The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-08

Right Rev. Monsignor Nugent preached
the sermon at High mass at ST. Mary s
church yesterday mbTning. In part, he
said:
You have CHILDREN, give them a good
educatlon, aecustom them to the yoke OF
obedience frome their tenderest years. =
Eel vii, %.
There Is no more attractive or sugges-
tive picture than that of the holy family
at at Nazafeth. 1t is the model of the
GhFlstlan 5lfI family. The pure, simple life
Which Jesus, Mary and Joseph led in
their humble home al Nazareth is placed
before parents and children, as the model
upon Mhich the Christian home is found
eo f1l tb ddi naf contrast does 1t not present
70 the Ordinary home with which we are
tamlhar! Its simplicity. its atmosphere,
its daily round of duty, was the most
perfect Godiilxe home that the world has
ever witnessed?
The holy family. Jesus. Mary and Jo-
seph In the cottage at Nazareth, is the
type which the Catholic church In every
age and in every nation has set before
her children. Leo XIII. our holy father,
the pope, with that wonderful grasp of
m1nd, thought, and knowledge of mod
necessity of recognizing THAT public and
private prosperity depend upon the con-
st1tution of the family He has be-
sought and even commanded that the
ccnIfaternlty of the holy family should
De erected IN every city, in every denseiy
populated locality and enforces that the
holy family furnishes the model for the
perfection and completion of all the viz
tues of home life What more practical
subject, then, can I select this morning
for your instruction than to point out to
you your duty, both as regards God and
The stability of society rest upon FAM
lly nfe. 1t is the vital power Of the
social body Is not the home the nursery
OF people and men are just what their
home has made them? The atmosphere OF
the nome moldS and forms character; the
scenes and lessons of childhood are in
dellbly stamped upon the mind; time and
circumstances seldom efface them. The
nursery is the first School-the beginning
and foundation of life. The home is, too,
the source of civilization; much may be
learned from books, sthe mind may be en-
lightened and stored with accumulate ted
knowledge, but the heart has to be inf1u-
enced and filled with moral force; princi-
pie has to be established, and this is the
work of parents, of fathers and mothers,
not of strangers. The nursery is more i'll
the making of true man than any col
iegg fba the bas,t rst 81 s{eRf the f9udaton stone
the whole building, The position. then,
Of parents IS one Of grave responsibility.
They have no duty higher, either spirit
ual or temporal The same divine and
social obligation rests equally upon ali.
The poor and the galeh, the lawyer and
merchant, the land. owner and the farm
laoorer. have each to answer to God and
to society for the discharge of this sa-
cred trust. AS they mould and train
their children, they are either a Blessing
or a curse to the Church and to the ma
ton. Who thinks of this? As a rule
children grow UP, and little attention is
paid to their special disposition or natural
Inclination. Yet, in a family there are
no two children alike and, therefore, they
require somewhat different treatment.
OBEDIENCE MUST. BE TAUGHT.
Obedience is. an acquired force. which
will serve the child more than any branch
of education or accomplishment If the
child does not acquire. It in the atmos-
phere of home it will never be acquired.
No school, no MASTER, no enforced disci-
pline will ever subjugate a will that has
been allowed to run wild through the
period ef childhood and confirmed into
the habit of selfishnessVffp youth. The
will is more than stheG mind: Cultivate
the will The boy may alter his mind
with the progress of time. but the will,
fear, never. "Accustom them to the
yoke of obedience from their tenderest
years. ''s'+ a ait
The homes of simple people have been
the nurseries of. art science and inVen-
ton; a .trifie the most simple has been
the first impetus or source of some of the
greatest inventions of wonders Of art
and the discoveries. of science. Newton.
Calico. Watt and Edison received their
lirsts ideas in the home of their child
mood. John Watt, that simple Scotch
peasant. as he sat by the ireside in his
ire crate watching the natural trans
formation of the burning coal and saw
the rise and fall of the lid of the boiling
Kettle, the steam engine sprung into ex-
istence before his magination, which has
reVolutionized and united the world Seek
to give direction to.~tfre ideas and nat
ural powers of your children. But. above
all, let your children see that YOU are
a man of character. Character is the
backbone of a nation, and men of sterl-
ing character are a living force in their
sphere of life and command influence and
respect. What the church wants in this
country, what this. great republic wants
at this critical moment is men of sterling
character. Be thena living model to your
children Let them feel that you are
made of different metal to the ordinary
run of fathers, that you are a sober man
an honest man., and a pfous man and
that they never heard rcs' tell a lie or
utter a curse word II Your life. Let them
see ycu in your own home each night on
your knees. andhet3them hear vou pray
Gather them around YOU and with the
church of God in thatsprayer which Is
uttered each night in every part of the
world ard with every priest in the world
DO You pray. tFvisiP we beseecb Tbee btaa
. Lord, this house and family: drive far.
from it all snares}nf the enemy: LET Thy
holy angeles dwell herein who NAV laa9g,
Us IN peace and. may Thy BLESSING ba
upon us now ard forever more. amen "