The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-21

the sportsman on the beach, and after
awhile the fishermen begin to draw IN
the net hand over hand, and hand over
hand, and 1t is long while before the
captured fins begin to feel the net, ana
then they dart this way and that, hop
ing to get out, but find themselves APP
preaching the shore, and are brought
up to the very feet of the captors, SO
the memory of an early home some
times seems to relax and let men out
further and further from God, and FUR
Their and further from shore-hVe
years, ten years, twenty years, thirty
years: but some day they lind an IRE
sistible mesh drawing them back, and
they are compelled to retreat from
their prodigality and wandering; ana
though they make desperate enort 10
escape the impression, and try to dlVe
deeper down in sin, after waile are
brought clear back and held upon tne
Rock of Ages.
If it be possible o father and moth-
er! let your sons and daughters 90 out
into the world under the semi-omnlpo-
tent memory of good, pure nolne'
About your two or three rooms IN
clearinghouse, or a family hotel, you
can cast nosuch glorious sanctity. Ihey
will think of these public caravarsa-
ries as an early stopping place, NAL
odorous with old victuals, coffees Pc
petually steaming, and meats in ever
lasting stew or broil, the air sur
charged with carbonic acid, and corrl-
doris along which drunken boarders
come staggering at one o'clock in the
morning, rapping at the door TIL tne
affrighted wife lets them in. 10 no'
be guilty of the sacrilege of blasphemy
of calling such place home.
A home is four walls enclosing one
family with identity of interest, and a
privacy from outside inspection SO
complete that it is world IN ltseil'
no one entering except by permission
bolted, and barred, and chained against
all out side inquisitiveness. The phrase
so often used in law books and legal
circles is mildly suggested-eVery
mans house is his castle. AS
much so as though it had drawbridge,
portcullis, redoubt, bastion, and armeu
turret. Even the officer of the law may
not enter to serve writ, except the
door be voluntarily opened unto him;
burglary, or the invasion of it, crime
so offensive that the law clashes It's
iron jaws on any one who attempts IT.
Unless it be necessary to stay Tor
longer or shorter time in family hotel
or boarding house-and there are thou
sands of instances in which it is nee
essary, as 1 showed you at the begin
ning-unless in this exceptional case,
let neither wife nor husband consent
to such permanent residence.
The public residence Of hotel and
clearinghouse abolishes the grace OF
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such a table. No one wants
to run such gauntlet of acute and
merciless hyper-criticism. Unless you
have home of your own you will not
be able to exercise the best rewarded
of all the graces. For exercise of this
grace what blessing came to the Shun-
ammite in the restoration Of her son
to life because she entertained Elisha,
and to the widow of Zarephath in the
perpetual oil we'll of the miraculous
cruise because she fed hungry proph-
ct, and to Rahab in the preservation
of her life at the demolition of Jericho
because she entertained the spies, and
to Laban in the formation of an in
teresting family relation because of
his entertainment of Jacob, and to Los
in his rescue from the destroyed city
because of his entertainment OF the
angels, and to Mary and Martha and
Zaccheus in spiritual blessing because
they entertained Christ, and to Publius
in the island of Melita in the healing
of his father because of the entertain
ment of Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and of innumerable houses
throughout Christendom upon which
have come blessings from generation
to generation because their doors
swung easily open in the charging
ennobling, irradiating and divine grace
of hospitality. l do not know what
your experience has been, but l nave
had men and women visiting at my
house who left a benediction on every
room-in the blessing they asked al
the table, in the prayer they offered
at the family altar, in the good advice
they gave the children, in the gospell'
cation that looked out from every line
ament of their countenances; and theli
departure was the sword of bereave
ment. The Queen of Norway, Sweder
and Denmark had a royal cup OF ter
curves, or lips, each one having OF
it the name of the distinguished person
who had drunk from it. And that cul
which we offer to others in Christian
hospitality, though it be of the PLANES
earthenware, is a royal cup, and GOO
can read on all its sides the name!
of those who have taken from 1t re
freshment. But all this is Impossible
unless you have q home of your own
Young married man, as soon as yo'
can, buy a place even if you have u
nut on it a mortgage reaching iron
base to capstone. The much-abuseC
mortgage. which is ruin to reckless