Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-30
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Rev. Sam Jones recently held a
meeting at his home in Cartersyille,
Ga. His text few evenings ago
was: "Children, obey your parents
in the Lord, for this is right. Honor
thy father and thy mother, which is
the first commandment with
promise"
Mr.. Jones said that he was 55
years of age, and in all the pilgrim
age of his life he had never heard a
sermon from the above text, and that
he had never preached from it be.
fore. He said that pastors preached
on home government and home
training and duties to parents, but SO
few preachers told the children the
first commandment was to them.
"Honor thy father and thy mother,
obey your parents in the Lord" He
said 81 start out Nth this declara-
tion, that every young man and
every young lady carries key in
their right hand and key in their
left hand. The key in the right
hand unlocks the palace of pleasure
which they could unlock and throw
open the doors and usher father and
mother into; the key in the left
hand unlocks a dungeon as dark as
the corridors of damnation, into
which they could usher father and
mother to suffer tortures that the
damned spirits knew not Of"
He said, "the mistake of young
men that was the father of all other
mistakes, was, that if they wanted to
drink whiskey or curse or gamble or
go to the bad, it was nobody's bust
ness.
He said, "young man, is it not
your mothers business whether you
are gentleman or drunken hog2
Young lady, is it not your mothers
business whether you are daughter,
pure and noble and sweet, or giddy,
Goddess, characterless thing, only
stabbing mothers heart and giving
it painP Is it fathers or mothers
business whether you are well or
sick, good or bad, sober or drunk ? A
thousand times more is it their bust
ness what you are and where you
are and what you are doing than you
have ever conceived" "The great
est blessing God ever bestowed upon
parents is good children; the great
est blight and curse the devil ever
put off on father and mother are
children who are wrecked and
wretched and bad. The noble
father and mother who labor to train
and teach their children in the right,
and yet in spite Of training and
teaching the boys a drunkard and
the girls wreck, and then point
your finger to this wayward child
and say, "this is the son of a preacher
or deacon" 1t is as cruel as to
look upon the most depraved creature
that walks the earth, who, amid the
wooings, love and kindness of a
Heavenly Father, had gone astray
against his will, and pulling out his
heart strings from it, and look in the
face of God and say, Look, that is a
child of God.' Good fathers and
mothers can no more be chided for
the wayward wreck that has blighted
the home and broken their hearts
than God is to blame for the life of
a reprobate or the character of hu-
man brute. God woos and tries to
win, but man can defy God and
despise his teachings, and make him
self fit companion for the devil. A
man may come from the best and
purest home in Georgia and defy de-.
cency and forget teachings and drag
a gray-headed father and mother in
sorrow to his untimely grave and to
mourn over his wretched, misspent
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