The Republican journal., 1896-03-12

physical organizations minds as well as
bodies, brains as we'll as stomachs. The
mind needs training, the intellect requires
culture, the brain calls for cultivation and
care. School privileges must be provided
/ Tor those growing up into life. Books
and other appliances must be provided for
the development of the intellectual facul-
ties. The public schools of this country
are doing great things for the population
growing up among us, and in many cases
they supply all The requisites for tine train
iny of a child but tile fact is not univer-
sally true 1t is not true among us here.
| know from experience something of what
it means to send your children to school
year after year, 1t has nearly drained my
pocket dry, OF rather kept it nearly empty.
But the sadest reflection that comes to me
in connection with it is not the money
which has been spent, but the fact that
have not done more. Some people con-
ceive of it as a waste of money to do your
best to highly educate child SO as to fit
her or him for usefulness in life if just as
he OF she is about to reap the rewards OF
your endeavor your purposes are cut off
| by the rude hand of death. But, dear
friends, let me tell you frankly | do not
thus interpret it, know something about
the pains of disappointment at the failure
Of your cherished plans, but nothing about
regrets that one has done too much; for
the convictions present With me that after
all the failure is more apparent than real.
ii our dear ones, for whom we have done
our very best, and who are admirably fitted
for the duties of this life are cut off from
the service OF God here, will they not be
better fitted for service in tie life above?
To enter heaven with heart and mind UNI
der a high state OF development must
mean more than TO enter under adverse
conditions. Providing for his own, for the
intellectual as well as the physical nature.
is duty which deyolves upon all of us
who have young people dependent upon
us, and though our plans may sometimes
fail, though death may intercept our pur-
poses, or thousand times worse, the
educated boy may develop into a keener
and more deceitful villain, vet the duty is
most imperative for us to find out as best
We can the position for which our children
are best fitted and help them to its attain
ment. We shall not have provided for
our ''own'> until we have fed and develop
ed the brain as well as the body. But in
providing for our own we must not be-
come Indifferent to the claims of the social
nature and those feelings of the soul
which crave the composure and charm of
home life, the companionship of choice
friends, the pleasurable sensations of vo-
cal and instrumental music, painting and
sculpture. 1T i. not every child who has
taste for all these things nor is it in the
power of every parent to meet the needs
of all his children who may have a taste
for them. Education along these lines is
expensive. 1t takes good deal of money
to give child good musical education
1t is an expensive luxury to furnish the
home with paintings and sculpture to
satisfy the love of the beautiful Most of
US are not in a position to meet the cost.
We cannot do it. We can, however, make
our homes beautiful and our yards pleas
ant at very limited expense A few
pictures aud books, few trees and flow
ers, few pounds of paint and a little
labor would change many dingy looking
habitation into a delightful home in which
all would feel a pride and a pleasure.
Home at least should be made pleasant if
it cannot be made beautiful. 1t should
be so adjusted in It's intern,l arrange
ments that it should be to us AMI to our
children the dearest spot on earth, ii place
so full of good cheer so beautiful and
pleasant, that wherever our children may
room, or into whatsoever company they
their minds the sweet refrain, "Home,
sweet home. There no place like home.''
Providing for his own means, however
one thing more. The last, but not the
least, provision for the life of the soul
Children have bodies, minds, social
natures and souls. Each department of
child's nature needs attention and care;
each is worthy of our best endeavors, but
1.-THE life is more than meat" and ''the
body than raiment." Death may destroy
the body, but it cannot touch the soul.
lmperishable is the word which seems to
be stamped upon it 1t came from God,
to God it must return. This imperishable,
immortal principle, which is destined to
survive the wreck of matter and the
crash of worlds,' ought not to be consign-
ed to secondary place in our plans to
provide for our town. and specially our
own household. The life of the soul
ought to have the chief place in endeavors
to provide for our own. A house of wor-
ship ought to be an object Of deep inter-
est. The place itself ought to be made
attractive and pleasant, the services inter
esting and impressive, and instead of
sending their children to the Sunday
school and church they should go with
them. Yet there are scores of parents in
oiio Wv WIZ oIlel say 80, hul SeIuOm
or never ''come." In many professedly
Christian home family worship is un-
known and the Bible seldom read. In
not few cases the Sunday newspaper
takes the place which properly belongs to
the Book of books. The body is cared
for, the intellect cultivated the home
made pleasant, but the soul is neglected,
receiving no thought or care. How hard
it sometimes is to raise money for the sup
port of Christian churches. Yet if we
believe the things we profess to believe,
and the truths we profess to cherish,
these are the things which are of para
mount Importance to the interests of those
whom God has committed to our keeping
and care. Provision for the needs of the
body is matter of great Importance. No
child ought to cry in vain for bread while
parents Or friends can provide it for them
The Intellectual faculties ought to be Gull
tivated with great care. There ought to
be in every home suitable provision for
social enjoyment, and the cultivation of
taste and refinement ought not to be
neglected, but the life of tie soul is of
paramount interest and Importance, and
the soul can be reared in the presence of
abject and trying circumstances and con-
ditions. Many of the worlds greatest
and most useful men have been reared in
the homes of the poor, d. L. Moody,
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