Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-24
"BREAkING HOME TIES"
BY REV. WILLIAnS

The drummer preacher was greeted
by another large congregation last
night to hear him on Breaking Home
Ties" This subject was suggested to
Mr.. Williams by a picture by the same
name that was at the Worlds fair at
lures that took the premium. The pic
ture represented a country boy leaving
home for the first time. The evangelist
was at his best and no talk has he CIV
en- that took held of the congregation
like this one. Thirty-two asked for
prayers.
81 pity the boy or girl who goes out
into this world without the recollection
of 4 home where the Bible was opened
at least once a day and the children
gathered around the old fireside to
pray. The hey or girl may grow wild
and oTsn dissipatsd. but like the chick.
en-, VIII corae hCme to rcost and take
such a mothers God for their God. To
Adam Paradise was home. God wants
every home a Paradise. Whether it be
the brown stone front. the Kansas dug
out or the Mexican adobe.
Family and home were among the
first things created by God. Earlier
than the church or state. Home makes
the church. The church makes the
state. Home wrong, church wrong, the
state is sure to be wrong. The great
questions which touch our very life as
a nation can only and must be settled
in our home life if settled at all. Moth
ing will take the place Of home train
ing.
Woman's Missionary Power.
THE progress of the missionary was
slow until III went to the
heather world with the sewing ma
chine. cook book, medicine case, and
open Bible, and got at the home life
of the people. In the reform life Of to-
day we must get at the home life of
our people. On our home training
rests the responsibility of church and
state. The English home is pure, but
the real American home is one robbed
of its sober aspects and drinking is
customary around the table and fire.
side"
He told of his own home life. From
his mother he received his first drink
of beer. She did not see her mistake
until it was too late. "She uncon-
sciously placed me under the penalty
of the word of God: The sins of the
fathers and mothers shall be visited
upon the children to the third and
fourth generation"
Parents, IL you have the decanter
on the sideboard. or intoxicants for
luncheon, you are laying the founda-
ton for a drunkard's life for every
drink you give your children. You will
pay for it in midnight watching and
bitter scalding tears. Spurn this hab-
1t of social freside drinking as you
would a deadly viper, for at last it
biteth like a serpent.
There are no friends like the
friends of the fireside. The mother may
be ignorant. The father not able to
work out a problem in algebra, but If
you will listen to them you will never
81 Nt4N lal hlpAS. ~ SPOhN Vi WINS
turned u Of school when a boy; said
he never knew what it meant to father
and mother until his own boy came
home with his books under his arm,
turned Il of school. Boys. if you only
knew the anxiety of the old folks al
home you would never do wrong.
1.-THE farther you get away from the
old home the more you will miss it
You may have m richer in its fur
nishlngs. but you will never have on
like this one you have now. In thu
years TO come you will look to it witt
a longing, burning desire. Very man
of the men who blaze on the pages o
history come from humble Christian
homes. Lincoln from the rail pile
Grant from a tannery, Garfield tror
a tow path. Behind the rail pile, tn
tannery and tow path were mother
with open Bibles with their boys q
their knees.
when God wanted to give the worl
a Savior He went by the pomp an
glitter and went to the humble carpel
ter's home for the King of kings.
Keep the Boys at Home.
Mothers. you have in the open BID
and boy at your knees the materi
that God wishes to bless and homo
Don't have a room too nice for the be-
TO play in. When you drive him fro
your home you drive him INTO u
street and the next you hear he
sucking a cigarette and the butt end
a billiard cue. Do you want every bu
mess man your friend and every hon
in the city to give you a glad welcom
Get the name Of being polite n XII
TO the old folks. God puts a premiu
of long life on the boy or girl that W
do this. Parents. enter into the anus
-a,ts ~ home with your children.