The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-07-19
THE BURDENS WE BEAR.
Sam Jones Writes Of Wayw ard sons ana
Daughters

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The Patriarch Job said: Man is as
born unto trouble rs the sparks 10 ay
upward" a man perfectly free from
all cares and burdens would be the
worlds creates, curiosity.
! Innocence does not exempt us and
| piety affords no protection for many Ct
the Affections of the righteous" and the
Lord must deliver him out of them Ill.
The mistakes of our lives have been
many, and they often burden US with
regrets, IL not rernorse. lie who Is free
from the mistakes OF life is not human,
and were the mistakes of our past
brought and placed before US we would
be astonished at their number and mag
nitude, and however honest md unset
fish we nigh. have been. human life is
full OK mistakes and they often burden
our lives with periods OF long regrets.
The fragrant sins OF our lives add
thousands Of pangs and pains to the con-
science. the memory of which we have
no room to contain and no outlet for
their retread. God Himself cam OF help
us out, for He is powerless to make
what ought not TO have been so it ought
TO have been.
The burden of debt have driven many
10 despair. Debt has wrecked the lives
and driven to suicide thousands OF men.
There are millions to-day who are
groping and grooming under the burden
OF the debts they can never pay, and
their lives have shriveled and their hope
has weli-nigh died out. Debtor and
creditor are ms uncongenial as cat and
dog. Debtor unable 70 pay. creditor un-
willing to compromise, but l reckon
when we get free silver with free schools
and free books and free boarding houses,
with free clothing stores thrown in,
we will then be able TO pay some debts.
have seen men chatting under the bur-
dens which their mistakes brought to
them. have seen men grooming under
the burden of debt, but the most insult
ferable burden that human hearts carry
today is carried by gray-headed IA
theirs and mothers on account OF he
lives OF their waywarl. Goddess chill
dren. If ull the trials and heartaches
which are brought TO human lives to-
day, as the result Of ruthless hayward
children trampling upon the hearts OF
their parents, could he congregated and
aggregated. the horrors of the damned
would scarcely equal them in their in
sufYeraole rnvages upon human sensi-
bilitics.
l talked some weeks ago with grand,
grave old general of our last civil war,
and as the tears tricleled down his
cheeks, he said: II nm so unhappy and
miserable myself. why" said l. gen
eral, what is the matter?" "Oh," he
said, "the saloons have got my boy.
Perchnnce." he said, II might bear the
fortunes, but it is killing my poor wife
Unless that boy holds up I cannot hope
thar sh, will endure it six months
longer"
The most inhuman wretch who lives
ont of perdition to-day is the cruel boy
or debauched husband who goes troop
ing it downward with every step of
his cruel foot put down upon the ten
der heart of his good mother OF noble
wife. There is no more cruel foot than
the one going down on the bleeding
hearts as the hayward wretch makes
his way TO he'll.
Our greatest joys in this life come to
us rs we look upon the children of our
home growing up to manhood without
reckless habits or ruinous tendencies.
Whether We be prince or peasant.
rich or poor, happy are VIC If we have
our reward in noble, true, honest, in
dustrious boys and girls. Too many
boys are idle. Too many girls ambi-
tious simply TO be pretty little things.
Idleness Is habit that reaches out and
affords the tendencies that ruin boy
and wrecks the happiness of the home.
The saloon and poolroom, the gambling
he'll and shameless houses lie all along
the pathway of an idle young man.
Tho ballroom and theater and german
dance and buggy ride and champagne
supper all lie along the pathway of the
giady girl 'who fits through life with
the gaudy beauty Of butterfly with
out leaving n pleasant memory In II day
of her life upon which father and moth
cr may look with fondncss and graft
turle.
When we sum up the cares and bur
dens of life of this country we will
1nd in nine cases out of ten that a
hayward boy or fast girl is the cause
OF it all. lnsubordination to rule and
right cast the angels out of Heaven
and gave the devil n mortgage on this
world, and it is fight now TO keep the
devil from foreclosing the mortgage
on the whole business, No woman can