The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-12


cause she entertained the spies, and 70
Laban in the formation Of an interesting
| family relation because Of his entertain.
| ment Of Jacob, and to Lot in his 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 Mslita in the heal.
ing OF his father, because Of the entertain
ment Of Paul, drsnched from the ship
wreck, and Of innumerable houses through.
out Christendom upon which have come
blessings from generation to generation
/ Iscause their doors swung easily open In
the charging, ennobling, 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 room-in the blessing they
asked ct the table, in the prayer they Of.
fered at the family altar, in the good I'D.
vice they gave the children, in the gospel
ization that looked ont from every linea-
ment Of their countenances; and their de.
parture was the sword Of bereavement.
The Queen Of Norway, Sweden and Den.
mark had . royal cup Of ten curves or
lips, each ono having on it the name
Of the distinguished person who had
drank from it. And that cup which We
offer to others in Christian hospitality,
though il be Of the plainest earthenware,
is . 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.
It Is the delusion as to what IL necessary
for homo that binders 20 manv from es-
tablishing one. Thirty rooms are not nec-
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten,
nor five, nor three.
In the right wav plant . table, and
couch, and knife, and fork, and . cup,
and chair, and you can raise . young
paradise. Just start . home, ON however
small &C ale, and it viii grow.
When King Cyrus was invited to 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 satisfactions have some
times banqueted on the plainest fare.
Do not DO caught in the delusion Of many
Thousands in postponing . homo until they
can have an expensive one. That idea 10
the DEVILS trap that catches men and
women innumerable who win never have
any homo ct all. Capitalists Of America,
build plain homes for the people. Let this
tenement.house system, in which hun.
drsds Of thousands Of the people Of our
cities are wallowing in the mire, be 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
home. Morals and civilization and re.
igion demand it.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett- Coutts
did in England, and some Of the large
manufacturers of this country have
done for the villages and cities, in build.
ing small houses at cheap rents, 50 that
the middle classes can have separate
homes. They 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
what about the honest middle classes who
are able and willing to work and yet have
small incomes: Let the capitalists, in
spired Of God and pure patriotism, rise
and build whole streets of small resi-
dences. The laborer 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 eventide, he
will find something worthy Of being called
by that glorious, and impassioned, and
Heaven.descended word, ''home."
Young married man, As soon as You can,
buy place, even if you have to put ON il
a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much ABUSED mortgage, which
il ruin to . reckless man, to one prudent
and provident is the beginning of . COM
potency and Q fortune. for the reason he
will not be satisfied until he has paid IL of,
and all the household are put ON stringent
economies until then. Deny your
selves all superhuities and all Injuries
until you can say, Everything in this
house is mine, thank God! every tim
Der, every brick, every foot of plumbing.
every door SILL" Do not have your chill
dren born in a boarding .house, and do not
yourself be buried from one. Have .
place where your children 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. As Napoleon los.
one Of his great battles by an attack ofin-
digestion, 20 many men have such . daily
wrsstle with the food swallowed that they
and though your wife may know how to
pay ON all musical instruments and rival
prima donna, she il not well educated
unless she can boil an Irish potato and
broil mutton chop, since the diet some
times decides the fate Of families and ma
tions.
Have q sitsing-room with at least 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 intelligent, and checker
boards and guessing matches with an &C.
casional blind mans bu6, which is, Of all
games, my favorite. Rouse up your home
with all styles Of innocent mirth, and gath
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 60
out, and the laughter is smothering into .
sob.
First, last and all the time, have Christ
in your home. julius Caesar Gained the
fears Of an aflrighted boatman who was
rowing him in q stream, by stating: $50
long as Cesar is with you in the same
boat, no harm can happen" And what
ever storm Of adversely or bereavement or
poverty may strike your home, all is well
a. long as you have Christ the King on
board. Make your home so far-reaching
in its influence that down to the last mo-