The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-04-30

morning bugls calls us to marching and &C
ton, How pleasant it is to rehearse thu
victories aad the surprises and the attacks
of the day, seated by the still camp fire o.
| the home circle.
Yes, life is q stormy sea. With shivercd
masts and torn sails and hulk aieak, we
put in at the harbor of home. Blessed
harbor! There we 60 for repairs in the
| dry-dock of quiet life. The candle in the
| window is to the toiling man the light
house guiding him into port. Children &c
forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the
"Narrowso take the hand Of ships. The
door-sill of the home is the wharf where
heavy life is unladen.
There is the place where we may talk of
what we have done without being
charged with self-adulation. There is
the place where we may lounge without
being thought ungraceful. There is the
place where we may express affection
without being thought silly. There is the
place where we may forget our annoy
ances and exasperations and troubles.
| Forlorn earth pilgrim no homer Then
die. That is better. The grave is brighter
| and grander and more glorious than this
world with no tent from marchings,
with no harbor from the storm, with no
place of rest from this scene Of greed and
goage and loss and gain. God pity the
man or the woman who has no nome.
Further, remark that home is a politi-
cal safeguard. The safety of the State
must be built on the safety of the home.
Why can not France come to placid re-
puhlicf Ever and anon there is a threat OF
national capsixe. France as nation has
not the right kind of q Christian home.
The Christian hearth stone is the only
corner stone for a republic. The virtues
cultured in the family circle are an abso-
lutte necessity for the State. II there be
not enough moral principle to make the
family adhere. there will not be enough
political principle to make the State adj
here. "No homen means the Goihs and
Vandals, means the Nomads of Asia, means
the Numidians Of Africa, changing from
place to place, according as the pasture
happens to change. COMPOUNDED be all
those Babels of inquiry which would over
tower and destroy the home. The same
storm that upsets the ship in which the
family sails will sink the frigate Of the
Constitution. Jails and penitentiaries and
armies and navies are not our best de-
tense. The door of the home 10 the best
fortress. Household utensils are the best
artillery, and the chimneys OF our dwelling
houses are the grandest monuments Of
safety and triumph. No home, no republic.
Further, remark that home is q school.
Old ground must be turned up with sub
nd u he II and
reharrowed, and then the crop will not be
as large as that of the new ground with
less culture. Now, youth and childhood
arc new ground, aud all the influences
thrown over their heart and life will come
up in after life luxuriantly. Every time
you have given q smile of appreciation, all
the good cheer Of your life will come up
again in the genislity of your children.
And every ebullition of anger and every
uncomfortable display Of indignation win
be fuel to their disposition twenty or
thirty or forty years from now-fuel for
bad fire quarter Of . century from this.
You praise the intelligence of your child
too much sometimes when you think he il
not aware Of it, and you win see the re-
suit Of Il before ten years Of age in his an
supposiDg he is not large enough to UNDER
stand what You say. and you win find him
standing on high chair before aattering
mirror. Words and deeds and example
are the seed Of character. and children are
very apt to be the second edition Of their
parents. Abraham begat Isaac, % virtue
IL apt to 60 down in the ancestral line; but
Herod begat Archelaus, so iniQuity b
transmitted. What vast responsibility
comes upon parents in view Of this subjecti
O, make your home the brightest place
ON earth IL you would charm your children
to the high path Of virtue and rectitude
and religion. Do not always turn the
blinds the wrong way Let the light which
puts gold on the gentian and spots on the
pansy pour into your dwellings. Do not
expect the little feet to keep step to dead
march. Do mot cover mp your walls with
Horse" or Tintorstto's aNassacrs Of the
Innocents." Rather cover them, II you
have pictures, with s'The Hawking Party
and "Ths Min by the Mountain Stream,S
and "The Fox Hunt, !" and The Children
Amid Flowsrs,n and 1.-THE Harvest Scene"
and "The Saturday Night Marketing.n
Above an, my friends, take into your
homes Christian principle. Can Il Be- that
in any Of the comfortable homes Of nv
the voice OF prayer 10 never
hftsdf Whati No supplicatfoa ct night
for protections What No thanksgivinR
in the morning for cAres How, my broth
-, my sister, win you answsr God in the
day cf judgment with reference TO your
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