Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-05-27
OUR HOME DUTIES.

OUR HOME DUTIES.
The following is passage from re-
cent sermon on Sunday evening by the
Rev. Charles Chapman, NJ. A., of Zion
Church, in this city on Reasonable
Cares" :-
J.. The care for Home. Home is one
Of the most beautiful words in our moth
er tongue. IL brings with its joys and
comforts, cares sometimes oppressive,
but always when they are the natural
offspring Of home duties and relation
ships, holy. There are some cares CEN
tering in home life most unreasonable,
and much 10 be avoided such, for in
stance, as spring from a vain desire to
surpass our neighbors in external show,
or from the faulty habit of seeking to
keep up an establishment beyond the re-
sources at our disposal and in an age
when men have gone far in this direction,
much to their own worry and the loss of
others, it behooyes all decent Christian
people, and especially young people set
ting out in life, to be content with what
is in easy reach; for a quiet mind and
a lowly home are greater treasures than
luxurious establishment with perpetu.
nj dread Of the creditor.
] would especially urge upon those of
you who are entering or may soon enter
upon the responsibilities Of home life for
yourselves the great Importance of look
ing this question fairly in the face. Do
not be drawn aside from the path of
wisdom by a craving to set up an estab-
ishment that shall be equal to that your
parents may have acquired after long
years Of toll, or your neighbors may have
entered on at the risk of their credit
and peace Of mind II Is high time to
rise above the vulgar notion that much
external display in the form of luxur,
ious furniture, rich attire. numerous par.
ties, and companionship with those who
revel in such inferior things, is a mari
Of social distinction and passport t
the domain Of honor and respectability
You may depend upon it that quiet
simple abode, with careful mental cul
ture, the habits that become Christian
simplicity, will raise you higher in tn
esteem of the cultivated and refined thai
anything else can do. We owe it I
ourselves as rational beings, to our chill
dren whose tastes will be fashioned fc
good or evil, and above all to our blesse
Lord, whose life was 50 simple and III
affected, to make our homes the abode
all that is PEACEFUL quiet, natural al
holy,-eschewing vulgar, restless prit
and vanity, as being the foes of dome
tic happiness.
The ordinary natural cares which arr
in keeping up well.Ordered home a
not to be looked upon as nuisances.
rather they will tend to make home me
precious by giving us the keen relish
joys which we have thought and toll
hard and honestly to secure. But wi
wish to point out is the rea4onablen
Of our being anxious about our HON
! don't suppose there is home but Il
can be made much better than it il
we will only take the necessary trou
to render it So There is no telling W
recruited strength for lifes conflict, W
full consolation in sickness, what nc
ness to the social joys Of heaven he
may yet afford if we will only lay
our heart the daily care of doing
part in making it so. No words SUI
to set forth the immense advance
present happiness if we all only had
wisdom and grace to divert some of
energy Of thought and endurance
worry devoted to shams and shows
profit not to producing homes in wi
each one Of the house shall find
richest satisfaction.
2. Care for yo1r Church. This q
ton Of reasonable cares may we'll
brought into the consideration of ,
cares we allow to dwell in our m
with reference to our Church. 7
ordinary decent Christian the OhurC
which he belongs ought to he an o.
Of interest, and none of us ougl
grudge the burden Of cares which s.
times fall to our lot in consequent
our attachment to tho Church.
is not much of the noble enduran
the Christian soldier in us if we
fright on the appearance of CT
events, and out Of love of ease and
sire Of freedom from care and resi-
bility we leave the welfare of the CT
10 whOInsOever else it may eonce
Montreal Witness.
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OLD FASHIONED BAKED INDIAN
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