168 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The uuborn child sees through mother's eyes, hears through her ears. 

 Every thought of her mind, ever act of her life, strikes upon the tender 

 organization, pulsates through every fiber of its little being. By her it 

 is being molded largely, hj her is its destiny for good or evil being 

 formed. 



Supposing the soul of the expectant mother rebels, that instead of 

 trying to promote the highest good of the unborn life she seeks to hinder 

 it. Instead of cherishing it and loving it she hates it and seeks to 

 destroy it. What an unequal struggle that child must have in the race 

 ■of life, because it was robbed of its birthright. 



Murderers, thieves, defrauders, defamers and libertines are born. 

 The mother alone is not the only factor that is giving that which is 

 highest and holiest or lowest and blackest. We need a consecrated 

 fatherhood as well as a consecrated motherhood. If children were 

 rightly born, they would be born of love which is born of God, for God 

 is love. The infinite Father designed that they should be thus born, 

 that every step of their life, both before and after birth, should be 

 attended by tenderest love and helj^ful sympathy, that ievery care and 

 strengthening influence should be thrown about it, that it may be able 

 to enter life as a saving, redeeming factor. Scientists are telling us 

 todaj' that it takes ten generations to make a man or woman. If this 

 is true, in order that ten generations hence shall have as their inherit- 

 afice a clean, strong ancestry and be well l)red, it is necessary that our 

 tenth shall be of the highest quality and fullest quantity. 



There must be a cultivation of the soil of our hearts, the weeds of 

 selfishness, ill temper, fault finding, ignorance, filthy habits, impur* 

 thoughts, must be eradicated, and the seeds of joy, hope, good cheer, 

 industry, frugality, purity, sown, and all brought to their highest de- 

 velopment by the pure, strong atmosphere of love. 



Then shall your child, well bred and well born, be strong for life and 

 i1s battles: his hands will be willing, his body strong, his heart true 

 and brave and his soul pure, and into his face shall come a light that is 

 not seen on sea or laud, a light that reflects the smile of God and he 

 is a man born of love, nurtured in love, and in loving all that is beauti- 

 ful, good and true, goes out to fulfill his mission in life. 



DISCUSSION. 



Voice: I feel that this subject has been very well brought before us, and there is 

 so much in it that we can hardly comprehend it, and yet I feel that the next genera- 

 tion will be so much better by the teaching we have ; but we should have more of the 

 young women at our mothers' meetings, to get the benefit of this teaching. There is so 

 much attention, as the speaker just said, paid to raising good stock and not so much to 

 chilfi^en, and it is time we began to give more attention to this matter. 



