The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-27
grandest monuments Of safety AMI triumph

plow, and 1t must bs narrowed aud re-har-
rowed and then the crop will 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 afterlife luxuriantly. |
Every.time you have given smile of appro- |
baton all the good cheer OF your life Will |
come up again in the genialty OF your chill
dren Aud every ebulition OF anger and |
every uncomfortable display OF Indignation |
will be fuel to their disposition twenty or
thirty or forty years from now-tuei ior a pad
| FIRE quarter of century from this. You
praise the intelligence OF your child too much
| sometimes when you think he is not aware oil
it. and you will see the result. OF it before ten
| years OF age in his annoying affections. You
| praise his beauty, sup2oslng he IS not large
| enough to understand what you say, anu
| you will find him standing on a high chair
| before mirror. Words aud deeds and ex-
| ample are the sesl OF character. and children
are very apt to be the second edition OF their
| parents. Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue is
| apt TO go down INF the ancestral line. but
| Hsrod bsgat Archelaus, 30 iniquity is trans
mitted. What vast responsibility comes up
! on parents In Views Of this subject
| Oh, make your home the brightest place
| on earth il you wouli charm your children
| to the higa path of virtue and rectitud3 an
/ rsgionl Do not always turn the blinds the
wrong way. Let the light whith putss god
on the ganlian an 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 su;h pictures as
Vests "Death on Pale Horss" or Tinto-
| retto's ''Massacre OF the Inno cents Rather
| cover them. If yo1 have pictures. with "Fhe
Hawking Party" ana '.fhe MIL BY the
| Mountain Stream" AMI 'fha Fox Hunt,
and "rhe Children Anil Flowers" AMI
1.-The Harvest Scene" and "Fhe Saturday
/ Night Marketing"
Get you no hint of cheerfuines; from grass
hoppers leap aud lambs frisk, and quaifs
whistle, and garru'ou5 sireamlet which.
| from, the rock at the mountain top clear
down to the meadow ferns un Ter the shallow
| OF the steep comes looking for the steepest
place to leap off at and talking just to hear
itself talk? Ii all the skies hurtled with
| tempest and everlasting s. orm wandered
over the sea, and every mountain stream
went raving NAL, frothing at the mouth
with mad foam, and there were nothing but
simooms blowing. among the hills aud there
were neither lark carol orhumming birds
thrill, nor waterfalls dash, bat only bars
bark and panther's scream and VOLTS howl,
then you might Well gather into your home
only the shadows. But when Obi has
| s.rewn the earth and the heavens with beauty
and with cladness, let US take into our hons
| circles all inuocent hilarity, all brightness
and all COOL cheer. dark home makes bad
boys and bad girls in preparation for ba
men and bad women.
Above all, my friends, take into your
homes Christian principle. Can It be that
in any OF the comfortable homes of my Goa
grsgation the voice of prayer is never lift
ed? What No supplication at night for
protection? What! No thanksgiving in the
morning for care? How, my brother, my
sister, will You answer God in the day OF
judgment with reference to your children
1t Is n plain question, ard therefore l ask
it. In the tenth chapter of jeremiah God
saws he will pour out his fury upon the
families that call not upon his name. Oh,
parents, when you ara dea and gone AMI
the moss is covering the inscription of thu
| tombstone, will your children look back
and think Of father aud mother az family
prayer Will they take the old family BIZ
Bile AMI open Ii and see the marx OF tears
and contrition and tears OF consoliuS prom
Use. wept by eyes long before gone cut into
darknesss On, il you do not tnculcase
Christian principle in the hearts OF your
children. and you do not warn them against
evil. and you do not invite them to holiness,
AMI to God,s and they wander OF into dissi-
patton and INTO inAdelity. and at last mako
| shipwreck of their immortal souls, on their
. deathbed and in the day of judgment they
will curse you'll Seated by the register or the
stovc what if on the wall should come ont
the history of your children1 What history
the mortal and immortal life OF your love
, ones! Every parent Is Wrttug Inc nistoIy
of his child. He is writing 1T, composing it
into a song or tuning il into gfoan.
My mind runs back to one OF the best
! OF early homes Prayer, like roof over it.
Peace, like an atmosphere in ii. Parents.
! personiicatlons of faith in trial and comfort
IN darkness. The two pillars of that earthly
home long ago crunbled to dust. But shall
l ever forget that earthly hone? Yes, when
the flower forgets the sun that warns 1t.
} Yes. when the mariner forgets the star that
guides him. Yea, when love has gone out
on the hearts altar and memory has enPtied
:. its urn into forgetfulness. Then. home OF
my childhood. l will forget thee
the family altar of Il fathers impor-
/, tunity and mothers tenderness, the
! voices OF affection. the funerals OF our dead.
Father and mother. with interlocked arms,
like INTERVENING branches of trees, making
a perpetual arbor OF love and peace an
kindness, then / will forget thee; then, and
only then. You know, my brother, that 100
! times you have been kept out OF elm by the
memory Of such scene rs / have bssn de-
!, scribing You have often had raging tempta'
! lions, but you know what has held you With
supernatural grasp. I tell you man who
I has had such good home as that never gets
!, over it, and man who has had bad early
home never gets over that.
: Again, / remark that home Is type o
:. heaven. To bring Us 10 that home Christ
! left his home. Far up AMI far back In tbs
2 history OF heaven there came period wher
its more ilusr :ous citizen was about to alb
| sent himself. He was net going to sail from
: beach to beach. We have often done that
4 He was not going 10 put out from one hemi
! sphere TO another hemisphere. Many Of u!
have done that. But he was to sail fro1
g world to world, the spaces UNEMPLOYED ant
I immensities untraveei. No world had eve
; hailed heaven, and heaven had neve
T haileI any other world. / think tia
Q the windows and the balconies wer
I thronged and that the pelrly beach wa
t crowded with those who had come 10 Sc
e Him sail out of the harDor of light into III
4 oceans beyond. Out aud out aud out, an
4 on and on and Cd, and down and down an
l down He sped until one night, with only on
. to greet Him. he arrived. His disembarka
t ton so unpretending, so quiet, that 1t wa
: not known on earth until the excitement il
the cloud gave intimation that somethin
i grand and glorious had happened. Wh
: comes there? From what port did He gail
d Why was this the place OF Hi
t destination? question the sher
r heris. / question the camel drivers.
Il question the angels. ] have found GU
e lie was an exile. But the world has ha
}. plenty Of exiles. Abraham, an exile tror
). Ur OF the Chaldees; John, an exile froI
u Ephesus; Kosoiusso, an exile from Poland
10 Mazzlni, an exile from Rome; Emmett, an es
lie from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exile fror
q France. Kossuth. al exile from Hungary
Il But this One OF whom speak to-day ha
r. such resounding farewell and came int
of | such chilling receDtiou-for not even a no.