The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-07-28

men III mld-llfe into the grave.
They find that Wall street does not
end at the East river IL ends at Green
wood Their life dashed out against
money safes They go with their store
on their backs. They trudge, like cam
els, sweating. from Aleppo to Damas-
Gus. They make their life crucifixion-
Standing behind desks and counters
\ banished from the fresh air, weighed
down by carking cares, they are SO
many suicides. Obi wish could, to-
day, rub out some of these lines of
care; that could lift some of the bur
dens from the heart; that could give
relaxation to some of these worn mus
cles. 1t is time for you to begin to
take it a little easier. Do your best,
and then trust God for the rest. Do
not fret God manages all the af-
fairs Of your life, and He
manages them for the best. Consider
the hlies-they always have robes.
Behold the fowls of the air-they al
ways have nests. Take a long breath.
Bethink, betimes, that God did not
make you for pack-horse. Dig your
selves 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 nothing into the world,
and it is very certain you can carry
nothing out. Having food and raj
ment be Herewith content. The mer-
chant. came home from the store.
There had been great disaster there.
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the midst of his family circle: 'I am
ruined. Everything is gone. am all
ruined His wife said: II am left;''
and the little child threw up its hands,
and said: Papa, / 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: tsGod forgive me,
that have been SO ungrateful. / 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 it is
that the store and the home seem to
clash, but there ought not to be any
collision. It is often the case that the
father is the mere treasurer of the fam
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 year he
calls the children up on Sabbath
afternoon when he has half hour he
does not exactly know what to do with,
and in that half hour he disciplines 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
semi-annual castigation. The family
table, which ought to be the place for
pleas ant discussion and cheerfulness,
often becomes the place of perilous ex-
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, maxi
| ing estimates in the interstices of the
repast. The work done, the hat goes
on 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
can do for you to-day, sir?"
A man has more responsibilities
than those which are discharged by
putting competent instructors over his
children and giving them a drawing
master and music teacher. The phys
| ical culture of the child will not be
attended to unless the father looks to
it. He must sometimes lose his Dig
nifty. He must unlimber his joints. He
must sometimes lead them out to their
sports and games. The parent who
can not 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 children, ought
never to have been tempted out
of crusty and unredeema-
BILE solitariness. 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 SER
mons, and advocate reforms, and de-
nounce wickedness, and yet your chill
dren will be captivated by the glitter
ing 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 entertain
ments 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 that religion is a 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 cher 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 Chris
tan 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 hap
DIV. consecrated. cheerful Christian
homes in America.
Again, / remark that great many
of our business men are tempted to put
the attainment of money above the
value of the soul. 1t is a grand thing
to have plenty of money. The more
YOU get of it the better, If it come
honestly and go usefully. For the lack
of il sickness dies without medicine,
and hunger finds its coffin in the empty
bread-tray, and nalxedness shivers for
lack of clothes and fire. When / hear
a man in canting TRADE against money
Ia Christian man--as though it had
no possible use on earth and he had no
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