The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-05-22

and can do this no more effectually
than by demonstrating the truth of my
| text: ga foolish son is the heaviness
of his mother"
Perhaps some young man astray may
be brought back by a tho2ght of how
they feel about him at home. A French
soldier lay wounded and dying in the
hospital at Geneva, Switzerland. His
father, at home, seventy years of age,
heard of his sons suffering, and started,
and took the long journey, and found the
hospital, and as he entered the son
cried:
so father, am so glad you have
come to see me die"
NO" said the father; "you are not
going to die; your mother is waiting for
you, and am going to take you home;
l have brought you money and every
thing you need"
NO" said the soldier, 'they give me
here every thing that is nice to eat, but
I have no appetite, and 1 must die"
Then the father took from his KNAPP
sack loaf of rye bread, such as the
plain people of his country ate, and
said:
Here is a loaf of bread your mother
made, and l am sure you can eat this;
she sent it to you."
Than the soldier frightened up, and
took the bread and ate it, and said: ut
is so GOOD, the bread from home, the
bread my mother NADER No wonder
that in few days he had recovered.
o young man, wounded in the battle of
life and discouraged, given up by your
self and given up by others, the old
folks at the country Preside have not
home. 1t may be plain bread, but it is
that bread of which if a man eat he
never again shall hunger. Bread from
homel Bread from home
Carrying out the idea of my text,
remark that reckless or dissipated
son makes heavy-hearted parent be-
cause it 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. You can
not hurt your 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 can not improve or de-
! preciate the responsibility of those
! given names. But it is your last name,
your family name, that is at your mercy.
All who bear that nameoare bound, be-
fore God and man, not to damage its
: happy significance. You are charged,
by all the generations of the past and
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share for the protection and the honor
: and the integrity of that name. You have
no right, my young friend, by bad
0 life to blot the old family Bible contain
: ing the story of the marriages and births
! and deaths of the years gone by, or tx
q cast blot on the family Bibles whose
records are yet to be opened. There
S are in our American directories name!
{ that always suggest commercial dishon
g esty or hbertinism or cruelty or mean
y ness, just because one man or woman
s bearing that name cursed it forever BY
n miscreaney Look out how you stab thu
II family name! 1t is especially dear I,
J. your mother. She was not born unde
[, that name. She was born under an
other name, but the years passed OF
and she came to young womanhood, ant
g she saw some one with whom she coult
II trust her happiness, her life, and he
{ immortal destiny, and she took hi
n name, took it while the orange blossom
!; were filing the air with fragrance, tool
n it with joined hands, took it while tn
y heavens witnessed. She chose it on
y of all the family names since tn
world stood, chose it for better o
e worse, through sickness, through health
r by cradles and by graves. Yes, she pu
t off her old family name to take the fam
3 lily name you now wear, and she ha
70 done her part to make it an honorabl
IS name. How heavy trouble you put ur
: on her when, by misdeeds, you wrenc
s that name from its high significance
( To haul it down from your mother
ot forehead aud trample it in the dus
IS would be criminal. Your fathers nam
l. may not be distinguished name, but
IL hope 1T stands for something good.
'r may not be famous, like that of Homer
Ie the father of epic poetry, or Izaak Wa,
II ton, the father of an Cling; or Eschylu'
2, the father of tragedy; or Ethelwold, tn
'r father of monks; or Thomas Aquina
'e the father of moral philosophy; or Abr;
st ham, the father of the faithful, but yor
r father has a name in small circle g
RS precious to him as theirs in a larger eli
ii Gle. Look out how you tarnish it!
g Further, the recklessness and dissip
re ton of a young man are cause of pa
to entail distress at time when the parel
re is less able to bear it. The vicissitudC
We of life have left their impression upc
" those parents The eye is not so clei
It as once, nor the hearing as acute, NJ
ld the nerves as steady, nor the step
d. strong, and with the tide of incomir
ur years comes the weight of unflial b
gu havior. You take your parents at
ct great disadvantage, for they can n
n; stand as much as they once could. The
ur have not the elasticity of feeling wit
n which once they could throw {
n, trouble. That shoulder, now som
r what bent, can not bear as heay
Id a burden as once it could. At Il
lg time when the machinery is gettin
IL worn out you put upon it the most territ
strain, At sixty and seventy years Il