Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-08

ard visited cram all the great forests
of America and reproduced his immor.
tai work Ard yet there arc people with
the ten thcusandth part Of that loss who
are utterly iTreccncilable who, at the
loss of pencil or an article of raiment,
will blow as long and sharp as a north.
east storm.
Now, that man who is affable in pub
lie and who is irritable in private is
making fraudulent over s.sue of stock,
and he is as bad as a bank STAT might
have $500, 900 or 5000, 600 of bills in
circulation with no specie in the vault
Let US learn ito show piety at home. y 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 selfishness. I
tell you the home is a mighty test of
character. What you are at home you
are everywhere, whether you demon
strate it or not.
Again, remark that home is ref
uge. Life is the United States army on
the national road to Mexico, long
march, with ever and anon skirmish
and battle. AT eyentide 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 q stormy 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 drydock of quiet life. The can
die in the window is to the toiling man
the lighthouse guiding him into port.
as pilots at the Narrows take the hand
of ships. The doorsill of the home is
the wharf where heavy life is unladen
A Refuge, Safeguard and 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 eXasperations and trou-
bles 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
with no harbor from the
storm, with 10 place to rest from this
scene Of greed and gouge and loss and
gain. GCd pity the man or woman who
has 10 home
Further, remark that home is a po-
litical safeguard. The safety CT the state
must be built on the safety of the home
The Christian hcarthstone is the only
for republic The virtues
cultured IL the family circle are an alb
solute necessity for the state. If 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
Cloths and Vandals, means the nomads
Of Asia, means the Numidians Of At
,ica, changing from place to place ac-
,ording as the pasture happens to
change COMPOUNDED be all those Babels
If iniquity which would overtower and
destroy the home! The same storm
hat upsets the ship in which the fami-
y sails will sink the frigate OF the con-
'titution. Jails and penitentiaries and
armies and navies are not our best de-
ense The door of the home is the best
ortress. Household utensils are the best
lrtillery, and the chimneys of our
lwelling houses are the grandest monu-
nents of safety and triumph No home,
10 republic
Further, / remark that home is a
chool. Old ground must be turned up
With subsoil pillow, and it must be har-
owed and reharrowed, and all the in
luences thrown over their heart and
ife will come up in after life luxuriant-
y. Every time you have given a smile
# appreciation all the good cheer of
our life will come up again in the
,eniality Of your children. And every
bullition of anger and every uncontrol-
able display Of indignation will be fuel
o their disposition 20 or 80 Or 40 years
rom now-fuel for bad fire a quarter
# century from this. You praise the
of your child too much
ometimes when you think he is not
iware of it, and you will see the result
# it before 10 years of age in his an
loying Alterations. You praise his
'eauty, suppcsing he is not large enough
o understand what you say, and you
will find him standing on high chair
'efore fattering mirror. Words and
leeds and example are the seed of char
cter, and children are very apt to be
he second edition of their parents
Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue is apt to
70 down in the ancestral line, but Herod
egat Archelaus, SO iniquity is trans
nitted. What vast responsibility comes
pon parents in view Of this subiectl
Oh, make your home the brightest
lace en- earth if you would charm
our children to the high path of virtue