The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-03-18

| ment OF Jacob, and 70 Lot IN MS rescue
from the destroyed city because OF his en-
tertainment Of the angels and to Mary and
| Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual blessing
/ because they entertained Christ, and to
/ Publius in the Island of Melita in the heal
/ ing of his father, because Of the entertain
/ mens Of Paul. drenched from the ship
I wreck, and Of innumerable houses through
/ out Christsndom upon which have com g
! blessings from generation to generation
/ because their doors swung easily open in
| the charging, enrolling, irradiating and
/ divine grace of hospitality.
/ do not know what your experience has
/ been, but | have had men and women
visiting at my house who left benedIc-
ton on every roon-in the blessing they
/ asked at the table, in the prayer they Of
fered at the family altar, in the good ad-
vice they gave the children, in the gospel
ization that looked out from every Inca
ment of their counsenauceS; and taeir de-
parture was the sword of bereavement.
The Queen o. Norway, Sweden and Dem
mark had royal cup OF ten curves or
lips. each one having on it the name
OF the distinguished person who had
drank from it. And that CUP which we
y
though it be OF the plainsst earthenware,
is a royal cup, and God can read on all its
sides the names of those who have taken
from it refreshment.
But all this is impossible unless YOU have
home of your own.
1t is the delusion as to what is necessary
for home thai hiniars SO MANY from es-
tablishing one. Thirty rooms are not nee
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten
nor five. nor three.
In the right way plant a table, and
cou,hs aud knife. and fork. and a cup,
and a chair, and you can raise a young
paradise. Just start home, On however
small Sc ale, and it will grow.
When King Cvrus was Invited 70 dine
with an humble friend, the King made
the one condition OF his coming that the
only dish be one loaf of bread, and the
most imperial satisfac,;ons have some
times bauquetad on the plenezt fare.
DO not be caught in the de}usion of many
thousands in possponng hon until they
can have an expensive one. That idea is
the devils trap that catches men and
women innImerahle VINO viii never have
any home at ali. Capitalists Of America,
build plain HON IS for the people. Letthis
tenement house system, i'll which hum
dreds OF thousands of the people OF our
cities are wallowing in the mire, ne broken
up by small homes where people can have
their own fresides and their own altar.
In this great continent there is room
enough for every man and woman to have
a home Morals AMI civilization and re-
li2ion demand it.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and I,adv Burdett-C outts
did in England, and some o. the large
manufacturers Of this country have
done for the villages and cities, in build
ing small houses NJ CHI ap rents, SO that
the middle classes can hav" separate
homes. Thsv are the only class
not provided for. The rich have their
palaces. and the poor have their poor
houses and criminals have their jails; but
WA. about the honest miiils classes who
are able and willing to work AMI vet have
small incomesz Let toe capitalists, in
spired of God and pure patriotism. rise
and build whole streets OF small resi-.
dHnees. The iabo:ar may have, at the
close of the day. to walk or ride further
than is desirable to reach it, but when he
gets to his destination in the eyentide, he
will find something worthy Of being called
by that glorious. and impaSsioned, and
Heaven descended word, home"
Young married man, IS soon "a you can,
buy place, even if YOU have to put on il
a mort gage reaching from base TO cap
stone. The much abused mortgage, which
is ruin to reckless man, to one prude mt
and prov.1ant is the beginning OF COM
potency and fortune, for the reason he
viii not be satisfied until he has paid lit off,
and all the household are put on string gent
economies until then. Deny your
selves all suparAuities and all Injuries
until YOU can say, Every thing in this
house is mine, thank God! every tim
Der, every brick every foo. of plumbing,
every door sill" Do not have your chill
dren born in boarding house, and do not
yourself he buried from one. Have a
place where your children can shout and
sing, and romp, without being overhauled
for the racket. Have a kitchen where you
can do something toward the reformation
of evil cookery and the lessening o. this
nation of dyspepticS. As Napoleon los!
one of his great battles by an attack Ofin-
Digestion so many men have such daily
wrestle with the food swallowed that they
have no strength left for the battle of life;
and though your wife may know how &c
pay on all musical instruments and rival
a prima donna, she is not well educated
unless she can boil an Irish potato and
bron mutton chop, since the diet some
times decides the fate of families and ma
tiOns.
Have a sitti ng room with at lea,t one
easy chair, even though you have to take
the turns at sitting in it, and books out
of the public library of your own
purchase for the making OF
your family intell gen, AMI cuec&ar-
boards and guessing matches with an &C.
casional blind mans buff, which is, of al
games, my favorite. Rouse up your home
with all styles of innocent mirth, and gath
E. er up to your children's nature reservoir
of eXuberance that will pour down re
freshing streams when life gets parched
and the dark days come, and the lights &C
out, and the laughter is smothering into g
sob.
First, last and all the time, have Chris
in your home. Julius Caesar Gained the
fears of an affrighted boatman who wa:
rowing him in a stream, by stating: "SC
long as Caesar is with YOU in the same
boat, no harm can happen" And what
ever storm of adversely or bereavement 81
poverty may strike your home, all is wei
as long as you have Christ the King OF
board. Make your home so far-reachine
in its influence that down to the last mo
ment of your children's life you may hole
them with heavenly charm.
At seventy six wears OF age, the Demos