The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-09

so, too, Win hoiue-inaoe eh"i"''0i'
qualities. affections, pleasures, ideals,
standards. thoughts and manners. with
homemade religion and piety. Fruits
and vegetables that are cultivated for
home use are altogether different thing
from the merchantable article that Is
got ready for the market, for sale al
the least possible expense, and that can
be sold cheap to the general public. The
first are luscious; they are highly flavor
ed; they have been tenderly cared for
and kept from faint and blemish. They
are beautiful with their freshness and
downiness. and luxuriance. Their grace
and beauty would not be considered by
the throng of buyers; and to the market
man all the time and money spent on
them would be just thrown away.
Home cultivation and home keeping
are absolutely necessary to the develop
ment of d living, sympathetic, sensitive
and high character The graziers say
that the calves that spend their full
time on the mothers milk are the best
developed and make the finest cattle.
Certain il is that the children that grow
I'D in the happiest and brightest homes
expand into the largest and noblest men
and women. The daughters reared al
the mothers side are the loyeliest.
All the powers and faculties and as
pirations and affections grow in a
natural way in the light and warmth of
home. Children that are bred under
such infueIces do not pass into mis-
anthropes or infdels. The way of nature
is the way of faith and worship and
love and light. A home gloomy, narrow,
bleak and hopeless, or in the place of it,
hard and severe service, dwarfs, chllls,
embitters. hardens 0nd utterly perverts.
And the characters that spring from such
beginnings may be anything-infdei'
agnostic. misanthropic, prematurely old,
utterly unfit for the journey and real
business of life.
Characters and accomplishments that
are acquired abroad, away from the
mothers influence and the fathers care,
have much of the shop, are at best
Partisan. show the manufacture, the
worlds market about them; they are
rot natural growths. but are soon re-
cognized and know themselves as be-
longing to the world.
The flavor and air of home is one
thing: the flavor and glamour and
odor of society is quite another. The
moor child that too soon leaves the
mothers watchful, tender love, and Is
familarized with the ways OF fashion
and the praise of the crowd; that be-
comes afraid to think or feel or act or
speak freely as in her dear company,
but must do all that according TO regu-
lations and be ever under the master or
mistress. liveried after the style, en-
tiers ON a life of slavery, from which
il rarely escapes. And all its successes
and advances in the world fasten
thongs and restraints about it. The full
wording is Of all beings the greatest
slave. Absolutely unnatural, On offen-
der against truth, all nature is engaged
against il. And life Is not worth living.
1t is a pity when parents are ignorant OF
the privileges ard joys and possibilities
and promises Of guarded end cultured
home. On the other hand, thrice blest
are they to whom the privileges of a
true, peaceful and happy home are
vouchsafed, and by whom they are well
imrroy ed: where virtue and truth, char
acter and knowledge and faith are the
ruling ideas, and the acquisitions and
accommodations of the parents are sa-
credly cherished and impaired to the off
spring. To these the gift of life is di-
vine gift indeed, full of real and essen
tial beauty and glory and honor, with
deep coloring and strong impulses, and
enduring light and power.
Christianity exalts the mother, adds
dignity to the father, consecrates the
home, and makes it the nursery and
type of Heaven. The coming kingdom
is ruled by a Father; Jerusalem is the
mother of us all; the citizens are children
of the kingdom, and the comforting and
cheering parting words of the Elder
Brother, going away, are: I'm my
Fathers house are many mansions.
go to prepare a place for you, that
where I am there We may be Also"