Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-23
"EVENINGs AT HOME"
Rev. Bowling Shows How to Make
- Them Bright

In preaching yesterday morning at
Christ Episcopal church on Evenings
at Home; How to Keep Them From
Being Dull" Rev. DR.. George Thomas
Dowling selected for his text Mark
5:19; go home!"
"In the study of national history,
he said, ut is interesting to note the
superiority of those peoples whose
dwelling place is above the frost belt.
They are the natural conquerors of the
world And the reason for this phe-
nomenon, upon which students are
substantially agreed, lies in the fact
that winter drives them within doors,
where their character is developed and
their education strengthened by the
surroundings of domesticity. 1t COM
pels the associations of home.
80 that from social and national
point of view, as well as that of the
individual, he is friend of his fellows
who shall succeed in emphasizing an
obedience to the injunction of this text,
Go homel' What does this nation not
owe to the chilling rigors of the New
necessary the New England fire circle
and the evenings spent together in the
home?
Now, if we would have evenings at
home in these days we must make
them. And this is all the more neces-
sary because we, in our semi-tropical
climate, are subjected to the peculiar
disintegrating influences of those whose
dwelling place, however delightful in
other respects, is for the cohesive prop
critics of a home on the wrong side of
the frost line. We have so much to
invite us out of doors that with even
greater intensity does this injunction
require to be emphasized: make even
ngs at home. And do not forget that
word make, for home is not given,
it is made. And to make it you have
got to plan for it. That means that
we shall take the trouble. But we are
put into this world to take trouble.
And there is no trouble which we
can take which pays such liberal divi-
dends.
hIlOW IlON HdIu IL 10 cilAliu lilV
changed relations of modern life to
adhere to such a rule as this. To
that same modern life we have had
to sacrifice a great deal, but at every
hazard do not let us sacrifice this, the
evenings at home 1t is the silver clasp
binding the household together, be-
cause of most of us IT, is true that the
home life in the evening is almost the
only home life we have. The morning
is the signal for dispersion. The child
must go to his school, the man to his
business, the woman to her household
duties But when the evenings hour
has called us back and the lights are
lit, and we and ours, with the dark and
troubled world outside, are shut in to-
gether then is the time for the last
ing impressions to be made upon rs
all. And to the children especially
the early impressions are the lasting
ones. When you pack your trunk that
which goes in first comes out last.
And that was a very shrewd remark of
Jean Paul Richter when he said, For
the child the most important era of
life is that of childhood, when he be-
gins to color and mold himself by
oompanionship with others. Every new
educator effects less than his pre-
decessor until at last If we regard all
life as an educational institution a
circumnavigator of the world is less
Influenced by all the nations he has
seen than by his nurse Make evenings
at home. Go home"
DIR. bowling presented suggestions as
to making the evenings cheerful, edu-
cational and religious.