The Progress., 1897-02-13

BE, wept by eyes long before gone out into
darkness? Oh, If you do not inculcate
Christian principle in the hearts Of your
children, and you do not warn them
against evil, and you do not invite them to
holiness and to God, and they wander of
into dissipation and into infdelity, andn
last make shipwreck of their immortal
souls, on their deathbcd and In the day OF
Judgment they will curse you'll Seated BY
the register or the stove, what II on the
wall should come out the history OF your
children? What history-the mortal and
Immortal life of your loved onesl Every
parent is writing the history of his child
He is writing it, composing it into song
or tuning it into groan.
NV mind runs back to one OF the best Of
early homes. Prayer, like q roo1 over II
Peace like an atmosphere in It, Parents,
personifcations Of faith In trial ana COM.
| fort in darkness. The two pillars OF that
earthly home long ago crumbled to dust
| But shall l ever forget that earthly home!
| Yes when the flower forgets the sun tnos
| warns it, Yes, when the mariner 1orgets
| the star that guided him. Yes, when low
| has gone out on the heart s altar ana mem
| ory has emptied it's urn into forge1ulnees.
| Then. home of my childhood, will forges
| thee-the family altar of a fathers impor'
| tunity and a mothers tenderness, the
voices of affection, the funerals OF our dead
Father and mother, with tnterlocked arms,
like INTERVENING branches OF trees max.
ing :, perpetual arbor of love and peace ano
Kindness, then I will forget thee; then,
and only then You know, my brother,
that 100 times you have been kept out OF
| sin by the memory of SUCH a scene as
have been describing. You have often had
! raging temptations, but you kno" "has
has held YOU with supernatural grasp
tell Won a man who has had such a good
- home as that never gets over 1t, and man
who has had q bad early home never eeeS
| over that.
Home and Heaven.
Again, I remark that homo is type Oh
"a heaven. To bring us to that home Chriss
n left his home. Far up and far BACK IN Inv
e history of heaven there came period wheh
70 it's most illustrious citizen was about 20
n absent himself He was not going TO sail
"a from beach to beach We have often done
IT that He was not going to put out IRON
d one hemisphere to another hemaspne1e.
n Many of us have done that. But ne "t''
Il. to sail from world to world, the spaces un
IA explored and immensities untraveled NJ
IN world had ever hailed heaven, and heavei
;" had never hailed any other world 'hi,i
>, that the windows and the balconies wef'
p, thronoed and that the pearly beaoh wa
,st crowded with those who had come 70 81
,r- him sail out Of the harbor of light into I'd
oceans beyond Out and out and out, an
on and on and on, and down and COW
and down he sped, until one night, VII
IN only one to greet him, he arrived. hl
no Decentralization so unpretending,
e'' quiet, that it was not known on eartn VI
op til the excitement in the cloud gave INT
he ..otio,, +ho+ so,retbino grand and glorior
he - ha,,,or,ed Who comes there? Fro,
ng 1T ~ Aid no sailp Why was this Il
les place of his destinations I question q
RIM shepherds question the camel driver
IN question the angels. I have found on
%s He was an exile. But tho world has III
ere plenty of exiles. Abraham, an exile ITO
rol T-has,,a. Iynsoi,,sLo an exile from P
US land; Mazzini an exile from Rome; nj
rs met, an exile from Ireland; Victor Hue
gnu an exile from France; Kossuth, an eA
au from Hungary. But this one OF who1i
, ,. speak today had such resoui,ding iare"
lies 80 go, :. hostlor vent ont with his Ia
All tern to help him in-that he is more 70
OyS than ofhcr cxrntriAted q