The Yale expositor., 1904-10-07

you want Speahlng you Gun nire u pro
fessional elocutionlst TO recite. This
Is an age of progress The clubhouse,
the public reception halls, the large din
ners given in large downtown restan-
rants, just as certainly mark the evo-
tuition of the human race in pleasure as
locomotive train is an improvements
over the old prairie schooner or the teh
esraph communication by electric wfse
Is an Improvement over the cowboys
express that forty years ago used tn
carry the mail from New York to San
Francisco before the great Union Ia
cific railroad was built" :.
DO you, my brother, think for one ;in-
slant that the advent of the modem
clubhouse and public reception han
and Deimonico banquets is moral iID-
pYovement for modern men over The
old fashioned quilting parties and mes-
rymaklng frolics which once made the
pzfters OF the old farmhouse crenh
like the beams OF ship at sea and
bend almost like William Tells bowl
Do you think this? do not l believe
that any enjoyment which man. N
compelled Systematically to find oyt-
side OF the society of his wife and
hhildren and home is depicting, en-
srvating and ultimately degrading en-
Joymsnt. believe that any enjoyment
which Systematically makes a mother
rsiesste the care Of her children 10
nursegirls and to hired hands IL an
enjoyment which is poisoned throuah
and through by evil influences which
will ultimately bring forth harvestiu0S
not for God, but for Satan. believe
this tendency of the human race this
evil poison almost everywhere preva-
lent to find enjoyment anywhere, ev-
erywhere except by your own flreside,
will ultimately result In a second
downfall of man as dramatic and owes
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 tho
associations Of his wife and children
within the four walls of his own hornA.
/ once heard father say to my mother.
Il hope after we are dead that our
children VIII believe we have loved
them more than with any one else ON
earth" They lived for US. Yes, our
parents lived for us. May we be lilse
the old folks. May we find our chief
enjoyment not only in living for our
children, but also In the companion
ship OF our children, no matter how
old or how young they may be. May
modern society not be involuted into
the pleasures Of q clubhouse or a pub
lie reception hall, but be evoluted into
the sanctited enjoyments of Chris
tian home.
Worldly Success Versus Christianfty.
But, lastly, would state that the
iconoclasts OF this day are trying to
sidetrack the chief purpose for which
our forefathers and foremothers lived
in reference to their children. Instead
of leading Il parent to the altar of
Jesus and saying, "Oh, fathers and
mothers, the chief desire of your lives
should be to cOu,ecrate your children
ut these affairs and have them make a
public profession of Christ here" they
would break these affairs. They would
say: Here is the statue of wisdom.
Dedicate your children here Send your
boys TO college and give them an in
tellectual education." Here is the
statue of Midas. Sacrifice here, that
you may leave them money" Here
is the statue of fame. Make out of
your children great orators or painters
or musicians or authors" Thus we
see scores and hundreds of parents
working by day aud night to give their
children-whst? TO give them to God
and the higher life, as their parents
tried to do? No. To give them to a
worldly success, which those parents In
their hearts know may only lead their
children 10 moral ruin and perhaps
to eternal death.
o man, l ask of you one quest ton.
1t is n blunt question. VIII you an
swer me? What would you sooner
have had your father to be--a
great speaker. a great financier, a
great general or a simple, noble, pure
hearted and devoted servant Of Christ
as he was and Is today IN heaven? You
answer well. There is but one right
answer. Then, IL the noble, pure, gem
y
so much to you, can you not, will you
not give to your boy the same Chris
tan heritage? BY the sacred altar OF
Gods love will you not follow their eX-
ample? WIN you not carry out the
dying wishes OF your now redeemed
and gloriGed parents and consecIate
yourself Co your Divine MASTERY VIII
you not here and now lead your boys
and girls 10 the feet Of Christ and con-
secrate them 10 the Master alsol Shall
not the chief purpose of your Christian
parents in reference to their children
be duplicated In tho chief purpose or
your life, TO bring to Christ your chill
dren and your children's children?
Today let us have some Of the old
fashioned purposes and ways and hab-
its of our forefathers. When we are
dying may we never be ashamed 70
utter the words which Dwight l..
Moody said to his children You all
have read them: MAY we not be am