The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-09
Temperance Talk.
lContinued from Last Week

from the Immense force of it's impress
sions. 1t is the p~rerOgative of home to,
make first impressions Opon our nature
ton onward and upward; it uncovers
the moral fountain, chooses its channel
and gives the stream its first impulse.
It makes the first stamp and sets the
seal upon the. plastic nature of the
child: it gives the. first tone to our de-
Fsires@aand furnishes ingredients that
will either sweeten or embitter the
whole cup of life, to erase them we
must remove all the sprata of our be-
ing. Even the lntildel lives under the
holy influence of a pious mothers i'm
pr~essions; it preserves him from the
clutches of avowed infidelity. The
home Influence is either a curse or a
blessing either for good or for evil, it
fuences of husband and wife; of parent
| and child of brother and sister united
| and ~harmoniously blended, constitute
the home influence. It is great, sill
ent irresistible and permanent. Like
the calm deep stream itS.moves on in ST.
lent but overwhelming power, it strikes
it's roots deep into the human heart and
spreads it's brancheswide I'VE our whole
being. Like the lily that braves the
tempest and the alpine flower that
leans its cheek on the bosom OF eternal
SHOWS, it is exerted amid the widest
storms of life, ahd breathes a softening
spell in our bosom even when a heart
less world is freezing up the fountains
of sympathy and love. 1t holds the
empire Of the heart, and rules the life,
it restraints the hayward passions of
the child, and checks him in his mad
career of life. Our habits, too, are
formed under the moulding power of
homes. Who does not feels this in1u-
ence ofshome upon all his habits of life?
''The most iIlustriOus statesman, the
most distinguished warriors, the most
eloquent ministers and the greatest
benefactors of human kind owe their
greatness to the fostering influences of
home.". To love home with a deep apd
abiding interest with a view to its ever
lasting, ~elevating influence, is to love
truth ami heaven. No one car so in
spire Il mar 10 IL noble purpose, as d no.
BILE oman all that was worth admira-
tiOn in the character of Henry vi, was
reflections of the heroics of his wife
Margaret. William Prince of Orange,
, -A,nol ~ tln> ,i..hf nofh hu tho |
grand qualities of his wife Mary. JUS
~tinian, the Roman Emperor confesses
that his wise, laws were the suggestion
of his wife. Theodore, Andrew Jack
son the warrior, and President, had his
mightiest reinforcement in his plain
wife. whose inartistic attire was the
amusement of the elegant circles in
which she was invited. Washington who
broke the chain that held America in
foreign ~vassalage, wore for forty
years a chain around his own neck, that
chain holding the miniature likeness of
her who had been his greatest inspira-
ton, whether among the SHOWS at Val
ley Forge or the honors of the Presi-
Dental cnair. Pliny's pen was driven
through all it's poetic and historical do
minions by his wife, Calpurnia, who
sang his stanzas to the sound of flute,
and sat among audiences enraptured at
her husbands genius, herself the most
enraptured. Pericles said he got all
his ~eloquence and craftsmanship from
his wife. De. TocqueviIle whose writings
will be potential and quoted while the
world lasts, ascribes his success to his
wife and says. "Of all the blessings,
which God has given me-, the greatest
was Maria Motley" Martin Luther
says of hiswife:Twould not exchange my
poverty with her for all the riches of
croesus without her. Isabella of Spain
by her superior faith in Columbus, put
into the hand of Ferdinand, her hus-
band, America" A man is no better
than his wife will let him be. o wives
of America, swing your scepters of wife
ly influence for God and good homes.
Woman always has voted and always
will. Our G~reatgrand fathers thought
they were by their votes putting
Washington Int the presidential chair.
No, His mother by the principles she
taught him, and by the habits she in
culcated. made him President. 1t was
a Christian mothers hand dropping the
ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, and
Newton Philosophical, and Alfred the
Great governed, and Jonathan Edwards
Numbered of judgement to come
How many men there have been in
high political station who would have
been insufficient to stand the test to
which moralprinciples was put, had it not
been for a wife's voice that encouraged
them to do right, and a wife's prayer
that, sounded louder than the clamor of
p~artisanship. | come before women to