The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17

Young married man, as soon as you can,
buy such a place even If you have to put on
it a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much-abused mortgage, which is
ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent and
provident is the beginning Of competency
and fortune, for the reason that he will not
be satisfied until he has paid it off, and all the
household are put on stringent economies
until then. Deny yourself all superfuities
and all luxuries until you can say: Every
thing in this house is mine, thank God; every
timber, every brick, every foot Of plumbing,
born in q boarding house. and do not your
self be buried from one. Have place where
your chi ldren can shout, and sing, and romp
without being overhauled for the racket.
Have q kitchen where you can do something
toward the reformation Of evil cookery and
the lessening of this nation of dyspeptics.
A Napoleon lost one of his great battles by
attack Of indigestion, so, many. men have
such q daily wrestle with the food swallowed
that they have no strength left for the bat
tie of life; and though your wife may know
how to play on all musical instruments and
rival prima donna, she is not well educated
unless she can boil an Irish potato and broil
mutton chop, since the diet sometimes de-
cides the fate Of families and nations. Have
a sitting room with at least one easy chair,
even though you have to take turns at sitting
Of your own purchase, for the making Of
your family intelligent, and checker boards
and guessing matches, with an occasional
blind mans buff, which is, of all games. my
favorite. Rouse up your home with all styles
OF innocent mirth and gather up in your
childrens nature reservoir Of exuberanc 9
that will pour down refreshing streams when
life gets parched and the dark days come and
the lights 60 out and the laughter is smoth-
ora6 into q a0h
First last and all the time have Christ in
your home. Julius Caesar calmed the fears
of an affrighted boatman who was rowing
him in storm by stating: $50 long as Ce-
sar is with you in the same boat no harm can
happen" And whatever storm Of adversely
or bereavement or poverty may strike your
home all is well as long as you have Christ
ing in its influence that down to the last mo.
ment Of your children's life you may hold
them with heavenly charm. At seventy
six years of age the Demosthenes Of the
American Senate lay dying at Washington
I mean Henry Clay, Of Kentucky. His pas
tor sat at his bedside and the old
man eloquent after a long and and
cis-Atlantic was back again in the scenes Of
his boyhood and he kept saying in his dying
dream over and over again: My mother!
motherl" May the parental influence we
exert be not only potential but holy, and so
the home on earth be the vestibule Of our
home in heaven, in which place may we all
sister, grandfather and grandmother and
grandchild and the entire group Of precious
ones Of whom we must say in the words Of
transporting Charles Wesley.
One family we dwell in Him;
One church above, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream
The narrow stream Of death;
One army Of the living God,
To His command we bow;
Part the host have cross'd the fcod
And part are crossing now.