The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-18

| family circle: II am ruined. Ev-
aryshing IL gone. lam all ruined.
| His wife said. 81 am Left" and
the little child threw up its hands
and said: Papa am here" The
aged grandmother seated in the
room said: "Then you hive dill
the promises Of God besides,
John. And he burst into tears,
and said: "God forgive me, that
I have been 50 ungrateful. / find
TINT II 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 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 q
year he calls the children up on a
Sabbath afternoon, when be has a
half hour he does not exactly know
what to do with, and in that one
half hour he disciplines the chill
dren and chides them and corrects
their faults, and gives them a great
deal of good advice, and then won
ders all the rest of the year that
his children do not do better, when
they have the wonderful advant-
age Of that semi-annual castiga-
ton.
The family table, which ought
to be the place for pleasant discus
sion and cheerfulness, often be-
comes the place of perilous expe-
dition. If there be any blessing
asked at all, it is cut off ut both
ends, and with the hand on"the
carving knife. He counts on his
fingers, making estimates in the
interstices of the repast. The work
done the hat goes to the heed, and
he starts down the street, and be-
fore the family has arisen from the
table he has bound up another
bundle of goods, and says to the
customer, Anything more l can
do for you today, sir?" A man
has more responsibilities than
those which are discharged by put
ting competent instructors over
his children, and giving them a
drawing master and a music teach
er. The physical culture Of the
child will not be attended to un-
less 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 pa
rent 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 children, ought never to
have been tempted out of a crusty
and unredeemabie solitariness. If
you want to keep your children
away from places of sin you can
only do it by making your home
attractive. You may preach SER
mons, and advocate reforms, and
denounce wickedness, and yet yo4r
children will be captivated by the
glittering saloon of sin unless you
can make your home q 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 pic
lures and cheerful entertainments
to the household. But, above all,
teach those children, not by
half an hour twice a year on the
Sabbath day, bit day after day;
and every day teach them that re-
ligion is d great gladness, that it
throws chains of gold about the
neck; that it takes no spring from
the foot, 40. blitheness from. the
heart, no sparkle from the eye, no
ring from the laughter; but that
aher ways are ways IF PLEASANT
ness, and all her paths ars peace" 7
i sympathize with the work being
done i'm many of our cities, by
which beautiful rooms are set apart
by our Young Mems Christian A.
sociations, and Ipray God to pros