The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-05-26
TALMAGE SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE ABLF Di.
VINE.
Subject: The Home Life-It POINTS o"'
the Duty OF Parents and Admon'shel
the Children-Don't Stun the Aouns
People With Religion.
copyright 1901

ReOpl0 WIN OoihbAos
copyright 1901 IL
WASHINGTON, D. C.-This discourse W
| Dr' TaImage will interest young men, wniie
| II ia full Of advice and encouragement 70
| parents who are trying to bring up tneir
| children Alright: text, Proverbs K, !. a
wise SON marketh glad father, put ,ooi
| lsh SON Is the heaviness OF his motner.
| In this graphic way Solomon sets iortn
rho IDEA that the good or evil behavior OF
| children blesses or blights the parentat
| heart. know there are persons VINO seem
| to have no especial interest IN the Wei.aIo
| of their children. The father says: NY
boy must take the risks TOOK IA me- ~.
he turns out we'll. all right. II ne turns
ont IN. he will have to bear the conser
nuences. He has the same chance that
had. He must take care OF himself.
shenherd might Just as we'll thrust lamp
Into den OF lions ana say Ail'ie i"N''
take care OF yourself" IL,
Nearly all the brute creation are KIND
enough to look after their young. was
going through a woods, and l hearu a
shriU crv in nest. I climbed up 20 tne
birds nest, and l found that the oat
bird had left the brood 70 starve. o, nu h,pd
Is a very rare occurrence. Generally g,ru
will nick YOUR eyes out rather than surren-
der her Young to your keeping or your
toucb. A lion will rend you II you come
too near the whelps. Even the harnyaro
fowl. with its clumsy foot ana utasy wing,
| IL r
TOO nearly. aud God certainly intended TO
have fathers and mothers as kind as the
| brutes.
Christ comes through all our households
to-day. and He says: "You take care Oh
the bodies OF your ch!3ren and the minus
Of your children. What are you doing ior
- their Immortal souls2" l read OF EMP
TINT foundered. life-boat was Launched.
Many of the passengers we're In the waters.
Is Another. with one hand beating the wave
a. and the other hand holding her little cniid
n out toward the iifeboat, crlea ou,' -, ;S
~ NV cbildr' And that imprisoned cry Is
r. the one that finds an echo in every paren-
Is Isl heart In this land to-day. save my
,b nhtldl'' That man out there says: i nave
- fought my own way through NE, nave sos
III along tolerably well, the world mas pune. ta
e. me. and have hid many hard struggle.
IN II don't make much difference what nap
AZ nane to me but save my child" You see
es have a subject of stupendous import, ana
to am going. rs God may help me, to snow
az the cause OF parental soiicltude anu 'nen
the aIleyiations OF that solicitude. d,
&C. The first cause OF parental solieitude,
lts think. arises from the imperfectioh OF
to narents on their own part. we III, SONY
how want our children to avoid our faults
us We hore that II we have any excenenee'
N. thew win copy them. But the probabint!
ri. is thew will copy our faults and omit on
eYcelienecs. children are very apt to D.
~. echoes of the parental life. Some ON
meets n lad In the back street, finds nm
smoking and says: "Why, lam astonisn q
knew this? Where did you get that cigar
aOh' l picked 1t up on the street." VIVA
would vour father say and your mother sa
~ thev knew this?" sob, he replies, "that,
nothing. My father smokesP There !
not one OF US to-day who wouid ,ae :
have our children copy all our exampie'
and that Ia the cause OF the solicitude
the mart OF all of US. We have so man
faults we do not want them copied an
stereotyped in the lives and characters
those who come after US.
The soIicitude arises from our consciot
imam clancy and unwisdom OF disciplin
Ont of twenty parents there may De OF
narent who understands how thorough
and skiIfully to discipline; perhaps u
more than one out of twenty. we, near
all OF us, err on one side or on tue o.ne
here is a father who says, Il am gong
hrinp M nv children right; my sons sh'
know nothing but religion; shall see not
ing but religion, and bear nothing put
lieiou." They are routed out at Q oc,o
In the morning to reeite the Zen Co
mandments. They are aWa . 81 rac uP ~ +
Westminster Catechism. Their pedroe
waIls are covered with religious pictur
\ and quotations of Scripture, and wnen
& how looks for the day OF the month
4 looks for II In n religious almanac. II
n minister comes to the house, no is
~. ouested to take the boy aside and tell D
~ What a great sinner he Is. 1t Is religl
- morning, noon and night.
Time passes on, and the parents are wa
ing for the return OF the son at n'sn..
is 9 O'Clock, it Is 10 CLOCK, 1t Is II o'cio
II IA 70 O'Clock, it is half-past IL o'clo
Y Then they hear a rafting OF the night K
N and George comes In and has.ens upsta
M lest he be accosted. His father sa
- "George, where have you beenf' ne sa
Wis a
- and lie has been down. and he has star
on the broadroad to ruin for TINS lie =
n rnin for the life to come, and the rat
saws to his wife, Mother, the Ten y. u
\ mandments are q failures; no use OF W
minister Catechlsm; have done my
best for that boy; just see now ne
turned out" All, my friend. you stul
that how with religion; you had no 8!
pathey with innocent hilarities; you
no common sense. A man at midliie
to me, II haven't mu ,h desire for reig
nv father was as good man as ever y
Int he iammed religion down my thl
when I was a boy until / got disgui
~. with II. and I haven't wanted any Q
since" That father erred on one siae.
regl- Then the discipline Is an entire Ial
Cuba. In many households because the ia
ont pullsone way ana the mother pulls
other way. The father says, my SO
ana told YOU il ever found you guilty OF II
lat he hood again would chastise you, and
him going to keep my promise. Inc mo
saws: "Don'tl Let him off this time"
ieant. A father says, II have seen SO many
b Az make mistake by too great severity ID
again rearing OF their cniioren. T1@, s,,.y III
asiuo full swing. Here, my son, are TICKET
South the theatre and opera. Ifyou want 10
His cards, do so; IL you don't want TO
-, tho cards. you need not to play them.
y when YOU want and come back wnen
want to. Have good time. Go III
a boy plenty OF money and ASK him
what he does with it, and you pay MS
neatlv straight to perdition. But after az
the lad thinks he ought to have
-ached larger supply. He has been treated
ed for he must treat. He must have VINE
!. pers. There are larger and larger
= penses.
t hap After awhile one day messenger
of his the bank over the way calls In ana sa
the father OF the household OF which
e. anu speakipe. 1.-The officers OF the bank
jester, like to have you step over a minute"
IRE his father steps over, and the panK
nrso,o saws. SIS that your check?" mo,
piieve' save; "that is not my check. never
ar, d. an sH' in that way; never put Gu
O good the iY' In that way. That Is no
-. writing. That is not my signature.
eian' is a counterfeit. Send for the pc
nmedl- "Stop!" says the bank offlcer. "fou
q his wrote that"
mr. I'M Now the father and mother are WI
for the son to ccme home at night. !,