The Princeton union., 1897-02-18

alton and rest, and came back and
found tLat the rats had utterly de-
stroyed the manuscript; but without
any discomposure and without any fret
or bad temper, he again picked up his
the great forests of America and repro
duced his immortal work. And yet
there are people with the ten-thous-
andth part of that loss who are utterly |
irreconcilable, who, at the loss of a pen
Gil or an article of raiment, will blow
as long and sharp as a northeast
storm
Now. that man who is affable in pub
lie and who is irritable in private is
making fraudulent overissue of stock,
and he is as bad as bank that might
have four or five hundred thousand
dollars of bills in circulation with no
specie in the vault. Let us learn to
show piety at home" If we have it
not there we have it not anywhere. e
we have not genuine grace in the FAM
lily circle, all our outward and public
plausibility merely springs from fear
of the world or from the Shiny, putrid
pool of our own selfshness. tell you
the home is a mighty test of character.
What you are at home you are every
where, whether you demonstrate it or
| not.
Again, l remark that home is ref
uge. Life is the United States army
march with ever and anon a skirmish
and battle. Al eventide we pitch our
| tent and stack our arms; we hang up
the war cap and lay our head on the
knapsack; we sleep until the morning
bugle calls us to marching and action.
How pleasant it is to rehearse the vic
tories and the surprises and the at
tacks of the day, seated by the still
campfire of the home circle!
/ YEA life is a stolmy sea. With shiv-
cred masts and torn sails and hulk
aleak, we put into the harbor of home.
Blessed harbor! there we go for repairs
in the dry dock of quiet life. The
candle in the window is to the toiling
man the lighthouse guiding him into
port. Children go forth to meet their
fathers as pilots at the Narrows take
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home is the wharf where heavy life
is unladen.
There is the place where we may
talk of what we have done without be-
ing charged with self-adulation There
, is the place where we may lounge with
out being thought ungraceful There
. is the place where we may express af-
, fection without being thought silly
| There is the place where we may for
/ get our annoyances and exasperations
) and troubles. Forlorn earth-pilgrim
j no home? Then die. That is better
: The grave is brighter and grander and
more glorious than this world with nc
l tent from marchings, with nc
t harbor from the storm, with no place
2 to rest from this scene of greed an6
e gouge and loss and gain. God pity the
0 man or woman who has no home!
$ Get you no hint of cheerfulness from
S grasshopper's leap and lambs frisk
f and quails whistle, and garrulou,
n stream1et, which, from the rock at tn,
b mountain-top clear down to the mead
i ow ferns under the shadow of th
IL steep, comes looking for the steepes
e place to leap off at, and talking jus
l. to hear itself talk? If all the skie
d hurtled with tempest, and everlastIn
it storm wandered over the sea, and ever
le mountain stream went raving mac
frothing at the mouth with mad foam
se and there were nothing but simeon
d blowing among the hills, and ther
y were neither lark's carol nor hummin
birds trill, nor waterfalls dash; onl
a bears bark, and panther's scream, an
e. VOLTS howl, then you might we'll gath
le er into your homes only the shadow
Of But when God has strewn the ear t
and the heavens with beauty and wit
at gladness, let us take unto our HON
er circles all innocent hilarity, all brigh
in ness, and all good cheer. A dark HON
in makes bad boys and bad girls, in PREF
ar aration for bad men and bad women.
D. Above all, my friends, take int
IS, your homes Christian principle. Ca
f. it be that in any of the comfortab
tie homes of my congregation the voice ,
er prayer is never lifted? What: No SUI,
~ plication at night for protection
III What! No thanksgiving in the mornin
Id for care? How, my brother, my siste
It. will you answer God in the day of iud,
Ill ment with reference to your children
i'd It is plain question, and therefore
r. ask it. In the tenth chapter of Jeremia
ty God says he will pour out his fury upc
n the families that call not upon Fl
IS. name O, parents, when you are dee
i'd and gone, and the moss is covering Il
inscription of the tom bstone, qwill yo,
of children look back and think of faith
Sc and mother at family prayer? w
d. they take the old family Bible and one
rh it and see the mark of tears of cont1
as ton and tears of consoling promis
NJ wept by eyes long before gone out in
" darkness? Oh, if you do not inculca
Nv Christian principles in the hearts
Is. your children, and do not warn the
is against evil, and do not invite them
r. holiness and to God. and they wand
", off into dissipation and into infidelit
ne and at last make shipwreck of their il
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