Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-20

an, It is cut OFF at both ends, and with me
nand on the carving knife. He counts on
ms fingers, making estimates in the inter
stices OF the repast. The work done. the hat
goes to the head, and he starts down the
street, and before the family has risen from
the table he has bundled up another bundle
OF goods and says to the customer. ssAnv.
tnlng more can do for you to-day sir?"
man mas more responsibilities than those
wnich are discharged by putting competent
instructors over his children and giving
them drawing master and music teacher
Inc physical culture Of the child will not be
attended to unless the father looks to il Hs
must sometimes lose his dignity. He must
uniimoer his joints. He must sometimes
lead them out to their sports and games.
Ihe parent who cannot forget the severe du-
TIES OF life sometimes to fly the kite, and
trundle the hoop, and chase the ball. and
jump the rope with his children ought never
to have been tempted out of crusty and un-
fedeemable solitariness.
Ii you want to keep your children away
rom places OF sin, you can only do it by
making your home attractive. You may
preach sermons and advocate reforms and
oenounce wickedness, and yet your. children
Will be captivated by the glitterin;y saloon of
SIN unless you can make your home a
brighter place than any other place on earth
to them. Oh, gather all charms into your
house! If you can afford it bring books and
pictures and cheerful entertainments to the
household. But, above all, teach those chill
dren, not by half an hour twice year on the
sabbath day, but day after day, and every
half hour he disciplines the children and
ch1des them and corrects their faults and
gives them great deal of good advice, and
then wonders all the rest of the year that his
children do not do better when they have the
wonderful advantage of that semi-annual
castigation.
Again, remark that many OF our business
men are tempted to neglect their home duties
now often 1t Is that the store and the home
seem TO clash, but there ought not to be anv
coiilsion. 1t is often the case that the father
- tne mere treasurer Of the family, a sort of
agent to see that they have dry goods and
groceries. The work OF family government
he calls the children up on a Sabbath after
noon when he has half hour he does NOT
exactly know what to do with, and in that
day teach them that religion is a great glad
ness that throws chains of gold about the
neck that 1t takes no spring from the foot,
no piltheness from the heart, no sparkle from
the the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that
her ways are ways Of pleasantness, and all
her paths are peace
! sympathize with the work being done in
many OF our cities by which beautiful rooms
are set apart by our Young Mems Christian
Associations, and pray Godto prosper them
IN all things. But l tell you there is some
thing back OF that and before that We need
more happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian
homes in America
Have you ever ciphered out in the rule of
loss and gain the sum, 'sWhat shall it profit
a man II he gain the whole world and lose
MS soulr' However fine your apparel, the
winds of death will fiutter it like rags.
Homespun and threadbare coat have some
times been the shadow of coming robes
made white In the blood of the Lamb. The
Pouri OF great price Is worth more than any
gem you can bring from the ocean, than Aus
trailan or Brazilian mines strung in one car
canef. Seek after God find His righteous
ness, and all shall be well here; all shall be
we'll hereafter
But l must have word with those who
curing the present commercial calamities
nave lost heavily, or perhaps lost all their
estate. II a man lose his property at 80 or 40
years OF age. 1t Is only sharp discipline gen
orally by which later he comes to larger sue
cess. 1t is all folly for man to sit down in
midilfe discouraged. The marshals OF
Napoleon came TO their commander and
said, I'VE have lost the battle and we
are being cut to pieces. Napoleon took
MS watch from his pocket and said ''It
IS only O'Clock in the afternoon. You have
lost that battle, but you have time enough
to win another. Charge upon the foep'
Though the meridian of life has passed
with you and you have been routed in many
a conflict, give not up in disbursement.
mere are victories yet for you to gain But
sometimes monetary disaster comes to a
man when there is something in his age or
something In his health or something in his
surroundings which make him know we'll
that he will never get up again.
In 1857 1t was estimated that for many
years previous 10 that time annually there
had been 80, 900 failures In the United States
Many OF those persons never recovered from
the misfortune. But let me give word of
comfort In passing. The sheriff may sell you
out of many things, but there are some
things OF which he cannot sell you out. He
cannot sell out your health. He cannot sell
out your family. He cannot sell out your
Bible. He cannot sell out your God. He
cannot sell out your heaven. You have more
than you have lost.
Sons and daughters of God, children of an
eternal and all loving Father, mourn not
when your property goes. The world is
yours, and life Is yours, and death is yours,
and Immortality is yours, and thrones of i'm
per1al grandeur are yours, and rivers OF
gladness are yours, and shining mansions
are yours, and God is yours. The eternal
God has sworn it, and every time you doubt
it you charge the King of heaven and earth
with perjury. Instead of complaining how
hard you have 1t, go home, take up your
Bible full of promises, get down on your
knees before God and thank Him for what
you have instead of spending so much time
In complaining about what you have not
Some OF you remember the shipwreek OF
the Central America. This noble steamer
bad, think, about 500 passengers aboard.
Suddenly the storm came, and the surges
trampled the decks and swung into the
matches, and there went up a hundred voiced
death shrek. The foam on the Jaw of the
wave; the pitching of the steamer as though
1t were leaping a mountain the dismal flare
OF the signal rockets the long cough of the
steam pipes; the hiss of the extinguished
furnaces the walking OF God on the wave
The steamer went not down without strug-
gle.
As the passengers stationed themselves in
rows to bale out the vessel, bark to the
thump OF the buckets as men unused to toll.
with blistered hands and strained muscle.
tug for their lives. There is sail seen
against the sky. The flash of the distress
gun is sounded. Its voice is heard not, for
It is choked in the louder booming OF the sea.
A few passengers escaped, but the steamer
gave one great lurch and was gone So
there are some men who sail on prosperously
In life Ais well, alrs well. But at last
some financial disaster comes-a eurVclydon
Down they go the bottom OF this CONNER
cial sea strewn with shattered hulks
But because your property goes do not
lot your soul go. Though all else perish,
save that, for l have to tell you OF more
stupendous shipwreck than that which l