Milford chronicle., 1904-10-07

YOU wSLt speaking. you can hire pro
fessionaI elocutionist to recite Ihl'
is an age of PROCESS; The clubhouse
the public reception balls, the large I'm
ners given in large downtown restlu
rants. lust as certainly mark the evo
luton of the human race in pleasure as
q locomotive train is an improvement
over the old prairie schooner or the tel
eeraph communication by electric wire
IS an improvement over the cowboy 5
exDress' that forty years ago used 10
carry the mail from New York to san
Francisco before the great Union IA
rific r-iroad was built
Do YOU. my brother. think for one in
slant that the advent of the modern
clubhouse and public reception hall
and Delmonico banquets is moral i'm
provement for modern men over the
old fashioned quilting parties and mer-
rymaking frolics which once made the
rafters of the old farmhouse creak
like the beams of n ship ut sea and
bend almost like William Tells bow:
Do you think this? | do not. | believe
that any enjoyment which man IS
compelled Systematically TO find out
side of the society of his wife and
children and home is a depicting, en-
ervating and ultimately degrading en-
ioyment. ! believe that any enjoyment
which Systematically makes mother
relegate the care of her children to
nursegirls and to hired hands is an
enjoyment which is poisoned through
and through by evil influences which
will ultimately bring forth harvestings
not for God, but for Satan. l believe
this tendency of the human race, this
evil poison almost everywhere preva-
lent, to find enjoyment anywhere. ey-
erywhere except by your own fireside,
will ultimately result in Il second
downfall of man as dramatic and over
Whelming and complete as when Adam
and Eve ate of the fruit of the for
hidden tree unless man himself, by
the grace Of God, halts and learns
again to find his chief pleasures in the
of his wife and children
within the four walls of his own home.
l once heard father say to my mother,
II hope after we are dead that our
children viii believe we have loved
them and have wanted to be with
them more than with any one else on
EARTH" They lived for us. Yes, our
parents lived for lis. May we be like
The old folks. May we find our chief
enjoyment not only in living for our
but also in the companion
ship of our children, no matter how
I'D or how young they may be, May
modern society not be involuted into
he pleasures of Il clubhouse or Il pub /
ic reception hall. but he evOutcd into /
he sanctided enjoyments of Il Chris
ian home
Worldly Success Versus Christianity. /
But, lastly, l would state that the
cOnOclasts Of this day are trying to .
idetrack the chief purpose for which
ur forefathers and foremOthers lived
q reference TO their children. Instead
f leading a parent to the altar of
esus and saying, "Oh, fathers and
Mothers. the chief desire of your lives
hOuld be to cOnsecrate your children
t these altars and have them make
ublic profession of Christ here" they
'Ould break these affairs. They would
ny: Here is the statue of wisdom.
'edicate your children here. Send your
Oys TO college and give them an in
allectual education" Here is the
.atue of Midas. Sacrifice here. that
Ou may leave them money" Here
the statue of fame Make out of
our children great orators or painters
+ musicians or authors" Thus we
ae scores and hundreds of parents
-Orking by day and night to give their
lildren-what: To give them to God
nd the higher life. as their parents
led to do: No. To give them to a
orldly success. which those parents in
leir hearts know may only lead their
lildren to moral ruin and perhaps
eternal death.
o man. ask of you one question.
is q blunt question. Will you an
yer me: What would you sooner
ave had your father to be-a
'eat speaker. a great fnancier. a
eat general or a simple, noble, pure
aarted and devoted servant of Christ
he was and is today in heaven? You
lswer well. There is but one right
lSwer Then, if the noble, pure, gen
2 Christian life of your father meant
much to you, can you not, will you
1t give to your boy the same Chris +
al heritage? BY the sacred altar of
DDS love will you not follow their ex-
nplet viii you not carry out the
ring wishes Of your now redeemed
Id gloritied parents and c0nsecrate
'urself to your Divine Master? VIII II
III not here and now lead your boys u
ID girls to the feet Of Christ and con
crate them TO the Master also? Shall
It the chief purpose of your Christian
rents in reference to their children
duplicated in the chief purpose of
mr. life, to bring to Christ your chill :
en- and your children's children? h
To-day let us have some Of the old
purposes and ways and hab-
of our forefathers. When we are
ing may We never be ashamed to