News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-20

| SAID III In6 m1uSG OF his Idllllly ClrClS'
am ruined Everything is gone. I am
all ruined" His wife said, 81 am left"
and the little child threw up its hands and
said, 'Papa, I am here" The aged grand
mother seated in the room said, "Then
you have all the promises of God beside,
John" And he burst into tears and
said ''God forgive me that have been
so ungrateful. l find I have great
many things left. God forgive me-"
NEGLECT OF HOME LIFE.
Again, I remark that many of our
business men are tempted to neglect
their home duties. How often it is that
the store and the home seem to clash,
but there ought not to be any collision.
1t is often the case that the father is the
mere treasurer of the family, sort of
agent to see that they have dry goods
and groceries. The work of family gov
eminent he does not touch. Once or
twice in a year he calls the children up
on a Sabbath afternoon when he has a
half hour he does not exactly know what
to do with, and in that half hour he dis
ciplines the children and chides them
and corrects their faults and gives them
a 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
semiannual castigation.
The family table, which ought to be
the place for pleasant discussion and
cheerfulness, often becomes the place of
perilous expedition. If there be any
blessing asked at all, it is cut off at both
ends, and with the hand on the carving
knife. He counts on his fingers. making
estimates in the interstices 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 bound up another bundle of goods
and says to the customer, Anything
more l can do for you today, sir?'
A man has more responsibilities than
those which are discharged by putting
competent instructors over his children
and giving them drawing master and
music teacher. The physical culture of
the child will not be attended to unless
the father looks to it. He must some
times lose his dignity. He must unlim-
Der his joints. He must sometimes lead
them out to their sports and games. The
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 unredeemable solitari-
ness.
If you want to keep your children |
away from places of sin, you can only |
do it by making your home attractive. |
You may preach sermons and advocate |
reforms and denounce wickedness, and |
yet your children will be captivated by |
the glittering saloon of sin unless you
can make your home 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 children, not by half an hour
twice a year ON the Sabbath day, but
day after day, and every day teach them
throws chains of gold about the neck;
that it takes no spring from the foot, no
blitheness from the heart, no sparkle
from the eye, no ring from the laughter,
but that cher ways are ways of pleas
antness, and all her paths are peace"
l sympathize with the work being done
n many of our cities by which beautiful
looms are set apart by our Young Mems
Christian associations, and | pray God
20 prosper them in all things. But,
ell you, there is something back of that
md before that. We need more happy,
cheerful Christian homes in
America.
THE RIGHT USES OF MONEY.
Again, remark that great many Of
ur business men are tempted to put the
attainment of money above the value of
he soul 1t is a grand thing to have
,lenty of money. The more you get of
t the better, if it come honestly and go
lsefully For the lack of it sickness
lies without medicine, and hunger finds
is coffin in the empty bread tray, and
lakedness shivers for lack of clothes and
ire. When l hear a man in canting
trade against money-a Christian man
as though it had no possible use on
'arth and he had no interest in it, come
almost to think that the heaven that
would be appropriate for him would be
IN everlasting poorhouse!
While, my friends, we do admit there
S such thing as a lawful use of money
"a profitable use of money-let US
recognize also the fact that money can
not satisfy mans soul; that it cannot
glitter in the dark valley; that it cannot
1ay our fare across the Jordan of death;
a ! mil no TO Of |
There are men in all occupations who
eem to act as though they thought a
Jack of bonds and mortgages could be
raded off for a title to heaven and as
hough gold would be a lawful tender
n that place where it is so common that
hey make pavements out of it. Salvation
~ Christ is the only salvation. Treas
Tres in heaven are the only incorrupt-
ole treasures.
Have you ever ciphered out in the
ule of loss and gain the sum, "What
hall it profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his soul?" However fine
our apparel, the winds of death will
lutter it like rags. Homespun and a
hreadbare coat have sometimes been
he shadow of coming robes made white
n the blood of the Lamb. The pearl of
'reat price is worth more than any gem
ou can bring from the ocean, than
Australian or Brazilian mines strung in
me carcanet. Seek after God, find his
righteousness, and all shall be well here;
II shall be well hereafter.
But l must have word with those
Who during the present commercial ca
antilles have lost heavily, or perhaps
ost all their estate. If a man lose his
property at 30 or 40 years of age, it is
My a sharp discipline generally by
which later he comes to larger success.
t is all folly for man to sit down in
lidlife discouraged. The marshals of
Napoleon came to their commander and
aid, 1--WE have lost the battle, and we .
re being cut to pieces" Napoleon took ,
is watch from his pocket and said: sit {
only 2 o'clock in the afternoon. You ;
ave lost that battle, but we have time !
nough to win another Charge upon a.,
ne foer"
Though the meridian of life has passed
18th you and you have been routed in 1
lany q conflict, give not up in discour-
cement. There are victories yet for
on to gain. But sometimes monetary /
isaster comes to a man when there is
in his age or something in {
is health OF something in his surround
lgs which make him know well that he /;
i'll never get up again.
In 1857 it was estimated that for many
ears previous to that time annually
lere had been 10000 failures in the =
nited States. Many of those persons /
ever recovered from the misfortune q
ut let me give word of comfort in !