The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-09-19
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A CHICAGO MINISfER'S THEORY OF
fHEHU4AN FAMILY.

Will Families be REPRODUCED In Heaven
Earthly Hones Prototypes OF the
Hereafter-Plato's Idea.
The recent sermon of the Rev. Henry
L. Scudder, formerly of the Central Con-
greaational church and now of Chicago,
Illinois, had for its text Ephesians, iii,
Is: "The whole family in heaven and
earth" and announced before beginning
his discourse that he would preach upon
the human family. DR.. Scudder spoke
as follows: In the 9Th book of Plato,
who is considered by many one Of the
greatest philosophers that have ever
lived, in one of his longest dialogues
treating on the republic, he asserts that
in commonwealth it is necessary that
the family institution should be broken
down. 1t is sufficient to say that he
taught that woman should 60 to war,
should put on arlnor and 60 to battle,
and he atfirms that such state of things
would be a source ROOD to the COM
monwealth. He also asserts that the
best of the one sex should be mated with
the best of the other, that the inferior
should be united with the inferior, and
that the children of the inferior stock
should be got rid Of; that is, he inculcates
system of infanticide. The fultillment
of Plato's teachings would extinguish
virtue and hope in the human race. The
christian church teaches a very different
doctrine. There is q wide gulf that exists
between the fallibie human and the in
fallible divine.
My subject is the human family. Its
origin is divine. It is coeval with the
creation. The human race began with
one man and one woman. The comeli-
ness, delicacy and gentleness Of the
woman, with the strength and endurance
of the man hid their origin in God. Man
and woman are capable of constructing a
home because they have their origin in
God. The tiger and lion by their instinct
construct their dens. But the parental
instinct alone, no matter how it may be
evolved. cannot create home. When
the parental instinct is combined with
spiritual instinct, then appears capacity
for creating a home. If you abolish
home you abolish marriage; if you abol-
ish marriage you abolish home. Family
instinct has outlived the greatest of all
shock, the shock Of sin. Adam and Eve
clung to each other through all their
troubles. In this way the family has
built for itself an almost earthly immor-
tality. But it has to undergo a final
shock-shock of death. There are FAM
lilies in heaven and earth. Solomon de-
clared that the mansions on earth shall
exist in heaven. believe that families
will be produced in heaven. l cannot
tell how, but I believe they will. The
divineness of the family institutions is
evidenced in the variety of its loves; the
love of the husband for the wife, and that
of the wife for the husband are unlike
each other.
The loves of brother and sister and
that Of parents for their children and
children for their parents are dissimilar.
What diversified affections have we here;
what sweetness sanctity. How
elevating are these affections! The love
of the husband for the wife symbolizes
the love of Christ for the church. The
love of the wife typifies the love of the
church for Christ. The love Of the father
for his child typifies the love of God fol-
children. The love of the mother rep
resents the love of the Holy Spirit. The
love of the children for their parents
typi6es the love of the church Godward
The3ove the brother has for his sister
typifes the love Of the church manward
1t is evident enough that home must
be prolific in all kinds of miseries if there
be not in parents the affection which they
should bear for each other. There ought
to be obedience on the part of the wife
to the wishes of the husband, and O
cheerful Difference and respect for the
weaker on the part of the husband. A
man has not been through the proper
discipline if he has not been married
The family is nursery, high school
church and state, all in one. Itisa king
dom IN itself.
The parents should have before then
one idea with definite end. The idea
is perfection in the household. How
can this be. done? In a good home there
must be law: there ought to be sched
ule for daily life. 1t, however, should
not be dead routine. Many laws are {
weakness. God himself has only an
nounced ten moral laws. There is one
general law; that is. always behave your
self. 1t is a law which children can un
derstand at an early age. There mus
not only be law at home. but it must bt
enforced by discipline. Happy is thu
home where the children obey. Wretch
ed is the home where they disobey. Th'
one great fault is the neglect of house
hold discipline. Bad children neve
make good citizens. Treat your children
all alike, let there be no partiality. Man!
sorrows come to little ones because par
ents are too lazy to study their disposi
tions and characteristics. The parent
should be companions of the children
Reserve in the parents is not the way t.
develop the minds of children. A lad.
told me some time ago that in all her lif
her father had only kissed her once
What kind of a family is that? Reserv
in parent Is perpetual winter for tn
child. Home, instead, should be a pei
petual summer. Play with your childrel
be yourself child; let their ir.,li.:. rul
over you as the musical ripple r,;ns owe
a lake. Cultivate in your children
cheerful, happy disposition.
Endeavor to make your home the har
piest spot on earth. Encourage love {
the open air and you can gather all tn
intellectual and moral delights. Abov
all things educate your children fo
.heaven; train them for a career beyon