The progress., 1890-03-22

of rye-bread, such as the plain people or
his country ate, and said, Here Is loaf
of bread your mother made, and / am
sure you can eat this; she sent
il to YOU" Then the soldier
frightened up, ana took the bread
and ate it, and said 1T is so good the
| bread from home. the bread that my moth
/ er made r. No wonder that.in few days
| he had recovered o, young man, wounded
in the battle Of life. ana discouraged gwen
up by yourself. and given up by others
| the old folks at the country hreside nave
! not given you up. bring you bread from
| home. 1t may be plain bread, but II IS
| that bread of which if a man eat he never
| again shall hunger. Bread from home.
/ Bread from home
| Carrying out the idea or my text, re
mark that a reckless or dissipated son
1 makes heavy hearted parent because IL
hurts the family pride 1t is not the given
name, or the name which you received at
/ the christening, that is injured BY your
] prodigality. ou cannot hurt your name
of John or George or Henry or Mary or
Frances or Rachel. because there have
i been thousands of people, good and bad,
having those names and you cannot i'm
prove or depreciate the respectability of
those given names. But 1t is your last
name, your family name, that IS
at your mercy. All who bear that name aEe
bound, before God and man, not TO damage
| it's 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
i integrity Of that name. You have no rght,
my young friend by bad life to blot the,
| old family Bible containing the story OF the
marriages and births and deaths OF the
years cone by. or to cast a blot upon tue
family Bibles whose records are yet 70 DC
onened There are in our American clty-
directories names that always Suggest
commercial dishonesty or HbertlnlSln ol
! cruelty or meanness, just because one
man or woman bearing that Ianlo
i cursed it forever by miscreancy. LOOK
ont how YOU stab the family name! 1t is
especially dear to your mother. she was
not born under that name. She was Dorm
under another name, but the years passed
OH and she came to young womanhood, ana
she saw some one with whom sue could
trust her happiness her life, and her I'M
!, mortal destiny: and she took his name,
took it while the orange blossoms were
filling the air with fragrance, took IL win
Joined hands took it while the heavens
Witnessed. She chose 1t out'of all the ram
.ily names since the world stood, chose 1T
for better or worse, through sickness and
through health, by cradles and by graves
Yea, she put off her old family
name to take the family name
YOU now wear, and she mas
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! 10 maui
it down from your mothers forehead ana
trample it in the dust would be criminal
Your fathers name may not De dlstln-
guished name, but | hope it stands for
| 4 moi
like that of Homer, the father OF epic poetry,
or Izaak Walton, the father Of angling, or
Fschylus, the father Of tragedy, or Ethel
void, the father Of monks, or Herodutus,
the father Of history, or Thomas Aqulnas,
the father OF moral philosophy, or ADra-
ham, the father of the faithful, but your
father has maine in a small circle as
. precious to him as theirs In Larger circle.
Look out how you tarnish 1t!
, I Further. the recklessness and dissipa-
ton OF a young man are cause OF paren-
4 tai distress at time when the parent is
less able to bear it. The yicissitudes Oh
life have left their impression upon those
parents The eye is not as clear as once
nor the hearing acute, nor the nerves as
steady, nor the step as strong. aud Win
the tide or incoming years comes the
weight of untilial behavior. You take
| vour parents at a great disadvantage, for
9 could They have not the elasticity oi
, feeling with which once they could throw
! off trouble. That shoulder, now somewhat
j bent, cannot bear as heavy a burden
y &c once it could At the
: time when the machinery
= getting worn out you put upon it the most
terrific strain. At sixty and seventy years
y the vitality is not so strong as at thirty OF
q forty Surely they are descending th
a down grade of life swiftly enough withou
: YOUR increasing the momentum. They VII
3 be gone soon enough without your pushlns
> them away Call in all the doctors VIII
y ever lived since Hippocrates raised medl
Y cine from supcrstitution to a science AM
u they could not cure the heartDreaK Oh
l. mother over her ruined boy. There may be
Il as some suppose, enough herbs on eartn, =
5 discovered to cure all the ailments OF tn
q body; but nothing save leaf from In
= tree Of the heavenly Paradise can cure
u wound made by foolish son VINO Is Tue
l. heaviness of his mother.
Perhaps it is good thing that cruel treat
y ment by child abbreviates parents life
d for what is there desirable in a fathers hf
3 or a mothers life if it's peace is gone! IL
g. YOU not think death is beneficent If it stop
y the mothers heart from aching and ne
le eyes from weeping, and says: "1ou nee
~ not bear the excruciation any longer y
y and sleep i Will put the uelenco VI
lg marble slab between you and tha
" boys outrages Go now where tn
ar wicked cease from troubling and tn
id weary are at rests" At the departure
g snch mothers let the music be an anthel
to instead of q dirge. While YOU and hes
,u no sound, yet there are at this moment ter
II of thousands of parental hearts breakin'
ul All care was taken with the boys schoo
%. ing, all good counsels given, and the equI
mt ment for a sober and earnest and usefl
"a life was provided, but it has all gone, an
ly the foolish son has become the heavines
Id of his mother.
,ir Much of the poignancy OF the parent
N grief arises from the ingratitude OF sue
vn behavior. What an undertaking it Is
II conduct family through the ailments al
~ exposures of early life! Talk about tt
10. skill demanded of q sea-captain command
,er ing a ship across the ocean That requir
ad less skill than to navigate young soul
he safety across the infantile and Doyho
mt years. The sicknesses that assault, u
nd temptations that entrap. the anxieties tn