The Forrest City times., 1890-03-22
DEPTH OF PARENTAL LOVE.
Dr. Talmags on ths Relation of Children
 to Parent.
Aged Parentage tho Grandest Adornmsats of Home Youth Q Fearful Draft on Parental Fidelity Happiness and Longev- ity Depend Much Upon the Behavior of Childrar.


 Children.
 At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sunday, Rev. T. De Witt Taimagc after cxpounding chapter describing Absalom's carriage toward his father David, and the singing of an appropriate hymn, announc- cd his text, the words, Ia foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.n Prov. 10; |.
 He said:
 All parents want their children 10 turn out well. However poorly father and mother may have done themselves, they want their sons and daughters to do splcn didly. Up to forty years of age parents may have ambitions for themselves, after that their chief ambitions are for their children. Some of the old time names in dicate this The name of Abuer means This fathers lampn The name Abigail means sher fathers joy.n And what a parental delight was Solomon to Davi1, and Samuel to Hannah, and Joseph to Jacob, And the best earthly stan that a father has to lean on is a good son, and the strongest arm n mother has 10 help hsr down tho steep of years is that of n grateful child. But it is not rare thing 10 find people unhlial, and often the parents arc themselves to blame Aged perso ms sometimes become qp1rulous und snappy and the children have their ha.1s full with the old folks. Before entering my profes- sion was for three months what is called a colporteur One day in the country dts tricts stopped at the house of good. in. tell llgcnt, genial former. The hospitality of such a country house is especially pleas ing to me, for l was born in the country This farmer and his wife were hardwork- ing people, but tried to make their home agreeable and attractive. Tho farmers father, about sixty-hve years Of age, and his grandfather, about ninety, were yet alive and with him. Indeed, there were four generations in the house. for the farmer had little child ren playing about tho room. We gathered at the dining table Alter the blessing was asked the farmer put some of the meat up pn his plate and courteously passed t 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 of the plate ourselyesi you are try ing 10 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 tho farmer kept his patience and equipolse, and 1 never think of him without admira eiVH- ttt lhNSs 1tsN V htiS Atoth AolC tsian ever had.
 Because people are old they have no right to be either uugentlemanIy or uncan hy. There are old people so disagreable that they have nearly broken up some homes. The young married man with whom the aged one lives stands it because he has been use to it all his life, but. tho young wlfc, coming in from another household, can hardly endure it, and soma- 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 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 al the sound from the nursery, and shouts with an expenditure of voice that keeps him coughing fifteen inmates afterwards, Boysl stop that rackettr as though any boy that ever amounted to any thing iu the world did not begin life by making racket!
 Indeed, there are children who owe noth ing to their parents, Tor those parents have been proiigates. My iamented friend, good and Christian and lovely Henry Vii. son, Vice president of the United States, in early life changed his name Henry Wilson was not his original name. flo dropped his fathers name because that father was a drunkard and disgrace aud the son did not feel called upon 10 carry such carcass all his life, While children must always be duurul, 1 sympathize with all young people who hayo disagroe- ablo CT unprincipled old folks around tho 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 the grandest adorn ment of home is an aged father and an aged mother, if the process of years has mellowed them. Besides that, if your old parents are hard to get along with now, you must remember there was time when they had hard work to get along with you When you were about five or seven or ten or twelve years Of age what timo they had with you, If they had kept written account of your early pranks aud mis- doings, it would make whole volume That time when you gave yonr little sister clip that time when you explored the depth of jar Of sweet things for which you had no permission; that h ayoc you ono day made with yoar Iack.knife; that plucking from the orchard of unripe fruit; that day when, instead Of being at school, us your parents supposed, you went | fishing; and many time did you imperil your young life in places whero you had no business to climb or swim or venture To get you through your first fifteen years with your life and yoar good morals was a fearful draft upon parental fidelity md endurance Indeed, 1t may be that much of this present physical and mental weakness in your pa. rents may have en a result of your carly waywardness Yoa made such large and sudden drafts upon the bank of their patience that you broka the bank. They were injured in being thrown while trying 10 break the colt It is a matter ef only common honesty that you pay back to thom some of the long suffering which they paid 10 you. A father said to his son. ''Snre,y no father eger hal as bad boy IS l have. ''Yes. said tue son, my grandfather had. It is about the same from generation to generation. and parents need to be patient with children, and children dngifui to their parents Tak- ing il Tor granted that those who hsar me to-dey have had a good pareaage. want 10 urge upon all the young tue fact that the happiness and longevity oi parents much depend upon the right behavior of their children, and can ao this no more effect ualiy than by demonstrating tho truth of my text, "A foolish sen Is the hcaviAass of his mother Y
 Perhaps some young man astray may te brought back hy thought Of bow they fed about him at home. A F'rench soldier iAy wounded and dying In the hospitaIat Gene va, Switzerland. His father, at home, seventy years of age, heard of his sons suffering. and started, and teoS the long journey, and found the hospital, and as he entered tho son cricds 70 laEsier, am 50 glad you have como to sec me oier ~No. saii the father; you are not going 10 die; yoar mother is waiting for yau, and am going to take you homo; i have brought you money and everything you need;" No said the soldier, they give me here everything that K nice ie eat, bat have no appetite, aad muss d,em Thea the father took from his kaapsack loaf of rye-h hread, such as the nlasn reagse of