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THE GREATER POWER.
HOW IT HOT LBS CHARACTER,
BY SIDNEY HERBERT.
INTRODUCTORY —-SECON'D PAPER.
“Is there any power for good or evil greater
than the influence of him who leads the family,
who propagates his own character in the persons
and the souls of his children, who lives his own
life over again in the lives of those whom he has
begotten ?”— Her. T. L. Cuyler, D.D.
In the previous paper, or article, the
Rev. Dr. Cuyler’s answer to his own
question was given, in which he lays
down as “the rule,” and as “a philo
sophical principle,” that “like father,
like family,” is the result of “God’s
decree,” which makes the father create
the “home atmosphere.” In opposition
to this view were given the opinions
of several eminent divines.
1 he purpose of the present paper is
to examine into the testimony which
has been given, in marked instances,
as to the relative value of paternal
and maternal influence, and to gather
from the mass of testimony presented
some definite conclusion in regard to the
matter under discussion.
The Rev. Samuel M. Worcester,
D.D., makes this brief reference to the
subject: “With good reason has the
question been asked, is there any facj
more prominent among others in the
biographies of learned and pious men,
than this —that they were blessed with
intelligent and virtuous parents, and
especially mothers ?"
Rev. William M. Thayer, who has
written extensively on this subject,
asserts that “great and good men
usually have good mothers. Their
fathers may not be men of mark, but
their mothers are women of noble
powers and qualities of head and
heart; and a Christian mother’s cul
ture always makes its mark.”
“Great men,” wrote the venerable
Rev. Nathan Bangs, D.D., “have had
great mothers. It matters little who
or what are the fathers, if the mothers
possess those qualities which are in
separably connected with superior de
velopments in their children, both by
nature and tuition. All the splendid
advantages procured by wealth and
the father’s position, cannot supply
this one deficiency in the mother, who
gives charicter to the child.”
A marked instance of this kind has
come under my own immediate ob
servation. One of the most learned,
scholarly and eloquent divines in
America, one who enpys a national
and growing reputation, stands to-day
upon the wreck of his entire house
hold —daughters as well as sons —be-
cause his wife —of whose faults I can
not speak —has been unable to be a
mother to her offspring. As Rev. Dr
Bangs asserts, this father’s “splendid
advantages” of religious culture and
social position could not, in any way,
compensate for the poor mother's
failures.
On the other hand, I have seen a
true and brave-hearted wife, despite
her poor husband’s weaknesses and
follies, “single-handed and alone,”
train up an entire family of sons and
daughters to lives of usefulness and
honor. Why this marked difference ?
Because it matters not how gifted the
weak or dissolute father may be, or to
what high positions he may attain
outside of his own home-circle, such a
noble mother always rules (and by
“God’s decree”) in her family, and by
her force and purity of character de
stroys the unworthy father’s power for
evil over his own children.
In his “Introduction” to Rev. Dr.
Haygood’s excellent book, entitled
“Our Children'' the venerable Rev.
Dr. Lovick Pierce touches upon this
point, and says : “Timothy was made
ready and prepared for the Lord, and
that, too, by his grandmother and
mother, while it is likely that his
father was even opposed to it, as he
was a Greek. Let Christian mothers,
who unfortunately may have irrelig
ious husbands, take encouragement.
The charm of a pious mother is often
too mighty for the evil influence of an
ungodly father’s example.”
Tne Rev. David Tappan Stoddard,
in referring to an address which he
delivered, adds this valuable testimo
ny to the correctness of my views :
“In order to show the value of female
education, I described my own dear
mother—how she was educated, what
a family she had trained up, the gentle
influence she had exerted over each of
us, and the eff >rts she made in our in
fancy and youth, that we might be
come the children of, G >d.. And
while I did not undervalue the in
fluence and example of the father, and,
least of all, my own dear father, I as
serted that whatever we were, both as
regards this world and the world to
come, was in a great measure owing,
under God, to the mother.” And yet
the Rev. J. P. Thomps in, D D., tells
us that she was a woman of “humble
piety,” “unobtrusive” in her manner,
and “most esteemed” in the quiet cir
cle of family and Christian friends.
“The Wesleys,” says a writer in
Harpers Weekly , “were peculiarly
linked to their parents by natural
piety, though the mother, rather than
the father, influenced their minds and
developed their characters. The father,
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST July 11.
was a man of strong will, but occasion
ally harsh and tyrannical in his deal
ings with his family; while the moth
er, with much strength of understand
ing and ardent love of truth, was gen
tie, persuasive, affectionate and sim
ple. She was the teacher and cheerful
companion of- her children, who grad
ually became moulded by her exam
ple. It was through the bias given
by her to her sons’ minds in religious
matters that they acquired the tenden
cy which, even in early years, drew
to them the name of Methodists.”
Lady Holland, in her Memoirs of
Sidney Smith, touches upon this ques
tion in the following statements:
“Though this distinguished character
inherited talent from his father, yet all
the finer qualities of his mind were
derived from his mother. . . To her
early care of her sons, and to the re
spect with which her virtues and high
tone of feeling inspired their young
hearts, may be ascribed much that
was good and great in their charac
acters.” John Philpot Curran, the
ce ebrated Irish barrister and wit,
makes this tender acknowledgment:
“Tneonly inheritance that I could boast
of from my poor father was the very
scanty one of an unattra' five face and
person, like his own ; and if the world
has ever attributed to me sorn-thing
more valuable than earthly wealth, it
was that another and a dearer parent
gave her child a portion from the
treasure of her mind.”
“The respective influences of the
father and the mother on the training
and development of character,” says
the writer in Harper's Weekly already
quoted from*, “are remarkably ill as
trated in the life of St. Augustine.
While \ugustine’s father, a poor free
man of Thagaste, proud of his son’s
abilities, endeavored to furnish his
mind with the highest learning of the
schools, and was extolled by his neigh
bora for the sacrifices he made with
that object beyond the ability of his
means, the ra>th;r, Mon ca, on the
other hand, sought to lead her son’s
mind in the direction of the highest
good, and, with pious care, counseled
him, entreated him, advised him to
chastity, and, amidst much anguish and
tribulation because of his wicked life,
never ceased to pray for him umil her
prayers were heard and answered.
Thus her love at last triumphed, and
the patience and goodness of the
mother were rewarded not only by the
conversion of her gifted son, but also
of her husband."
The father of the Rev. Edward
Puyson, D.D., was, like his son, an em
inent divine, and married a most es
timable lady. “To the Christian fidel
lty of these parents,” says the Rev.
Asa Cummings, D.D., “there is the
fullest testimony in the subsequent
and repeated acknowledgment of their
son, who habitually attributed his re
ligious hopes, as well as his usefulness
in life, under God, to their instruc
tions, example and prayers —especially
those of his mother. She appears to
have admitted him to the most inti
ma e, unreserved and confiding inter
course, which was yet so wisely con
ducted as to strengthen, rather than
diminish, his filial reverence."
I might add, in this connection, still
other examples to show the solid
character o! the foundation upon which
he stands who claims the superiority
of maternal over paternal influence,
but I will close the present paper with
a brief statement from Rev. Jabez
Burns, D D., a well known English
divine, and author of a valuable work
on this subject —“ The Mothers of the
Wise and Good" —from which the fol
lowing is taken: “It is evident that
the first and deepest impressions are
made on the minds of children by
mothers. ... As is the mothef, ex
tensively and generally, so will be the
children. The child will, and must,
from the very necessity of things, be
powerfully influenced by the maternal
character which presides over it.”
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