The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-29
COME BACK HOME, BOYS.
There is an Hipoiid dernio of Runaway Boys.
Rev. Sam p. Zones, in Atlanta Journal.

and wsnders of ahe mother. goes to
bed and suffers. The father is trou.
bied and worried SO he is scarcely ft-
ted for the business Of his life. The
vacant chair at che table, the pillow
on which no head rested the night be-
foie, his chats in the sitting room, his
voice heard no more--a thousand
things remind the loved ones Of the
absent one. I say sgain, come home
boys, come home, bntif you will not
come home. sit down and write father
and mother and tell them how il goes
with you, whether you tell where You
are or!Eot.
These woird, miserable novels,
whether high-class Or loW-olass novels,
furnish the incentive and motive for
many aboy TO leave home and the
company he gets in when he is once
gone ie such that he soon falls in with
their ways aud goes TO the bad before
he scarcely realizes at all what he has
done. ! heard q fellow talking the
other day how he and his young
brother ran away fTom. home because
their father. whippedsShem; how they
spent one night away and the next day
went back home. They were only
gone alittle over twenty.four hours
but he said when he got back he found
his mother in bed sick and he said, ''I
believe if We had staid week mother
would have been dead when we got
home. :" He said: "We were not at
home an hour before mother was up
ND !, rejoicing over the fact that Lar,
boys had come back
What must be the suffering of q
homo where boy has been gone a
month or year and sent no tidings
back. Honor thy father and thy
mother, boys, and thy days shall be
long upon the land which the Lord,
thy God, giveth thee. No child can
dishonor his parents and do we'll here
lor hereafter, Let q boy suffer any
thing before hewitt wound his mother
or do dishonor.tohis father. These.
Internal novels wilh., 1heir weird lies
and cortosted eharacters have made
e fool Of many boy and, started
him on atramp to the devil and the
dogs.
In the State Of Mississippi q run
away boy, who WaB then young man,
game 70 me and told me that he had
been 9 runaway FOR more than five
years. that he had never written a line
TO his fsther orSnother, and asked me
did I, ,sl,oW his father and mother,
telling me the town and county where
they lived. Il said: .sY IS. 81 know
them WE'LL he asid: "Will you
write to them for me aud see il they,
will let me come back to see them. = 4.
I did so, and when he did come back,
to his lhs Geasss;ssE l there was regn-
lar camp p.meeting picnic and May.
festival all aombined. I can ] never
forget how eagerly that boy looked.
into my face when he was asking me
about his, parents Five years is too,
long, boys, To- keep quiet. Then,
iimother may be dead, father buried ],
and the mischief you have done can
never be undcne Come back, now. 10 ".
boys write immed diatel God alone.
ean5measure the dept Ii an d breadth of.
g parents love for wand dering child
~ Wopld that ayesySS boy who Has run.
aEay from his home could realize how
Ifsarfally he has lacerated the heart
and feeling sof those who loved him
best would that every editor of;;
every paper u United States,
gould catch tp Il i d refrain and write
on the sub bjjest q sacred dnty ofy
l!ranaRay boys to & come Of 1 TO I write.
back 10 their parents at home. Z on
aould serve tyour country no better
gentlemen, than to- sound the bngleJ
iblaat down the line so,tlaat every q an-. Il.
ldering boy could hear OF read syoi.r,
svords The prodifi figsl boy ii ibygone. I,
years came ID himself and immedi iate-,
I}ly he starsed for home. There was
the fattsd calf killed, there N we're j. shoes. j.
orshis feet robe fsr his bask, and 5a3
IWelcoms that done his heaft gooii, 1