The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-04-02
YOUR NAME.
Let Not One Stain Come Upon
Your Character.
a FooIish Son the Heaviness Of His Par.
#, snts Remember the Mothers
Prayer and the Fathers Anx-
4 iety Talmage's Ser.

snts Remember the Mothers
Prayer and the Fathers Anx-
OIL iety -Tslmage's Ser
Dr.. Talmage announced last Sunday
as his text the words, IA foolish SON Is
the heavipess Of his mother" Prov. l.,
/. He said:
All parents want their children to
turn out we'll. However poorly father
and mother may have done themselves,
they want their sons and daughters to
DO splendidly. Up to forty years of age
parents may have ambitions for them
selves; after that their chief ambitions
are for their children. Some Of the old
time names indicate this. The name OF
Abner means his fathers lamp" The
name Abigail means ''her fathers Joy"
And what parental delight was Solo
mon to David, and Samuel to Hannah,
and Joseph to Jacob! And the best
earthly staff that . father has to lean on
is good son, and the strongest arm
mother has to help her down the steep
Of years is that Of grateful child. But
it is not rare thing to find people I'M
filial, and often the parents are them
selves to blame. Aged persons some
times become querulous and snappy,
and the children have their hands full
with the old folks. Before entering my
profession l was for three months what
is called colporteur.t One day
in the country districts / stopped
at the house Of good, intelli'
gent, genial farmer. The hos
pitality of such country house is es'
pecially pleasing to me, for l was born
in the country. This farmer and his
wife were Woodworking people, but tried
to make their home agreeable and at
tractive. The farmers father, about Ok
years of age, and his grandfather, about
90, were yet alive and with him. Indeed
there were four generations in the
house, for the farmer had little children
playing about the room. We gathered
at the dining-room table. After thu
blessing was asked the farmer put somt
of the meat upon his plate and court
eously passed it to me, when his fathel
of IS years of age cried out to his son
who was at least 80 years Of age: "Wh!
do you not pass the meat as you Away
do, and let us take it of of the plat'
ourselves? You are trying to show Of
because we have company" Meanwhile
his grandfather of 90 sat with his ha
on at the table, his face unclean, an,
his apparel untidy. Still the farme
kept his patience and equipoise, and
never think of him without admiration
He must have had more grace than
ever had.
Because people are old they have n
right to be either ungentlemanly or un
canny. There are old people so disa
greeable that they have nearly broker
up some homes. The young marrie'
man with whom the aged one live
stands it because he has been used to /
all his life, but the young wife, cominl
in from another household, can hardl,
endure it, and sometimes almost erie
her eyes out. And when little childrel
gather in the house, they are afraid o
the venerable patriarch, who has for
gotten that he ever was child himself
and can not understand why children
should ever want to play 'hide ant
SEEK" or roll hoop, or fly kite, and h
becomes impatient at the sound iron
the nursery, and shouts with an ex
penditure of voice that keeps hir
coughing fifteen minutes afterward
"Boys! stop that racket" as though an
boy that ever amounted to any thing i
the world did not begin life by maxim
o racket!
Indeed, there are children who ow
nothing to their parents, for thos
parents have been profligates. My Ia
mented friend, good and Christian an
lovely Henry Wilson, Vice.President G
the United States, in early life change
his name. Henry Wilson was not hi
original name. He dropped his father
name because that father was drunk
ard and disgrace, and tho son did nc
feel called upon to carry such carcas
all his life. While children must Away
be dutiful, sympathize with all youn
people who have disagreeable or NJ
principled old folks around the hous,
Some Of us drawing out Of our memories
know that it is possible, after 80 or 70 q
so or 30 years of age, for the old to b
kind and genial, and the grandest adorr
ment Of home is an aged father and q
aged mother, II the process Of years ha
mellowed them. Besides that, il you
old parents are hard to get alon
with now, you must remember ther
was time when they had I
work to get along with you. Whe
you were about or or 10 or 10 veal
of age what time they had with yo,
If they had kept written account ,
your early pranks and misdoings,
would make whole volume. That tim
when you gave your little sister clil
that time when you explored the dept
of q jar Of sweet things for which ,yo
had no permission; that havoc you or
day made with your jack knife; tn;
plucking from the orchard OF unriy
fruit; that day when, instead of being
school as your parents supposed, yo
went a-ishing; and many a time d
you imperil your young life in plac,
where you had no business to climb
swim or venture. To get you throup
tyour first fifteen years with your life ar
your morals good was fearful dra
upon parental fidelity and endurance
Indeed, it may be that much Of tn
present physical and mental weakne
in your parents may have been a resu
Of your early waywardness. You mao
such large and sudden drafts upt
Il fho hank of their natianca th,