Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-02-11

Chew LAseE's PLUGS. The Great Tobacco Antidoi
rows take the nano OF snIps. me doorsn
of the home is the wharf where heavy life
is unladen.
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 annoyances and
exasperations and troubles. Forlorn earth
No home? Then die That is
better. The grave is brighter and grander
and more glorious than this world, with
no tent from marchings, with no harbor
from the storm, with no place to rest from
this scene of greed and gouge and loss and
gain. God pity the man or woman who
has no homel
Further, remark that home is q politi-
cal safeguard. The safety of the state
must be built on the safety of the home
The Christian hearthstone is the only cor
nerstone for republic. The virtues cul-
tured in the family circle are an absolute
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 Goths and Vandals,
means the nomads Of Asia, means the NJ
indians 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 de-
stroy the homel The same storm that up
sets the ship in which the family sails will
sink the frigate of the constitution. Jails
and penitentiaries and armies and navies
are not our best defense. The door of the
home is the best fortress. Household uten-
sils are the best artillery, and the chimneys
Of our dwelling houses are the grandest
monuments of safety and triumph. No
home. No republic.
Home Is School.
Further, remark that home is school.
Old ground must be turned up with sub
soil plow, and it must be narrowed and re-
narrowed 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
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 ev-
cry ebulition of anger and every uncon-
trollable display of indignation will be fuel
to their disposition 90 or 80 or 40 years
from now-fuel for bad fire quarter of
century from this. You praise the in
telligence of your child too much some
times when you think he is not aware of
it, and you will see the result of it before
ten years of age in his annoying affecta-
tions. You praise his beauty, supposing
he is not large enough to understand what
you say, and you will find him standing
on high chair before fiattering mirror.
Words and deeds and example are the seed
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 in the ancestral line, but Herod be-
gat Archelaus, so iniquity is transmitted.
What vast responsibility comes upon par
ents in view of this subjectl
Oh, make your home the brightest place
on earth if you would charm your children
to the high path of virtue and rectitude
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 on Pale
Horse" or Tintoretto's Massacre of the
Innocents" Rather cover them, if you
have pictures, with "The Hawking Party, +"
and "The Mill by the Mountain Stream, "
and "The Fox Hunt" and "The Children
Amid Flowers" and "The Harvest
Scene," and "The Saturday Night Mar
keting."
Cheerfulness.
Get you no hint of cheerfulness from
grasshopper's leap and lambs frisk, and
quail's whistle, and garrulous streamlet,
which, from the rock at the mountain top
clear down to the meadow ferns under the
shadow of the steep, comes looking for the
steepest place to leap off at and talking
just to hear itself talkf If all the skies
hurtled with tempest and everlasting storm
wandered over the sea, and every noun
tain stream went raving mad, frothing at
the mouth with mad foam, and there were
nothing but simooms blowing among the
hills, and there were neither lark's carol
nor humming bird's s trill, nor waterfall s
dash, but only bears bark and panther s
scream and VOLTS howl, then you might
well gather into your homes only the shad-
ows. But when God has strewn 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 it be that
in any of the comfortable homes of my con-
gregation 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 plain question, and therefore ask
it. In the tenth chapter of jeremiah God
says he will pour out his fury upon the
families that call not upon his name. Oh,
parents, when you are dead and gone and
the moss is covering the inscription of the
and think of father and mother at family
prayerP Will they take the old family Bi-
BILE and open it and see the mark of tears
and contrition and tears of consoling prom
Use, 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 off
into dissipation and into infidelity, and at
last make 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 stove, what if 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.