The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-14

Danu, IL VIII Dc because ne Is u1Vlnely pIO-
tected from the disasters that have
whelmed thousands OF husbands, with as
good intentions rs yours. Neither should
the husband, without imperative reason,
consent to such d life Unless he Is sure his
wife ear withstand the temptation OF So
cial dissipation which sweeps across such
places with the force of the Atlantic Ocean
when driven by a September equinox.
Many wives give up their homes for these
public residences, 50 that they may give
their entire time to operas, theatres, balls,
receptions and levees, and they are in q
perpetual whirl, like n whip top spinning
round and round and round very prettily
until 1t loses It's e~quipolse and shoots offin-
to u tangent. Blu the difference Is, In ono
case it is Il top, and in the other n SOU.
Besides this there is an n siduous accu-
mutation of little things around the pri-
vato home, which in the aggregate make a
great attraction, while the denizen OF one
of these public residences Is apt to say;
"What Is the use? l have no place to keep
them II | should take them" Mementos,
bric-a-brac, curiosities, quaint chair or
coy lounge, upholsteries, pictures and a
thousand things that accrete In q home arc
discarded or neglected because there Is no
homestead in which TO arrange them. And
yet they are the case In which the pearl OF
domestic happiness is set. You can never
become as attached 10 the appointments Ola
boardlng-house or family hotel as to those
things that you can call your own and nre
associated with the different members OF
your household or with scenes of thrilling
import in your domestic history. Blessed
Is chat home in which for n whole lifetime
they have been gathering, until every
figure in the carpet, and every panel or
the door, and every easement OF the win
dow has a chirography Of its own, speak-
ing out something about father or mother,
or son or daughter, or friend that was with
us awhile. What u sacred place 1t becomes
when one can say: I'm that room such a
one was born; In that bed such Il one died;
in that chair l sat on the night l beard
such a one had received a great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt for her
last evening prayer; here | sat to greet my
son as he came back from sea voyage; that
was fathers cane; that was mothers rock
ing chairi" What a joyful and pathetic
congress of reminiscences i,
The public residence OF hotel md board
ing house abolishes the grace OF hospital
ity. Your guest does not n to come to
such o table. No one wants to run such q
gauntlet of acute and merciless hypercritic-
ism. Unless you have a 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
Shunammite in the restoration of her son
to life because she entertained Elisha, and
to the widow OF Zarephath in the perpetual
oil well Of the miraculous cruise because
she fed II hungry prophet, and to Rahab in
the preservation Of her life at the demoli-
ton of Jericho because she entertained tho
spies, and to Laban In the formation OF an
interesting family relation because OF his
entertainment OF Jacob, and to Lot 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 Pubiius in the island Of Melita In the
healing of his father because of the enter
tainment OF Paul, drenched from the ship.
wreck, and OF innumerable houses through
out C~hrlstendom upon which have come
blessings from generation to generation
because their doors swung easily open In
the charging, ennobling, irradiatiug and
divine grace of hospitality
Young married man, az soon as you can,
buy such a place even il you have to put on
1t Il mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much abused mortgage, which
Is ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent
and provident is the beginning Of q COM
potency and n fortune for the reason he
will not be satisfied until he has paid 1t of,
and all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny yourself all
superhuities and all Injuries until you cnn
say, Everything in this house Is mine,
thank God-every timber, every brick.
every foot of plumbing, every doorsill."
Do not have your children born in n board
ing house, and do not yourself be buried
from one. Have a place where your chill
dren can shout and sing and romp without
being overhauled for the racket. Have o
kitchen whore you can do something
toward the reformation Of evil cookery and
the lessoning Of this nation OF dyspei tics.
As Napoleon lost one Of his great battles by
an attack of Indigestion, go many men
have such q daily wrestle with the food
swallowed that they have no strength left
for the battle of life, aud, though your
wife may know how to play on all musical
instruments and rival Il prima donna, sho
is not well educated unless she can boil an
Irish potato and proll Il mutton chop since
the diet sometimes decides the fate OF fam
lilies 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 tho
public library or of your own purchase for
the making of your family intelligent,
and checkerboHrds, and guessing matches,
with an occasional blind mans buff. which
which is of all games my %favorite. Rouse
mp your home with all styles OF innocent
mirth and gather up in your children's
nature n reservoir Of exuberauee that Will
pour down refreshing streJms when life
gets parched, and the dark days come,
and the lights 90 out, and the laughter Is
smothered into n sob.
First, last and all the time have Christ
In your home. Julius CDsnr Gained the
fears OF an a~Grighted boatman who was
rowing In n stream by saying, 80 long as
Caesar Is with you In the same boat, no
harm can happen" And whatever storm
OF adversely or bereavement or poverty
may strike your home, all is well as long
as you have Christ the King on board.
Make your home so farreaching In its in
fluence that down to the last moment of
YOU ehildren's life you may hold them
with q heavenly charm. AT seventy-six
years of age the DemostheDes OF the
American Senate lay dying at Washing
toni mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky.
His pastor sat at his bedside, and "the old
| man eloquent" after q long and exciting
public life, transatlantic and c~isatlantic,
was back again in the scenes Of
his boyhood, and b" kept saying in
his dream over and over again, My
mother, mother, mother!" May the paren-
tai influence we exert be not only poten-
tial, but holy, and so the home on eaith DO
the vestibule Of our home In heaven, In
which place may we all ~meet-fathcr,
mother, son, daughter, brother, sister,
grandfather, grandmother and g~randchild,
and the entire group OF precious ones, OF
whom we must say in the words OF trans.
porting Charles Wesley:
One family we dwell in him,
One church above, beneath,
Though row div ded by the stream
The narrow stream of death;
One army OF the living God,
To His command VIC bow;
Part of the ost have crossed the Hood
"A .A-N 900 aeAHgfnD NOM