Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-20

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the domestic circle.
son 20 SAYS SOME MAN,
''I don't feel competent to lead my
household in prayer" Well, do cot
know that it is your duty TO lead.
think perhaps IL is sometimes better Tor
the mother OF the household to lead.
she knows better the wants OF the
household. She can read the Scrip
lures with a more tender enunciation.
She knows more OF God. l will put 1t
plainly, and say she prays better. On!
these mothers decide almost everything.
Nero's mother was murderess. LORD
Byron's mother was naughty and im-
pious. You might have guessed this
/ from their children Walter SCOTS
mother was fond Of poetry. Washing
toms mother was patriotic, Samuel
Budgets mother was a thorough Chris
/ tian. st. Bernard's mother was noble
minded. So you might have guessed
from their children. Good men always
have good mothers. There may, once
/ in ten or twenty years, be an exception
10 the rule; but it is only an exception.
Benjamin Vests mother kissed him
after she had seen his first wonderful
sketch with the pencil. Benjamin
/ West afterward said: THAT kiss made
me a painter"
A young man received furlough to
return from the army to his fathers
house. Afterward he took the furlough
back 10 the officer, saying, II would
Ike 10 postpone my visit for two
weeks" AT the end OF the two weeks
he came and got the furlough. He
was asked why he waited. "Well, he
replied, when ! left home l told my
mother I would be a Christian in the
army. and l was resolved not to go
home until could answer her first
question" On the almost omnipOtent
power OF tho mother But IL beth the
father and the mother be right, then
the children are
ALMOST SURE TO DE RIGHT.
The young people may make wide
curve from the straight path, but they
are almost sure 10 come back TO the
right road. It may not be until the
death OF one Of the parents. How OIL
ten 10 is that we hear some one say,
'Oh, he was wild young man, out
since his fathers death he has been
different" The fact is thst the fathers
CONN, or the mothers colin, is often
tho altar Of repentance for the child.
OH that was stupendOuS Gay, the Gay
OF fathers burial. IL was not the Off
ciating clergyman who made the chiet
impression, nor the sympathizing
mourners: it was the father asleep in
the casket. The hands that had toiied
Tor that household so long, folded
The brain cooled off after twenty or
forty years of anxiety about how TO put
that family in right position. The lips
closed after so many years OF good ad-
vice. There are more tears falling in
mothers grave than in fathers grave;
butover the fathers tomb l think there
is 4 kind OF awe IL is at that marble
uiller many a young man has been reyo-
lutiOnzed.
o young man with cheek flushed with
dissipation! how long is it since you
have been out TO your fathers grave"
VIII YOU not so this week? Perhaps the
storms OF the last few days may have
been the headstone until it leans far
over. You had better go out and see
whether the lettering has been defaced.
You had better go out and see whether
the gate OF the lot Is closed. You had
better go and see If yo1 cannot find
sermon in the springing grass. o young
man. 20 out this week and see your
fathers grave. Religion did so much
for our Christian ancestry, are we not
ready this morning 10 be willing TO re-
celve 10 into our own households? II we
do receive it, let it come through the
front door, not
THROUGH THE BACK DOOR.
In other words, do not let us smuggie it
In. There are a great many families
who want TO be religious, but they do
not want anybody outside to know it.
They would be mortified TO death if you
caught them at family prayers. They
would NOS sing In the worship for fear
their neighbOrs would hear them. They
do not have prayers when they have
company!
They do not know much about the
nobility Of the Western trapper. A
traveller going along was overtaken by
night and q storm, and he entered
cabin. He was alarmed. He had
large amount OF money with him, but
did not dare TO venture out into the
night In the storm. He did not like the
looks ot the household. After while
the father, the Western trapPer, came
in, gun on shoulder, and when the trav-
eler looked Gt him he was still moro az
frighted. After q while the family
were whispering together in one corner
Of the room. and the traveller thought
TO himself, "Oh! now my time has come;
] wish I was out in the storm and in the
night rather than here" But the
swarthy man came up TO him and said:
Sir, we are a rough people; we get our
living by hunting, and we are very tired
when the night comes; but before going
TO bed we always have habit of read
ing little out Of the Bible aud having
prayers, aud I think we will have our
usual custom tonight; and il you don't
believe in that kind OF thing, If you will
Just step outside the door for little
while, l will be
MUCH OBLIGED TO YOU"
Oh! there are many Christian parents
who have not half the courage Of that
Western trapper. They do no; want
their religion projecting too conSpicu-
ouSly. They would like 10 have IL near
by so as 10 call on it 10 case Of funeral;
but as to having il dominant in the
household from the first Of January, sew
en- o'clock a. u, TO the thirty-frst Of
December, ten o'clock p. n, the do not
want 10. They would rather die, and
have their families perish with them
than to cry ont in the bold words of the
soldier in my text; "As for me- and my
house, we will serve the Lord"
There was, In my ancestral line, an in
cident so strangely oppressive that it
seems more like romance than reality.