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nn inmvn now’T 000 :■ Z | OR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON INFLU ENCE OF HEREDITY. • Mighty Power For Good or «vU—Woman’. QwalHlea Trannai tted to Her Children A Mother's Great Bo- [Copyrlght, ISM. American Frew Auo- WABHINGTOS, Oct. 9.—The augmenta tion of parental influence aa the oenturiea go by Dr. Talmage here tote forth while discoursing about one of the grandmoth ers of Bible times. The text is II Timothy 15, “The unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois.” In this pastoral letter which Paul, the old minister, is writing to Timothy, the yohng minister, the family record is brought out. Paul practically says: “Timothy, what a good grandmother you had I You 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 Timo thy needed encouragement. He was in poor health, having a weak stomach, and was a dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for him a tonio, “a little wine for thy stom ach’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 logwood and strychnine as our mod em wines he would not have prescribed »ny. But Timothy, not strong physically, is encouraged spiritually by the recital of grandmotherly excellence, Paul hinting to him, as I hint this to you, that God some times gathers up as in a reservoir, away back of the active generations of today, a godly influence and then, in response to prayer, lets down the power upon children and grandchildren and great-grandchil dren. The world is woefully in want of a table of statistics in regard to what is the protractedness and immensity of influence 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 a hundred years ago, and of how many criminals her descendants fur nished for the penitentiary and the gal lows, and how many hundreds of thou sands of dollars they cost our country in their arraignment and prison support, as iwell as in the property they burglarized and destroyed, but will not some 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 a hundred years ago and let us know how many Christian men and women and reformers and useful peo ple have been found among her descend ants, and how many asylums and colleges and churches they built, and how many millions of dollars they contributed for humanitarian and Christian purposes! Good Women’s Influence. The good women whose tombstones were planted in the eighteenth century are more alive for good in the nineteenth cen tury than they were before, as the good women of this nineteenth century will be more alive for good in the twentieth cen tury than pow. Mark you, I have no Idea that the grandmothers were any better than their granddaughters. You cannot get very old people to talk much about how things were when they were boys and girls. They have a reticence and a non committalism which make me think they feel themselves td 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 wit ness stand and cross examine them as to how things were 70 years ago the silence becomes oppressive. The celebrated Frenchman, Volney, vis ited this country in 1796, and he says of woman’s diet in those' times, “If a pre mium was offered for a regimen most de structive to health, none could be devised more efficacious for these ends than that In use among these people.” That eclipses our lobster salad at midnight. Everybody talks about the dissipation of modern so ciety and how womanly health goes down under it, but it was worse 100 yean ago, for the chaplain of a French regi ment in our Revolutionary war wrote in 1789 in his “Book of American Women,” saying: “They are tall and well propor tioned; their features are generally regu lar; their complexions are generally fair and without color. At 20 years of age the women have no longer the freshness of youth. At 80 or 40 they are decrepit.” In 1812 a foreign consul wrote a book en titled “A Sketch of the United States at the Commencement of the Present Cen tury,” and he says of the women of those times, “At the age of 80 ail their charms have disappeared.” One glance at the portraits of the women 100 years ago, and their style of dress makes us wonder how they ever got their breath. All this makes methink that the express rail train is no mdre an improvement on the old canal boat or the telegraph no more an im provement on the old time saddlebags than the women of our day are an im provement on the women of the last Cen tury. A Glorious Race. But still, notwithstanding that those times were so much worse than ours, there was a glorious race of godly women 70 and 100 years 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 influ ence would have perished from the earth. Indeed all over this land there are seated today—not so much in churches, for many of them are too feeble to come—a great many aged grandmothers. They some times feel that the world has gone past them, and they have an idea that they are of little account. Their head sometimes gets aching from the racket of the grand children down stairs or in the next room. They steady themselves by the banisters as they go up and down. When they get a cold, it hangs on them longer than it used to. They cannot bear to have the grandchildren punished, even when <ihey d&erve it, and have so relaxed their ideas of family discipline that they would spoil all the youngsters of the household by too great leniency. ... w , These old folks are the, resort when great troubles come, and there is a Calm ing and soothing power in the touph of 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 tear fully over the family record half way be tween. We hail them today, 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 room. May her last days be like those I lovely autumnal days that we call Indian Is it not time that you and Ido two things— swing open a picture gallery of the wrinkled faces and stooped shoulders of the past and call down from tholrhrov enly thrones the godly grandmothers,* to give them our thanks, and then to per suade the mothers of today that they are living for all time, and that against the sides of every cradle in which a child is rucked beat the two eternities* For Good or BriL Here we have au ■ untried, undiscussed and unexplored subject. You often hear about your influence upon your own chil dren. lam not talking about that. What about your influence upon the twentieth century, upon the thirtieth century, upon the fortieth century, upon the year 9,000, upon the year 4,000, if the world lasts so long. The world stood 4,000 years before Christ came. It is not unreasonable to suppose that it may stand 4,000 years aft er his arrival. Four thousand years the world swung off 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 your de scendants will be over 800, and by two centuries over 60,000, 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 will some angel from heaven, to whom is given the capac ity to calculate the number of the stars of heaven and the sands of the seashore, step down and tell us how many descend ants 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 eentury are today in the person of their descendants, in the sen ates, the parliaments, the palaces, ths pul pits, the banking houses, the professional chairs, the prisons, the almshouses, the company of midnight brigands, the cellars, the ditches of this century. You’Tihve been-thinking about the importance of having the right influence upon one nurs ery. You have been thinking of the im portance of getting those two little feet on the right path. You have been thinking of your child’s destiny for the next 80 years if it should pass on to be an octogenarian. That is well, but my subject sweeps a thousand years, a million years, a quad rillion of years. I cannot stop at one cradle. I ash looking at the cradles that reach all around the world and across all time. I am not talking of Mother Eunice. lam talking of Grandmother Lois. The only way you can tell the force of a cur rent is by sailing up stream or the force of an ocean wave by running the ship against it. Running along with it, we can not appreciate the force. In estimating maternal influence wo generally run along with it down the stream of time, and so we don’t understand the full force. Let 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 inter est j . -’ff Like a Mighty River. The difference betorecn that mother’s influence on her children now and the in fluence when it has been multiplied in hundreds of thousands of lives is the dif ference between the Mississippi river away up at the top of the continent starting from the little Lake Itasca, seven miles long and one wide, and its mouth at the gulf of Mexico, where navies might ride. Between the 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 and all the states and territories between the Alleghany and Rocky mountains make contribution. Now, in order to test the power of a moth er’s influence, we need to come in off the ocean of eternity and sail up toward the one cradle, and we will find 10,000 tribu taries 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 it? Who can bridge it? Who can stop it? Had not mothers better be intensifying their prayers? Had they not better be elevating their example? Had they not better be rousing themselves with the consideration that by their faith fulness or neglect they are starting an in fluence which will be stupendous after the last mountain of earth is flat, and the last sea has dried up, and the last flake of the 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 so much as a cinder of the burned down and swept-off planet? In Ceylon there is a gran Ito column 36 square feet in size which is thought by the natives to decide the world’s continuance. An angel with robes spun from zephyrs is once a century to descend and sweep the hem of that robe across the granite, and when by that at trition the column is worn away they say time will efid. But by that process that granite column would be*worn out of ex istence before mother’s influence will be gin to give way. , Mother’s Influence. If a toother tell a child if he 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 liar,. and tho echo of that false alarm may be heard after 16 generations have been born and have expired. If a mother promises a child a reward, for good behavior and after the good behavior forgets to give the re ward, the cheat may crop out in some faithlessness half a thousand years farther on. M a mother cultivate a child’s vanity and eulogize his curls and extol the night black or sky blue or nut brown of the child’s eyes and call out in his presence the admiration of spectators, pride and ar rogance may be prolonged after half a doz en family records have been obliterated. If a mother express doubt about some state ment of the Holy Bible in a child’s pres ence, 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 a child see a suffering one by the wayside and says, “ My child, give that 10 cqnt piece to that lame boy,” the result may be seen on the other side of the following eentury in some George Muller building a Whole vil lage of orphanages. If a mother hit almost every evening by the trundle bed of a child and teach it leesoM'of Saviour’s love and a Saviour’s example, of the im portance 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 tomb stones shall have been washed out by the storms of innttmerab’e winters there may be standing as a result of those trundle bed lessons flaming evangels, world mov, ing reformers, seraphic Summerfield#* ' - : ' '".r ; ifig Pstysoaa, th nderi IteAtMfc eration or two geoorutionii* but it will be sure to land in the third or fourth genera tion, just as the Ten Commandments, speaking of the visitation of God on fami lies. says nothing about the second gen eration, but entirely skips tho second and speaks of thu third and fourth generation —“visiting tho iniquities of the fathers upon tho third and fourth generation of thorn that hate me." Parental influence, right and wrong, may jump over a gen eration, but it will oome down further mb as sure as you Mt there Mfd I stand beite. Timothy’s ministry was projected by his grandmother, Lola There are men and women here, the sons and daughters of the Christian church, who are such as a result of the consecration of great-great grandmothers. Why, who do you think the Lord is? You talk as though his mem ory was weak. He can as easily remem ber a prayer offered five oentuires ago as a prayer offered five minutes ago. This ex plains what we often see—some man or woman distinguished for benevolence when tho father and mother were distin guished for penuriousness, or you see some young man or woman with a bad father and a hard mother oome 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 say, “How is this, 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 upon the page of births and marriages and tell me who that woman was with the old fashioned name df Je mima or Betsy or Mehitabel. Ah, there she is, the old grandmother, or great grandmother, who had enough religion to saturate a century. Transmitted Power. There she is, the dear old soul, Qrand motber Lois. In beautiful Greenwood cemetery there is the resting place of George W. Bethune, once a minister of Brooklyn Heights, his name nover spoken among intelligent Americans without sug gesting two things—eloquence and evan gelism. In the same tomb sleeps his grandmother, Isabella Graham, who was the chief inspiration of his ministry. 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 wonderful ancestress. When you read this letter, in which she poured out her widow ed soul in longings for a son’r salvation, you will not wonder that succeeding gen erations have been blessed: “NEW Yobe, May 20, 1791. “This day my only son left me in bitter wringings of heart. He is again launched on the ocean—God’s ocean. The Lord saved him from shipwreck, brought him to my home and allowed me once more to indulge ray affections over him. He has been with me but a short time, and ill have I improved it; he is gone from my sight, and my heart bursts with tumultu ous grief. Lord, have mercy on the wld ow’s son, ‘the only son of his mother.* “I ask nothing in all this world for him; I repeat my petition, Save his soul alive, give him salvation from sin. It is not the danger of the seas that distresses me; it is not the hardships he must un dergo; it is not the dread of never seeing him more in this world; it is because I cannot discern the fulfillment of the promise in him. I 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, and in connection wlth this his being shut out from ordinances at a distance from Chris . tians. Shut up With those who forget God, profane his name and break his Sab baths. Men who often live and die like beasts, yet are accountable creatures, who must answer for every moment of time and every word, thought and action. Oh, Lord, many wonders hast thou shown me; thy ways of dealing with me and mine have not been common ones; add this wonder to the rest. Call, convert, regener ate and establish a sailor in the faith. Lord, all things are possible with thee. Glorify thy Son and extend his kingdom by sea and land. Take the prey from the strong. I roll him over upon thee. Many friends try to comfort me; miserable com forters are they all. Thou art the God of consolation. Only confirm to mo thy precious word, on which thou causedst mo to hope in the day when thou saidst to me, ‘Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive.’ Only let this life be a spiritual life, and I put a blank in thy hand as to all temporal things. “I wait for thy salvation. Amen. ” With such a grandmother, would you not have a right to expect a George W. Bethune? And all the thousands convert ed through his ministry may date the sav ing power back to Isabella Graham. God fill the earth and the heavens with such grandmothers! We must someday go up and thank these dear old souls. Surely God will let us go up and tell them of the results of their influence. Among our first questions in heaven will be, “Where is grandmother?” They will point her out, for we would' hardly know her, even if we had seen her on earth, so bent over with years once and there so straight, so dim of eye through the blind ing of earthly tears and now her eye as clear as heaven, so full of aches and pains Once and now so agile with celestial health, the wrinkles blooming into carna tion roses and her step like the roe on the mountains. Yes, I must see her, my grandmother on my father’s side, Mary McCoy, descendant of the Scotch. When I first spoke to an audience in Glasgow, Scotland, and felt somewhat diffident, be ing a stranger, I began by telling them my grandmother was a Scotchwoman, and then there went up a shout of welcome which made me feel as easy as I ao here. I must see her. . Make Bellgioa an Heirloom. You must see those women of the early part of the nineteenth century and those of the eighteenth century,the answerof whose prayers is in your welfare today. God bless all the aged women up and down the land and in all lands.! What a happy thing for Pomponios Atticus to say when making the funeral address of his mother, * ‘ Though I have resided with her 67 years, I was never once reconciled to her, because there never happened the least discord be tween us, and consequently there was no need of reconciliation.” Make it as easy for the old folks as you can. When they are sick, get for them the best doctors. Give them your arm when the streets are slippery. Stay with them all the time you can. Go home and see the folks. Find the place for them in the hymnbook. Never be ashamed if they prefer styles of apparel which are a little antiquated. Never say anything that im plies that they are in the way. Make the rood for the last mile as smooth as you can. Oh, my, how you will miss her when she is gone! H:w much would I give to , n. - - .. see my mother! I have so many things! would like to tail .thing. that have happened in the 80 years eioee she went •way. Morning, noon and night tot ns thank God for the good influences that have oome down from good mothers all the way back. Timothy, don’t forget your mother Eunice and don’t forget your grandmother Lota. And hand down to onan tai** loom from generation to pnention. Mothers, consecrate yourselves to God, and you will help consecrate all the ages fol lowing. Do not dwell so much on your hardships that you mtaa your chance of Wielding an Influence that shall look down upon you from tho towers of an endless future. I know Martin Luther was right when he consoled his wife over tho death of their daughter by saying: “Don’t take on so, wife. Remember that this to a hard world for girls.” Yes, I go further and say It ta a hard world for women. Aye, I go further and say it ta a hard >orld 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 sco tho sickly pallor on the sky? That is the pallor on the cold cheek of the dying night. Don't you see the brightening of tho clouds? That ta the flush on the warm forehead of the morn ing. Cheer up! You are coming within sight of the Celestial City. TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE. I will be at the different places on the days mentioned below for the purpose of collecting state and county taxes for 1898. Africa, October 17-81, November 14. Union, “ 18, “ 1-15. Line Creek," 19, “ 2-18. Mt Zion, “ 20, « >l7. Orrs, " 21, “ 4-18. Akin, , “ 24, ' " 7-21, Cabbins, " 25, “ 8-22. I will be at my offlee at H. W. Hassel kus’ shoe store at all dates until December 20, when my.books will close. T. R. NUTT, T, C. TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1898. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the city of Griffin and it to hereby ordained by authority ol the same, that the sum of 25 cents be and the same to hereby imposed on each and every one hundred dollars ot real estate within the corporate limits of the city of Griffin and on each and every one hundred dollars valuation of all stocks in trade, horses, mules, and other animals, musical instru ments, furniture, watches, Jewelry, wag ons, drays and all pleasure vehicles of every description, money and solvent debts, (except bonds of the city of Griffin) and upon all classes of personal property, including bank stock and capital used for -banking purposes, in the city of Griffin on April Ist, 1898, and a like tax upon all species of property of every description held'by any one as guardian, agent, ex ecutor or administrator or in any other fiduciary relation including that held by non-residents, to defray the current ex penses of the city government. Section 2nd.—That the sum of 65 cents be and the same to hereby imposed upon each and every one hundred dollars valu ation of real estate and personal property of every description as stated in section First of this ordinance, within the corpo rate limits of the city of Griffin for the payment of the public debt of the city and for the maintainance of a system of electric lights and water works. Section 3.—That the sum of 20 cents be and the same is hereby imposed upon each and every one hundred dollars valu ation of real estate and personal property of all descriptions, As stated in section First of this ordinance, within the corpo rate limits of the city of Griffl n, for the maintenance of a system of public schools The funds raised under this section not to be appropriated for any. other purpose whatever. Section 4.—That persons failing to make returns of.taxable property as herein pro vided in section First, Second and Third of this ordinance shall be double taxed as provided by the laws ot the state and the clerk and treasurer shall issue executions accordingly. Section s.—That all ordinances or parts of ordinances militating against this ordi nance be and the same are hereby repeal ed. An Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the City of Griffin, That from and after the passage ot this ordinance, the bl owing rates will be charged for the use water per year: 1. Dwellings: One f-inch opening for subscribers' use only. $ 9.00 Each additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet or bath 8.00 Livery stables, bars, soda founts and photograph galleries. 24.00 Each additional opening 6.00 2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s expense, at the rate of |I.OO per year rental of same, paid in advance. A mini mum of |I.OO per month will be charged for water while the meter to on the service. The reading of the meters will be held proof of nse of water, but should meter fail to register, the bill will be averaged from twelve preceding months. 8. Meter rates will be as follows: 7,000 to 25,000 gals, month.. 15c 1,000 25,000 « 50,000 “ “ 14e “ 50,000 “ 100,000 “ " 12c “ 100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “ 500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “ The fhinimum rate shall be |I.OO per month, whether that amount of water has been used or not 4. Notice to cut off water must be given to the Superintendent of the Water De partment, otherwise water will be charged for foil time. 5. Water will-xot be turned on to any premises unless provided with an approved stop and waste cock properly located in an accessible position. 6. The Water Department shall have the right to shut off water for necessary repairs and work upon the system, and they are not liable for any damages or re bate by reason of the same. 7. 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