The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-17

nice 10 eat, but have no appetite. and
Unjust die" Then the father took IT 10
his knapsack a leaf OF rye oreao,
such as the plain people OF his country ate,
and said ''here IS lear OF bTead your
mother made and I am sure you can ear
fhis. she sea j. TO YOU" Tnen the soldier
Frightened up and took the bread ami ats
it and said. at IS 50 good, the bread fro n
b me. the bread that NV mother mace!
NJ WI nder that in a few days ne had rec "
cred. o Young ma D, wounded IN tue battle
Of life and di,col raged, given up by your
seIf aid given I'D by others, the old folks at
fhe country firesi5e have not given you up.
I brirr Won bread from home It may be
Tlain bread, but it is That bread of which If
aman eat he never again shall hunger.
Rre d from homel Bread from homei
Carrying out the idea Of my text, re-
mark that a reckless or disSipated son makes
q beavy-bearted parent because it hurts he
family pride. II is not the gwen name. or
the name which You received at the christ
ening, that is injured by your prodlgality.
You cannot hurt your name of j IN or
George or Henry or Mary or Frances or
Rachel, because there have b en- thousands
OF people. good and bad. having those names,
aud you cannot improve or depreciate the
responsibility of those given names But 1t
is your last name, your family name. that is
at your mercF. Ali who bear that name
are bound, before God and man, not to
damage its happy significance. You
are charged. by all the generations
of the past and all the generations to come,
to do your share for the protection and the
honor and the integrity of that name. You
have no ri hit, NV young friend, by a bad
life 10 blot the old family Bl lie containing
the story of the marriages aud births and
deaths of the years gone by, or to cast a
blot upon the family Bibles whose records
are ye5 to be opened. The are in our
American city directories names that al
ysays lggest commercial dishonesty, or Ii y
ertinism, or cruelty, or meanness, Just be-
cause one man or woman bearing that name
cursed it forever by miscreancy. Look
out how you stab the family
namei 1t is especially dear to your
mother. She was not born under that
name. She was born under another name,
but the years pas ed on and she came TO
you womanhood, and she saw some one
with whom she could trust her happiness,
her life. and her nmortal destiny; ID she
took his name, took it while TIE orange
blossoms were filing the air with frag ance,
took it wit joined hands, took it while tine
heavens witnessed. She chose it out Of all
the family nam S since the world stood,
chose it for better or worse, through sick
ness and through health, by cradles and by
graves Yea, she put off her old family
name to take the family name you now
wear, ana she has done her part to
make it an honorable name. How
heavy trouble you put upon her when, by
misdeeds, you wrench that name from its
high significance! To haul it down from
your mothers forehead aud tramule it in
the dust would be criminal. Your fathers
name may not be distinguished name, but
/ hope it stands for something good. 1t
may not be famous, like that of Homer, the
father of epic poetry, or Izaak Walton, the
father of angling or Eschylus, the father
of tragedy, or Etbelwold, the father of
monks, or Hero lotus, the father Of history,
or Thomas Aqulnas, the father of moral
philosophy, or Abraham, the father of the
faithful. but your father has name in a
sEuall circle as precious to hi II as theirs in
lal' ger circle. Look out how yoa tara ish It'll
Further, the recklessness and dissipation
of a young man are cause of parental dis
tress at time When the parent is less abb &.
to Tear it. The vicissitudes of life have left
their impression upon those parents. The
eve is not as clear as once, nor the hearing
as acute, nor the nerves as steady, nor the
step as strong, and with the tide of incom-
ing years comes the weight of unfilal
behavior. You take your parents at a
great disadvantage, for they cannot stand
as much as they once could. They b We
not the elasticity of feeling with which
once they could throw off trouble. That
= shoulder, now somewhat bent, cannot
lbosr asI heavy a burden as once it could
At the time when the machinery is
getting worn out you put upon 1t the most
terrific strain. At sixty and seventy years
the vitality is not SO strong as at thirty or
forty. Surely they are descending the
down grade of life swiftly enough without
your increasing the momentum. They will
be gone soon enough without your pushing
them away. Call in all the doctors who
ever lived since Hppocrates aised med
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they could not cure the heartbreal of a
mother over her ruined boy. There NAV
be, as some suppose, enough herbs on earth,
If discovered. to cure all tine ailments of the
body; but nothing save leaf from the tree
of the heavenly paradise Can cure a wound
made by foolish son who is the heaviness
of his mother.
Perhaps it is good thing that cruel treat
ment ty child abbrevia;e a parents life;
for what is there desirable in a fnther's life
or mothers life if its pace is gone? Do
you not think death is something beneficent
If it stops the mothers heart from achi q
and her eyes from weeping, a d says: You
need not bear the excruciation any longer
Go and sleep. | will put the defense of a
marble slab between you and that bows
outrages. Go now where the wicked ceise
from troubling and the weary are at rest. u
AT the departure of sucn mothers let the
music be an anthem Instead of a diree
w lille y u and hear no sound, yet there
are at this moment tens of thousands OF
parental hearts breaking All care was
taken with the boys schooling, all good
counsels given, and the equipment for q
sober and earnest a useful life was pro-
vided. but it has all gone, aud the foolish
son has become the heaviness of his mother.
Much Of the poignancy of the parenta
grief arises from tue ingratitude of such be-
hayior. " hat an undertaking it is to con-
duct family through the ailments and ex-
posures of early lifel Talk out the skill
demanded of a sea captain commanding 9
ship across the ocean, That requires les,
skill than to navigate young soul in safety
across the infantile and boyhood years. i he
sickneSSeS that assault. the tenn, ,tations thai
entrap, the anxleties that are excl ed
Young man, you will never know what
your mother has suffered for you. Yo,
will never know how your father has toiled
for you. You have been in all theil
thoughts, in all their plans, in all theii
prayers, from the time ur first breath
was drawn to this moments respiration
What they could do for your health, W a.
they could do for your happiness, what they
could do for your mind, what they could
do for your soul, have been absorb
ing questions. To earn a livelihood
for you has not always been an easy
thing for your father By what fatigues OF
BODY and what disturbances of mind, and
long years of struggle. in which sometimes
ha I,