The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-03-10

the enlarging, ennobling, lrraulatlnX anu
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-
tion ON every room--in the blessing they
asked at the table. in the prayer they Of
fered at the family altar, In the good ad-
vice they gave the children, In the gospel
ization tb 1t looked out from evcry Inca
ment OF their countenances; and their de-
parture was the sword Of bereavement.
The Queen Of Norway, Sweden and Dem
mark had royal cup Of ten curves or
lirc, each, one having on II the name
of the distinguished person who had
drank from It, And that cup which we
offer to others In Christian hospitality,
though It be Of the plainest earthenware,
is o royal cup, and God can read on all its
sides the names of those who have taken
| from II refreshment.
But all this is impossible unless you have
a home of your own.
| It Is the delusion as to what is necessary
for home that hinders SO many from es-
tablishing one. Thirty rooms are not nec-
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten,
nor FIVE, nor three.
In the right way plant table, and
couch, and knife, and fork, and cup,
and chair, and you can raise young
paradise. Just start home, on however
small scale, and 1t will 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, aud the
most imperial satisfactions have some
times banqueted on the plainest fare.
Do not be caught in the delusion Of many
thousands in postponing a home until they
can have an expensive one. That idea Is
the DEVILS trap that catches men and
women innumerable who will never have
any home at all. Capitalists of America,
build plain homes for the people. Letthis
tenement system, in which hum
dreds 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-
ligion demand IL. E. r".
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett-C 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, so 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 IL. but when he
gets 10 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 II you have to put on I
a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much abused mortgage, which
is ruin to a reckless man, to one pruden
: and provident Is the beginning Of c5m
, potency and fortune, for the reason b,
will not be satisfied until he has paid It of
and all the household are put ON stringent
economies until then. Deny your
selves all super1uities and all luxurie
until you can say, Everything in thii
| a.. LII
ber, every brick, every foot of plumbing,
every door SILL" Do not have your chill
dren born In boarding -house, and do mol
yourself be buried from one. Have O
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 lessenlng Of this
nation Of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost
, one Of his great battles by an attack ofin.
digestion, so many men have such daily
wrestle with the food swallowed that thoy
have no strength left for the battle Of lifo;
, and though your wife may know how tc
pay on all musical instruments and rival
prima donna, she Is not well educated
, unless she can ooil an Irish potato and
broil mutton chop, since the diet some-
| TIMES decides the fste Of families and ma.
tions.
Have a sitting-room with at least one
easy chair, even though you have 10 take
the turns at sitting in II, and books out
, Of the public library Of your owr
|. purchase for the making o
your family intelligent, and checker
, boards and guessing matches with an oc
, casional blind mans buff, which is, Of al
games, my favorite. Rouse up your hom'
: 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 q
, out, and the laughter Is smothering into I
sob.
, First, last and all the time, have Chris
, In your home. Julius Caesar calmed tn
fears of an aHrighted boatman who wa
rowing him in stream, by stating; SO
long as Cesar Is with you In the SAM
. boat, no harm can happen" And what
ever storm Of adversely or bereavement o.
poverty may strike your home, all Is wei
as long as you have Christ the King OF
board. Make your home so far-reachini
In its influence that down TO the last mo
ment Of your children's life you may hol'
: them with a heavenly charm.
At seventy-six years Of age, the Demos
themes Of the American Senate lay dyini
at Washington-I mean Henry Clay, o
Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside