Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-02-12
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roWei, and then the crop viii not be a. large
AZ that OF the new ground with les culture.
Now, Youth aud childhood are nex ground,
and all the influences thrown oyertheir heart
and life wall come up In afterlife luxuriAntly.
Every time you have given a smile Of appr0-
baton all the good cheer OF your life will
come up again in the geniality OF your chill
dren. Aud every ebulitiOn of anger and
every uncomfortable display OF Indignation
will be fuel 10 their disposition twenty or
thirty or forty years from nOw-fuel for a bad
fire "A quarter Of a century from this. You
praise the Intelligence OF your child too much
sometimes when you think he Is not aware of
Il, and YOU will see the result Of ii before ten
years OF age in his annoying affections. You
praise his beauty, supposing he Is not large
enough TO understand what YOU say, and
you will find him standing on a high chair
before a mirror. Words aud deeds aud ex-
ample are the seed OF character, aud children
are very apt TO be the second edition OF their
parents. Abraham bcgat Isaac, so virtue is
apt to go down in the ancestral line. but
Herod begat Archeaus, SO tniquity 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 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
VI ktlAlhll anu sitNA7 AAlG liAllSN HhuI INTO
YOUR dwellings. Do not expect the little
feet TO keep step to u dead march. Do not
cover up your walls with such pictures as
Vests death on Palo Horse" or Tinto-
retto's Massacre OF the Innosents." Rather
cover them, IL you have pictures. with 1.-The
Hawking Party" and "rhe MIL BY the
Mountain Stream" and ''rhe Fox Hunt"
and THE Children Amid Flowers" and
The Harvest Scene" and "rhe Saturday
Night Marketing"
Get you no hint OF cheerfulness from grass
hopper's leap and lambs frisk, and quairs
whistle, aud garrulous streamet, 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 talk? II all the skies hurled with
tempest and everlasting storm wandered
over the sea, and every mountain stream
went raving mad, frothing ut the mouth
with mad foam, and there were nothing but
simOOms blowing among the hills, and there
were neither lark's carol nor humming birds
thrill, nor waterfalls dash, but only bears
bark and panther's scream and VOLTS howl,
then you might well gather into your homes
only the shadows. But when God has
strewn the earth and the heavens with beauty
and with gladness, let us take into our home
circles all innocent hiarity, 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-
gragation the voice of prayer is never lift
ed? What! No suppllcaton at night for
protectiont 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 Il plain question, and therefore | ask
it. In the tenth chapter of jeremiah God
says no 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
| tombstone will your children look back
and think of father and mother at family
| prayer? Will they take the old family BIZ
| Bile AMI open 1t and see the mark of tears
and contrition and tears of consoling prom
/ ise. wept by eyes long before gone out into
darkness on, IL 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,
AMI to God, aud they wander of into dissi-
patton and into inadelity, and at last make
shipwreck of their immortal souls, on their
| deathbed and in the day OF Judgment they
will curse you! Seated by the register or the
stove, what il 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 it, composing il
into a song or tuning 1t into groan.
My mind runs back to one Of the best
OF early homes. Prayer, like a roof over it,
Peace, like an atmosphere in it. Parents
personillcatons of faith in trial and comfort
IN darkness. The two pillars Of that earthly
home long ago crumbled to dust But shall
| ever forget that earthly home? Yes, when
the flower forgets the sun that warns IT,
Yes. when the mariner forgets the star that
guides him, Yes, when love has gone out
on the hearts altar and memory has emptied
its urn into forgetfulness. Then, home OF
my childhood. l will forget thee
the family altar of fathers impor-
tunity and mothers tenderness the
voices of affection. the funerals of our dead.
Father and mother. with interlocked arms
like INTERVIEWING branches of trees, making
a perpetual arbor OF love and peace and
kindness, then | will forget thee; then, and
only then. You know, my brother, that 100
times you have been kept out of sin by the
memory OF such scene as | have been de-
scribing. You have often lad raging tempta
tions, but you know what has held vGu with
supernatural grasp, | tell you man who
! has had such a good home as that never gets
over it, and man who has had bad early
home never gets over that.
heaven. To bring us 10 that home Christ
left his home. Far up and far back in thu
history OF heaven there came period wheI
its more illustrlous citizen was about to alb
sent himself. He was net going to sail from
beach to beach. We have often done that
He was not going % put out from one hemi
sphere to another hemisphere. Many OF u
have done that. But he was to sail from
world to world, the spaces UNEMPLOYED ant
immensities untraveled, No world had eve
hailed heaven, and heaven had neve
hailed any other world. | think tina
the windows and the balconies wer
thronged and that the pearly beach wa
crowded with those who had come TO Sc
Him sail out of the harbor of light into tn
oceans beyond. Out and out and out, AM
on and on and on, and down and down an
down He sped, until one night, with only on
to greet Him, he arrived. His dlsembarka
ton so unpretending. so quiet, that it wa
not known on earth until the excitement il
the cloud gave intimation that something
grand and glorious had happened. VIII
comes there? From what port did He sail
destinations 1 question the shop
: herbs. / question the camel drivers.
: question the angels. ] have found out
, He was an exile. But the world has ha
plenty of exiles. Abraham, an exile from
Ur of the Chaldees; John, an exile from
EpnesuSi hoscl usko, III eSlle from fOlanu
, Mazzini, an exile from Rome; Emmett, an ex
lie from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exile from
France; Kossuth, an exile from Hungary
But this One of whom l speak to-day ha
such resounding farewell and came int
t such chilling reception-for not even hos
} tier went out with his lantern to help Hin
| in-that He is more to be celebrated thai
r any other expatriated one of earth or heaven
| AT our best estate we are only pilgrims an
, strangers here. "Heaven is our home.
Death will never knock at the door Of tina
I mansion, and in all that country there i
l not a single grave. How glad parents ar