The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12

ing. Inc dreams are narrowed Dy
imaginary losss and flushed with
imaginary gains Even the Sabbath
cannot dam back the tide of anxiety;
for this wave of worldliness dashes
clear over the churches, and leaves its
foam on Bibles and prayer books. Men
who are living on salaries, or by the
cultivation of the soil, cannot under
stand the wear and tear of the body
and mind to which our merchants are
subjected, when they do not know but
that their livelihood and their business
honor are dependent upon the uncer-
tanties of the next hour. This excite
ment of the brain, this corroding care
of the heart, this strain of effort that
exhausts the spirit, sends a great many
of our best men, in middle life, into
the grave. The life dashed out against
money safes. They go with their store
on their backs They trudge like
camels, sweating, from Aleppo to Da-
mascus. They make their life a cruel
fixion. Standing behind the desks
and counters, banished from the fresh
air, weighed down by carking cares,
lntN art 80 Iuduy SulclueS.
Oh! l wish l could to-day rub out
some OF these lines of care; that l
could lift some of the burdens from
the heart; that could give relaxation
to some of these worn muscles. 1t is
time for you to begin to take it little
easier. Do your best, and then trust
God for the rest. Do not fret. God
manages all the affairs o. your life,
and He manages them for the best.
Consider the lilies-they always have
robes. Behold the fowls of the air
they always have nests. Take a long
breath. Bethink betimes that God did
not make you for pack horse. Dig
yourselves out from among tho 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 distresses. You
brought nothing into the world and it
is very certain you can carry nothing
out. Having food and raiment. be
content Herewith. The merchant
came home from the store. There had
been a great disaster there. He opened
the front door and said, in the midst OF
his family circle: Il am ruined Ev .
erything is gone. l am all ruined"
His wife said: Il am left" and the
little child threw up its hands and
said, Papa, l am here" The aged
grandmother, seated in the room, said:
Then you have all the promises of
IL. L. :
tears and said: "God forgive me, that
1 have been so ungrateful. l find 1
have great many things left. God
forgive me"
Again 1 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. sort of agent to see that they
have dry goods and groceries. The
work of family government he does
not touch. Once or twice year he
calls the children upon a Sabbath
when he has half hour he
does not exactly know what to do
with, and in that half hour he disci-
pines the children, and chides them
and corrects their faults, and gives
them a 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 adj
vantage of that semi-annual castiga-
ton.
The family table, which ought to be
the place for pleasant discussion and
often becomes the place
Of perilous expedition. If there be anv
blessing asked at all, it is cut off at
both ends, and with the hand on the
carving knife. He counts on his fin
gers, making estimates in the inter-
stices of the repast. The work done,
the hat goes to the head and he starts
down the street, and before the family
have arisen from the table, he has
bound up another bundle of goods and
says to the customer: Anything more
[ can do for you to-day, sir?'
A man has more responsibilities than
those which are discharged by putting
instructors over his chill
iren, and giving them a drawing mas
Ter and a music teacher. The physical
culture of the child will not be attend
I'd to unless 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 |
Ind games The parent who cannot |
iorget the severe duties of life some
lines to fly the kite and trundle the
loop and chase the ball and jump |
he rope with his children ought never |
% have been tempted out of a
rusty and unredeemable solitariness. |
f you want to keep your children |
way from places of sin, you can only |
10 it by making your home attractive. |
You may preach sermons and advocate
eforms and denounce wickedness. and |
ret your children will be captivated by
he glittering saloon of sin unless you
an make your home a brighter place
han any other place on earth to them.
III! gather all charms into your house
f you can afford it, bring books and
PICTURES and beautiful entertainments
o the household. But, above all, teach
hose children, not by half an hour
vice year on the Sabbath day, and
each them that religion is a great glad
less, that it throws chains of gold
bout the neck, that it takes no spring
rom the foot, no blitheness from the
leart, no sparkle from the eye, no
ing from the laughter; but that her
ways are ways of pleasantness, and
IL her paths are peace" l smypathize
With the work being done in many of
'ur cities, by which beautiful rooms
re set apart by our Young Mems
'hristian associations, and pray God