The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-04


father because OF the entertainment o.
Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, ant
OF mnumerable houses throughout Chris
tendon upon which have come blessings
from generation TO generation because
their doors awung easily open In the en-
larglng ennoblng, irradiating, and divine
grace OF hospitality. do not know wha
your experience has been, but have hat
men and women Waiting at my house who
left benedlotlon on every ro0m-in the
blessing they asked ut tho table, In the
prayers they offered al the family altar, in
The good advice they gave the children, in
the goapelization that looked out from
every lineAment OF their countenancesi and
their departure was the sword of bereayo-
ment
The queen Of Norway, Sweden, and Den
mark had q royal cup OF ten curves or lips,
each one having on II the name OF the dis
tnguished person who had drank from II.
And that cup which we offer TO others In
Christian hospitality, though II be OF the
plaineat earthenware, 10 O royal cup, and
God can read on all ts sides tho names OF
those who have taken from II refreshmenl,
But all this Ia impossible unlesa You have a
home of your own. II Ia the deluson M Ia
what is necessary for home thnt hindera
30 many from establishing one, Thirty
rooms lro not necessary, nor twenty, nor
fifteen, nor ten, nor five, nor three. In ths
right way plant table, and couch, aud
knife and fork, and u cup, and chair, and
you can raise young paradise, Dust star
home, on however small u scale, and II
will grow. When King Cyrus was inWt
10 dine wiAh nm humble friend the king
made the one condition Of his coming that
the only dish bo one loaf Of bread, aud the
most imperial satisfaclions have sometimes
banquotod ON tho painest fare.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett- Coutts
did In England and some OF the laig man
ufaclurers Of this country have done for
the Villages and cities In building small
houses NJ cheap rents, 40 that tho middle
classes can have separate homes, They
are the only class not provided for. Tho
rich have their palaces, the poor have their
poor-houses tho criminals have their jaiIs;
but what about the honest middle classes,
who are able and willing TO work, aud yet
have small inoomes7 Let the capitalists,
inspired OF God and trno patriotism, riso
and build whole streets Of small residences.
The laborer may have, at the close OF tho
day, 10 walk or ride further than Ia desir-
able 10 reach II, but whom he gets 10 hia
destination In the eyentido ho will find
something worthy OF being called by that
glorious and impasmonod and hoavon- do
Boended word "home,"
Yong married man, a. aoon az you can,
buy such place, even II you have 10 put
on II n mortgage reaohing from base 10 cnp-
stone. The muoh-abused mortgage, which
IL ruin 10 reckless man, 10 one prudent
and proyident Ia the beginning Of COM
potency and fortune, for tho reason that
he will not b satisfied until he has paid Il
of, and all the household are put on strin-
gent economies until thon. Deny yourself
all suporiluitios and all luHurica until you
can say; Everything in this house is mine,
thank Godl every timber, every brick, every
foot OF plumbing, every door-sill,' Donot
have your children born In boarding.
house, and do not yourself be buried from
one. Have O place whore your children
can shout and sing and romp without being
oyorhaulod for the rAcket, Have kitchen
whore You can do something toward tho
reformation Of evil cookery and the lessen-
Ing Of this nation OF dyspeptics. Az Ma
poloon lost one OF his great battles by On
attack Of indigestion, no many men have
such daily wrestle with the food swal-
lowed that they have no strength left for
the battle OF life; and though your wife
may know how 10 play on nll musical in
Hrumonta. and rival prima donna, sho
In not we'll educated unless she can boil an
Irish potato and broil q mutton chop, Rinco
the diet sometimes decides tho fate OF fam
ilieg and nations.
Have sitting room with at least ono
easy chair, even though you have 10 take
turns at sitting In II, and books out Of the
public library or OF your own purchase for
the making OF your family intelligent, and
checker. boards aud guessing matches, with
an occasional blind mans buif, which ia OF
all gamos my fAyorite. Rouse up your homo
with all styles of innocent mirth, and
gather up In your ohildron'a nature reser-
voir Of oruboranco that will pour down re-
froshiDg streams when life gets parchod,
and the dark days como, and tho lights 20
out, and tho laughter 10 SmothSred into q
sob
First, lNst, and oil the time have Christ
In your homo, Julius Cesar oalmed tho
fears Of an affrightod boatman who was
rowing him In q stream by stating: $50
long ~ Cmear 10 with you in tho Same boat
no harm can happen" And whatever storm
Of advoreity or Bereavement or poverty may
strike your homo MI Ia we'll as long as YOU
have Chriat the king on board. Make your
homo no far-rcNching in ite influence that
down to tho last moment Of your childron's
lifo you may hold thom with heavenly
charm. Az 20 years Of ago tho Domosthe-
nos OF tho American Senate lay dying nj
Washington. mean Horny Clay, Of Ken
tuclIy. His pastor sat at his bedside,
and "tho old man eloquent" after
long and exciting public life, transatlantic
and cisatlOntic, wag back again In tho
scenes OF his boyhood, and ho kept say-
ing over aud over again. "My motherl
Molhor Motherl" May tho parental innu.
cnco wo cSort bo not only potential but
holy, and 40 tho homo ON cnrth be the vesti.
bule 10 our homo in heaven, in which placo
may we oil moot-fathor, mother, eon,
brother, sister, grandfather and
and grandchild, and the
entire group OF precious onos, OF whom we
must eOy, In tho words OF transporting
Charles Woeloy:
Ono family wo dwell IN Hlm,
One church above beneath,
Though now divided by tho strsam-
Tho narrow ntronIp OF donNNt