Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-03-28
TALMAGES SERMON.
Weekly Discourse OF the Great
Brooklyn Preacher.

:, TEXT: "a foolish soa is The htarinsss Of
his mother. Proverbs Z, l.
All parents want their children to turn
out well. However poorly father and mother
may have done themselves thsy want their
sons and daughters to do splendidly. Up to
forty years OF age parents may have am
billions for themselves, after that their chief
ambitions are for their children. Some OF
| the old time names indicate this. The name
OF Abner indicates his 'fathcr's lamp" The
| name Abigail means "her fathers joy"
And what parental delight was Solomon to
| David. and Samuel To Hannah, and Joseph
| TO jason! The best earthly staff that father
has to lean on is good aon and the strongest
arm mother has TO help her down the steep
| OF years Is that of a grateful child.
But 1t is not a rare thing TO find people uH-
hlial and often the parents are themselves
TO blame. Aged persons sometimes become
| querulous and snappy and the children have
their hands full with the old folks There
are old people so dsagreea BILE that they have
/ nearly broken up some homes. The young
married man with whom the agel one lives
stands 1t because he has been used to it all
/ his life, but the young wife coming in from
another household, can hardly endure it and
sometimes almost cries her eyes out
And when littln children gather in the
house they are afraid of tho venerable patri.
| arch, who has forgotten that he ever was a
! chlld himself, and Canuo: understand why
! children should cyeI waut to play hide aud
seek or roll hoop OF hv kite, and he becomes
| impatient at the sound from the nursery aud
shouts with an expenditures Of voice that
keeps him coughing tor fifteen minutes after
ward Boys stop that racket" as though
| any boy that ever amounted to anything in
the, world did net begin life 10y making
| racket
/ Indeed, there are children who ows moth
ing to their parents, for those parents have
been pronigate5. My lamcnted friend, good
| Christian Henry Wilson, Vice President Of
the nited States, IN early life changed his
name, Henry Wilson was not his original
n0lnc. lie dropped his fathers name be-
cause that father was drunkard aud a dis
! grace and the son did not feel called upon 70
carry such a carcass all hiSlite While children
must always be dutiful, Isympathze with oil
| young people who have di,agreeable or un.
principled old folks around tho house Some
OF us, drawing out of our memories, know
that 1t Is possible after sixty or seventy or
eighty or ninety years Of age for the old TO
be kind and genial; and the graz icst adorn-
ment OF home Is M asel father and an
aged mother, II the process OF years has mel
| lowed them.
You cannot hurt YOUR NAME of John or
George or Henry or Mary or Frances or
llachel, because there have 1een thousands
otpeople, good and bad, having those names,
and you cannot improve or dep"eCiate tho
reSpectabIlitv Of those given names But
, II is your last name your family name that
Is at your mercy, All who bear that name
are bound, before God and man, not to dam.
age its happy significance You are charged
10y all the generations Of the past and oil the
generations 70 como, TO do your share for tho
protection aud the honor AMI the integrity Of
that name.
Carrying ont the idea of my text. re.
mark that reckless or dISsipated son makes
heavy hearted parent because it hurts the
family pride. You have no right, my young
friend, bvn bad life 10 blot the old family
Bible containing the story Of the marriages
and births and deaths Of the years gone By
or To cast blot upon the family Bibles
whose records ara vet tp bc opened There
are i'll ouT American rity directories names
that always suggest commercial dishonesty
ur lbcrt.ni>m or cruelty or lneannesS lust
because ono man ur woman bearing that
name cursed It forever by miscreancv.
Look out how you stab the family name! II
Is especially dear 10 your mother. She was
not born under that nlme. She was born
under another name. but tho years
passed on mud she came to young woman.
| hood, and she saw some Ole with whom sho
could trust her happiness. her life and her
immortal destiny, 0nI she took his name,
| took II while the orange blossoms were hll.
inE the mir wl,h fragments took it with
| Joined hands, tpokIt while tho heavens wit.
messed, She chose II ont OF all the family
names since the world stool chose it for
better or wor.', through sickness and
| through health. 10y cradles and by graves
| Yea, shc put of hcr old family name to take
the family unme YOU nov wear, and she has
| done her palt 10 make il an honorable name
| How heavy trOutio Nod put upon her when
/ by misdeadS ven wrcnrh that name from it,
! high significance TO hnul II down from
| your mothers forehead aud trample II in the
| dust would he criminal g.
"NCur fathers name may not be a distin.
J ru,shed name, but hope II stands for Some.
| thing Sool 1t may not be famous like that
Of Homer th' father Of epic poetry, or Issak
/ Walton, the ,nthcr of angling, or Eschyus,
tho father Of tragedy. or Ethelwold tho
father OF monks, or Hcrodotus the father OF
history, or Thomas Aquinas the father OF
moral philosophy. or Abraham, tho
has name in fmell circle as precious TO
| him a. theirs in n larger circle. Look out
bow = ~ tarn2h it,
Perhaps il is good thing that cruel treat
ment 10y child abbrcviates a parents life;
for what is there desirable in a fathers life
or mothers life if its peace Is gone! Do
| you not think death is something beneacent
IL it stops the mothers heart from actfng
and her eyes from weeping, and says: You
need not bear the excruciation any longer
Go and sleep ! will put the defense Of a
| marble slaJ between you and that boys out
RACES. Go now where the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at rest
! At the departure OF such mothers let the mu.
sic be an anthem instead of n dirge. While
/ YOU 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, oil good CounSels given
and the equipment for sober and earnest
and useful life was provided; but 1t has all
gone, and the foolish SON has become tbs
heaviness of his mother. f.ItsssSi&'.
Much Of the poignaucy Of the parcntal
| grief arises from the ingratitude Of such
behavior. What an undertaking It is to
| conduct family through tho ailments and
exposures of carly life Talk about tho skill
demanded of u sea captain commanding u
ship across the ocean! That requires less
skill than to navigate a young soul in safety
across the infantie and boyhood years
The sickneSses that assault, the temptations
that entrap, the anIieties that are excited
| Young man, you will never know what your
mother has suffered for you. You will never
know how your father has toled for you
You have been in all their thoughts, in all
their plans, IN all their prayers from tho
time your first breath was drawn to this
moments respira ton.
But" SAYS some young man, my mother
Is gone; my behavior will not trouble her
any more" Then perhaps you have her pict-
ure. Hang II up In your room In the place
where you oftenest look Go aud study her
features and while you are looking tho past
will come back, and you may hear her voice,
I which Is now 50 still, speak again, saying:
"From my heavenly home my dear
boy, l solicit your reformation and saliva.
ton. Go TO tho Christ who pardoned me,
and He will pardon you. My heaven will
not be complete till hear Of your changing
But will hear OF It right away, for there Ia
JOY up here when one sinner repentetb."
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