Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-02-13

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Let US learn to show piety at home. % If
we have it not there we have it not any
where. If we have not genuine grace in
the family circle, all our outward and
public plausibility merely springs from a
fear of the world or from the Shiny,
putrid pool of our own selishness.
tell you the home is mighty test of
character. What you are at home you
| are everywhere, whether you demon
strate it or not.
Again, I remark that homo is ref
uge Life is the United States army Oh
the national road to Mexico q long
march, with ever and anon IL skirmish
and battle At 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 attacks
of the day, seated by the still campfire
of the home circle!
Yea, life is stormy sea. With shiv-
cred masts and torn sails and hulk
aleal, we put into the harbor Of home
Blessed harbor, there we 60 for repairs
in the drydock of quiet life. The cam
die 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 the hand
of ships. The doorsill of the home is
the whai: where heavy life is unladen.
A Refuge a Safeguard and q School.
There is the place where we may talk
of what we have done without being
charged with self adulation. There is
the place where we MAY lounge without
/ being thought ungraceful. There is the
place where We may express affection
without being thought silly. There is
the place where we may forget our an
noyances and cXasperations and trou-
bcs. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no home?
Then die. That is better. The grave is
brighter and grander and more glorious
than this world, with no tent from
marchings, with no harbor from the
storm, with no place to rest from this
scene of greed and gouge and loss and
gain. God pity the man or woman who
has no home!
Further, I remark that home is a po-
litical safeguard The safety of the state
must be built on the safety of the home.
The Christian hearthstone is the only
cornerstone for republic. The virtues
cultured i'll the family circle are an alb
solute necessity for the state II there
be not enough moral principle to make
the family adhere, there will not be
enough political principle to make the
state adhere. NO home" means the
Goths and Vandals, means the nomads
of Asia, means the Numidians of At
RIGA, changing from place to place &C.
cording as the pasture happens to
change. Confounded be all those Babels
of iniquity which would overtower and
destroy the home! The same storm
that upsets the ship in which the fami-
" sails will sink the frigate of the con-
stitution. Jails and penitentiaries and
armies and navies are not our best de-
tense. The door of the home is the best
fortress. Household utensils are the best
artillery, and the chimneys of our
dwelling houses arc the grandest monu-
ments of safety and triumph. No home,
no republic.
Further, I remark that home is q
school. Old ground must be turned up
with subsoil pillow, and it must be har-
rowed and rcharrowed, and all the in
fuences thrown over their heart and
life will come up in after life luxuriant-
". Every time you have given smile
of appreciation all the good cheer of
your life will come up again in the
geniality of your children. And every
ebullition of anger and every uncontrol-
liable display of indignation will be fuel
to their disposition 20 or 80 or 40 years
from now-fuel for a bad fire quarter
of a century from this You praise the
intelligence of your child too much
sometimes when you think he is not
aware of it, and you will see the result
of it before 10 years Of age in his an
noying Alterations. You praise his
beauty, supposing he is not large enough
to understand what you say, and you
will find him standing on high chair
before fattering mirror. Words and
deeds and example are the seed of char
acter, and children are very apt to be
the second edition of their parents.
Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue is apt to
20 down in the ancestral line, but Herod
begat Archelaus, so iniquity is trans
mitted. What vast responsibility 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 virtue
and rectitude and religionl Do not al
ways 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 to a dead march. Do
not cover up your walls with such pic
lures as Vests "Death on a Pale
Horse or Tintoretto's Massacre of
the Innocents. Rather cover them, if
you have pictures, with 'The Hawking
Party" and 1.-The Mill by the Mountain
Stream and 1.-The Children Amid
Flowers, :" and 1.-The Harvest Scene, -
aud 1.-THE Saturday Night Marketing. T"
Home Duties.
Get You no hint of cheerfulness from
grasshopper's leap and lambs frisk and
quail's whistle and garrulous streamlct,
which, from the rock at the mountain
top clear down to the meadow ferns I'M
der the shadow of the steep, comes look
ing for the steepest place to leap off at
ard talking just to hear itself talk? If
all the skies hurtled with tempest, aud
everlasting storm wandered over the
sea, and every mountain stream went
raving mad, frothing at the mouth with