The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-03-14
Pastor Cruzan's Sunday Sermon.

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Al Fou Street Church, Sunday evening Mr..
Cruzau continued the series Of sermons on The
| Home" taking for his theme "a Boy Lostr He
| began his discourse by referring TO the loss OF
Charley Ross, q few years ago, from his home near
Philadelphia and the long-cOntinued but unayail-
ing search this one little boy. He then showed
I how there are a great many boys lost every year,
] simply because parents fail to make home aitrac-
! tive, and provide for the wants OF boys. The
! speaker then asked. "How can these boys, in
danger Of being lost, be savedg" and gave as his
| answer: /. BY sympathy. The parent who would
retain his hold upon his boy must put himself IN
| the boys place" The golden key TO boys heart
| is sympathy. If the father, who does not know
what to do with his unruly little boy, would only
play iackstOnes with him, or toss bah with him in
/ the backyard he would soon find out. Here is
! where most fathers fail miserably. A boy once
came to Dr. Pardee for his advice as to what he
. should do in life, "Why don't you ask your
fathers advicey' said Pardee. oh" said the
boy. = don't feel very we'll acquainted with the
| old gentleman. There are n good many fathers
who need iutrOduCtions TO their own sons. =. lie
parents, who would save their boys, must provide
/ for all their wants. This means much more than
[ q place TO sleep food clothes and an education
/ 4 BOYS has social wants He needs amusements
as we'll as food. lie will have this, at home if the
parents are wise, elsewhere, If they unwise.
The devil will furnish amusement, for your boys,
If YOU fail 10 dot. There should be games, books,
etc, and when the boys grow up to the critical age
/ of Il or IL, then they should have a room, u
"sanctum' Of their own, and IN It each boy should
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hobby; there should be a large bookcase filled
with the best Of books; here the boys should
be supreme; be allowed TO invite their friends
and occasionally treat them to suppers, enter
tainments But this will cost money! So
il will. But 1t will cost the wise father no more
than it costs his nelghbor for tobacco, and at the
end of few years he will have good, intelligent,
clean, homo-lOving boy to show for it, while his
uCighbur who invests 500 each year iIstObaccO
will have nothing 10 show for IT. 8. Cultivate IN
your boy a home feeling. Make home the pleas
ATTEST, brightest, happiest place on earth. Keep
your boy at home by making 1t more attractive to
him than the Saloon, any other place under the
sun, This viii require, time and thought, and
money, but It will pay. Don't economist in these
things IN order TO auass money for your children
To squaudor. The richest legacy you can leave
your boy is lifelong fragrant memory Of home.
Give him that, and he will in the strength Of 1t
make his own way in the world. Your boy will
never fee. grateful for your money when you are
under ground but he will 90 to your green grave,
and bless YOUR very ashes for the sanctuary of
comfort, Of refinement, and purity into which you
may, If you possess the tact and little money,
transform your home.
Mr.. CruZau closed with an earnest appeal to
Christians that they fulfil their obligations not
only 10 their selves, but TO the many homeless
young men, Luddled in the boarding houses and
other lOdging-places IN the city. These have So
cial wants alsu. Where, except the saloons, can
thgy crafty tLemr Give them the hand of friend
ship; invite them 10 your homes; make them vel
come IN your parlOrs and at your family affairs
and these, we'll as YOUR own children, Will one
day 'risg up and call you blessed