broke in health, and left a large family of small children to struggle alone
in the world. The stepmother, who soon came into the home, could afford
one servant girl and part of the time two. This is a common experience in
ill-managed homes. Or this question arises, Which is of greater importance,
to make more money or to improve the moral tone of the home; to seek
to gratify the outer senses, or to seek to elevate the spiritual life of the
children and the parents? In pleading for rest and study for the mother in
the home we plead for the highest interests of the entire family. For how
can a wife be a companion to a husband when she is made irritable and
nervous from overwork and worry. How can she be a true mother to her
children and neglect their mental and spiritual growth?

Napoleon once said: "What France wants is good mothers, and you may
be sure then that France will have good sons." Thomas McCrie, an
eminent Scotch preacher, used to tell, with great feeling, of how his
mother, when he was starting out for school in the city, accompanied
him along the road a little way, and then leading him into the field where
she could be alone, prayed with him, that he might be kept from sin in
the city, and become a very useful man. That moment was the turning
point in his life. A few minutes a day spent with the eager, susceptible
child mind, will bring everlasting blessing upon the father and mother.