, 1886-03-14

suave and plausible and obliging all day long,
dnmming back his sullenness and his irrfta
bility and his discomfort; but at nightfnli
when h goes home tbs dam bursts, and
scolding pours forth in floods and freshets.
There Re those who in public are full. OF
plausibility, but their hearts aro a swamp Of
ncttles. Their life is a magnificent show
window for a wretched stock OF goods.
Their lips dropmyrrh and aloes and franklin
cense. but they have n cowardly way Of go
ing home and dropping all the discomfort
and irritabihty in the domestic circle. Repu-
tation is only the shadow of character, and a
very small house may cast a long shadow.
There are those who seem so kim and amin
bic and gentle In public, but who in their
private life are most detestable. The
reason men don't display their bad temper
in public is for fear Of being knocked
down. They do not display their bad temper
for the sam0 reason that they do not let their
note go 10 protest-it don't pay. For the
reason they don't want men in their com
pany 10 sell stock too eheap-it deprcciates
the stock As at shutdown, sometimes, after
a very s~unshiny day, there mny be a tenn
r%estuous night, so many n man in public has
been n philanthropist, whilo in private life
lac has been a Nero, with respect to his slip
per. and his gown. Audubon, the naturalist,
took gun and pencil and visited all the great
forests Of America, 10 bring down and sketch
the beautiful birds, and after an lnfinity OF
toll and exposure came back 10 Philadelphia
with his manuscript complete, and he put
them away in a trunk, expecting TO be absent
for some time to gather recreation and rest.
But when he came back he found that the rats
had devOured his manuscript and the work OF
many years, and then, without discontinue,
he again took his gun and pencil and visited
all the forests Of America and reproduced
his immortal work How many a man with
a thousandth part OF that love would have
been utterly ~irrcconcilablei Aye, some men
over the loss of a pencil have blown MS long
and ms stout as n northeast storm.
My friends, let us show picty n homo. II
We are not plausible, bright and kind in the
domestic circle we are making a fraudulent
and ovcr-issue Of stock, and are rs much to
blame ns a bank TINT Inns four or five hun
dred thouand dollars OF bills ia circulation,
but no specie in the vaults. II we have all
the graces in public and none Of the Christian
graces in private life, then our behavior in
the world is merely because Of a fear OF the
world; or it springs from tho rooty, stag
nant, frog-inhabited pool Of our own sell
flshness. What we are in our home Is our
genuine character-that is, the character we
have everywhere, whether we demonstrate It
or not
Again I speak 10 you Of home as a refuge.
Life is the United States army ON the national
road 10 Mexico. A long march with ever
and anon "A skirmish and n battle. At night
fall we stack arms, we pitch the tent, we
hang up the war tap, we slumber ON the
knapsack waiting until the morning
bugle calls Us 20 marching and to
notion Oh, it is pleasant in the even
tide after tho victory and surprises Of a
day 10 talk It all over by the still cnmpires Of
the home circle. This life IL n stormy sea
with shattered mhsts and torn sails and hulk
nleak, and We put into the hnrbor OF home;
that Is the dry dock where we go for repairs.
The candle that shines through the window Of
tho poor mans home Is tho Lighthouse by
which he is guided into the hnrbor. Children
go out 30 meet their fathers, rs outside the
Narrows pilots take the holm OF the ship. The
doorsill Is the wharf where the heavy load is
lifted Oh, that is the place where we
can talk about what we have done without
being charged with rehabilitation Tint Is
the place where we can love without being
thought ungraceful, that is tho place where
we can express affection without being
thought silly. Forlorn life-no home. Better
die. It Is better; the grave Is broader and
more CHEEKY than the world, with no tent for
marching, with no harbor from the cyclone,
with no place to rest from the sin OF gougc
and greed and loss and gain. God pity the
wretch that has no home.
Again / speak Of home as n political safe
gunrd. The safety OF the state is built on
the safety Of the homo. Why can't Franco
come 10 he a blessed republici Why viii an
iniinmmntory plncard ON the stone wall in the
republic throw all Paris into CONSERVATION
Because France has not enough Christian
homes yet Tho Christian hearthstone
Is the corner stone OF a republic.
C~onfounded Le all those babcls OF
iniquity which would overpower and over
shadow the home. The same storm that up
ssts the boat in which the family sail viii
sink the frignte Of the constitution. Peniten-
tiarics and jails and armies and navies are
not our best national defense. The door Of
our home is the host fortress. Household
utensils are the best artillery, and the chin
news Of our houses are the grandest magazine
Of national power and strength. No homel
No rpublicl
Again ! speak to you Of home as a school
The ground must be twrned up by the subsoil
pillow, and narrowed and r~charrowed, and
then grubbed. New ground requires much
less culture thnn old ground, and all the
things planted there como up luxuriantly.
An your smiles OF approval for your children,
all your gonialty and behavior will have its
effect, aud bo reflected hack from tho child's
disposition
An your adulations Of temper, all your loss
OF e%quipoise, all that is irate in disposition,
will make "a very bad fire in the character OF
your child forty years after YOU are dead.
You unduly praise your childs intelligence.
and in a little while you will find in him an
noying Alteration You ~unwiscly praise his
beauty, and before long you will find him on
tho chair before tho hnttering mirror.
Children are apt 10 be a second edition Of
their parents, and II is not always n revised
or improved edition. Abraham begut Isaac,
and 70 good goes from generation 10 genera
ton; but Herod bcgat "a wicked son, and 80
infamy may BE- transmitted. Oh, the respon.
sibility, the infinite responsibility OF parcntsl
Mako your home the most attractive place ON
earth There Is only one way In which
you can keep your children home, and
this il by making the home more at
tInctivc than any other place. DO not turn
the blinds The wrong way. DO not expect
httic fcct 10 keep steps To a dead march. II
you have pictures do not cover your walls
with the pictunc Of Death ON n Pale Horse
or the MASSACRE OF the lnnocents.n II you
have pictures let them rnther bo the
'Mm by the Mountain Stream or
Vacation Days. or Children Amid Flow
en-, % or saturday Night Marketing. Have
you no hint OF chcerfulness, grasshoppor leap,
and lambs fisk, and quails whistle, and
streams chasing each other over the rocks at
the top Of the mountain clear down 20 the
foot Nov 1t comes looking for a steep place
10 leap OIL at and talking just To hear itself
talk. What il all the skys circle
with tempest, or everlasting storms
rage ovor tho sea, or tho noun
tain streams wcrc nruthing mad, frothing
with mud and foam Mt the mouth, and there
were M lnrks carol, nor humming birds
trill, the water falls dancing amid the VOLTS
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