The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-08-03

| hand on the carving knife. He counts on
his fingers, making estimates in the inter
| stfces Of the repast. The work done, the hat
| goes to the head, and he starts down the
/ street and before the family has risen from
/ the table he has bundled up another bundle
of goods and says to the customer, "Any-
| thing more I can do for you to-day, sir?'
| A man has more responsibilities than those
which are discharged by putting competent
! instructors over his children and giving
! them q drawing 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. Ae must
unlimber his joints. He must sometimes
| lead them out to their sports and games.
| The parent who cannot forget the severe du-
ties of life sometimes to fly the kite, and
trundIe the hoop, and chase the bail, and
| Jump the rope with mis- children ought never
| TO have been tempted out Of a crusty and un-
redeemable sOlitarinesS.
II YOU want to keep your children away
from places OF sin, you can only do 1t by
making your home attractive. You may
| preach sermons and advocate reforms and
denounce wickedness, and yet your children
will be captivated by the glitterin,J saloon oil
sin unless YOU can make your home q
brighter pace than any other place on earth
| TO them. Oh. gather all charms into your
house II you can afford it bring books and
pictures and cheerful entertainments to the
household But above all, teach those chill
dren, not by half an hour twice year on the
Sabbath day, but day after day, and every
half hour he disciplines the children and
chides them and corrects their faults and
gives them q great deal of good advice, and
then wonders all the rest Of the year that his
children do not do better when they nave the
wonderful advantage of that semt-annu8I
castigation.
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 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 O Sabbath after
noon when he has half hour he does not
exactly know what to do with, and in that
day teach them that religion is great glad.
ness 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 pleasantness and all
her paths are peace"
sympathize with the work being done in
many OF our cities by which beautiful rooms
are set apart by our Young Mems Christian
Associations, and pray God to prosper them
in ell things. But, tell you, there is some
thing back of that and before that. We need
more happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian
homes in America.
Have you ever ciphered out in the rule OF
loss and gain the sum, "What shall it profit
r man if he gain the whole world and lose
his soul?'' However fine your apparel, the
winds of death will flutter it like rags.
Homespun and threadbare coat have some
times been the shadow of coming robes
made white in the blood of the Lamb The
iJrSIrr OF great price Is worth more tnan any
gem you can bring from the ocean, than Aus
tralian or Brazilian mines strung in one car
canet. Seek after God, find His righteous
ness, and all shall be well here; all shall be
well hereafter.
But I must have word with those who
during the present commercial calamities
have lost heavily, or perhaps lost all their
estate. If man lose his property at 80 or 40
years of age, it is only sharp discipline gem
orally by which later he comes to larger sue
cess. 1t is all folly for man to sit down in
mid!ife discouraged. The marshals OF
Napoleon came to their commander and
said, I'VE have lost the battle and We
are being cut to pieces" Napoleon took
his watch from his pocket and said 1T
is only 2 O'Clock in the afternoon. You have
lost that battle, but you have time enough
to win another. Charge upon the foe p
Though the meridian of life has passed
with you and you have been routed in many
q conflict, give not up in Encouragement
There are victories yet for you to gain. But
sometimes monetary disaster comes to a
man when there is something in his age or
something in his health or something in t!s
surroundings which make him know well
that he will never get up again.
In 1857 it was estimated that for many
years previous 10 that time annually there
had been 30, 900 failures in the United States.
Many OF those persons never recovered from
the misfortune. But let me give word Of
comfort in passing. The sheriff NAV sell you
out OF many things, but there are some
things of which he cannot sell you out. He
cannot sell out your health. He cannot sell
out your family. He cannot sell out your
Bible. He cannot sell out your God. He
cannot sell out your heaven. You have more
than you have lost
Sons and daughters of God, children of an
eternal and all loving Father. mourn not
when your property goes. The world is
yours, and life is yours, and death is yours,
and Immortality IS yours, and thrones of i'm
perlal grandeur are yours, and rivers OF
gladness are yours, and shining mansions
are yours, and God is yours The eternal
God has sworn it, and every time you DOUBT
il you charge the King of heaven and earth
with perjury. Instead of complaining how
hard you have it, go home, take up your
Bible full OF promises, get down on your
knees before God and thank Him for what
you have instead Of spending SO much time
in complaining about what you have not.
Some OF you remember the shipwreck OF
the Central America. This noble steamer
had, think, about 500 passengers aboard
Suddenly the storm came, and the surges
trampled the decks and swung into the
matches, and there went up hundred voiced
death shrek. The foam on the jaw of thu
wave the pitching of the steamer as though
it were leaping mountain . the dismal flare
Of the signal rockets the long cough of the
steam pipes the hiss OF the extinguished
furnaces the walking OF God on the wave
The steamer went not down without strug-
gle.
AS the passengers stationed themselves in
rows to bale out the vessel, bark to the
thump Of the buckets as men unused to toll
with blistered hands and strained muscle
kng for their lives There is a sail seen
against the sky. The flash of the distress
gun is sounded. Its voice is heard not, for
it is choked in the louder booming OF the sea-
A lew passengers escaped, but the steamer
gave one great lurch and was gone So
there are some men who sail on prosperously
in life. Ais we'll, alps well. But at last
some financial disaster comes--a euroclydon.
Down they 60 the bottom of this CONNER
cial sea strewn with shattered hulks