The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-24

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2. 1t is an asylum from the cares
that infest the day of work. The crazy
mar carries his rawlings to his asylum,
but q wise and sensible man never will.
Wien the father and husband enters at
the front door. .stheehild onghtsjastlyto
look for 3 bundle Of swests 10 his great
coat pocket; but NO, to the wife Who
first has to read the knots on his brow,
in order to fiad out how much gloom
and crabidness and discontent she must
expect from that return.
I think it vas Mr.. Beeeher who said. !.
mans home should be on the hlit top
Of cheerfulness, where no shadows rest
upon it, where the morning comes ssry
aud the evening tarries kte, sand the
day has twice as many golden hours as
the days Of other men. He is TO be
pitied whose house is in some valley OF
grief between the hills. with the Longest
night aud the shortest day. If from
auy cause, from discord or bad temper OF
ignorance, home be not an asylum OF
rest to him who dwells there. see
nothing in store but misery, debauchery
or the madman's cell.
And do We ever properly think OF
what home should be made for the chill.
dren? I am sorry for tie boy whose
home is prison, or the cell OF sort
Of galley slsve-a home with all the
windows down, with carpets too nice
aud new to be trampled upon. whore
the only order ever heard is .'Don't p
We do some valiant fighting against
the saloon through the church and the
temperance societies bat day will
come when We are to awake suddenly
to 6nd that the home is the place from
which the most effective 6ghsngsesasbe
done. The idea of being abiefo chain
child to the door-post Of home. where
there is little more than door-post.
aud so keep him from the saloon. is
going to be exploded one of zthesesg good
days to come. To keep him in. there
must be some attraction there-booka
and games and means Of pleasant past.
time. Those old, magazines on the y e
table have been thumbed to death and
the pictures are thresdbare. ! do not
think that parents are always too stingy
to do better, but they are thoughtless.
Some seem to think that If a boy has
table at which to eat and bed with two
Stats and an old blanket on which to
sleep, that is enough for him. This
comes from the too common notion. that
anything will do for boy. And that
is the reason why SO many fathers: are
lamenting the downfall of their chill
dren, and so many mothers are bearing
about perpetual grief. And the
law applies, in great measure, to the
girl. She has no books, except wha,
she borrows, and she borrows any that
she caa fiud-books that are immoral OF
too full of excitement and impurities.
These she reads with delight, satisfying
a low-born greed that seems to come
with US into the world. By and by the
excitement. ahS laehoar ssfhe Eaee sfh
the giddy wssn bisg en gill 6eahhs q
take the fair z creature ato sn asylum for
the insane, where she cries. .'Nly brain
my brain! Oh! Pm afre !" until the
good angel comes, and closes her eyes
to the visions of the maniac. Al
home. the parents sit and ask Why
does does God affiics Is The answer IS,
..It was you that sowed the wbislwind,
aud the decree of high heaven is, that
xhatsoeyer msH Hnwet& that shall Be
10 lsarR So sa8as q
8. A home is to be an inheritance
passed down from sire to son. All the book
of Joshua is but a story ofa nations
inheritance, with instructions what to
deswish ths hesyenseas gift. 70 pro.
vide for ones self is perfectly proper
but mao should strive to look into the
coming years, de yearsthas reach far
beyond. his little day. aud leave the
children home.sr A home Nh keep
the family etogether. sW6ea The old
roof-tree goes down under the sheriff
hammer, and the children are scattered,
the last family bond is broken, and the
flock goes cut, God only knows where.
1t is a benedictioo to live in the house
where one was born, from whose open
door the dead were borne, whose balls
and walls are redolent with stories OF
love and undyiug affection. 0 ye peo.
ple, in the midst Of all your labors. |
beg you. seek to provide aud leave a
home for the children.
III. LET Us PASS ON NOW TO TALK
ABOUT THE UNIVERSAL NEED OF HOME.
You have noticed, doubtless, that
dogs are attached to people and cats 10
places. Man is attached to both. aud
hence has superior endowment.