The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-28

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the East river. It ends at Greenwood
Their life dashed out against money
safes They go with their store on
their backs. They trudge, like camels,
sweating, from Aleppo to Damascus.
They make their life a crucifxion.
Standing behind desks and counters
banished from the fresh air, weighed
down by carking cares, they are SC
many suicides. OH wish / could, to-
day, rub out some of these lines of care;
that | could lift some of the burdens
from the heart; that l could give relax
alton to some of these worn muscles.
| 1t is time for you to begin to take il
a little easier. Do your best, and then
trust God for the rest Do not fret.
God manages all the affairs of your life,
and he manages them for the best.
Consider the ilies-they always have
robes Behold the fowls of the air
they always have nests. Take long
breath. Bethink, betimes, that God
did not make you for pack-horse. Dig
yourselves ont from among the hogs
heads and the shelves, and in the light
of the holy Sabbath day resolve that
you will give to the winds your fears
and your fretfulncss, and your dis
tresses. You brought nothing into the
world and it is very certain you can
carry nothing out. Having food and
raiment be Herewith content.
The merchant came home from the
store. There had been great disaster
there. He opened the front door. and
said, in the midst of his family circle:
81 am ruined. Everything is gone. l
am all ruined" His wife said: II am
left" and the little child threw up its
hands, and said: Papa, l am here "
The aged grandmother. seated in the
room, said: Then you have all the
promises of God, beside, John" And
he burst into tears. and said: God for
give me, that have been SO migrate
full. | find | have great many things
left. God forgive me-"
Again | remark, that many of our
business men are tempted to neglect
their home duties. How often il 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
lily, sort of agent to see that they
have dry goods and groceries. The
work Of family government he does
not touch. Once or twice in a year he
calls the children up on Sabbath af-
ternOon when he has half hour he
doesn't exactly know what to do with,
and in that half hour he disciplines the
children. and chides them and cor
reefs 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
semi-annual castigation. The family
table, which ought to be the place for
pleasant discussion and cheerfulness.
often becomes the place of perilous en-
petition. 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 es-
Inmates 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 have risen from the
table he has bound up another bundle
of goods and says to the customer:
Anything more l can DO for You. to-
day, sir?" A man has more response
bilities than those which are discharged
by putting competent instructors over
his children and giving them draw
ing-master and a music teacher. The
physical culture of the child will
not be attended to unless the father
looks to it. He must sometimes lose
his dignity. lie must unlimber his
joints. He must sometimes lead them
out to their sports and games. The
parent who cannot forget the severe
duties of life sometimes. to fly the kite.
and trundle the hoop, and chase the
ball, and jump the rope with his chill
dren. ought never to have been tempted
out of a crusty and unredeemable soli-
fairness. If you want to keep your chill
dren away from places of sin, you can
only do it by making your home at
tractive. You may preach sermons.
and advocate reforms, and denouuce
wickedness, and yet your children will
be captivated by the glittering 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 house
hold. But, above all, teach those chill
dren, not by half-an-hour twice year
on the Sabbath day, but day after day,
and every day teach them that religion
is great gladness, that 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 her ways are ways of pleasant
ness and all her paths are peace" /
sympathize with the work being done
in many of our cities, by which beauti-
full rooms are set apart by our Young
Mems Christian associations. and /
pray God to prosper them in all things
But tell YOU there is something back
of that and before that. We need more
happy, consecrated. cheerful Christian
homes in America.
Again. / remark that a great many
of our business men are tempted to put
the attainment of money above the
value of the soul 1t is grand thing
to have plenty of money. The more
you get of it the better, if it come hon
estly and go usefully. For the lack of
it sickness dies without medicine. and
hunger finds its coffin in the empty
bread-tray, and nakedness shivers for
lack of clothes and fire. When l hear
a man in canting TRADE against money
"a Christian man-as though it had
no possible use on earth and he had
no interest in it, l come almost to
think that the heaven that would be
appropriate for him would be an
everlasting poor house! While, my
friends, we do admit there is such a