Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-07-22

care. You know that nearly all COM
mercial businesses are overdone in this
day. Smitten with the love of quick
gain, our cities are crowded with men
resolved to be rich ut all hazards.
They do not care how money comes.
Our best merchants are thrown into
competition with men of m'jre means
and less conscience, and II an oppor-
tunity of accumulation he neglected
one hour some one else picks 1t up.
From January to December the strug-
gle goes on. Night gives no quiet to
limbs tossing in restlessness. nor a
brain that will not stop thinking. The
dreams are narrowed by imaginary
loss and flushed with imaginary gains.
Even the Sabbath cannot dam back the
tide of anxiety, for this wave of world
illness 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 the body and mind to which
our merchants are subjected, when
they do not know but that their liveli-
hood and their business honor are de-
pendent upon the uncertainties OF the
next hour. This excitement of the
brain, this corroding care of the heart,
this strain of effort that eyhausts the
spirit, sends great many of our best
men. in mid-life. into the grave. They
find that Wall street does not end Mt
the East river. 1t ends mt Greenwood!
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. 1t 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 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 ut 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 ! 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 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. He 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 crusty and unredeemable soli-
fairness. If you want tokeep 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
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 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
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