The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-04-23

home. They have only been in it few
months or q few years. Then, there are
those who will, after awhile, set mp for
themselves home, and it is right that
should speak out upon these themes.
Nv first counsel to you is, have Jesus in
your new home, if it be new home; and
LET him who was q guest at Bethany be in
your household; let the divine blessing
drop upon your every hope and plan and
expectation. Those young people who be-
Gin with God end with heaven. Have on
your right hand the engagement ring OF
the divine affection. II one of you be
Christian, let that one take Bible and
read a few verses in the evening time, and
then kneel down and commend yourselves
to him who settath the solitary in families.
I want to tell you that the destroying
angel passes by without touching or enter
ing the door.post sprinkled with blood Of
the everlasting covenant. Why is it that
in some families they never get along, and
in others they always get along well! 1
have watched such cases, and have come
to conclusion. In the first instance, moth
ing seemed to go pleasantly, and after
while came devastation, domestic disaster,
or arrangement. Why! They started
wrong. In the other case, although there
were hardships and trials, and some things
that had to be explained, still things went
on pleasant until the very last. Why?
They started right.
My advice to you in your home is to e1-
ercise to the very last possibility of your
nature the law of forbeafance. Prayers in
the household will not make up for
everything. Some of the best peo-
pie in the world are the hardest to get
along with. There are people who
stand up in prayer-meeting and pray
like angels, whom at home are uncompro.
missing and cranky. You may not have
everything just as you want it. Some
times it will be the duty Of the hus-
band and sometimes of the wife to yield;
hut both stand punctiliously on your
rights, and you will have Waterloo
with no Butcher coming up at nightfall to
decide the conflict.
Never be ashamed to apologize when
you have done wrong in domestic af-
fairs. Let that be law Of your house,
hold. The best thing / ever heard OF
my grandfather, whom never saw, was
this: That once having unrighteously re-
buked one of his children, he himself hav-
ing lost his patience, and, perhaps, hav-
ing been misinformed of the child's doing,
found out his mistake, and in the evening
of the same day gathered all his family
together and said: "Now have one ex-
PLANTATION to make, and one thing to say.
Thomas, this morning rebuked you very
unfairly. I am very sorry for it. re-
buked You in the presence Of the whole
family, and now ask your forgiveness
in their presence It must have taken
some courage to do that. 1t was right,
was it noss Never be ashamed to apollo
gixe for domestic inaccuracy. Find out
the points; what are the weak points,
IL may call them so, Of your companion,
aud then stand aloof from them. Do not
carry the fire Of your temper too near
the gunpowder. II the wife be easily
fretted by disorder in the household.
let the husband be careful where he
throws the slippers II the husband comes
home from the store with his patience all
exhausted, do not let the wife unneces-
sarily cross his temper; but both stand up
for your rights, and win promise the ev-
erIasting sound Of the warwhoop. Your
life wfll be spent in making up, and mar
riage viii be to you an unmitigated curse.
Cowper said:
The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear.
And something. every day they live,
To pity, and perhaps forgive.
advise, also, that you make your chief
pleasure circle around about that home. II
is unfortunate when It is otherwise. II the
husband spend the most Of his nights away
from home. of choice, and mot Of necessity,
he Is not the head of the household; he Is
only the cashier. II the wife throw the
cares Of the household in the servants
lap, and then spends five nights of the week
at the opera or theater, she may clothe her
children with satins and laces and ribbons
that would confound q French milliner,
but they are orphans. Oh, It Is sad when
child has no one to say its prayers to,
because mother has gone Oh to the evening
entertainment! In India they bring chill
dren and throw them to the crocodiles. and
It seems very cruel; but the jaws Of New
York and Brooklyn dissipation are swal-
lowing down more little children to-day
than all the monsters that ever crawisd
upon the banks of the Gsnges!
have seen the sorrow of . goddess moth
er on the death Of child she had neglect
Cd. II was not 20 much grief that she felt
from the fact that the child was dead as
the fact that she had neglected Il. She said:
aIf had only watched over and cared for