The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-13
HAPPY HOMES.
An Able and Interesting Talk on
this Subject by Rev. II. 8. Loben-


An Able and Interesting Talk on
this Subject by Rev. II. 8. Loben-
gfer.
The number of listeners to the able
lecture of Rev. Henry Schell LobeDger
in the Disciples Church last night was
rather small The unpleasant weather
deferred many from coming, and there
were several enterta nments which drew
the pleasure seekers from attending
one OF the most charming and sprightly
pleasure of listening to. Mr.. Lobengler
has pleasant and we'll modulated voice,
delivers his quotations in telling man
ner, and presents his subject matter in 8
fresh and sparkling way, which gives a
subject that has been pretty thoroughly
discussed before, new and vivid inter-
est. The subject of my lecture" said
Mr.. Lobengier, "is one that commands
the attention of prince and peasant,
President or day lsborer, and Is
OF the dearest interest TO all
mankind Some classes of the human
race do not possess correct idea, how
ever, of what happy home really lie,
and the leading ones OF these classes are
the peevish, cross-grsined, gsrrulous old
bachelors. The Lord evidently intended
bachelors for some good purpose, but
Just what that purpose is, no one has as
vet discovered. The difference between
celbate and reprobate is not large
enough for q debate. Bachelors always
love babies st distance. In
their case distance does indeed
lend enchsntment to the view. A
bachelor is modern Moses standing on
the summit of Mount Pisgah and gazing
upon the promised land of matrimony
beyond, but which he will never reach.
He fears to marry because he says he may
be like the man who spent fortune TO
have his deaf and dumb wife cured OF
her ailment, and then was willing TO
spend another fortune TO have her
changed back to her former condition.
Bachelors are not confined to any pro-
fession or locality. Sometimes they take
up their residence at the White House
and sometimes they don't From, some
unaccountsble reason the number OF
bachelors is increasing year by year and
single female missionaries weep over the
unmarried heather. This unfortunate
species presents a fine opportunity
for some weslthy phllanthropist to
esse his conscience and his purse by
erecting an asylum for aged and
infrm bachelors. They do not believe
in happy homes because they have not
found them for themselves, and are ex-
posed to the miseries of club and board
ing house life. 1t is love for home that
fires q noble heart all the world over,
but who would fight and die for a board
ing house or q French tlst2 The Saxon
race is pre-eminently home-loying one,
and it was the same spirit in the modern
Greeks that inspired the "Sulioto band"
who conquered when "Bozsris fell
bleeding at every vein." To love
your home you must love your
country. Although you wander tho world
over and see all the wonders of foreign
lands, still you feel the magnet OF a happy
home drswIng-drswIng with it's subtle
power. The lecturer then rendered in .
very effective way SCOTS lines, begin
ming:
"Breathes there man with soul SO dead
1t is fashionable to be Bohemian and
roam from one place TO another, but the
touching song Of John Howard Payne is
always ringing in your ears. 1t is not we'll
to stay too much at home. A man can
wander as Bsysrd Taylor has done and
love his native land as strongly as does
some Henry Clay, who cannot be per-
suaded to leave his Kentucky home tor
any great length of time.
In the German nations "houSe' and
"home" mean about the same thing, and
it is SO here. You do not always have q
happy home because you have house,
but if you have not the house you cannot
have the happy home. We cannot
perch upon the trees as do
the birds, nor live in lsirs
like the wild beast, but we must have q
house, and if possible, house of our own.
Woe to the man who builds an impssss-
bic wall in the path of him who Is strIv-
| ing TO earn q home. This method OF
getting married and living in boarding
houses or hotels is very demorslizlng. 1t
does not Develop either the resources of
the man or the woman, but tends to con.
tract their powers. Home is not the
place where you sleep and eat
1 have known men to sleep on bar and
eat on doorstep.
After dwelling at length on the capt.
tai and labor question, the key note OF
bis discourse upon which was "CapItsl
and labor must learn that each has
rights the other Is bound to respect"
Mr.. Lobengier gave ludicrous descrip-
ton of how many bsshful man wins
his wife, and concluded his lecture by
saying: 1T is the political economy Of
frsternsl love that is needed; build your
self happy homes, and from above there
will come down 10 illuminate your
dwelling the light of God"