The progress., 1890-03-22


Children
At the Brooklyn Academy Of Iusic,
Sunday, Rev T. DE Witt Talmage after
expounding chapter describing Absalom's
carriage toward his father David, ana the
singing Of an appropriate hymn, announc-
ed his text the words. "a foolish son IS the
heaviness of his mother Prov. lO: |.
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 splen-
didly Up to forty years Of age parents
may have ambitions for themselves alteF
that their chief ambitions are Tor, ther-
children. Some. OF the old TING names IN
dicate this. The @name OF Abner means
"his fathers lamps The name ADlgall
means ''her fathers JOY" And. whal
parental delight was Solomon 70 DaVlu'
| and Samuel to Hannah, and Joseph 70
jacob And the best earthly staff that q
father has to lean OIL is a good son, and tne
strongest arm mother has to help
her down the steep Of yearsis that OF
/ grateful child But it is not rare thlng 10
| find people untilial and often the parents
4 are themselves to blame. Aged persons
| sometimes become querulous and snappy,-
and the children have their hands full Win
| tho old folks. Before entering my profes-
sion Ieyyas for three months what is called
colporteur. One day in the country dts
/ tricts stopped at the house Of good IN
/ telligent, genial farmer. The hospitality
OF such country housc8is especially pleas
ing to me, for 1 was born In the country
!. This farmer and his wife were hardwork-
ing peoplosLbat tried to make their home
agreeable and attractive. The farmer
/ fathd but sixty five years of age, end
i his grandfather, about ninety, were
vet alive and with him. Indeed,
| there were four generations In
the house, for the farmer had little child
rem playing about the room. we gathered
at the dining table. After the blessing was
asked the farmer put some of the meat up
on his plate and courteously passed 1t TO
me, when his father of sixty five 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 off the plate ourselvess you are try
ing to show off because we have company"
Meanwhile his grandfather of ninety sat
with his hat on at the table, his. face un-
clean, and his apparel untidy. Still the
farmer kept his patience and equipolse,
and never think of him without adm1ra-
ton. He must have had more grace than
ever had. u
Because people are old they have nc
right to be either ungentlemanly or uncan-
ny There are old people so disagreable
that they have nearly broken up some
homes. The young married man Wltn
whom the aged one lives stands it because
he has been use to it all his life but the
young wife, coming in from another
household, can hardly endure it, and some
times almost cries her eyes out And when
little children gather in the house they are
afraid of the venerable patriach, who has
forgotten that he ever was 3 child himself
and cannot understand why children
should ever want to play "hide and seek"
or roll hoop or fly kite, and he becomes
impatient at the sound from the nursery
] and shouts with an expenditure Of voics
that keeps him coughing fifteen minutes
afterwards, Boys! stop that racket" al
though aQv boy that ever amounted to any
) thing in the world did not begin life By
; making a racket!
Indeed, there are children who owe moth
2 ing to their parents, for those parents hav
: been profligates My lamented friend
good and Christian and lovely Henry Viii
son. Vice president of the United States
e in early life changed his name Henr
Wilson was not his original name. II
dropped his fathers name because tina
father was drunkard and disgrace, an
the son did not feel called upon TO carr
such carcass all his life. While childre
must always be dutiful, | sympathize wit
e all young people VINO have disagree
able or unprincipled old folk
around the house. Some of "a
! drawing out of our memories, know that
, is possible, after sixty or seventy or eight
or ninety years Of age. for the old to b
{, kind and genial; and the grandest adorr
d ment of a home is an aged father and a
q aged mother, if the process Of years ha
meIlowed them. Besides that If your oil
L parents are hard to get along with now
e you must remember there was time VINE
they had hard work to get along with you
= When YOU were about five or seven or te
< or twelve years of age what time the
= had with you! If they had kept a write
account of your early pranks aud mi
10 doipps. it would make a whole volum
n That time when you gave your little siste
~ a clip; that time when you explored II
depth OF jar OF sweet things for which yc
e had DO permission; that h avoc you one da
" made with your jack.knife; that pluckir
u from the orchard of unripe fruit; that ds
when, instead of being at school, as yol
parents supposed, you went a-f1shlng; an
n. many time did you imperil your youn
H. life in places where you had no business
climb or swim or venture. To get ''yc
through your fIrSt n1teen years Win yol
w life and your good morals was fearf
n draft upon parental fidelity and enduranc
ie Indeed, it may be that much of this prese
IS. physical and mental weakness in your 2
rents may have en- result of your ear
ne waywardness. You made such large al
Ell sudden drafts upon the bank OF the
- patience that you broke the ban
They were injured in being throy
he while trying to break the colt
lis is a matter of only common homes
= that you pay back to them some OF the lor
y suffering which they paid to you. Afath
as said to his son. Surely no father ever b
or as bad boy as have" ayes, said
son, ''my grandfather had" 1t is abe
" the same from generation to generation, a
to parents need TO be patient with chiidr'
W. and children dutiful to their parents. u
= ing it for granted that those who hear
TO to-day have had agood parentage, wa
nd to urge upon all the young the fact that
happiness and longevity of parents mu
- depend upon the right behavior OF th
aet children, and can do this no more etie
| a ually than by demonstrating the truth
nv text. IA foolish son is the heavineSs