The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-19
MAKING A HAPPY HOME.
Discussed by Rev. A. VI. williams AT
the LawtOn Memorial.

the LawtOn Memorial.
Making a Happy Home" was the
name Of an address delivered by Rev.
DR.. A. NJ. Williams to a very fair au-
dience at the Lawton Memorial last
night. 1t was given for the benefit of
the Epworth Methodist Church. The
speaker divided his address into five
heads which he called the five 'C's" of
a happy home: cash, contentment,
control. ccnstancy in love, and conse-
erection of the home
In explaining the advantages and eff
feet on the home life of the first of
these articles the speaker said that
many doubtless thought of cash and
spirituality as things very far apart.
Well have read that voluntary fast
ing is conducive to high thinking but /
have never read nor heard that invol-
untary fasting had any such results.
Now don't want to be classed with
those that advise you to marry for
money. To do so is to commit a folly
and sin; it is terrible to sell your soul
and no less terrible to sell your heart.
home is the kind that the man has the
energy, training and ability to earn.
one of the greatest dangers to the
making OF happy home is the credit
system. 1t is the end of peace for
its draws you into debt and conse-
quently, slavery. Self-denial in the
early part of life is the surest way to
add pennies and peace to your after
years"
Under the head of contentment the
speaker told of what a wreck of hap
plness discontentment was the cause;
now lnsunerable it makes the house
Tor either the man or the woman whose
life partner is given to it, To illus
trate Just what a trial this sort of
thing is he told the story of a man who
after living for many years the victim
of nagging wife, died. He was sum
moned to a conference with his wife
by the aid of a spiritualistic medium.
When the ghost announced it's pres
ence the bereaved wife tearfully told
OF her unhappiness in her single state
and asked the spirit if it
were happy. The answer was
in the affirmative. Then the wife
begged to in what region the spirit
dwelt. In hell, was the laconic but ex-
pressive answer. The audience saw the
point, as it did all of the humorous
stories with which the address
abounded.
In discussing constancy in love, Rev
Mr.. Williams described love the out
growth of individual qualities, adapta-
ton of tastes, harmony of ambitions,
the affinity of soul and the love that
is based on an infatuation, founded on
some physical adjunct
"A girl falls in love with a mus
tache," he said, because it is of some
Sn1Ri9l r.ff1 ri
The mustache leads her to the altar,
may be, and she says, I WILL not to
the man, but to the mustache. Posi-
bly, all goes we'll until some day the
man leaves that mustache in the bar
Der shop, and then the happiness of
the wife is wrecked
Men often fall in love with some
thing even less. Beauty is said to be
only skin deep; well, there's some
that is even less than that. A man
falls in love with a girl because of her
beauty, perhaps the beautiful color of
her cheek, then the girl, goes home
and battles her face and perhaps leaves
all the beauty in the wash bowl
"The home was made by Cod said
the speaker in discussing the last of
the "c's" conservation. He made man
and woman and instituted in them all
the graces and ref1nements from which
the home joys spring, and unless God
himself be in the home it cannot be a
happy one"
The speaker was introduced by Mr.
S. 3. Adams. who told of the long
friendship that has existed between
Mr.. Williams and himself and stated
that the audience would be fortunate
in hearing Mr.. Williams discuss any
theme. for his views were not only of
a sincere man, but of one of ability
and wide observation also.