Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-17
SERMON BY DIR. TALMAGE.
TREATMENT OF PARENTS THE SUB
JEcT OF HIS DISCOURSE.

Too Much to Honor Cody, Upright Par
snts.
BROOKLYN, March 16.--The following SER
mon was preached this morning by DR. Tai
mage in the Academy Of Music, in which his
church is worshiping during the rebuilding
Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and which will
continue to be so occupied until that edifice
is completed. After expounding chapter
describing Absalom's carriage toward his
father David, and the singing OF an appro-
pirate hymn, DR.. Talmage annodnced as his
text the words, "A foolish son is the hsavi-
ness Of his mother. prov x, / HI said
PARENTS soLIoITUDE FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
All parents want their children to turn
out well. However poorly father and mother
may have done themselves they want their
sons and daughters to do speuddly Up to
ferty years OF age parents may have ambi-
tions for themselves after that their chief
ambitions are for their children Some of
the old time names indicate this The name
OF Abnsr means "his fathers lamp" The
name Abigail means 'her fathers 1oyh Aud
what a parental delight was Solomon 80
David, and Samuel to Hannah, aud Joseph
to Jaoobi And the best EARTHLY staff that
father has to lean on is good son, and the
the steep OF years is that Of grateful child
Bat it is not a rare thing to flud people un-
nlial, and often the parents are themselves 10
blame Aged persons sometimes become
querulous and snappy, and the chil3csA have
their hands full with the old folks.
Before entering my profession I was for
three months what is called a colporsqur
One day in the country districts l stopped at
the house Of a good intelli Gent, genial
farmer. The hospitality of such a country
house is especially pleasing to me, for was
born in the country. This farmer and his
wife were Woodworking people, but sried to
make their home agreeable and attractive
The farmers father, about sixty-fivs years Of
age, and his grandfather, about ninety, were
yet alive and with him. Indeed, there were
Sour generations in the house, for the farmer
had little children playing about the room.
We gathered at the dining table. After
the blessing was asked the farmer put some
Of the meat upon his plate and courteously
passed 1t to me, when his father of sixty-fve
years of age cried out to his son, who was At
least thirty years of age; why do you not
pass the meat as you always do, and let us
take it of the plate oursslyesl you are trying
TO show Off because we have company"
Meanwhile his grandfather Of ninety sat with
his hat on at the table, his face unclean, and
his apparel untidy Still the farmer kept
his patience and equipoise, and / never think
Of him without admiration. He must have
had moro-grace than | ever had
Because people are old they have no right
t0 be either ungentlemsnly or uncanny.
There are old people so disagreeabls that they
have nearly broken up some homes. The
young married man with whom the aged 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 little children gather in the house,
they are afraid Of the venerable patriarch,
who has forgotten that he over was a child
himself, and cannot understand why children
should ever want TO play "hide and seek, or
roll hoop, or fly kite, and he becomes impa-
tient at the sound from the nursery, and
shouts with an expenditure of voice that
keeps him coughing fifteen minutes after
wards Boys stop that racket" as though
any boy that ever amounted 10 anything in
the world did not begin life by making q
racket
SOME PARENTS ARE NOT WORTHY.
Indeed, there ore children who owe nothing
10 their parents, for those parents have been
prohigates. My lsmented friend good and
Christian and lovely Henry Wilson, vice
president of the United States, in early life
changed bis name Henry Wilson was not
his original name lie dropped his fathers
name because that father was drunkard
and disgrace, and the son did net fesl called
upon to carry such a carcass all his life.
While children must always bs dutiful,
sympathize with all young people who have
disagreeable or unprincipled old FOLKS around
the 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 tAs
grandest adornment of home Ia a9 eyed
father and an aged mother If the process Of
years has msllowed them.
Besides that, if your old pafcrc7 ara hard
to get along with now, you mass remember
there was a time when they had hsra work To
get along with you. Whom you were about Ave
or seven or ten or twelve years Of aEs what
a time they had with you'll IL they had kept
o written account of your early prsnks and
misdoings, it would make whole volume
That time when you gave your little sister
clip; that time when you explored the depth
OF a Jar Of sweet things for which you lad ne
permission; that havoc you one day made
the orchard of unripe fruit; that day when,
instead Of being at school, rs yonr parents
supposed, you went a-ashiug; and many a
time did you imperil your young life ia
places where you had no business 50 climb or
swim or venture 10 get You through your
first fifteen years with your life and your
good morals was a fearful drafs upon parsn'
tal fidelity and endurance
Indeed. it may be that much Of this pres
ent physical aud mental weakness ia your
parents may have been a result Of your carly
wayyardness You made such large and
sudden drafts upon the bank Of their patience
that YOU broke the bank. They were injured
in being thrown while trying to bre-z the
colt 1t is a matter OF only common honesty
that you pay back to them some Of the long
suffering which they paid TO you. father
said to his son; "Surely no father ever had
as bad boy as ! have.n YES said the
son, tiny grandfather had" 1t Is about the
same from generation TO generation, and
parents need TO DO patient with children,
and children dutiful 60 their parents. TAX
ing il for granted that those who hear me to-
day have had a good pareutaCe, | want to
urge upon all the young the fact that the
happiness and longevity of parents much do
pend upon the right behavior OF their chill
dren, and can do this no moro eGectualy
than by demonstrating the truth OF my text,
"a foolish son is the huayiuess OF his mother"
HOME THINGS ARE BEST.
Perhaps some young man Hstray may be
brought back by a thought Of how they feel
about him at home A French soldier lay
wounded and diving in the hospital at Geneva,
Switzerland. His father, az home. seventy
wears Of age, heard Of his cons suffer
ING. and started, and took tho long jour