The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-11-29

barred gateway swung open by por- G
ter in full dress. does not mean as mucn
% you as that swing gate, your sister
on one side of 1t, and you on the other'
she gone fifteen years ago into glory
That scene coming pack to you to-day
as you swept backward and torwaru On
the gate, singing the songs OF your
childhood. But there are those heie
who have their second dwelling place
It is your adopted home. That also Is
sacred forever. There you established
the first family altar. There your chill
dren were born. In that room nappeu
the wing of the death angel. under 'n"'
roof, when your work Is done, you eA-
pect to lie down and die. There Is
only one word in all the language that
can convey your idea Of that place, ana
that word is home" Now, let me say
that never knew man who was laitn-
full to his early and adopted home VINO
was given over at the same time 10
| any gross form of wickedness. IL you
find more enjoyment in the club ROOM
in the literary society, in the art salon.
than you do in these unpretendlng
home pleasures, you are on the roau "
ruin. Though you may be cut OIL from
your early associates, and though you
may be separated from all your KIN
dred, young man, Is there not room
somewhere that you can call your own!
Though it be the fourth story OF a tnlrd
class boarding house. into that room
gather books, pictures and harp'
Hang your mothers portrait over the
mantel. Bid unholy mirth stand back
from that threshold. Consecrate some
spot in that room with the knee OF
prayer. BY the memory of other days,
a fathers counsel, mothers love- ana
, a sisters confidence. call it home.
Another safeguard for these young
d men is industrious habit. There are
0 great many people trying to make their
q way through the world with their WIS
f instead of by honest toll. There Is
: voung man who comes from the coun-
Z. try 10 the city. He fails twice before
l. he is as old as his father was when ne
n first saw the spires of the great city he
G is seated in his room at rent OF Two
l. thousand dollars year, waiting LOT
s. the banks TO declare their DIVIDENDS
IS and the stocks to run up. After awhile
IS no gets impatient. He tries to Improve
lie his penmanship by making copyplates
lie of other merchants signatures! Never
n mind-all is right in business. After
a. awhile he has his estate. Now is the
m time for him to retire to the country
ne amid the focks and the herds, to cul
to ture the doemstic virtues.
to Now the young men who were nj
ed schoolmates in boyhood Will come ant
- with their OK teams draw him logs
b. and with their hard hands will help L
"a heave up the castle. That is no iahc'
es sketch; II is everyday life. l shoul
en- not wonder if there were rotten bean
on 4, that palace, should not wonder
nd Cod should smite him with dire sick
ais uesses. and pour into his cup bite
ng 6raueht that will thrill him with III
lin bearab,e agony. I should not wonde
as IL that mans children grew up TO be
lg: him n disgrace, and to make his life
aid shame. I should not wonder II that ma
m! died a dishonorable death, and wer
tunbled into a dishonorable grave. an
'id' then went into the gnashing OF teet
on, The way of the ungodly shall perish.
in Another safeguard that want to pr
ea, sent 10 young men is high ideal
ing life Sometimes soldiers going into ba
the flo shoot into the ground instead
re- into the hearts of their enemies. The
TIA are apt to aim too low, and 1t is vel
ed; often that the captain. going into co
nth a;ct with his men, will cry out, mo
Who mon aim highv The fact is that
are ,ife a great many men take no aim
my all The artist plans out his enti
lom thought before he puts 1t upon canv'
full before he takes up the crayon or I
ith- chisel. An architect thinks out the
UNI tire building before the workmen
lich Gin Although everything may sec
ted. 20 no unorganized, that architect b
.ook in his mind every Corinthian colun
fair every Gothic arch, every Byzanti
rted canital A poet thinks out the ent
at Mot Of his poem before he begins
So chime the cantos of tinklirg rhym
une, And vet there are a great many n
eter- who start the important structure
,rity life without knowing whether it is
nest ing 10 be a rude Tartar's hut, or
the Marks Cathedral, and begin to WI
the out the intricate poem OF their
neSe | without knowing WHelHSi ~ 10 W
Col Homer's odyssey or a rhymest'
and botch. Out of one thousand, nine h
ALA, dred and ninety-nine have no life-p
king Booted and spurred and caparisor
they they hasten along, and run cut
,nest say: Halo, man! Whittier ava
lr in ''NowhereY they say. oh! young n
in to make every days duty filling VI
until the great life-plot. Alasl that tt
mna- should be on this sea of life so m
h on ships that seem bound for no port. t
that are swept every whittier by wind
shall wave, up by the mountains and d.
days, by the valleys. They, sail with
chart. They gaze on no star. ]
s of long for no harbor. oh! young u
d OF have high ideal and press to 1t, ar
home. will be mighty safeguard. II
ca OF never were grander opportunities o.
round ing before young men than are opel
early now. Young men of the strong