Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-03-21

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thing that is nice to est but have no appe-
| tite, and must die" Then the father took
| from his tnapsack loaf of rye bread, such
| as the plain people of his country ate, and
sad, "Tlore is a Loaf Of bread your mother
| made, and am sure you can cat this, she
| sent it to you" Then the soldier Frightened
up, and took The bread and ate it, and said,
st is SO good, the bread from home, tho
bread that my mother mader' No wonder
that in a fcw days he had recovered. o
young man, wounded in the battle of life,
and discouraged, given up by yourself, and
! given up by Others the old folks at tho coun-
! try Preside have not given you up. l bring
! you bread from home II may be plain bread,
but it IS that bread of which il man ent he
never again shall hunger. Bread from homel
! Bread from homel
10 NOT STAB THE FAMILY NAME.
Carrying out the idea of my text, remark
| that reckless or dissipated son makes a
heavy hearted parent because il hurts the
| family pride. 1t ii not the given name or
the name which you received at the christen-
! ing that Il injured 10y your pro1igallty. You
! cannot hurt your name of John or George or
| Henry or Mary or Frances or Rachel. be.
cause there have been thousands of people.
! good aud bad, having those names. and YOU
| cannot improve or depreciate the respccta-
| bility Of those given Names But it 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 damage its happy
significance. You are charged by all the
! generations Ct the past and all the genera
! tions to come. to do your share for the pro-
lection eud the honor aud the integrity of
that name. You have no right. my voung
| friend, by bad life to 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 are yet to be opened
There are in our American city directories
names that always suggest commercial dis
honesty or libertnlsn or cruelty or mean
ness, just because one man or woman bearing
that name cursed it forever by miscreancv.
Look out how you stab the family name, IL
is especially dear to your mother She was
not born under that name. She was born
under another name but the years passed on
and she came to young wonauhood, and she
saw some one with whom she could trust her
happiness, her life and her immortal destiny:
and she took his name, took it while the
orange blossoms were filling the air with
fragrance, took it with joined hands, tool; it
while the heavens witnessed She chose it
out of all the family names since the world
sickness and through health, by cradle. and by
graves
Yea she put Off her old family name to
take the family name you now wear and
she has done her part to make it an honor
able name. How heavy trouble you put
upon her when, by mlsdeeds, you wrench
that mare from its high significance! To
haul 1t down from your mothers forehead
and trample 1t in the dust would be criminal
Your fathers name may not be distin-
guished name, but hope it stands for some
thing good. 1t may not be famous. like that
of Homer, the father of epic poetry. or
Izaak Walton, the father of angling. or
-1Ischylus, the father of tragedy. or Ethel
void, the father of monks, or Herodotus. the
father Of history, or Thomas Aduinas. the
father of moral philosophy, or Abraham, the
father Of the faithful, but your father has a
name in small circle precious TO him rs
theirs in larger circle Look out how Won
tarni-h it.
Further. the reclllessness and destination of
young man are cause Of parental distress
at a time when the parent is less able to bear
it, The vicis,itudes Of life have left their i'm
preston upon those parents The exc is not
rs clear as once. nor the hearing as acute.
nor the nerves n steady, nor the step as
stron-. and with the tide Of incoming years
comes the ight of uullia behavior. You
take your parents M orao+ 1is,,l,.o,,+a..,
for they cannot stand as much ~. tI,o,, n,,l,
could. They have not tba oIa.tici+,,,S ,.oi
ing with which once thew conid tbra,, ~ |
troGble. That shoulder. now son,o,vhat I,a,,+
cannot bear rs heavy q brr,lo,, 'og>,l1 =,
could. At the time when tbo n,oobin,~,.
,,ettinc worn ont vo, nnt ,,,,o,, IL d., -
terrific strain
AT sixty and seventy, wars 4,,, ,i.oi;4.- :;
not so s,rong as at tbirtv or f,.t,. e,,,,',
they are DESCENDING fine dow ,,r,j ~ |
swiftly enough without vonr ;ncro..i,,'t ti-o
momentum. They will h. ,,o,a '''o
without your PUSHING thcp, 9,,a- Caij
the doctors who even, lva1 .ir,o u;,.,,''i
raised medicine from s,,no,.+i,i l,i
ence. and they could NOT c,i,o tl, I'ao.t,r.loi.
of a mother over her rnina1 bor, W. . 60,
be. as some sunnosa cno,,rh b,rt, o '''%J
if discovered 10 cure oh Tho ,il,9ot 'i ~
body; but nothino. save - Ieof fr1,' Wv. s'-o
of the heavenly paradise co,, ''-r u 20
made bv foolish son VINO il ~ }aa,i nm
his mother ''''9' VI
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