Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-13

20 change Confoundsd be all those Rabels
OF iniquity which would overtower and de-
xtroy the home. The same storm that up
sets the ship In which the family sails vii
sink the frigste 90 the constitution Jsiis
and QenfsentiArics and armies and nsvfes are
not our best defense. The door OF the home
Is The best fortress.
Fcrther. I remark. that home f. a school.
Ola ground must be turned up with sub
soil plow. snd Il must be narrowed and -
narrowed. and then the crop will not BE as
large ss that OF the new ground with less
culture. Now. youth and childhood are
new grcoad. aa6 sli the influences thrown
over their besrt and lie will come up ir
after life luxnrantly. Every time you have
given smile Of appreciation. all the good
cheer OF your lie win come up again In the
eenislity OF your children And every
eouiiition OF anger and every uncootrola-
bic display OF indignation viii BE fuel 70
their disposition twenty. or thirty. or forty
years from now-fuel for a had Gre a QUAR-
ter Of century from this.
Oh. make your home the brightest pla>s
on earth. II you would charm your chill
cren 20 the high Path % virtue. and recti-
tude, and religion Do not always turn
the ohnds the wrong way. Let the light
wnico puts gold on the ccntian and spots
tho psasy pour into your dwellings. Do
not expect the little feet 70 keep step 70 a
dead march. Do not cover up your walls
with such pictures as Vests Death on =
Pale Horse or Tintoretto's Massacre OF
the lnnoce1tS.' Rather cover them. ffyou
have pictures. With The Hawking PARTY"
and The Mil by the Mountain stream -
and The Fox Hunt. aud The ChN-
dren Anid Flowers" ana The Harves.
Scene, and The saturday Night Market
ing
Above all. ny friends. take into YOUR
homes Christian principle. Can IL be that
n any % the comfortable homes Of my con
Cresation the voice % prayer i never lfftef3
What, No application az night for nrotae-
lonf What No Thanksgiving in the morn
INK to- cSre3 How. my brother. nv sister.
VIII you answer God "a the Day % Juir-
neat, vita reference 10 your children liz
"a plain question. and therefore I ask it,
II the tenth chapter % jeremiah God saws
He viii pour out His fury upon the families
that call not upon His name. o parents
when you are dad and gone. and the moss
- covering, the inscription or the tombstone
Will your children look back aud think of
father and mother az family r-avers VIII
they take the old family Bible and open Il
and see the marx % tears cf c0atrition and
tears % consolng promise wept By ewes
long before cole out into dRrknesss
On you tonot incnlcate Christian rrin-
ciQle IN the hearts OF your children. and
YOU Do not VAN them against evil ana vor
do not invite them 10 holiness and TO God.
and they wander OF into dissipation and
Into inhdelity. and az iast make shipwre.k
81 their Immortal soul on their desth-bea
Aaa IN tneir Day q Judgment they will
curse YOU Seated by the register or the
stove. what ifon the wall should CONE out
the history OF your chiiirenP What a his
tory-the mortal and immortal lie % YOUR
loved ones. Every parent T. writing the
history o. his child. He i writing IL. con-
posing Il iato song OF turning Il into
groad.
Ny mind runs hack TO one OF the best q
cary homes Prayer. like q roof. over f.
Peace. Ike anatmoSphere. tn a. Parents.
person. cations % faith in trial and con-
lori ~ darkness The tWo pillars q that
earthly home long ago crumbled 10 dust
Bal slaii lererforget that early homer les.
800 ne Hover forSets tbs sun
that warns IL. Ies. when the mariner for
gets TIE star thai guided him Yes. when
.oFe has gone out q the hearts altar
and memory has ernptied his urn into forget
luiness- Thea, the hone OF ny childhood.
4 VII tcrSet thee the family altar OF a
father Importantly and a mothers tender
ness. the voices % affection. the funerals az
our dead father aud mother. with inter-
lpcAe- arms Ike INTERVIEWING branches Of
trees making a perpetual arbor % love.
and peace. and kindness then will for
81 the1-then and only then Xou know.
ny brother. that \ hundred times YOU have
been Kept out % sin by the memory
% such a scene a. have been describing.
lou have oftea had raging temptations
but YOU know what hzs held you with su-
rernaturAl grasp ! tell You. nan who
has had such good home az thA; never
gets over %. and man who has had q bad
early home never gets over IT,
Again. remark. that home a. a type %
heaven TO bring as 20 THAI home Christ
left rs home. Far Up and far back IN the
history % heaven there came a PERIOD
when is most iiiu-tricns citizen was about
- soSer- Himself He was not going 70
SAL from beach 20 beach, we have often
done thai. He Was hot going 10 put out
from one hemisphere 10 another hemis-
pherc; many q ~ have done thai. Bat
He was % sail from world % world. the
spaces uneNpl0red and the immensities IN
Travelled. No world had ever hailed heaven.
and 20 far a. We know heaven had never
hailed any other world. ! think that the
windows and the balconi-s were thronged
and thai the pearly beach vas crowded
with those who had come 20 see Him sail
Out the har5of % light into the ocean De-
you'd.
Out. and out and out. and on and on. and
On, and down, and down. and down He
sped. ultil one night. with only one 10
greet Him. he arrived. HIS disembarka.
ti0n. 80 unrrete1dinS. 80 quiet. that u was
not known On earth until the excitement IN
the cloud gave intimatl0n that something
grand and glorious bad happened Who
cones theref Prom what port did He sail2
Why was this the place % bis oestinatlons
] question the shepherds I question the
have found out He Was an exile. But the
world has bal plenty Of exiies-Aorahau,
al exile from Ur % the Chaidees: John an