The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-03-07
Pastor CFuzan's Sunday Sermon.


The ideal home does not consist of two persons
only. No its bloom and fragrance there are chill
| dren. They tell us that children are becoming
unpopular, and give facts and figures to prove the
assertion that even IN Puritan New England the
family is dying out. The world needs a revival of
the family to return TO the Bible idea that to be
devoted wife and self-sacrfcing mother, is the
highest position woman can attain; that TO be a
| true husband and father is the acme of manly
perfection.
The quantity of children in q home is not of
50 much importance as the quality. The charac-
ter Of the children brought into home depends
largely upon the character Of the husband and the
wife, and upon the home atmospher. When
fatheTLOOd and motherhood are turned to a heroic
key then are heroes born. Much of the mental
and spiritual, well the physical chaTacteris-
tics Of children are due to inheritance. There is
sucn thing rs virtue and moral excellence, as
well as strong physique, being hereditary. The
Bible teaches and the world has long recognized
the fact, that "tLc sins Of the father are visited
upon the children unto the third and fourth gene
rations;' But this law has its hopeful side the
strength the truthtulness and moral uprightness
of the fathers is also visited upon the children.
Like begets like in mind and morals as well as
in body and feature. What you would have your
children be you must be.
After the children have come into the home,
what the requisites that it may be a true home?
l. Parental authority. There must be government
or anarchy. Parental authority should be mild
but iirm it must be firm that it may be mild
WashingtOns mother. when asked how she trained
her boy into such grand manhood, said, II taught
him TO obey me-. =. There must be right teach
ing. Teaching Of some kind there will be. Parents
sometimes question, when should the education
of my child begin; ut seven years Of age or later
earlier!' Education begins as soon as the childs
eyes open upon this world II goes on every instant
of time. II goes on like time; You cannot stop it,
Right teaching Is most broad and comprehensive.
II includes right development Of the body. the
mind, and the morals. The means are right pre-
cept and right oxample but the former will be
worse than lost without the latter. Josh Billings
we'll says: Your child should See in you a con-
slant object lesson. 3. In the true home there is
the most exact truthfuluess; not the words only,
but voice, air, action gesture, every putting forth
should be truthful. The true Parent can use
Christs language: D" am the TRUTH not in its
full sense, but yet in very important sense. (.
The true home Is a house of prayer. There are
few memories so powerful in after-years as the
memories of the home-altar. Some of you can
travel back the path Of % or 30 years and re-
call the very tones Of your fathers voice as he
read the Bible and deyOutly prayed; sometimes he
prayed for you by name, and the blessing Of God
came upon yOu as he prayed, and comes upon you
now as you recall those memories. SIN may come
with its defling and debasing powers, but these
sacred memories hEgur, and many n time the
fathers hand, though that father has been dead
many years, leads the wandering boy back, like
another PrOdigal, to "his Fathers house. fam
lily ought to be a little Church; the father should
be its pastor, conducting its daily worship and
leading the little band in the way of truth and
duty. That house Is rot true home, which. like
Bethlehem's Inn. has no room for Jesus