The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-13

/ four hundred thousand dollars of bills
In circulation but no specie in the safe.
Let us learn to show piety at home. If
we do not there exhibit Christian char
acter 1t is because there is no grace and
genuineness of character in our soul
and our outward plausibility of behavior
/ only springs from fear of the world and
the slimy, putrid pool of our own selfish
ness. Home is the mightiest Of all tests
of mans character.
Again / remark that home is a refuge.
Life is the United States army on the ma
| tiOnal road to Mexico, with long march
and ever and anon a skirmish and bat
tie. The home is the tent we pitch to
rest in, our bayOnets Istacked, our war
caps hung up, our heads resting on the
/ knapsack until the morning bugle
sounds, warning US to strike tent and
prepare for marching and action. Oh,
what a pleasant place it is to talk over
the days victories and surprises and at
tacks, seated by the still camp-ires of
the domestic circlel Life is stormy
sea. With shivered mast and torn sail
and hulk aleak we put into the haTbOr
Of home. In this dry dock we come for
repairs. Blessed haTbOrI The candle in
the window Is to the labOring man the
lighthouse guiding him into port. Chill
| dren come out to meet their fathers as
in the "NarrOws" pilots take the hand
/ of ships. The dOOl-sill is the wharf
where heavy lite is unladen. In the
home we may talk of what we have done
without being charged with self-adula-
tiOn. We may lounge without being
thought ungraeeful. We may express
affection without being thought silly.
We may express our thoughts without
being thought uncultivated. ForIOrn
earth pilgrim! No homer Then die.
That is better. The grave is brighter
and warmer than the world without a
tent from marching, without a harbOr
| from the storm, without home in this
scene Of greed and gOuge and loss and
gain. May God pity the poor miserable
wretch who has not any hOmel
Again 1 remark that the home is a pO-
litical safeguard. The safety of the
| home. Why cannot France have a
placid RepublicP Mcmahon appoints a
ministry that sets all France aquake
lest the Republic be smOthered. Gam
beta dies and multitudes of Frenchmen
| fear the return of monarchy. France
has no home on which to build. The
| Christian hearthstOne is the only fOun-
datiOn for a Republic. In the family,
| virtues are cultivated which are neces-
sity for the State; and if there be not
enough moral principle to make the
family adhere, there cannot be enough
| political principle to Wake the State ad-
here. No home, no free institution,
No home makes nation of GOthS and
Vandals, makes the nOmadS of Central
Asia, makes the Numidians of Africa,
changing from month to month, and
from place to place as Ithe pasture hap
pens to change. COMPOUNDED be all
these modern Babels that propose to
OYertOp and destroy the family institu-
tiOnl The family institution is the
foundation Of the right kind of civil
| government. The same storm that up
sets the boat in which the family sails
will sink the frigate Of the Constitution.
Jails, penitentiaries, armies, navies, are
not our chief defenses. The door of the
home is the best fortress, household
utensils are our artillery and the cnim-
news of our homes are the monuments
of safety and triumph. No home, nc
Republic.
I go further and speak of home as a
school. Our old ground must be up
turned by the sub-sOil plOw and harrow
ed find re-harrOwed and then it will not
yield as good a crop as new ground with
less culture. Now, infancy and child
hood are new ground and all that is
scattered over that ground will yield
Iuxuriantiy. All the smiles you have
ever shOweTed upon your children will be
preserved in their disposition. All your
ebullitiOns of anger, all your frOwns OF
indignation in the presence of your
child will be kept as fuel in his temper
and in after years when the storms OF
life blow upon that soul, that temper
will begin to flash and glow with your
wrath and your indignatiOn-theyb being
fuel added to that bad fire. Your eX.
preston in regard to the child's intelli.
gence in his presence, when you had nc
idea that he knew enough to understand
what you were talking about, will show
itself before he Is ten years Of age in an
nOying affectatiOn. Your remark in re-
gard to his beauty will result in your
finding some day that he is standing on
high chair in front of the flatteTing
mirror. Deeds and words and examples
are the seed Of character, and children
are generally the second edition of theiI
parents; but the second edition is nCt
always an improvement and correction
Of the first edition. Oh, how important
IL is that the teachers in this home
school should feel their responsibility
Make your home the brightest place on
earth If you would charm your children
into the high path Of rectitude and reli
giOn. Do not always have the blinds
turned the wrong way. Let Gods light
that puts gold on the gentian and spots
on the pansy, stream into your window
Do not expect your children to keep ste[
to dead march. Do not cover up YOU
walls with Vests death on a Pale
Horse" and TintOret's Massacre of th(
InnOcents;" but rather let there be Oh
your walls some simpler pictures-"Tht
Hawking Party" "The Old Mill by the
Mountain Stream" "Tbe Fox Hunt,
"The Harvest Scene," "The Children
Amid Flowers" and Saturday Night
Marketing" Get you no lesson of cheer
fulDess from grasshOpper's leap, from
lambs frisk, and squirrels chatter, anC
quail's whistle, and garrulous stream
let, which, from the rock on the noun
tain top to the meadow fern under the
shadow OF the steep. comes looking fOl
the steepest place to leap off at, and talk
ing just for the sake of hearing itsel
ta1kp IL all the skies huTtled in thunder
tempest, and storms, perpetually wan
dered- across the sea, and all the streams
were raVing mad, frothing at the mOuti
with mud foam, and there were eterna
simOOns thrObbing among the hills, an(
the world had neither lark's carol, MOI
hummingbird's trill, nor MATERIALLY
| daah huf OnIv haar'a bark and M nfhar,,