The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-08

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northeast storm. Now, shat man Who
Is affable ia public and whc is irritable
;r orivate ic making fraudulent and
overi<sue Of stock, and he is as bad as
a bank that might have S400, ,000 or
$500 600 Of bills in circulation with no
specie in the vault Let US learn to
show pieyy at home. If we have 1t not
there, We have it not anywhere. II we
have not genuine grace in the family
circle. all our outward and public
plausibili:y merely springs from the
fear Of the world or from the Shiny,
putrid pool Of our own sclfshness.
tell you the home is mighty test Of
character What you arc a. home yog
are everywhere, whether you demon
strate it or not.
Again, home is refuge. Life is the
United States army on the national
road to Mexico long march with ever
and anon skirmish and a battle. At
eventide we pitch our tent aud stack
the arNs; We hang Up the war cap, and
our head on the Enapsack, We sleep
until the morning busle calls Us to
march to the action How pleasant It
is to rehcarse the victories and the sur
pri<es and the attacks Of the day, seat
ed BY the still campfire Of the home
circle. Yea, life is stormy sea. With
shivered masts and torn sails and hulk
aleak. we put in at the harbor Of home.
Blessed harbor, There We 60 for re-
pairs in the drydock. The candle in
the window is to the toiling man the
lighthouse guiding him into port.
Children 90 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 in uuladen.
There is the place where We may talk
of what We have done without being
charged with self adulation. There is
tie place where we may lounge without
being thought ungraceful. There is
the piece where We may express atfec-
ton without being thought silly. There
is the place where we may forget our
annoyances and exasperations and trou-
bles. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no home?
Then die. That is better, The grave
is brighter and grander and more glori-
Gus than this world with no tent from
marching, with no harbor from the
storm, with no place of rest from this
scene of greed and gouge and loss and
gain. God pity the man or the woman
who has no home,
Further, home is a political safe
guard. The safety Of the state must be
built on the safety Of the home. Why
cannot France come to placid repub-
lie? MacAlahon appoints his ministry,
and all France is aquake lest the re-
public be smothered Gambetta dies,
and there are hundreds of thousands Of
Frenchmen who are fearing the return
Of monarchy. The Dreyfus case is at
this moment slumbering earthquake
under Paris. France as a nation, has
not the right kind Of Christian home.
The Christian hearthstone is the only
hearthstone for a republic. The virtues
cultured in the family circle are an ab-
solute necessity for the state. If there
be not enough moral principle to make
the family adhere, there will not be
enough political principle 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 hap
pens to change. Confounded be
ell those babels of iniquity which would
overpower and destroy the home! The
same storm that upsets the ship in
which the family sail will sink the fri
gate of the constitution. Jails and
penitentiaries armies and navies are
not our best defense. The door Of the
home is the best fortress. Household
utensils are our best artillery, and the
chimneys of our dwelling houses are
the grandest monuments to safety and
triumph No home, no republic.
Further, home is school. Old
ground must be turned up with subsoil
plow, and it must be narrowed and re-
narrowed, and then Il crop will not be
as large as that of the lew ground with
less cultare. Now, youth and child
hood are new ground, and all the infu
ences thrown over their heart and life
will come up in after life luxuriantly.
Every time you have given a smile os
appreciation all the good cheer of your
life will come up again in the geniality
Of your children. And every ebullition
of anger aud every uncomfortable dis
play Of indignation will be fuel to their
disposition 20 or 80 or 40 years from
noW-fuel for bad fire a quarter of
century from this. You praise the in
telligence 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
affectations. You praise his beauty,
supposing he is not large enough to un-
derstand what you say, aud you will
find him standing on high chair be-
fore fattering mirror. Words and
deeds and examples are the seed of
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
transmitted What vas: responsibility
comes upon parents in view of this
subject!
Oh, make your nome brightest
place on earth if you wou.l charm your
children to the high path Of virtue 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 dead march. Do
not cover up your walls with such pic
lures as Vests Death on Pale