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


THE HoME WITH CHILDREN IN II.
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 revival of
the family to return to the Bible idea that to be
devoted wife and self-sacriicing mother, is the
highest position woman can attain that 10 be
true husband and father is the acme of manly
perfection.
SO much importance as the quality. The charar-
ter of the children brought into home depends
largely upon the character of the husband and the
wife, and upon the home atmospher When
fatherhood and motherhood are turned to a heroic
key then are heroes born. Much of the mental
and spiritual, we'll as the physical characters
tics of children are due to inheritance. There is
such thing as virtue and moral excellence as
well us strong physique, being hereditary. The
Bible teaches, and the world has long recognized
the fact that "the 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 truthfulness and moral uprightness
of the fathers Is also visited upon the children.
" Like begets like in mind and morals as well rs
III body and feature. What you would have your
children be you must be.
After the children have come into the home,
what are the requisites that II may be true home!
/. Parental authority. There must be government
or anarchy. Parental authority should be mild
but firm; il must be firm that il may be mild.
Washlngtons mother. when asked how she trained
her boy into such grand manhood, said Il 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 years of age, or later,
or earlierIh Education begins as the childs
eyes open upon this world. 1t goes 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 example; but the former will be
worse than lost without the latter Josh Billings
well says: Your child should see in you con-
slant object lesson" B. In the true home there is
the most exact truthfulness; not the words only,
but voice, air, action, gesture every putting forth
should be truthful. The true Parent can use
Christ's language: 81 am tho TRUTH not in its
full sense, but yet in very important sense. 1.
The true home is a house of prayer. There are
memories of the home-altar. Some of YOU can
travel back over the path of 30 10 years and
call the very tones of your fathers voice ms 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 dehling and debasing powers, but these
sacred memories liEger, and many a time the
fathers hand, though that father has been dead
many years leads the wandering boy back, like
another Prodigal, to his Fathers house. A fam
lily ought TO be 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 not a true home, which, like
Bethlehem's Inn, has mo room for jesus