The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-03-04

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 Horse"
or Tintoretto's Massacre of the In
nocents." Rather cover them IL you
have pictures with The Hawking Par
ty," and The Mill by the Mountain
Stream" and THE Fox Hunt" and the
"Chilidren Amid Flowers" and the
Harvest Scene" and 1.-THE Saturday
| Night Marketing" Get you no hint of
checrfulness from grasshopper's leap
and lambs frisk and quail's whistle
and garrulous streamlet, which from
the rock at the mountain top clear
down TO the meadow ferns under the
shadow OF the steep comes looking to
see where it can find the steepest place
to leap off at and talking just I o hear it.
self talk? III all the skies hurtled with
tempest and everlasting storm, wan
dered over the sea. and every mountain
stream were ravinS mad, frothing at
the mouth with mud foam, and there
was nothing but simooms blowing
among the hills and there were neither
nor waterfalls dash, but only bears
bark and panther'si scream and VOLTS
howl, then you might well gather into
your homes only the shadows. But
when God has strewn the earth and the
heavens with beauty and with gladness,
let us take into our home circles all in
nocent hilarity, all brightness and all
good cheer. A dark home makes bad
boys and bad girls in preparations Tor
bad men aud bad women.
Above all. my friends. take into your
homes Christian principle. Can it he
that in any of the comfortable homes
whose inmates, ! confront the voice OF
prayer is never lifted? What! No sup
p!ication at night for protection?
What! No thanks giving in the morn
ing for care? How, my brother, my
sister, will you answer God in the day
of judgment with reference to, your
children? 1t is a plain question, and
therefore l ask it, In the tenth chapter
of jeremiah God says He will pour ont
His fury upon the families that call
not upon His name. Oh, parents. when
you are dead and gone. and the moss
is covering the inscription of the tomb
stone, will your children look back and
think of father and mother at family
prayer? VIII they take the old family
Bible and open it and see the mark OF
tears of contrition and tears of consol-
ing promise wept by eyes long before
gone out into darkness? Oh, if you
do not inculcate Christian principle in
the hearts of your children. and YOU do
not warn them against evil, and You do
not invite them to holiness and 10 God.
and they wander off into dissipation
and into infidelity and at last make
shpwreck of their immoral soul, on
their deathbcd and in the day of judg |
ment they will curse you.
Seated by the register or the stove.
what if, on the wall, should come out
the history of your children? What
history-1he mortal and immortal life
of your loved ones. Every parent is
writing the history of his child. He is
writing, IT, composing it into song, or
pointing it with groan.
My mind runs back to one Of the best |
of early homes. Praycrlike roof over
it. Peace like an atmosphere in it.
Parents personilicatons of faith in trial
and comfort in darkness. The two
pillars of that earthly home long crum-
bled to dust. But shall | ever forget |
that early home? Yes, when the flower
forgcts the sun that warmed it. Yes,
when the mariner forgets the star that |
guided him. Yes, when love has gone
out on the hearts altar. and memory |
has emptied it's urn into forgetfulness.
Then. the home of my childhood. viii
forget thee! The family altar of ia
TIERS importantly and a mothers ten
derncss, the voices Of affection, the
funeral of our dead. the father and
mother with intcrlockcd arms like in
tertwining branches of trees making
n perpetual arbor of love and peace and
kindness-then | will forget thee
then, and only then! You know, my |
brother. that hundred times YOU have
been kept cut Of sin by the memory
of such scene rs | have been dcscrib-
ing. You have often had raging tempta-
tions, but you know what has held you
with supernatural grasp. ! tell you y
man who has had such a good home as
that never gets over it, and man who
has had n bad early home never gets
over it.
Again, home is a type of Heaven. 81 |
our best estate we are only pilgrimsand !
strangers here. Heaven is our home"
Death will never knock at the doc" OF
that mansion. and in all that country
there is not a single grave. How glad |
parents are in the holidays to gather |
their children home again! But have
noticed there is almost always a son or |
daughter absent-absent from home, |
perhaps absent from the country, per-
haps absent from the world. Oh. how |
glad our Heavenly Father will be when
lie gets all His children home with Him
in Heaven! And how delightful it will |
be for brothers and sisters TO meet aft
er long separation! Once they parted |
ut the door of the tomb. Now they
meet nj the door of immortality. Once |
they saw only Through glass dark
~" Now it is face 10 face corruption.
interruption, mortality, Immortality.
Where are now all their sins md sorrows
and troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red