The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-08

1l6 Only IllS 10 take HOODS DdTodQdTllLa1-
tent from marchings, with no harbor from
the storm, with no place 10 rest from this
scene of greed and gouge and loss and
gam. God pity the man or woman who has
no home!
Further. I remark. that home Is a polit-
zeal safeguard. The safety cot the state
must be built on the safety of the home
The Christian hc1rthstone IS the only cor
ncr-stone for a republic. The virtues cut
tured in the family circle are an absolute
necessity for the state If there be not
enough moral principle to make the fam
ilY adhere. there will not be enough polit-
cal principle to make the state adhere
mo home" means the GOths and Van
dals means the nomads OF Asia, means
the Numidians of Africa, changing from
place to place, according as the pasture
happens to change. COMPOUNDED be all
those Babels of iniquity which would
oVertower and destroy the home. The
same storm that upsets the snip in which
the family sails will sink the frigate OF the
constitution. Jails and penitcntiaries and
armies and naVies are not our best de-
Tense The door of the home is the best
fortress. Household utensils are the best
artillery, and the Chimneys Of our dwell
ing-houses are the grandest monuments Of
safety and triumph. No nome. No repub-
Further I remark, that home is a school.
Old ground must be turned up with sub
soil plough, and 1t must he narrowed aud
reharrowed, and then the crop VIII not
be-as large as that of the new ground with
less culture. Now, youth and childhood
are new ground, and all the influences
thrown over their heart and life will come
up in after-life luXuriantly. Every time
you have given smile of APPRECIATION
all the good cheer OF your life will come
up again in the geniality of your children
And every ehultiou Of anger and every
uncomfortable display of anger and indlg-
nation will be fuel to their disposition
twenty or thirty or forty years from now
fuel for bad fire a quarter of a cen-
tury from this. You praise the intch-
az NIL
when you think he IS not aware of ia,
and you will see the result of 1t before
ten years of age I'm his annoying affecta~
tions. You praise his beauty, supposins
he is not large enough TO understand
what you say. and you will find him stand
ing on high chair before tlattering
mirror. Words and deeds and example
are the seed of character. and children
are very apt to be the second edition or
their parents. Abraham begat Isaac. so
virtue Is apt to go down in the ancestral
line, but Herod begat Archelaus, so
iniquity is transmitted. What vast re
sponstbility. comes upon parents in view
of this subject.
Oh, make your home the brightest place
on earth, If you would charm your chill
dren to the high path of virtue and recti-
tude and religion DO not always turn
the blinds the wrong way Let the light
which puts gold on the gentian and spots
the pansy pour into your dwellings,. Do
not expect the little feet to keep step to
dead march DO not cover UP your
walls with such pictures as Vests Death
ere of the Innocents." Rather cover
them, Of you have pictures, with ""The
Hawking Party and The Mil by the
Mountain Stream" and THE Fox Hunt 3"
and The Children Amid Flowers" and
The Harvest Scene" and The Saturday
Night Marketing"
Get you no hint of cheerfulness from
grasshopperS leap and lambs frisk, and
quails whistle, and garrulous steamlet,
which, from the rock at the mountain top
clear down TO the meadow ferns under
Af hA L. H..
for the steepest place to leap off at and
talking Just to hear itself talk? If all
the skies hurtled with tempest, and ever
lasting storm wandered over the sea, and
every mountain stream went raving mad,
trothing at the mouth with mad foam. and
there were nothing but simoons blowing
among the hills, and there were neither
larks carol nor hummng- birds trill, nor
waterfalls dash, but only bears bark, and
panthers scream, and VOLTS howl. then
you might well gather into your homes
only the shadows But when God has
stewn the earth and the heavens with
beauty and with gladness, let US take into
our home circles all innocent hilarity, all
brightness, and all good cheer. A dark
home makes bad boys and bad girls, in
preparation for bad men and bad women.
Above all, my friends, take into your
homes Christian principle Can &c be that
in any of the comfortable homes of my
conversation the voice of prayer is never
lifted? What! No supplication at night
for protection? What NO THANKSGIVING
in the morning for care? How, my broth
err. my sister, Will you answer God in the
day of judgment with reference to your
children? It is plain question. and
therefore / ask it. In the tenth chapter
of jeremiah God Gays he will pour out
his fury upon the families that call not
upon his name. o, parents, when you are
dead and gone and the moss is covering
the inscription of the tombstone will your
children look back and think of father
and mother at family prayer? win they
take the old family Bible and open it and
see the mark of tears of contritiOn and
tears of consOling promise, Wept by eyes
long before gone out into darkness? Oh,
If you do not inculcate Christian princi-
pie 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 off into dissipation
and into intidelity, and at last make ship
wreck of their immortal souls, on their
deathbed and in the day of judgment they
will curse youl Seated by the register or
the stove, what If on the wall should come
out the history Of your children What a
history-the mortal and immortal life of
your loved ones! Every parent is writing
the history Of his child He is writing II,
composing il into song or tuning it into
a groan.
NV mind runs back to one Of the best
of early homes. Prayer, like a roof over 1t.
Peace. like an atmosphere in IT. Parents,
personifications of faith in trial and COM
fort in darkness The two pillars of that
earthly home long ago crumbled TO dust.
But shall 5 torSSe ee Tha sdrs earthly NY
sun that waNlns it. Yes, when the mari
ner forgets the star that guided him. Yes,
when love has gone out on the heart S
altar and memory has emptied its urn
ito forgetfulness. Then, home of my
childhood, l will forget thee; the family
altar Of a fathers opportunity ana a
mothers tenderness, the voices of aftcc-
ton the funerals OF our dead: father ana
mother with interiocked arms like inter-
tNining branches of trees making a per-
petual arbor of love and peace and kind
ness-then ] will forget thee-then. and
only then. You know, my brother, that a
hundred times you have been kept out OF
sin 10y the memory of such a scene as l
have been describing. You have often
had raging temptations. but you know
what has held YOU with supernatural
grasp. tell you man who has mad
such "A good home as that ueVc~gcts owe"
II. and man who has had bad early
home never gets over that
Again. / remark that home Is "A type of
heaven. To bring us TO that home Christ
! left his home. Far up and far back in
the history of heaven there came "A period
when its most illustrious citizen was about
TO absent himself. He was not going "a
sal from beach to beach; we have often
! done that He was not going TO put out
from one hemisphere 60 another hcmis-
! phere; many of Use have done that But
! he was TO sail from world 20 world the
| spaces uneXplored and immeusities un-
| travelled. No world had ever hailed heaV-
/ en-, and heaven had never hailed any thpr