Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-17
CULTIVATE HOME FEELING.
This is the Advice Given 10 Both Men and
Women.

Colonel John w Nrooman, an earn
est Christian worker, says that he
thinks women do not now give time
enough to the home.
Il say 1t humbly." he said to New
York Tribune reporter recently, and
| not in any criticising spirit; but | can
! not help asking if the present plan is
not TO cultivate desire for some other
attractive place. The cultivation OF
home feeling and the spending of more
time at home would insure great re-
suits. | have no doubt. And I do not
say that to women only. for believe
that men. too. should do their best to
cultivate the same feelings.
Considering for moment the re-
cent discussions covering this question,
! want to add my protest against the
proposition that Il club. either itch
mans or poor mans is social neces-
sity' Social convenience, possibly:
but social necessity. never. The great
need of this intensely practical present
is more preaching. more writing In the
direction OF utilizing the home as a
social necessity club. extending home
influence. elevating home surroundings,
purifying home life. opening home
doors. not only to the more favored,
but also to the less fortunate iadiyid
ual.
Turn. upon proper occasion. MILL
ion well-regulated homes into social
intercourse clubs. where purity and
pleasure prevail. and you will quickly
dispose of the social demand
for saloon or club for masses or classes.
An attractive home, made so not by
lavish display of wealth or foolish de-
mand of fashion, but by unchanging
love. mutual forbcarance and good
cheer. governed by consttution-the
Holy Rible-conducted in harmony
with bylaws of purity. obedience and
true charity. furnishes the bcst-gov-
crnct.. most useful and most enjoyable
club of any kind to hclpman ard please
God.
Il do not object to clubs in proper
places. used at proper times for proper
purposes. Indeed, ! am something OF i
clubman myself but away with the doc
trine. dangerous as X is destructive, mat
club, either real or makc-believc with
saloon attachment. is a social necessity
for any person, whether he belongs 10
the so-called classes or the masses.
LET us have suitable clubs, to be used
at convenient times for occasional reciea-
ton. but never dignity them by the dis
tinguishing trademark of necessity Lei
home be regarded as the chief necessity
of social life and family the chief requ!s-
lite for happiness.
''Thirty-two years ago within score of
miles of this city a boy was born in the
poorest of cottages. and with the hum
blest of surroundings. His early years
were spent in simple work-a-day eXis-
tence. without plan or ambition FOR the
future. But one day, memorable day IN
his life, an opportunity was o..ered. a
change came. A woman. ~entie and re-
fined as she was good and sympathetic,
spoke kindly to that boy of fourteen ana
gave the true charity he SO much needed.
She invited him to her nome. secured his
confidence, taught him what the average
boy without friends and without money
so much acknowledgements, with rea-
sonable amount of ambition. 1t cost that
woman something of her time and hospi-
tally. but her influence stirred the nobler
spirit within that young man. ans
marked, new purpose and a new era In
his life.
1.-THE story in detail of his discourage
ments and determinations. OF his fear OF
one How he prepared for
college; how he was graduated with hon
or; how he became a learned professor
in one Of our great educational institu.
and lecturer: how he paid back all the
money lent him while in college and In
the beginning of his professional career:
how he worked through the years of his i
early manhood. and IS now working for |
God and humanity, and not the least in |
leresting part of that story would be how /
that good woman exemplifed true charity /
BY cheering. encouraging and standing By |
hat boy and man all the time. What a +
glorious ministry. for any woman. !
The giving of her true charity inspired
me boy. made the man and made self
better, nobler. happier. All this was done
without the charity of almsgivinS. but
with the charity of a generous. unseltish
leart. which Is now reflected In the man.
md the encouragement and sympathy /
hat uplifted him In like measure he is
low striving to give to others