The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-07-28

,no honse abolishes the grace OF hospital
ity. Your guest does not want to come 70
such q table. No one wants 10 run such n
~cantIet of acute and merciiess hyrercritlc-
ism. Unless you have q home OF your own
YOU will not be able to exercise the best
rewarded of all the graces. For exercise
~ this grace what blessing came 10 the
Sbunammite in the restoration OF her son
to life because she entertained Elisha, ana
TO the widow Of ~ZarepEath in tie perpetual
oil we'll Of the miraculous cruise because
she led Il hungry prophet, and TO Eahao III
the preservation Of her life at the danoli-
t;oa OF Jericho because she entertained the
spies. and 10 Lahan in the formation Of an
Interesting family relation because OF his
Entertainment OF Jacob, aud to Lot In his
rescue from the destroye,. city occ1Gss OF
his entertainment Of the angels. and to
Mary and Martha and ZaccEcusi in 9 iiri nal
blessing because they entertained Christ,
and TO Publius in the island of Melita in the
bealipg Of his father because Of the enter
tainmeut Of Pau, drenched from the snip
wreck, and otinnumerable houses through
out C~lristendom upon which have come
blessings from generation to generation
because their doors swung easily open in
the charging, ennoDiinS, irradiatioS and
divine grace OF hospitality!
Young married man, rs soon as you can,
buy such a place even ii you have to pat on
ii Il mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much abused mortgage. which
is ruin to Il reckless man. t. one p udent
and provident Is the beginning Of Il COM
potency and a fortune for the reason he
will not be satisfied until he has paid i OF,
and Gil the household are put Oh stringent
economies until then. Deny yoHrself nil
superAuities and all !uxuries until you can
say, 'EverythinS in this house is mine.
thank God-every timber, every brick.
every foot OF plumbing. every door>ili.'
Dol not have vourchildren born ia Il board
ing house, and do not yourself be buried
from one. Have Il place where your chill
dren can shout and sing and r0mp without
being oyerliauled for the racket. Have a
kitchen where you can 90 something
toward the reformation Of evil cookery and
the lessening Of this nation o! dysne tics.
AS Napoleon lost one Of his great battles 10y
an attack OF indigestion. so many men
have such a daily wrestle with tie food
swalloUe ed that they have no strength left
for the battle Of life, and, though your
wife may know how to Llay on all musical
instruments and rival q prima donna. she
is not we'll educated unless she can boil an
Irish potato and prOil a mutton chop. since
the diet sometimes decides the fate Of fam.
lies and nations.
Have a sitting room with at least one
easy chair, even though you have to take
turns at sitting in it, and books out OF the
public library or OF yOur own purchase fol
the making Of YOU family intelligent
and cEeckerboards, and guessing matches
with an occasional blind mans buff, which
which Is Of all games my favorite. Rouse
up your home With all styles OF i%nnOcen,
mlrth and gather up in your children
nature a reservoir Of eXuberanco that wit
pour down refreshing streams VIXEN lif,
gets parched, and the dark days come
and the lights so out, and the laughter j:
smothered into n sob.
First, last and all the time have Christ
In 49, o4 : a.
fears OF an %aff-ightel boatman who was
rowing in a stream by saying, 80 long Il,
Cesar Is with you In the same boat, NJ
harm can happen And whatever storm
OF adversely or bereavement or pOvert
may strike your home, all is we'll as Ion:
as you have Christ the King on board
Make your home so ~farreacliinS in its in
fuence that down to the last moment o
your chilGren's life you ma hold then
with a heavenly charm. At seveDty-si
years Of age the Denostbenes Of til
American Senate lay dying at Washing
tout mean Henry Clay, Of Kentucky
His pastor sat at his bedside. AMI "the oil
nan eloquent after a long and ~excitin
public life. transatlantic aud cisatlanti,
WAS back again in the scenes, c
his boyhood, and lie kept saying j
his dream over and over again, IN
mother. mother, mo.her.' May the parel
tai influence we exert be not only potter
tial, but holy, and so the hOmeO on earth j
the vestibule of our home in heaven. i
which place may we all meet-fathe
mother, son, daughter. brother, siste
grandfather, grandmotherHld grandchilt
and the entire group Of precious ones,
whom we must say in the words Of tran.
porting Charles Wesley:
One family we dwell in him.
One church above, beneath.
Though now div ded 10y the stream
The narrow stream OF death;
One army OF the living God,
To Hts command we bow;
Part OF the : ost have crossed tie food
And part are crossing nov.