The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-07-21

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 exhausts the
spirit, sends great many of our best
men, in mid-life. into the grave. They
find that Wall street does not end at
the East river. 1t ends at Greenwood!
Their life dashed out against money
safes. They go with their store on
their backs. They trudge, like camels,
sweating, from Aleppo to Damascus
They make their life a cruciixion.
Standing behind desks and counters
banished from the fresh air, weighed
down by carlSing cares, they are so
many suicides. Oh! / wish l could. to-
day. rub out some of these lines of care:
that 1 could lift some of the burdens
from the heart; that could give relax
alton to some of these worn muscles.
1t is time for you to begin to take it
little easier. Do your best, and then
trust God for the rest Do not fret.
God manages all the affairs of your life,
and he manages them for the best.
Consider the ilies-they always have
robes Behold the fowls of the air
they always have nests. Take a long
breath. Bethink. betimes, that God
did not make you for a pack-horse. Dig
yourselves out from among the hogs
heads 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, apd your dis
tresses. You brought nothing into the
world and it is very certain 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. Everything is gone. l
am all ruined" His wife said: Il am
left" and the little child threw up its
hands, and said: Papa, l 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: God for
give me, that have been so migrate
full. l find l 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 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 a Sabbath af-
ternoon when he has a 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 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, 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 l can do for you, to-
day, STRIP A man has more response
bilities than those which are discharged
by putting competent instructors over
his children and giving them a draw
| ing-master and a 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-
tariness. If you want to keep 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
wickedness, and yet your children will
be captivated by the glittering 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 chill
dren. not by half-an-hOur twice year