The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-06-06
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE's SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: Parents Treatment of Chill
dren.n
TEXT; "a foolish son is II. heavinsss of

e TEXT: IA foolish son ist heariness Of
S his mother."-Proverbs K, l.
J 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 splendidly. Up to
forty years Of age parents NAV have am
t billions for themselves, after that their chief
= ambitions are for their children. Some of
the old time names indicate this. The name
Of Ahner indicates his fathers lamp" The
: name Abigail means ''her fathers Joy
: And what a parental delight was Solomon to
II David aud Samuel to Hannah, and Joseph
: Q Jaeoh The best earthly staff that 2 father
az g. ifae on IS good son and the strongest
lrn ~ stAsr has to help her down the steep
IF Yeate = Nat of a grateful child.
Bat4t not rare thing to find people ua-
flia.s pm often the parents are themselves
4 Ito blniff. aged persons sometimes become
: 9nel a Us sed snappy and the children have
tlsszs* d full with the old folks. There
, Ii, eeple so disagreeable that they have
1 ii N f. foken up some homes The young
I ii &nan with whom the aged one lives
I spez# Because he has been used to it all
# bet the young wife, coming in from
taaansehold, can hardly endure it and
: almost cries her eyes out.
i ss5 en- little children gather in the
fssstor Are afraid of the venerable patri-
t'ali-lt IS forgotten that he ever was a
: f4ofaad and cannot understand why
4 49, III. ID ever want to play hide and
i go sp or fly kite and he becomes
: Il lfHf 1ff lie sound from the nursery and
kerSelf SIN expenditure of voice that
s91 e uni hing for fifteen minutes after
81, : top that racketr' as though
toor 10 amounted to anything in
the seasoIat begin life by making
49, are children who owe moth
j. gents for those parents have
go IS Ny lamented friend, good
'p eaS isDn look b. !, President 11 %, Of
acc. & Hong companr not his original
~ = afe tBta drunkard and dis
z s. !. - the son did not feel called upon to
fh carcass all hislife While children
= 81 3ays be dutiful, Isympathize with all
3 seople who have diSagreeable or UNI
Asi old folks around the house. Some
atflwing out OF our memories, know
= - u - possible after sixty or seventy or
i u - q ~ ninety years of age for the old to
NJ md genial; and the grandest adorn-
q 2 home is an aged father and an
II them.
8 : fDu cannot hurt your name of John or
s7tsb or Henry or Mary or Frances or
Rtache3, because there have been thousands
Of people. good and bad, having those names,
and you cannot improve or depreciate the
rzrecsabiity of those given names. But
q u IS your last name, your family name that
y Is at yCur mercy. All who bear that name
3 are bound, before God and man, not to dam
ege It's happy significance. You are charged,
by ali the generations of the past and all the
generations TO come, to do your share for the
Profession and the honor and the integrity Of
shat name.
Carrying out the idea of my text, I re-
marx that reckless or dissipated son makes
= hetY2 hearted parent because it hurts the
family pride. You have no right, my young
trie1ds by bad life to blot the old family
Bible containing the story of the marriages
Snd births and deaths of the years gone by
Or to cast a blot upon the family Bibles
whose records are yet to be opened. There
are in our American city directories names
that always suggest commercial dishonesty
or hbertinlsm or cruelty or meanness, Just
because one man or woman bearing that
name cursed it forever by miscreancy.
Look out how you stab the family name 1t
is especially dear to your moth.f. She was
not born under that name. She was born
under another name but the years
passed on and she came to young woman
hood, and S. Ivy some oLe with whom she
could trust Aer happiness, her life and her
immortal destiny, and she took his name
took it while the orange blossoms were fill
ing the air with fragments, took it with
joined hands, tookit while the heavens wit
messed. She chose it out of all the family
1 udIAlcS Since the WOTlQ StOOQ, CQOSe u Tor
I 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 Daueyou now wear, and she has
done her part to make it an honorable name
How heavy trouble you put upon her when,
by mlsdeeds, you wrench that name from its
ngh signiicanesi 10 haul it down from
yps5SSs snetheTs fQrezsei and tralnpls It IN the
fits5 would l5a efiH hal
our fat{lf iialie may NOT he q distin-
y guis1ed name III - IDS for some !
thila COCA. lsss e,aesss' Hks; tx !
" Ss9nl e4atneq d angling 5r 1H.scsyins
ths Of tragedy, or Eshelwold. lie
hist Thomas Aquinas the father Of
NOR. philosophy, or Abraham, the
father OF the faithful, but your father
1 las name in a small circle as precious to
him rs theirs in a larger circle. Look out
! how you tarnish tn
Perhaps it is good thing that cruel treat
ment by child abbreviates parents life;
] for what Is there desirable in q fathers life
or mothers life if its peace is gone? Do
you not think death is something beneicent
if it stops the mothers heart from aching
and her eyes from weeping, and says: 'YOu
need not bear the excruciation any longer.
Go and sleep. l will put the defense Of a
marble slab between you and that boys out
RACES. Go now where the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at rest"
At the departure of such mothers let the mu-
sic be an anthem instead of a dirge While
you and 1 hear no sound yet there are at
this moment tens of thousands Of parental
hearts breaking. All care was taken with
the boys schooling, all good counsels given,
and the equipment for a sober and earnest
and useful life was provided; but it has all
gone, and the foolish son has become the
heavineSs of his mother.
Much of the poignancy of the parental
grief arises from the ingratitude of such
Behavior. What an undertaking it is to
conduct a family through the ailments and
exposures of early life! Talk about the skill I
demanded of q sea captain commanding a
ship across the ocean, That requires less !
skill than to navigate young soul in safety /
across the infantile and boyhoOd years, /
The sicknesses that assault the temptations (
that entrap, the anXieties that are excited ! /
Young man, you will never know what your /
mother has suffered for you You will never /
know how your father has tOiled for you. /
You have been in all their thoughts, in all /
their plans, IN all their prayers, from the /
time your first breath was drawn TO this !
moments respira ton.
s'But says some young man, '.my mother
is gone; ~ behavior will not trouble her /
any mo- Then perhaps you have her pict- /
ure. B 4 it up in your room in the place |
where aoftenest look. Go and study her
features and while you are looking the past |
viii come back, and you may hear her voice,
which is now so still, speak again, saying;
saFrom my heavenly home my dear
z3y. ! solicit your reformation and saliva
Jon. 90 to the Christ who pardoned me,
-ind Id via 5arCon you. My heaven will
NOS s. ff5'e till hear Of your changing.
But 7 nd OF it right away, for there IS
i. by az. len one sinper repenteth.''
: hSwift5f "a telegraphic wire ever car
:, .ad co.'s tons to wedding or coro-
Hy heavenward the news of
1ztlr des.t nee; and whether the one most
Fei ests % your salvation were on river
II nix, OF q the temple or on the battle
J. - orssa the great tower, the message
INSTANTLY received, and before this
,service is closed angel would cry to angel:
'Have you heard the news2 Out yonder is
a mother who has just heard of her maynard
boys redemption. Another prodigal has got
home. The dead is alive again and the lost
is found"