The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Weekly Discourse oY the Great
Brooklyn Preacher.

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David and Samuel 10 HAWAII and Josanh
To- Jaeobi The hest earthly off that father
has In lean on l. a onnS ~, al tha s,,.ans1ast
arm mother has 70 bs,n ber dawn vo ths sfssn
of wears Is that Of n orafafnl ch;id
imt II is not a rare thine 10 tind raor,a mn.
filial and often tba narents ara tben,se,ua.
to blame. Aged nersons sometimss hscoms
merulons and snanny and tha ch;idran havs
their hands fnll With fine old foIlss Thers
are old neonle So disa .reeahle that thav have
nearly broken nm soma homes The yomne
married man with whom the aced ons lives
stands II because ba has baen nsed 10 n oil
his life hut the youno wife com;ng in from
another household can hardly endnra II and
sometimes almost cries her ayes n,t ~
And when LITTLE cbiidren oother IN III.
house they are afraid of the venerable patri.
arch who has forpotten that ha ever lyas a
child himself. and cannot understand WIN
children should ever want to NAV hide and
seek or roll hoop or fly kite. and he becomes
impatient at the sound from the nursery and
shouts with an exnenditrIre of voice that
keens him con ching for fiftesn minntas fer.
ward; uBoysl STOP that racketp as though
any bow that ever amounted to ANYTHING in
the world did not begin life by making
racket!
Indeed. there are children who owe notb.
ing to their parents for those parents have
been profligates. NV lamented friend. good
Christian Henry Wilson, Vice-President of
the United States in early life changed his
name, Henry Wilson was not his Original
name. He dropped his fathers name be-
cause that father was a drunkard and dis
grace and the son did not feel called upon to
carry such a carcass ali hislife While children
must always be dutiful. Isympathize with all
Young people who have disagreeable or un-
principied old folks around the house. Some
of us, drawing out of our memories know
that it 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 a home is an aged father and an
aged mother, if the process of years has mel
lowed them,
You cannot hurt vour name of John or
George or Henry or Mary or Frances or
Rachel, because there have been thousands
of people, good and bad having those names.
and YOU cannot improve or depreciate the
responsibility of those given names. But
it is your last name. your family name that
is at your mercy. All who bear that name
are bound, before God and man, not to dam
age its bappv 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 integrity of
that name,
Carving out the idea of nv text. I re-
mark that a reckless or dissipated son makes
heavy-hearted parent because it hurts the
family pride You have no right. INV Young
friend by q bad life to blot the old family
Bible containing the story of the marriages
and births and deaths of the wears zone nv
or to cast a blot upon the family Bibles
whose records are vet to be opened. There
are in our American city directories names
that always suggest commercial dishonesty
or ibertinism or cruelty or meanness. lust
because one man or woman bearing that
name cursed it forever by miscreancy.
Look out how YOU stab the family name! It
is especially dear to your mother. She was
not born under that name. She was born
under another name. but the wears
passed on and she came to youne woman
hood, and she saw some oke with whom she
could trust her happiness. her life ard her
immortal destiny, and she took his name,
took it while the orange blossoms were fill
ing the ar with fragments, took 1t with
joined hands, tooklg Whiie the heavens VIII
messed. she chose 1t out OF all the family
names since the world stood, cnose IL lor
better OF worse, through sickness and
through health, by cradles and by graves.
Yea, she put OIL her Old FAMILY name 70 take
the FAMILY nameyou now wear and she mas
done her part TO make IL an honorable name.
How heavy a trouble you put upon her when,
by mlsdeeds, you wrench That name from It's
high significance! 10 haul 1t down from
your mothers forehead and trample 1t IN fhe
dust would be criminal. 49,.
Your fathers name may not be a distin-
gushed name, but hope 1t stands Tor some
tning gooo. ~ may hot De famous Hsq bnat
9l nollel, the iatner OF ep1c poetry, ol isaah
Maison, the latler Oh angling, OF h1scnyiu
ene iather OF Tragedy, or ttneiwold, the
iatner OF MONKS, OF Heroaotus, the ia9ner ot
history, OF lhomas Aquihas the laoher OF
moral phiiosophy,, or Apraham, lhe
iather OF the lalthiui, puo your lathei
mas name In a small circle as precious 10
MN as theirs IN larger circle. LOOK ou'
now you tarnish IT.!
ferhaps IL Is gooa thing that cfuei breat
ment by enid abpreViates parents NE
Tor what is there desirable In fathers HE
or mothers life il its peace is gomez DC
you not think death Is something benehcen'
if IL stons the mothers heart from aching
and her ewes from weeping and saws: "You
need not bear the excruciation any longer
Go and sleep. I will put the defense Of d
marble slab between YOU and that bows 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 dirge. While
you and 1 hear no sound, yet there are al
this moment tens of thousands of parenta
hearts breaking. All care was taken witt
the BOYS schooling, all good counsels given
and the equipment for a sober and earnest
and useful life was provided; but it has al
gone, and the foolish son has become the
heavinass IF his mother.
Much of the poignancy OF the parenra
grief arises from the inprat;tude Of sucl
behavior. What an undertaking it is t,
conduct family through the ailments an
exposures of early lifel Talk about the skill
demanded of sea captain commanding
shin across the ocean, That requires les
| skill than TO navigate Young soul in safet,
across tbe infantile and boyhood wears
| The sicknesses that assault the Temptation
| that entran tbe onxieties that are excited
! Young man Won will never know what YOU
mother has suffered for Won. You will neve
! know how vour father has toiled for YOU
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