The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-12

in circulation with no specie in the
vault. Let us learn ito show 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 outward and public plausibility
merely springs from u fear of the world
or from the Shiny. putrid pool of our
own selfishness. l tell you the home is
a mighty test of character. What You
are at home you are everywhere,
whether you demonstrate it or not
Again remark that home is re-
fuge. Life is the United States army
on the national road 20 Mexico. a long
march with ever and anon sl1irmish
and battle. At eventide we pitch our
tent and stack our arms: we hang up
the war cap and lay our head on the
knapsack; we sleep until the morning
bugle calls Us TO marching and action.
How pleasant it is TO rehearse the vic
tories and the surprises and the attacks
OF the day. seated by the still campfire
of the home circle,
Yea, life is a stormy sea. With
Shivered masts and torn sails and hulk
aleak. we put into the harbOr of home.
Blessed harbor. there we 90 for repairs
in the dry dock of quite life. The can
die in the window is to the tOiling man
the lighthouse guiding him into port.
Children go forth to meet their fathers
as pilots at the Narrows take the hand
of ships. The doorsill 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 be
ing charged with self-adulation. There
is the place where we may lounge
without being thought ungraceful-
There is the place where we may eX-
press affection without being thought
silly. There is the place where we
may forget our annoyauces and exas-
perations and troubles. FOrlOrn earth
pilgrim. 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 h0rrrs'
Further. remark. that home is pO-
litical safeguard. The safety of the
state must be built on the safety of the
home. The Christian hearthstone is
the only corner stone for a republic.
The virtues cultured in the family cir
Gle 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 prin-
ciple to make the state adhere. No
home" means the Goths and Vandals,
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 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. House
hold utensils are the best artillery,
and the chimneys of our dwelling
houses are the grandest monuments of
safety and triumph. No home, no re-
public.
Further. l remark that home is
school. Old ground must be turned up
with a subsoil pillow. and it must be
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 luxuri-
antly. Every time you have given a
smile of approbatiOn-all the good
cheer of your life will come up again
in the geniality of your children. And
every ebullition of anger and every IN
controllable display of indignation will
be fuel to their disposition 20, or
80 or 40 years from now-fuel
for a bad fire a quarter of a
century from this. You praise the in
telligenee 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
You praise his beauty,
supposing he is not large enough TO I'M
derStand what you say, and you will
find him standing on a high chair
before flattering mirror. Words and
deeds and example are the seed of a
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 begat Archelaus, so iniquity is
What vas responsibility
comes upon parents in view of this sub
ject.
o, make your home the brightest
place on earth. if you would charm
your children to the high path of vir-
tue 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 a dead march. |
Do not cover up your walls with such |
pictures as Vests Death on a Pale /
Horse" or TintorettO's Massacre of !
the Innocents.' Rather cover tn EN-. if /
you have pictures. with THE Hawk |
ng Party" and The Mill by the Noun
tain Stream" and THE Fox Hunt |