The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-08-02

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iety; for this wave of worldliness
dashes clear over the churches, and
leaves its foam on Bibles and prayer
books. Men who are living on salaries,
or by the culture of the soil, cannot
understand the wear and tear of body
are subjected, when they do not
know but that their livelihood and
their business honor are dependent
upon the uncertainties of the next
hour. This excitment of the brain,
this corroding care of the heart, this
strain of effort that exhausts the
spirit, sends great many of our best
men, in middle life, into the grave.
They find that Wall street does not end
at the East river. 1t ends at Green
wood! Their life dashed out against
money safes. They go with their store
on their backs. They trudge, like
camels, sweating, from Aleppo to Da-
mascus. They make their life cruci-
fixion. Standing behind desks and
counters, banished from the fresh air,
weighed down by carking cares, they
are so many suicides Oh! l wish |
could to-day rub out some of these lines
of care; that could lift some of the
burdens from the heart; that could
give relaxation to some of these worn
muscles. 1t is for you to begin to take
it little easier. Do your best,
and then trust God for the rest.
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the affairs of your life, and He man
ages them for the best. Consider the
lilies-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 out from
among the hogsheads and the shelves,
and in the light of the holy Sabbath
day, resolve that you will give to the
winds your fears and your fretfulness,
and your distresses. You brought moth
ing into the world, and it is very GER
tain 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. Every thing is gone.
am all ruined" His wife said: 81 am
left;' and the little child threw up its
,, hand, and said: Papa, l am here. F."
The aged grandmother, seated in the
room, said: "Then you have all the
!, promises of God, besides, John" And
, he burst into tears, and said "God
forgive me, that have been so I'M
,, grateful. find / have a great many
things left, God forgive me-"
, Again / remark, that many of our
! business men are tempted to neglect
their home duties. How often i is
that the store and the home seem to
y clash, but there ought not to be any
|, collision. 1t is often the case that the
:, father is the mere treasurer of the
q family, sort of agent to see that they
9 have dry goods and groceries. The
s work of family government he does
@ not touch. Once or twice in the year
he calls the children up on Sabbath
G afternoon when he has half hour he
s does not exactly know what to dc
a with, and in that half hour he disci
a pines the children and chides then
and corrects their faults, and gives
them a great deal of good advice, ant
q then wonders all the rest of the veal
that his children do not do better
! when they have the wonderful advan
+ tage of that semi-annual castigation
n The family table, which ought to b.
q the place for pleasant discussion ant
n cheerfulness, often becomes the place
h of perilous expedition. If Their,
is any blessing asked at all, i
= is cut off at both ends, and will
4 the hand on the carving knife. II,
n counts on his fingers, making estimate
q in the interstices of the repast. TIL
work done, the hat goes to the hea'
= and he starts down the street, and be
!. fore the family have risen from tn
i table he has bound up another bundl
q of goods, and says to the customer
q Anything more can do for you to
a day, sir?' A man has more response
g bilities than those which are dis
e charged by putting competent instiuC
a tors over his children, and giving then
+ drawing master and music teacher
, The physical culture of the child vii
\ not be attended to, unless the fathe
4 looks to it. He must sometimes los
u his dignity. He must unlimber hi
I joints. He must sometimes lead Their
Is out to their sports and games TIL
a parent who cannot forget the sever
70 duties of life sometimes, to fly the kite
% and trundle the hoop, and chase tn
"A ball, and jump the rope with his chi
q dren, ought never to have been temple
i out of crusty and unredeemable sol
N fairness. If you want to kee
4 your children away from places c
70 sin, you can only do it by NAL
o ing your home attractive. You ma
" preach sermons, and advocate reforms
N and denounce wickedness, and vet you
h children will be captivated by tn
IA glittering saloon of sin, unless you ca
7 make your home brighter place tina
10 any other place on earth to them. Oh
NJ gather all charms into your house.
n you can afford it, bring books and pic
m ures, and cheerful entertainments {
40 the household. But above all, teac
H. those children, not by half an hor
fe twice a year on the Sabbath day, br
RI day after day and every day, teac
nj them that religion is great gladnes
of that throws chains of gold about II
he neck, that it takes no spring from ii
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