Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-07-20


years, 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
IT 1t be possible O father and moth
| er! let your sons and daughters go out
into the world under the semi-omnipo-
tent memory of good, pure home
ABOUT your two or three rooms in a
clearinghouse, or family hotel, you
can cast no such glorious sanctity. They
VIII think of these public caravansa-
RES as an early stopping place, NAL
odorous with old victua.s, coffees per-
petually steaming, and meats in ever
| tasting 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
ahrlghted wife lets them in. Do not
De guilty of the sacrilege of blasphemy
oi 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 world in itself
no one entering except by permission
Doited, and barred, and chained against
all out side inquisitiveness The phrase
so OFTEN used in law books and legal
circles is mildly suggested-every
man mouse is his castle. AS
much so as though it had drawbridge.
portculils, redoubt, bastion, and armed
turret. Even the officer of the law NAV
not enter to serve a writ, except the
ooor be voluntarily opened unto him:
burglary, or the invasion of it, a crime
~ 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 Doardlng-house-and there are thou
sahos or instances in which II is nee
eSsary, as | showed you at the begin
nlng-unless in this exceptional casa
let neither wife nor husband consent
10 such permanent residence.
Inc pubic residence of hotel and
Doa'u ihs-house abolishes the grace of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
~ come TO such table. No one wants
10 run such gauntlet of acute and
merclless hyper-criticism. Unless Won
nave a home of your own you will not
De able to exercise the best rewarded
Vi all the graceS. For exercise of this
grace what blessing came to the Shun-
ammlte in the restoration of her son
10 lie because she entertained Elisha
ana to the widow CT Zarephath in the
perpetual oil we'll of the miraculous
81 USE because she fed a hungry proph-
et' ana to Rahab il the preservation
CT hef life at the demolition CT Jericho
because she entertained the spies, and
10 Laban in the formation Of an in
teFestlng family relation because of
MS entertainment of Jacob, and 70 Lot
in his rescue from the DESTROYED citv
because of his entertainment of tba
angels. and to Mary and Martha and
Laccheus in spiritual blessing because
they entertained Christ, and to Publius
in the island of Melita in the healing
or his father because of the entertain
ment OF Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and of innumerable houses
throughout Christendom upon which
nave come blessings from generation
10 generation because their doors
swung easily open in the charging,
ennobling, irradiating and divine grace
OF hospitality l do not know what
your experience has been, but | have
mad men and women visiting at my
house who left benediction on every
roon-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 gospel-
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 a royal cup of ten
curves, or lips, each one having on
it the name of 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 a 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 impossible
unless you have a home of your own.
Young married man, as soon as you
can, buy place even if you have to
put on it 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 superfluities 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 i clearinghouse, and
do not yourself be buried from one.
Have 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 lessening of this nation of
dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost one of
, his great battles by an attack of indi-