, 1886-03-07

st. You cannot have any sacred association
about you in the boarding honse as you can
in the private home, where all the things are
sosnehow associated with some member OF the
fninily or with some happy incident in do
nestle history.
What a blessed thing it is in a house, for a
whole lifetime these things are gathered, un-
til every figure IN the carpet, and every panel
of the door, md every cascment OF the
window, l. associated with father or mother,
son or daughter, or friend that tarried for "A
while. Oh, it is n sacred place, where YOU
can shy; In that room such n loved one was
born. In that bed such a one died. At
this stool my little child said her last
evening prayer. In that chair / sat
when | heard the good tidings from abroad.
At that door | stood and greeted my long
absent boy homo from the sen That is faith
cr's cane. That h mothers rocking chair. -
Oh, these joyful and beautiful reminisccnscs
Hold your children by this semi-omnipotent
memory Of an early Christian homei
Besides that. all this boarding house life
and hotel life abolishes the grace OF hospital
ity. Your guest does not want 10 sit at that
table. Your guest does not want TO run the
gauntlet OF all that merciless hypercriticism.
Unless you have a home Of your own, you
cannot cultivate that great grace Of Chris
tian hospitality, 70 grand and so glorious. IL
WINS the exercise OF that grace that gave to
the Shunamite the blessing Of the restoration
OF her son TO life, because she had
entertained Elisha, and that blessed the
widow, because she had fed the hun
CRY prophets, and provided for her the
perpetual oil of the miraculous truth; and It
wus that that blessed Rnhab and rescued her
from the demolished city Of Jericho, because
she had cared for the spies; and Laban blessed
In her beautiful family relation because she
entertained Jacob; and Lot rescued from the
destroyed city because he entertained the
angels; and Mary and Martha and Zacheus
blessed with great spiritual wealth because
they entertained Christ And thousands Of
homes in this country blessed from generation
10 generation because their doors are swung
open In tho indulging, irradiating and divine
grace OF Christian hospitality.
Unless you have n homo, yoa cannot cul-
ture thnt graee The queen of Norway,
Sweden and Denmark, when those countries
were all In one government, had a roynl cup
-a cup of gold-it had ten curves or lips,
each one engraved with the name OF the dis
tinguished guest who had drunk from II; and
every cup we give in Christian hospitality,
though 1t he OF the plninest ware, is "a
cup from which God eau read the
names OF those who have taken from
Il refreshment. The difficulty with a great
nhhh1 peupit III lulS uaN ~, lney nave u uelu-
sion as to whit Is necessary for a home.
Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor twenty,
nor fifteen, nor five, nor three. You plant in
the right way and in the right place a table,
n couch, "a chair, and a knife and fork,
and a cup and saucer, and you can
raise from them n young paradise. 1t
may be on a very small scale, but IL will grow
to be something very large. King Cyrus, in
vited 10 dine by one of his humble friends, ac-
cepted ON one condition, that there should be
nothing on the table but a single dish, and
that 10 contain IA loaf OF bread.
And / tell you, this day, that imperial
satisfaction is often to be found on the plain
ut floor. Oh, If you are under the delusion
this day that before establishing a home you
must have IA great home, | want TO break that
delusion- oh, how many there are caught
in that DEVILS trap who think they
must have an expensive home II lney
have any nome at all. This is the trap
that Is catching hundreds and thousands OF
men and women who will never have any
home. This miserable tenement house sys-
tenn which takes tens of thousands and hun
dreds of thousands of people, and keeps them,
rs it were, wallowing in the mire, needs to be
broken up by the establishing OF small homes
at cheap rents. There Is room In this country
for every man and woman TO have a home, and
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mand they should have a home. We want
some one TO do for this country what George
Peabody and Lady Burdette Coutts did in
England, and what some of the capitalists
have done in the villages Of this country
the building OF small houses at cheap rents
for the middle Glasses. This is the
only class in this country not pro
vided for. The rich have their
palaces, the poor the poorhouses, the Grim
inals have their jails; but what about the
honest middle class, who are able and willing
TO work, but have a small mcconnell Let Amer
lean capitalists, inspired of God and pure
patriotism, arise and build whole streets of
snall residences, II is vital TO the welfare of
the community. If a laborcr at the close OF
the day may have TO walk or rid further
than is desirable, he then at eventide gets to
his destination, but then he will find some
thing there worthy of being called by that
glorious and heaven-descended word, home.
Now, young married men, as soon as you
can, buy such n home, II you have 10 put a
mortgage on il from base 10 capstone. The
much-abused mortgage is ruin to the reckless
man, but TO one proyident and prudent IL is
the beginning OF competency and a fortune.
With one who will not be satisfied until he
has paid it all Off, and who viii put his
family ON stringent economy until they
deny themselves all superfiuities and all
Injuries, and pay off the mortgage, that he
may stand in that place and says Every
thing in this house is mine; every brick,
every yard, or every foot OF plumbing, it is
all mine. Thank Cod Thank Godn The
subject Is radically, it is infinitely, impor-
tnnt, Have a home il you can buy one. II
you can rent one, have a home. Do not
consent to have your children born in a
boarding house, and do not consent yourself
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children can laugh and romp and sing with
out being overhanled for making a racket.
Have a kitchen where you can do something
toward the reformation OF foul cookery and
lessen the troubles OF this nation Of dyspeptics,
Napoleon lost one OF his great battles from an
attack OF indigestion, and there are multitudes
u men now who have such a struggle with the
food they swallow that they have no strength
left for the battle OF life; and your wife,
though she can play on any musical instru-
ment, and may rival n prima donna, she is
not educated unless she knows how to boil an
Irish potato, and broil a mutton chop. Since
the diet decides the fate OF families, it some
times decides the fato OF nations. Have a
sitting room with at least one easy chair in
il. though you have to take turns In sitting
there. Have books, whether from the public
library or by your own purchase, that your
family may b. intelligent
Gather into the home checker boards and
guessing matches, and an occasional game OF
blindman's bluff which Of all games Is my
favorite. Arouse in your home innocent hi
larity. Gather 10 your childs nature a reser-
voir II exuherance, that IL may stream down
OF his life when il Is parched and the dark
days come and the lights go out and laughter
Is smothcrcd into IA sob. The reason that SO
many young men and women go To destruc-
ton is teSssu-e father and mother do not make
home attractive, or have no home at all.
Above all, have grncc in your home.
Julius Caesar once Gained the fears OF an af-