Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-04-22


which to find refuge? The elegance
and ease of today would only inten.
sify the anxiety for the uncertainty
of the morrow. But if knew that
the home of to-day was TO be ex-
changed for the mansion on the NOR
row. peace and contentment and glad
anticipation would fill my soul. Man
is not ready TO live i'm this life until
n" has provided for his soul beyond
the grave. But il with Abraham he
looks FOR n city which hath founda-
tions. whose Builder and Maker is
God, he is in an attitude of neart
and mind which gives life new
aspect and paints the sky Of the fu-
ture with an enduring hope.
NO Flats in Heaven.-Man rears
his piles of brick and stone into
the clouds and families are piled in
layers one over the other in conpcst-
ed pandemonium, but in Heaven God
builds mansions for the soul Iamnot
sure but that in these latter days God
II permitting man TO herd himself in
great buildings with airshaft bedrooms
ana hghtshaft parlors and two-by-four
back yards where the children of the
great stone prison called home must
play together in mingled discomfort.
so as TO make the picture of Heaven
with its mansions the brighter with
nope. The little girl who went to the
country for the first time after living
In the city's barrenness and noise
walked with revercnt steps through the
fower-decked fields, she heard the
songs OF the glad free birds. the breezes
from the waving trees kissed her
cheeks and cooled her brow. and with
Joy thrilling in her voice she exclaimed:
This must be Heaven" Thank God
mans disfiguring hand will never have
anything to do with the building oper-
atoms of Heaven. No flats tberel
Flats, with all their conveniences and
their elegances are doing more TO de-
stroy the true sense of home and fam
ny life. and are robbing childhood
more surely of it's right to proper en-
Nronment and healthy conditions than
any other one thing. Flat buildings
rear their roofs until they seem some
times to almost brush the blue of the
SKY, but they are not an easy stepping
stone TO the mansions i'm Heaven
everyone of these beehives of con
gested population has well-polished
shutc which is toboganning humanity
away from God and Heaven as fast az
Satan can lure them on.
= HlLDREN are not wanted in fat
- buildings. but thanks he to God.
they are wanted in Heaven, Our presi-
dent, whose sentiments i'm regard to
tho ,h1i,ra IL
hood are so well known. has said that
the willfully barren woman. like the
willfully idle man. has no place in n
sane. healthy and vigorous commu-
nifty" But sane healthy and vigorous
living is stiied i'm the atmosphere Of
the fiat building. and n viiiated. super-
hcia. and emasculated social condition
comes to exist. Not a child. but chill
dren, are as essential in the constitu-
ton OF family and home as are the pris-
matte colorS necessary in combination
10 produce the light which cheers and
warns and gladdens the earth The
childless home is no home at all. God
never intended there should be such
His command was and is increase and
multiply It's goddess age that dis
courages child bearing II j. one of the
cultured i"s of the Devil that the child
ought 10 be born with scholarship in
college and n bank account. or not born
al all. II is hellish heresy. Matched out
of the infernal-laid egg Of devoUring
selfishness. which DEGREES that one
child shall be reared alone because the
parents willfully determine that the
are not able 10 properly provide for
nf
he fat building: earthly landlords
may place their seal Of disapproval
against the parents with he many Jew
rls Of child life. but things in Heaven
are going 10 be pretty much reversed
and The husband and wife Of the child
less home may find Heavens gates
barred against them. The mansions i'm
Heaven are prepared for such as love
and fear God and believe i'm the only
begotfen Son Of God Aud who are
these? Surely not those who dcspise
childhood and deliberately decree the
ohildless home or limit the children to
one or two, for Jesus said: suffer The
little ones, and forbid them not. TO
come unto me. for Of such is the King
dom Of Heavcni" Abraham looked for
n city whose streets are filed with the
busy feet Of happy children. whose air
is fragrant with their merry laughter.
whose every inhabitaut has become a.
q little child. for Jesus said. "FNcept
yp become as This little child. We can
not enter into the Kingdom Of
Heaven" House hunting. not fat hunt
ing on earth. where home may be- es-
tablished. family reared ard % bit u.
TT.nKrr rfu1fyaff UTpr.. Iyrffr.- T.
Heaven by the soul where IL may take
refuge after the storms Of life are past.
and where the home may again be- re.
established TO which the loved children
may be gathered one by one, "Abra.
ham looked for a city which hath
foundations. whose Builder and Maker