Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-21

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Their life dashed out against money
safes. They 90 with their store On
their backs. They trudge, like eanels
sweating, from Aleppo to Damascus.
They make their life a crucitxion.
Standing behind desks and counters
b tnisned from the fresh air, weighed
down by carlIing cares, they are so
many suicides. Oh. / wish i could,
20 .1By, rub out some of these liaes
of care; that | could lift some of
| the burdens from the heart; that l
could give relaxation To some of these
worn muscles. 1t is time for you 10
begin to take 1T little sier. Do
your best, and then ust God for the
rest. Do not fret God manages all
the affairs of your life, and he man
ages them for the best Consider the
lilies-they always have robes. Be-
hold the fowls of the air-they always
have nests. Take a long breath. Be-
TN nix, betimes, that God did not make
you for pa :k-hor e. Dig yourselves
out from among the hogsheads and
the shelves, and in he light of the
holy Sabbath day resolve In tyou will
give to TIE winds your fears and your
tretfulnSHS, and your distre SEES. You
brought nothing into the world, and
it is very certain you can carry moth
ing out. Having food and raiment be
Herewith content The merchant
came home from the store. There had
been great disaster there. lie opened
tn front door, and said, in the midst
of his family circle: al am ruined.
Everything is gone. / am 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, Joan. And he burst
into tears, and said; "God forgive me,
tn e have been so ungrateluL 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 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
family, a sort of agent 10 se1 that ia Y
have dry goods aud gro cries. The
work of family government he does not
/ touch. Once or twiOe in a year IL calls
/ the children up on sabbath alter
| noon when he has half hour he does
not exactly know what to do with, and
/ in that half hour lie disciplnes 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 chill
( Gren 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 disc sion and cheerfulnrss, oft II
/ becomes the place of perilous eNpedi-
! ton. If there be any blessing asked
at all, it is cut off at both ends, aud
/ with the hand on the carving knife,
/ he counts on his fingers, making esti-
mates in the interest ces of the rcpast.
/ Inv 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 gools, and says to the Gus
/ toner: Anything more | can do for
/ you to-day, sir?' A man has more re-
I sponsibiities than those which are dis
charged bv putting com petent inst ruct-
! ors over his children and giving them
! drawing-masters and teacher.
( The physical culture of the child will
/ not be attended to, unless the father
/
/ dignity. He must Timber his joints.
! He must sometimes lie d 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 children.
! ought never TO have been temp ed out
/ of a crusty and unredeemable solitari-
ness. If you want to keep your chill
! dren away from places OF sin you can
only do it by making your home at
! tractive. on may preach sermons,
and advocate reforms, and denounce
/ wickedness, and yetyour children will
be captivated by the glittcring 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
children, not by half-an-hour twice a
| year on the abbath-day, but day after
day; and every day teach them that re-
| ligion is a great gladness, that throws
chains Of gold about the neck, that it
takes no spring from the 70 t, no
blitheness from the heart, no sprinkle
from the eye, no ring fro the laugh
ter: but that her ways are ways of
pleasantness and all her paths are
peace" i sympathize with the work
being done in many of our cities, by
which beautiful rooms are set apart
by CUR Young Mems Christian Asso ia
tons, and pray God to pros err them
IL all things. But | tell you there is
something back of that and before
that. We need more happy, con.
secrated cheerful Christian homes in
! America
Again, remark that great many
of our business men are tempted to
put the alta inment of money abo e
the value of the soul. 1t is grand
thing to have plenty of money. The
more you get of it, the better, il it
come honestly and go usefully. For
the lack of it, sickness dies without
medicine, and hunger finds its coffin
in the empty bread tray, and naked
ness shivers for lack of clothes aud
| fire. When hear man in cantiNg
TRADE against money! Christian man
AS though it had no possible use on
earth and he had no interest IN Il, /
come almost to think that the heaven
that would be appropriate for him,
| Nu#n Il Inn la IN