The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-14

rest from this scene of greed and gouge. and loss
| and GAIN God pity the man or the woman who
has no home! Further, remark, that homels po-
litical safeguard Thesafety Of the State must be
built on the safety Of the home. Why cannot
France come to be placid Republicf Ever and
anon there is threat of national capsize.
France as a nation has not the right kind of
Christian home. The Christian hearth-stone is
| the only cornerstone for Republic The vir-
tues cultered in the family circle are an absolute
necessity for the State. IL there be not enough
moral principle to make the family adhere, there
viii net be enough political principle to make
the State adhere ssNo homen means the Cloths
the Numideans of Africa, changing from place
to place according as the pasture happens to
| change. COMPOUNDED be all those Babels OF in
iquity which would overtower and destroy the
home. The same storm that upsets the ship In
which the family sails will upset the frigate of
the Constitution. Jails and penitentiaries. and
armies, and navies are not our best defense.
The door OF the home is the best fortress.
Household utensils sre the best artillery, and
the chimneys of our dwelling houses the
grandest monuments of safety and triumph.
No home. No Republic.
Further, l remark. that home is school.
Old ground must be turned up with subsoil-
plow and it must be narrowed and reharrowed,
and then the crop will not be large as that of
the new ground with less culture. Now, youth
and childhood are new ground, and all The in
fuences thrown over their heart and
life win come up in afterlife luxuriantly.
smile OF approbation-all the good cheer of your
life will come up again in the geniality of your
children. And every ebullition of anger and ev-
cry uncomfortable display Of indignation will be
fuel to their disposition twenty, or thirty or
forty years from now-fue. for bad fire a
quarter of q century from this. You praise the
intelligence of your child too much sometimes
when You think he is not aware of it, and you
mill $nf 4 kafn <ar -
in his annoying affectations. You praise his
beauty. supposing he is not large enough to un-
derstand what you say. and you will find him
standing on high chair before f1attering mir
ror. Words, and deeds. and examples are the
seed of character, and children are very apt to
be the second edition of their parents. Abraham
begat Isaac, so virtue is apt TO go down in the
ancestral line; but Herob begat Archelaus, so
iniquity is transmitted. What vast responsible
ity comes upon parents in view of this subject
make your home the brightest place on
earth if you would charm your children to the
high path of virtue and rectitude and religion
Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way.
Let the light which puts gold on the gentian and
and spots the pansy pour into your dwellings.
Do not expect the little feet to keep step to the
dead march. Do not cover up your walls with
such pictures as Vests death on Pale Horse"
or Tintorettos Massacre of the Innocents."
Rather cover them, if you have pictures, with
'The Hawking Party" and ''The Mill by the
Mountain Stream" and 1.-The Fox Hunt" and
''The Children Amid Flowers" and "The Har-
vest Scene," and ''The Saturday Night Market
ing"
Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grass
hopper's leap. and lambs frisk, and quail's whis
tie, and garrulous streamlet, which, from the
rock at the mountain top clear down to the
meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep,
come looking for the steepest place to jump off
at and talking just to hear itself talk? If all
the skies hurled with tempest. and everlasting
| storm wandered over the sea, and every mount
mouth with mad foam, and there were nothing
but simoons blowing along the hills and there
were neither 1ark's carol nor humming- birds
trill, nor waterfalls dash, but only a
bears bark, and panthers scream, and
VOLTS howl, then you might well gather
in your homes only the shadows. But when
God has strewn the earth and the heavens with
beauty and with gladness, let US take into our
home circles all innocent hilarity, all brightness
and all good cheer. A dark home makes bad
boys and bad girls, in preparation for bad men
and bad women.
Above all, my friends, take into your homes
Christian principle Can it be that in any of the
comfortable homes of my congregation the voice
of prayer is never lifted9 What No supplica-
tion at night for protectionY What! No thanks
giving in the morning for caref How, my
brother. my sister, will you answer God in the
day of Judgment with reference to your children9
the tenth chapter of Jeremiah, God says
| he will pour out his fury upon
the families that call not upon his
| name o parents! when you are dead and gone,
and the moss is covering the inscription of the
tombstone will your children look back and
think of father and mother at family prayer2
Will they take the old family Bible and open it,
and see the mark of tears of contrtion, and tears
Of consoling promises wept by eyes long before
gone out in the darknessl Oh, if you do not in
culcate Christian principle in the hearts of your
children, and you do not warn them against evil,
and you do not invite them to holiness and to
H~I Al s~,k~
| into infdelity. and at last make shpwreck
of their immortal soul. on their death
bed and in the day Of judgment they will
| curse you. Seated by the register of the
out the history of your children What his
tory-the mortal and immortal life of your
loved ones! Every parent is writing the history
of his child. He is writing it-composing it
| into song or turning it into groan.
| My mind runs back to one of the best of early
homes. Prayer, like roof. over it. Peace like
| an atmosphere. in it. Parents, personi6cations
of faith in trial and comfort in darkness. The
two pillars Of that earthly home long ago crum-
bled to dust. But shall ever forget that early
homef Yes, when the flower forgets the sun
that warns it. Yes, when the mariner forgets
the star that guided him. Yes, when love has
gone out on the hearts altar and memory has
emptied its urn into forgetfulness. Then, the
home of my childhood, will forget thee; the
family altar of a fathers Importantly and
mothers tenderness, the voices of affection the
funerals of our dead father and mother. with in
terlocked arms like INTERVENING branches of
trees making a perpetual arbor of love and
peace, and kin2ness-then I will for
get them-then and only then. You
know, my brother, that hundred times you
have been kept out of sin by the memory of
such scene as have been describing. You
have often had raging temptations, but you
know what has held you with supernatural
grasp. 1 tell you man who has had such
good home as that never gets over it, and man
who has had bad early home never gets over it.
Again, remark. that home is a type of heaven.
To bring as to that home Christ left His home.
Far up and far back in the history Of heaven
there came period when its most illHstrious
citizen about to absent Himself He was
not going to sail from beach to beach, we
| have often done that He was not GO
| ing to put ont from one hemisphere