake at early dawn—and sow
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Nor in thoir toil decline—that angel bands
May put the sicklo in and reap for God,
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But the braver, all of faith,
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Watch the clouds with fear and dread
But. the braver, o'er the storm
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