Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-03-11

chair" What q joyful and pathetic con-
Rress of reminiscences
The public residence of hotel and
boarding house abolishes the grace Of hos
pitality. Your guest does not want 10 come
70 such table. No one wants 10 run
such gsntlet Of acute and merciless
hypercrihcism. Unless you have home
OF your own you viii not be able to exercise
the best rewarded of all the graces. For
TO the Shunamite in the restoration Of her
son 10 life because she entertained Elisha,
and to the widow Of Zarephath in the per-
petual oil-well Of the miraculous cruise be-
cause she fed hungry prophet, and to
Rahab in the preservation Of her life at the
demolition Of Jericho because she enter
tanned the spies, and to Laban in the form
alton Of an interesting family relation be.
cause of his entertainment OF Jacob, and
to Lot in his rescue from the destroyed
city because of his entertainment of the
angels, and 10 Mary and Martha and Zac-
cheus in spiritual blessing because they en-
tertained Christ, and to Publius in the
Island of Melita in the healing Of his
father because of the entertainment of
Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and
of innumerable houses throughout Chris
tendon upon which have come blessings
from generation to generation because
their doors swung easily open in the en-
larging,. ennobling, irradiating, and divine
grace Of hospitality. I do not know what
your experience has been, but ] have had
men and women visiting at my house who
left benedictien on every room--in the
blessing they asked OF the table, in the
prayers they offered at the family altar, in
the good advice they gave the children, in
the gospelization that looked out from
every lineament of their countenances; and
their departure was tho sword of bereave-
ment.
| The queen of Norway, Sweden, and Dem
mark had royal cup Of ten curves or lips,
| each one having on it the name of the dis
| tinguished person who had drank from it.
And that cup which We offer to others in
Christian hospitality, t.ouoh il be of the
| plainest earth nwaye. ia rotal cup. and
God can read Oh nj il sides The names of
those who have taken iom it refreshmeut.
But all this is impossible unls You have
home of your own. II is the ,ielus op as TO
what is neessary for home tn It hinders
so many from establishing one. Thirty
rooms are not necessary, nor twenty, nor
| fifteen, nor ten, ncr i've, nor three. In the
right way plant n taIl-. and couch, and
knife and fork, anii a up. and chair, and
you can raise youag paradise. just start
home, on however small n scale, and it
will grow. When King Cyrus was invited
to dine with an humble frienl the king
made the one condition of his coming that
the only dish be one loaf of bread, and the
most imperial satisfactions have sometimes
bnnqueted on the plainest fare.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett- Coutts
did in England and some of the large man.
ufacturers of this country have done for
the villages and cities in building small
houses at cheap rents, so that the middle
classes can have separate homes. They
are the only class not provided for. The
rich have their palaces, the poor have their
poor houses, the 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,
inspired of G cd and true patriotism, rise
and build whole streets of small residences.
The laborer may have, at the close of the
day, to walk or ride further than is desira
able to reach it, hut when he gets to his
destination in the eventide he will find
something worthy of being called by that
glorious and impassioned and heaven-des
scended word ahome."
Young married man, as soon as you can,
buy such place, even if you have to put
on it mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much abused mortgage, which
is ruin to q reckless man, to one prudent
and provident is the beginning of COM
potency and fortune, for the reason that
he will not be satisfied until he has paid it
off, and all the household are put on strin.
gent economies until then. Deny yourself
all superfuities and all luxuries until you
can soy: Everything in this house is mine,
thank God! every timber, every brick, every
foot of plumbing, every door-sill." Do not
have your children born in boarding.
house, and do not yourself be buried from
one. Have q place where your children
can shout and sing and romp without being
overhauled for the racket. Have kitchen
where you can do something toward the
reformation Of evil cookery and the lessen.
ing of this nation of dyspeptics. As Ma
poleon lost one of his great battles by an
attack of Indigestion, SO 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 to play on all musical in
struments, and rival prima donna, she
is not we'll educated unless she can boil an
Irish potato and broil a mutton chop, since
the diet sometimes decides the fate Of fam
lilies and nations.
Have sitting-room with at least one
easy chair, even though you have to take
turns at sitting - it, and books out of the
public library or 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 children's nature reser-
voir of exuberance that will pour down re-
freshipg streams when life gets parched,
and the dark days come, and the lights go
out, and the laughter is smothered into q
sob.
First, last, and all the time have Christ
in your home. julius Cesar Gained the
fears of an affrighted boatman who was
rowing him in stream by stating: $50
long as Cesar is with you in the same boat
no harm can happen" And whatever storm
of adversity or bereavement or poverty may
strike your home all is we'll as long as you
have Christ the king on board. Make your
home SO far-reaching in its influence that
down to the last moment of your children's
life you may hold them with heavenly
charm. At76 years of age the Demosthe-
mes of the American Senate lay dying al
Washington. mean Henry Clay, Of Ken
lucky. His pastor sat at his bedside,
and "the old man eloquent" after q
long and exciting public life, transatlantic
and cisatlantic, was back again in the
scenes Of his boyhood, and he kept say
ing over and over again: "My mother
Mother! Mother!" May the parental influ-
ence We exert be not only potential but
holy, and SO the home ON earth be the vesti-
bule to our home in heaven, in which place
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