Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-11

have given a smile of
the good cheer of you
up again in the gcni;
drcn. And every cd
and every uncontroll
dignation will bc fut
ton 90 or 20 or 10 ye;
for bad fire qua
from this. Iou praise
of your child too NJ
when you think he is
and you will see the r2.,7.
ten years of age in his ami
tations. You praise his b,
posing he is not large cnos
dcrstand what you say. audN
find him standing on a high CT
fore ilIttcring mirror. Wos
deeds and example are the -
| character, and children -
to he the second edition
ents. Abraham begat Is.
is apt to go down in the AN,
but licrod hegat Archelaus, 81 III.
is transmitted. What vast rcsp0ns.
bility comes upon parents in view Of
this subject,
oh, make your home the brightest
place on earth. if YOU would charm
your children to the high path OF vir-
tue and rcctitude and religion, DO not
always turn the blinds the wrong way.
Let the light which puts gold on the
gentian and spots the pansy pour into
your dwellings DO not expect the
little feet to keep step tn n dead
rch. DO not cover up your walls
with such pictures as Vests Death
on n Pale Horse, or Tintorcttos Mas
sacre of the Innocents" Rather cover
them, if you have pictures, with The
Hawking Party and The Mill by
the Mountain Stream, and Tho Fox
Hunt" and The Children Amid Flow
ers," and THE Harvest Scene and
The saturday Night Markcters."
Get you no hint of cheerfulness from
grasshopper's leap aud lambs frislS,
and quails whistle. and garruluous
streamIrt, which. from the rock at the
the mountain top clear down to the
meadow ferns under the shadow ofihe
steep, comes looking for the stecpcst
place to leap of at, and talking just to
hear itself talk? III all the skies hurt
led with tempest, and everlasting
storm wandered over the sea. and
every mountain stream went raging at
the mouth with mad foam, and
there were nothing but ST.
moons blowing among the hills
and there were neither lark's
carol. nor humming birds trill, nor
waterfalls dash. but only bears bark,
and panther's scream, and VOLTS howl,
al IL =,
homes only the shadows. But when
God has strcwu the earth AMI the
heavens with beauty and with glad
ness, let us take into our home circle
all innocent hilarity; all brightness
and all good cheer. Adark home makes
bad boys and bad girls, in preparation
for bad men and bad women.
Above all, my friends, take into Your
homes Christian principle. Can it he
that in any of the comfortable homes
of my congregation the voice of prayer
is never lifted? What, No supplica-
ton at night for protection? What.
No thanksgiving in the morning for
care? How, my brother, my sister,
will you answer God in the dav of
Judgment with reference to your chill
drcn? 1t is plain question, and
therefore ask il. In the tenth chap
ter of jeremiah God says He will pour
outs, His fury. upon the4. families
that cali not upon His name. q
parents, when you are dead and gone,
and the moss is covering the inscript-
ion of the tombstone, will your child
rem look back and think OF father and
mother at prayer. viii they take the
old family Bible and open it and see
the marS of tears of contrition and
tears of consoling promise, wept by
eyes long before gone out in darkness $?
Oh, if You do not inculcate Christian
principle in the hearts of your child
rem, and you do not warn them
against evil, and you do not invite them
to holiness and to God, and they
wander off into dissipation and into
| in fide lily, and at last make shipwreck
of their immortal souls, on their DEATH
bed and in, the day of Judgment they
| will curse you, Seated by the register
OF. the stove. what il on the wall should
come out the history of your children?
What history-the mortal and i'm
mortal life of your loved ouesi Every
parent Is writing the history of his
CHILD! lieis writing it, composing it
into a song or. turning il into 9. groan.
My mind runs back to one of the best
of early homes, Prayer, like a roof
OVER it. Peace, like an atmosphere in
it. Parents, personifications of faith
in trial and comfort in darkness. The
two pillars of that earthly home long
ago crumblcd to dust. But shall