The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-02-20


and sharp an q northeast storm.
Now, that man who 10 affable In pub
lilo and who 10 irritable In private i
making y fraudulent ovsrissue Of stock
and he Is as bad ss bank that might
have $500, 900 or Zoo, J0O In bills In cir
culstion with no specie In the vault
Let us learn ito show piety 1T home
II We have It not there We have it not
anywhere. II We have not genuine
grace in the family circle. all our out.
ward and public plausibility merely
springs from q fear of the world or
from the Shiny, putrid pool Of our own
selfishness. / tell you tho home Is q
mighty test of character. What you
are at home you are every where,
whether you demonstrate 1t or not
Again, l remark that home 10 . ref
uge. Life II tho United States army
on the national road to Mexico, n long
march with ever and anon skirmish
and q 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 morn
ing bugle calls us to marching and ac-
tion. How pleasant 1t is TO rehearse
the victories and surprises and the at
tacks OF the day, seated by the still
campfire of the home circle!
Yea, life is stormy sea. With
shivered masts and torn sails and hulk
aleak, we put into the harbor of home.
Blessed harborl there we go for re-
pairs in the dry dock Of quiet life. The
candle In the window Is to the toiling
man the lighthouse guiding him into
port. Children 60 forth to meet their
fathers as pilots at the Narrows take
the hand Of ships The doorsill of the
home is the wharf where heavy life is
unladen. NJ
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-
lection without being thought silly.
There is the place where we may for
get our annoyances and exasperations
and troubles. 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 har.
Dor 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, lremark, that home is POI
litical safeguard. The safety of the
state must oe built on the safety of
the home. The Christian heartstone
is the only cornerstone for repub-
lie. The virtues cultured in the fam
lily circle are an absolute necessity for
the state. If there be not enough |
moral principle to make the family |
adhere there will not be enough polit- |
lcal principle to make the state adj |
here. mo home" means the Cloths
and Nandals, means the nomads of |
Asia, means the Numidians of Afri- |
ca, changing from place to place ac-
cording as the pasture happens TO
change. COMPOUNDED be all those Ba-
bells of iniquity which would overflow.
er and destroy the home. The same
storm that upsets the ship in which |
the family sails will sink the frigate |
OF the constitution. Jails and peni- |
tentiaries, and armies and navies, are |
not our best defense. The door of the |
home is the best fortress. Household |
utensils are the best artillery, and the |
chimneys of our dwelling houses are
the granuest monuments of safety and |
triumph. No home, no republic!
Further, remark that home is q |
school. old ground must be turned |
up with subsoil plow, and it must be
narrowed and reharrowed, and then |
Tho crop will not be as large as that of |
The new ground with less culture.
Now, youth ard childhood are new
ground, and all the influences thrown
over their heart and life will come up
n afterlife luxuriantly. Every time
you have given a smile Of appro baton
= all the good cheer Of your life will
,ome up again in the geniality of your
children. And every ebullition of
anger and every uncomfortable dis
play of indignation will be fuel to
their disposition 20, or 80, or A. years
rom now fuel for bad fire a quar-
er of II century from this. You praise
he intelligence of your child too much
when you think he Is not
aware OF 1t, and you will see the result
II it before ten years of age in his an
ioying affcctations. You praise his
beauty, supposing he is not large
enough to understand what you say.
md you will find him standing ON Q
nigh chair before a fiattering mirror.
Words and deeds and example are the
ICED OF character, and children are
7ery apt to be the second edition of
heir parents. Abraham begat Isaac,
10 virtue is apt to go down the ances-
rial line; but Harold begat Archelaus,
20 iniquity is transmitted. What vast
responsibility comes upon parents In
view of this subject.
Oh, make your home the brightest
place ON earth, II you would charm
your children to the high path of virtue
Ind rectitude and religion. Do not nj.
ways turn the blinds the wrong wav.
Let tho light which puts gold on the
yentian aud 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
pictures rs Vests death on n Pale
Horse" or Tintoretto's "Masaacre NJ