Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-08
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Al VIC nave IL nOI I06Ee, We nave II NOT an
where. FIVE have it not there, we have i
not anywhere. If we have not genuin,
grace in the family circle, all our outward
and public plausibility merely springs from
fear OF the world or from the Shiny, put
rid pool of our own selfshness. tell yor
the home is a mighty test of character
What you are at home you are everywhere
whether you demonstrate it or not.
Again, l remark that home is q refuge
Life is the United States army on tht
national road to Mexico. long march
with ever and anon q skirmish and bat
tie. At eyentide we pitch our tent and at
tack the arms, we hang up the war csI
aud lay our head on the knapssck, We
sleep until the morning bugle calls US tc
marching and action. How pleasant it j:
to rehearss the victories and the surprises
and the attacks of the day, seated BY the
still camp fire of the home circle
Yea.
LIFE Is STORMY SEA.
With shivered masts and torn sails and
hulk aleak, we put in at the harbor oi
home. Blessed hsrbor! There we 60 fol
repairs in the dry dock Of quiet life. The
candle in the window is to the toiling man
the lighthouse guiding him into port
Children 20 forth to meet their fathers as
pilots at the ."Narrows" take the head ot
ships. The door-sill of the home is the
wharf where heavy life is unlsden.
There is the place where we may talk Of
what we have done without being charged
with selEadulation. There is the place
where we may lounge without bsing
thought unsraceiul There is the place
where we may express affection without
being thought silly, There is the place
where we may forget our snnoyances and
exasperations and troubles. Forlorn earth
pilgrim! no homer Then die That is
better. The grave is brighter and grsnder
and more glorious than this world with no
tent from marchings, with no hsrbor from
the storm, with no place of rest from this
scene Of greed and gorge and loss and
gain. God pity the man or the woman
who has no home!
Further, remark that home is politi-
cal safeguard. The safety Of the Safe
must be b1ilt on the safety OF the home
Why cannot France come to placid re-.
pubic? Ever and anon there is threat
of national capsi2e. France as nation
has not the right kind Of Christian home.
The Christian hearjhstone is the only cor
her stone for o republic. Tne virtues cul.
tured in the family circle are an absolute
necessity for the State. If there be not
enough moral principleto make the family
adhere, there will not be enough political
principle to make the State adhere. No
home means the Goths and VsDdsls,
means the Nomais Of Asia, means the
Numideans of Africa, changing from place
to place, according ss the pasture hap
pens 10 change. Confounded be all those
BabelJ OF iniquity which would overtower
and destroy the home. The same storm
that upsets the ship in which the family
sails will sink the frigate Of the Constitu
ton. Jail5 and penitentiaries and srmiea
and navieS ore not our best defense. The
door of the home is the best fortress.
Household utensils are the best artillery,
and the chimneys OF our dwelling houses
ere the grandest monuments Of safety and
triumph. No home. No republic.
Further, | remark, that
HOME IS A SCHOOL.
Old ground must be turned up with sub.
soil plough, and it must be narrowed and
and then the crop will not be
ss large Gs that Of the new ground with
less culture. Now, youth and childhood
ore new ground, and all the influences
thrown over their heart and life will come
up in after life luxurisntly. Every time
you have given smile of approbation-
all the good cheer of your life will come
up sgsin in the genislity Of your children.
And every ebulli;ion Of anger and every
uncomfortable display Of Indignation will
be fuel to their. disposition twenty
or thirty or forty years from
uow-fuel for q bad fire quarter
Of a century from this You praise the In
tells ence Of your child too much some
times when you think he is not aware OF it,
and you will see the result OF i; before ten
years Of sge in bis annoying atiectations.
You praise his beauty, suPposing be is not
large enough to understand what Jou say,
and you will fsd him standing on high
chair before dattering In rror. Words
aud deeds and example sie the seed OF
character, and children are very apt TO be
second edition Of their pGreRta Abraham
bepst Isaac SO virtuFe ,is apt to go down
in the ancestral line; but Herod begat
Arcbelsus, 30 iDiquity is transmitted.
What vast responsibility comes upon parents
in view OF this subject
pace on earth, if would charm yo1r child.
rem 10 the high path Of virturA and recti-
tude and religion. Do not always turn
the blinds the wropg way. Let tue light
which pits gold oa The gentisn and spots
the pansy pour into your dwellings. DO
not expect the little feet to keep step 10 a
dead march. Do not cover up your walls
with such pictures as Vests Death on q
Psle Horse" OF T;ntcsattQs Massacre Of
the Iuuocents Rather cover them, il
vou have pictures. with The Hawking
Party" and mill by the Mountain
Stream" aud THE Fox Hunt, and The
Children Amid Flowers, and The Harv-
eat Scene" and The Saturday Night Mar
keting.
Get you no hint OF cheertulness from
grasshopper's leap, and lambs irisk, and
9uails whistle, and garrulous Stresmlets,
which from the rock at the mountain top
clear down to the meadow ferns under the
shadow of the steep, comes looking for the
steerest place to leap of a., and talking
lust TO hear himself talk? If all the
skies hurlled with tempest, and
everlasting storm wandered over the
sea and every notntGih stream weat mad,
ftothing at the mouth with mud foam, and
there were nothing but sipoons blowing
smopa the hills, End there we're neither
lark's carols nor humning- trill, nor
waterfalls dash, bnt only a bears bark,
and pauthers scream, and VOLTS howl,
then you might we'll gather intoJour homes
only the shadows But when God has
strexn the aaE!h eEi tps nsayans with
beauty sud with gladness, let rs take into
our home circles all innocent hilariry sll
brightness and all good cheer. A dark
home makes bad boys and bad girls, in
preparation for bsd men and bad women.
Above sll, my friends,