The Progress., 1897-02-13

disposition to be rs bright and warm as
sheaf of sunbeams, and yet they may only
be a magnificent show window to wre5cn-
ed stock Of goods. There is many q man
who is affable in public life ana anna COLI
mercial spheres who, In cowardly way,
takes his anger and his petulance home ana
drops them in the domestic circle
Piety at Homo.
Tho reason men do not display their bad
temper in public is because they DO not
want to be knocked down. There are men
who hide their petulance and their irri-
liability lust for the same reason that they |
do not let their notes go to protese-at ooes
not paw Or for the same reason that they |
do not want q man in their STOCK company
to sell his stock at less than the right Pr1ce.
| lest it depreciate the value. AS at sunees
| the wind rises, SO after sunshiny day
| there NAV be a tempestuous night. There
are people who in public act the philan-
thropist who Mt home act the Nero with
| respect to their slippers and their gown.
Audubon the great ornithologist, With
| gun and pencil went through the 1oresCs
| of America to bring down and to sketch
the beautiful birds, and after years of toll
and exposure completed his manuscript
| and put it in a trunk in Philadelphia for
! a few days of recreation and rest and came
back and found that the rats had utterly
destroyed the manuscript, but without
any discomposure and without any fret or
bad temper, he again picked up his gun
and pencil and visited again all the great
: forests of America and reproduced his I'M
mortal work And yet there are people
: with the ten thousandth part of that loss
who are utterly irreconcnable, who, at the
} loss of d pencil or an article of ra1ment,
Q will blow US long and sharp northeast
storm. -,
! Now, that man who is affable in public
/ and who is irritable in private is making q
t fraudulent overissue of stock, and he Is as
Y bad as 81 bank that might have 100000 or
z $500, 900 of bills in circulation, with NO
o specie in the vault. Let us learn "to show
y piety at home" If we have it not there,
we have it not anywhere. If we have not
genuine grace in the family circle, all our
d outward and public plausibility merely
Y springs from q fear of the world or IRON
/. the Shiny, ptltrid pool of our own selfish
d ness tell you the home is a mighty tes
s. Of character. What you are at home yot
II are everywhere, whether you demonstrate
le 1t or not.
g. A Refuge and q Safeguard.
a Again 1 remark that home is a refuge
,e Life is tho United States army on the ma
y tional road to Mexico, q long march, wit
ever and anon skirmish and a battle =
Is eyentidc we pitch our tent and stack OF
arms. We hang up the war cap and Ia
ne our head on the knapsack. We sleep unit
the morning bugle calls us to marchlr
IN and action. How pleasant it Is to rehear
" the victories and the surprises and the
II. tacks of the day, seated by the still cam
IL fire of the home circle!
w Yea, life is a stormy sea. With shi
=, cred masts and torn sails and hulk alea
No we put into the harbor of home Bless
- harbor! There we go for repairs In the Or
As dock of quiet life. The candle in the WI
rs 10 dow is to the toiling man the lghthou
~ guiding him into port. Children go for
a. 10 meet their fathers as pilots at the M
IL rows take the hand of ships The doors
of the home is the wharf where heavy j
La is unladen.
There is the place where we may talk
30 what we have done Without being charg
-, with self adulation. There Is the plt
nd where We may r., r. tha nj,
thought ungraceful. There Is the pii
where we may express affection withe
'hs being thought silly. There is the pl'
OS- Wnerc W. may Az. So I,..,a,-,, 90,
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