Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-21

y tdIS, ten years, twenty years, Thirty
years; but some day they find an ire
sistible mesh drawing them back. and
they are compelled TO retreat from
their prodigality and wandering; and
though they make desperate effort 20
escape the impression, and try to dive
deeper down in sin, after a while are
brought clear back and held upon the
Rock of Ages.
If it be possible o father and moth
er, let your sons and daughters go out
into the world under the semi-omnipo-
tent memory of a good, pure home.
About your two or three rooms in a
clearinghouse, or family hotel. you
can cast nosuch glorious sanctity. They
will think of these public caravansa-
ries as an early stopping place, NAL
odorous with old victuals, coffees per-
petually steaming, and meats in ever
lasting stew or broil, the air sur
charged with carbonic acid, and corri-
doris along which drunken boarders
come staggering at one o'clock in the
morning, rapping at the door till the
affrighted wife lets them in. Do not
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 a world in itself,
no one entering except by permission
Dolted, and barred. and chained against
all out side inquisitiveness. The phrase
so often used in law books and legal
circles is mildly suggested-eyery
mans house is his castle. AS
much so as though it had drawbridge.
portcullis, redoubt, bastion. and armed
turret. Even the officer of the law NAV
not enter to serve a writ. except the
door be voluntarily opened unto him;
burglary, or the invasion of it. crime
so offensive that the law clashes its
iron jaws on any one who attempts il.
unless 1t be necessary to stay for
longer or shorter time in family hotel
or Doaroing-house-and there are thou
sands OF instances in which it is nee
essary, as L showed you at the begin
hing-unless in this exceptional case,
let neither wife nor husband consent
to such permanent residence.
The public residence of hotel and
poardins-houSe abolishes the grace of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
TO come to such table. No one wants
10 run such gauntlet of acute and
merclless hyper-criticism. Unless Won
nave home Of your own you will not
De able to exercise the best rewarded
OF all the graces. For exercise of this
grace what blessing came to the SHIN
ammite in the restoration of her son
10 lie because she entertained Elisha
and to the widow OF Zarephath in the
perpetual oil we'll of the miraculous
cruise because she fed a hungry proph-
ct, and to Rahab in the preservation
OF her life at the demolition of Jericho
because she entertained the sDies and
10 Laban in the formation of an in
terestlng family relation because of
MS 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 Publius
In the island of Melita in the healing
OF his father because of the entertain
ment of Paul. drenched from the shin
wreck, and of innumerable houses
throughout Christendom upon which
nave come blessings from generation
to generation because their doors
swung easily open in the charging.
ennobling, irradiating and divine grace
OF hospitality. / do not know what
your experience has been, but I have
had men and women visiting at nv
house who left benediction on every
room-in the blessing they asked at
the table, in the prayer they offered
at the family altar, in the good advice
they gave the children, in the gospeli-
cation that looked out from every line
ament of their cOuntenances: and their
departure was the sword of bereave-
ment. The Queen Of Norway, Sweden
and Denmark had royal cup of ten
curves, or lips, each one having on
1T the name CT the distinguished person
who had drunk from it. And that cup
which We offer to others in Christian
hospitality, though it be OF the plainest
earthenware, is royal cup. and God
can read on all its sides the names
OF those who have taken from it re-
freShment But all this is imDOSSihle
unless you have home of your own.
Young married man, as soon as you
can, buy place even if you have to
put on it a mortgage reaching from
base to capstOne. The much-abused
mortgage, which is ruin to a reckless
man, to one prudent and provident is
the beginning of a competency and a
fortune for the reason he Will not be
satisfied until he has paid it off, and
all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny yourself
all superfuities and all luxuries until
you can say, everything in this house
| Is mine, thank GOd.-every timber
every brick, every foot of plumbing
every doOr-sill." Do not have your
children born in a clearinghouse, and
do not yourself be buried from one
| Have a place where your children can
shout and sing and romp without being
Overhauled for the racket Have a
kitchen where you can do something
toward the reformation of evil cookery
and the 1essening of this nation OF