The Red Cloud chief., 1893-07-28

loSo anu HuSneu Wltn imaginary gains.
Even the Sabbath cannot dam back the
tide of anxiety. for this wave Of world
illness dashcs 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 subject-d, when
they do not know but hat 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 q great many of our best
men, in mid-life, into the grave. They
find that Wall street does not end at
the East river. IL ends at Greenwood!
Their life dashed out against money
safes. They go with their store on
their backs. They trudge, like camels,
sweating, from Alcppo to Damascus.
They make their life u c%rucihxion.
Standing behind desks and counters
banishcd from the fresh air, weighed
down by carking cares, they are so
many suicides. Oh! wish | could, to-
day, rub out some of these lines of care;
that | could lift some of the burdens
from the heart; that | could give relax
alton to some of these worn muscles.
IL is time for you to begin to take IL
n 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 ~lilics-they always have
robes. Behold the fowls Of the air
they always have nests. Take a long
breath. Bcthinls, betimes, that God
did not make You for n 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, and your dis
trcsscs. You brought nothing into the
world and IL 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:
III 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, l am here"
The aged grandmother. seated in the
room, said; "Thcn 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
ful. 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 tn DO any
collision. 1t is often the ease that the
father is the mere treasurer of the fam
lily, n 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 n year he
calls the children up on II Sabbath af-
tcrnoon when he has n half hour he
doesn't exactly know what to do with, |
and in that half hour he disciplines the |
children, and chidcs them and cor
reefs their faults, and gives them n
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
castigation. The family |
table, which ought to be the place for |
pleasant discussion and che~erfulness,
becomes the place Of pcrilous en-
petition. II there be any blessing |
asked ut all IL is cut off at both ends
and with the hand on the carving knife.
He counts on his fingers, making es- !
in the intcrsticcs 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
he has bound up another bundle
of goods and says to the customer: |
Anything more ! can do for you, to- |
day, sire" A man has more response |
than those which are discharged
by putting competent instructors over
children and giving them II draw |
and a music teacher. The
physical culture of the child will
be attended to unless the father
looks to 1t, lie must sometimes lose \
dignity. lie must unlimbcr his
joints. He must sometimes lead them
out to their sports and games. The
who cannot forget the severe |
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 a crusty and unredecmable soli-
fairness, II you want to keep your chill
away from places of sin, you can
only do it by making your home at
You may preach sermons, |
and advocate reforms, and denouuce
wickedness, and yet your children will
be c~aptivated by the glittering saloon of
sin, unless you can make your home Il
brighter place than any other place on
to them. Oh. gather all charms
into your house. II 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 IA year |
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 il takes no |
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