The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-04-16

young man Of my text was founded in sor
row AZ his misbeha~ior. II was not mer
physical plight. II was grief that be had 81
maiireated his father 1t l. sad thing ate
a father has done everything for child K
have that eaild ungra.eful.
How sharper than q serpen,'s tooth it Is
To have thankless child.
That is Shakespeare. "a foolish son is tbs
heavinsss Of his mother" That is the Bible.
Well, rs friends. have not some Of Us been
cruel prodicalsg Have We not malireatei out
Father And such Father Tires times s
! dsy has Hsfe1 thee. He has poured sunlight
i into thy day; aud AZ night kindled ND Ill the
street lamps 81 heaven. With what varieties
Of apparel He hath clothed thse for the sea-
sons Whose eve Watches thee? Whose hand
defends thee? Whose heart sympathizes with
theey Who gave you your children? Who Is
guarding your loved ones departed? Such a
Father, So loving, 30 kind. II He had been
Stranger. il he had forsaken Us. if He had
haseilated Us, il He had pounded US and
turned Us out OF doors on the commons, it
! would not have been SO wonderful--our
/ treatment Of Hin-but He Is a Father, 50
I loving, 30 Kind; and yet how many Of Us for
/ our wanderings have never apologized. II
! We say anything that hurts our friends feel
Z ings, II We do anything that hurts the feel
7 ings OF those in whom we are interested,
+ how quickly We apoiogize We can scarcely
Z wait until We get pen and paper 10 write a
I letter OF apology. How easy Is il for any one
who IS intelligent, RICH. hearted, TO write an
apology or make an apology We apologize
Tor wrongs done 10 our fellows. but some of
Us perhaps have committed ten thousand
times ten thousand wrongs against God and
never apologizai.
remark still further that this resolution
NJ -h1 -r-as 1a1s in, l.
sickness. l do not know how long this
young man, how many months. how many
years, he hal been away from his fathers (
mouse. but there Is SON thing about the +
reaiing OF my text that mazes M think h. +
was homesiek. Some Of You know what +
that feeling Is. Far away from home some I
times. surrounded by everyth NJ bright and /
pleasant plenty Of friends-you have said.
Il would give the world to be home to- /
nIght. Well. this young man was home
sick Tor his fathers house. l have no doubt
when he thought of his fathers house he
said, Now perhaps father may not be
living. We read nothing in this story
this parable-founded on everyday life; we
read nothing about the mother. It saws
nothing about going home TO her. think
she was dead l think she had died of a
broken heart al his wanderings, or perhaps
ne ned gone into dissipation from the fact
that he could not remember a loving and
sympathetic mother. A man never gets over
having lost his mother. Nothing said about
her, but he is homesiek for his fathers
house. He thought he would Just ike TO 20
and walk around the old place He thought
ne would just ike TO go and see if things
were as they used 10 be. Many a man after
having been OF a long while has gone home I
and Knocked at the door and a stranger has
come. 1t is the old homestead, but stranger
ZONES TO the door. He finds out father is :
gone. and mother is gone. and brothers and
sisters are all gone I think this Young man L
II the text said to himself. perhaps father q
nay be dead. Still, he starts to fina-pec0y
1e Is homesiek. Are there any barley. NAV
lomesick for God hOmesiob -
sailor. after hayin 4rly, and bugs which
ca, returned to h5se early-sown grains may
a gain t sbe1 Thy blowing under, or some
.av at bS process. Migration may he
amt yoynted by cutting such crop of
e ca 3s5at or barley little before ma
a 6urity, removing the crop and burning
4 the stubble as soon as it is dry. Dusty
burrows may be used when other means
are not practicable. Pillow a strip a
few yards wide, and thoroughly pulver-
ize this with harrow. Then in this
: strip make two or three deep burrows,
: or series of shallow ones, with slop-
ing. dusty sides. The white fungus,
or chinch bug disease, proved only
partially successful last year, and 1t
cannot be relied upon to check this
) pest to the exclusion OF other we'll
/ known measures, which shall be dill
: gently applied whenever necessary
, American Agriculturist.