Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-02-17

storm tdAr 0psets the ship in wAieA ta-. tar
lily sails will sink the frisats % tas eoassigU~
uoa- JaiS aud psniseafiarieS an armies
And navies are not oar best dsssaea. The
door OF the home Is tue besc fOgrreSs. House.
hold utensils are the best artillery, ant the
chimneyS Of our dwslfirg houses are the
grandest monuments OF safety an1 triumph.
No home No republic.
Further, remtrk tha, home ia school
Old ground must be turned up with suosoil
plow. and II must be narrowed and re-har-
rowed, and then tho crop will not be as large
As thar OF the new grouad with less culture.
Now, Youth and childhood are new ground,
and all the Influences thrown over their heart
and life will come up in after life luxuriantly.
Every time You have given a smile of apprO-
oatiou all the good cheer of your life will
come up again in the geniallty of your chill
dren. Aud every ebulition of anger and
svery uncomfortable display OF Indignation
will be fuel TO their disposition twenty or
thirty or forty years from uov-fuel for a bad
nre quarter OF century from this. You
praise the intelligence OF your child too much
sometimes when you think he is not aware of
1t. and you Will see the result of 1t before ten
years Of age in his annoying affections. You
praise his beauty, supposing he is not large
enough to Understand what you say, ami
you will find him standing on a high chair
before mirror. Words aud deeds aud eN-
ample are the seed of character, aud children
are very apt to be the second edition of their
parents. Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue Is
apt to go down in the ancestral line. but
derod begat Archeiaus. so iniquity Is trans
mitted. What vast responsibility comes up
on parents in views Of this subject
Oh. make your home the brightest place
ON earth II you wouli charm your children
to the htgh path OF vir.ue and rectitude au
religion! Do not always turn the blinds rhs
wrong way. Let the light which puts gold
On the Rentian and spots the pansy pour into
your dwellings. Do not expect the little
teet to keep step to dead march. Do not
c0ver up your walls With such pictures AS
Vests "Desth on q Pale Horse or Tnto-
rstto's Massacre Of the Innocents. Rather
sover them, II you have pictures, with "The
Hawking Party" and "The Mill by the
Mountain Stream" and "The Fox Hunt"
and "The Children Amid Flowers" and
'.The Harvest Scene" and "The Saturday
Night Marketing"
Get you no hint OF cheerfuIness from grass
hoppers leap and lambs frisk, and quail's
whistle, and garruious streamet. which.
from the rock at the mountain top clear
down to the meadow ferns under the shadow
Of the steep comes looking for the steepest
place to leap of at and talking Just to hear
itself talk? II all the skies hurtied with
tempest and everlasting storm wandered
over the sea, and every mountain stream
went raving mad, frothtng at the mouth
with mad foam, and there were nothing but
simooms blowing among the hills, and there
were neither lark's carol nor humming birds
thrill, nor waterfalls dash. but only bsar's
bark and panther's scream and VOLTS howl,
then you might we'll gather into your home
only the shadows. But when God has
nrewn the earth and the heavens with beauty
and with gladness, let US take into our homs
circles all innocent hilarity, all brightness
and all good cheer dark home makes bad
men and bad women.
Above all, my friends, take into your
aomes Christian principle. Can ii b. that
IN any OF the comfortable homes OF my con-
yr.gation the voice of prayer is never Iift-
ID? What! No supplication at night for
protection! What, No thanksgiving in the
morning for care2 How, my brother, my
lister, will you answer God In the day Of
Judgment with reference to your children n!
Is a plain question, and therefore 1 ;ss
t. In the tenth chapter OF jeremiah God
ays he will pour out his fury upon the
antilles that call not upon bis name. Oh.
parents, when you are dead and gone AMI
he moss is covering the inscription of tna
ombs one, will your children Look back
md ihiuk of father and mother ar family
,rayer? Will they take the old family b.
lie An open it aud see the mark OF tear=
,nl contrition and tears of consoling pom
AZ. wept by eyes long before gone out into
t1riness' oh, II you do not inculcate
'hristian principle in the hearts OF your
hiilren, and you do not warn them against
vii, aud you do not invite them to holmes,
,n to God. and they wander off into dissi.
alton and into inf1delity. and at last make
.aipwreck OF their immortal souls, on their
ieathbed and in the day Of judg they
,iII curse You! Seated by the register or the
tove. what if on the wall should come out
ne history of your children What history
The mortal and immortal life of your loved
,na-! Every parent Is writing the history
u his child. He Is writing II, composing it
nto a song or tuning 1t into groan.
Ny mind runs back to one of the best
II early homes. Prayer, like a roof over it.
Peace. like an atmosphere in it. Parents.
,ersonificatlons of faith In trial and comfort
N darkness. The two pillars Of that earthly
10 ne long ago crumbled to dust. But shall
ever forget that earthly homer Yes, when
he flower forgets the sun that warns It.
Yes. when the mariner fOrgets the star that
guides him. Yes, when love has gone out
IN the hearts altar and memory has enptied
Is urn into forgetfulness. Then, home of
ny caildhood, 1 will forget thee
he family altar Of q fathers impor-
unity and mothers tenderness, the
voices of affection. the funerals Of our dead.
Father and mother. with tnterlocked arms,
ike INTERVENING branches of trees, making
4 perpetual arbor of love and peace ami
kindness, then 1 will forget tf.ee; then, and
only then. You know, my brother, that 100
times you have been kept out of sin by the
memory of such a scene as l have been de-
SCftDlQR- lou udV6 OIt6u Hau IdkluS temp h
tions but you know what has held yCu with
supernatural grasp. l tell you a man who
has had such a good home as that never gets
over it, and n man who has had ba early
home never gets over that.
Again, remark that homo is a type OF
heaven. To bring US 10 that home Christ
,eft his home. Far up and far back in the
history of heaven there came a period when
its more illus rious citizen was about TO ab-
sent himself. He was net going to sail from
teach to beach. We have often done that.
Il. was not going to put out from one hemi-
sphere to another hemisphere. Many Of us
have done that. But he was to sail from
world to world, the spaces unexplored and
immensities untravelet. No world hal ever
hailed heaven, and heaven had never
hailed any other world. I think thai
the windows and the balconies were
throngei ami that the pearly beach wa:
crowded with those who had come 10 SET
Him sail out of the harbor of light into the
oceans beyond. Out and out and out, anc
on and on and on, and down and down and
down He sped until one night. with only ont
to greet Him. he arrived. His disembarka'
ton so unpretending, go quiet, that ii wa.
not known on earth until the excitement IL
tho cloud gave intimation that somethins
grand and glorious had happened. Wnt
comes there? From what port did He sail
Why was this the place of Hi!
destination2 question the shep
her 8. l Question the camel drivers.
question the angels. ] have found out
He was an exile. But the world has haJ
plenty Of exiles. Aorahsm, an exile from
Ur OF the Chaldees; John, an exile from
Ephesus; Kosciusko an exile from Poland
Nazzini, an exile from Rome; Emmet. an ex
lie from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exile from
| France; kossuth. an exile from Hungary
| Bur this One OF whom speak today has
sach resouniing farewell and came Int
such chilling recsption-for not even a hos
tier went out with his lantern to help Hin
| in-Iihat He Is more 10 be celebrated thai
any other expatriatei ons OF earth or heaven
| At our best estate We are only .il<sms and
strangers here. Heaven is our hone.
Death will never knock at the door of thai
mansion, and in ALI that country there 1:
not single grave. How glad parents ar,
In holiday time to gather their children
| home again. But / have noticed that almos
always there Is a son or a daughter absent
absent from home, perhaps absent from tn,
country, perhaps absent from the world
! Oh, how glad our heavenly Father will be