Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14
homes. They have thrown to the wind

homes. They have thrown to the wind
all womanly modesty and prudence.
They are fiattered and cajoled, and
| they look upon themselves as sort of
an especial form upon which to hang
| the latest creation of Worth or Il
Redfern. They lend their presence to
vaudeville, and have vaudeville per-
| formances in their homes and their
children are allowed to witness per-
formances which border on the OBJ
scene. And they indulge in gambling
to such an extent, poker chips, rou-
lette wheels. champagne and all the
whole. long list, my friends, that they
are more familiar with poker chips and
gambling devices and frivolity than
they are with their Bile, the English
language or classic literature.
Train the Children.
Train the children in the way in
which they should go. he only way
to get rid of thieves is to stop raising
thieves: the only way to get rid of
prostitutes is to stop raising prostl-
tutes; the only way to get rid Of libe.-
tines is to stop raising libertines; the
only way to get rid Of raising drunk
ards for the damnable, miserable, hell
ish, rotten grog shops is to stop rails
ing drunkards. Stop having card
parties in your homes, you miserable,
good-for-nothing church members!
Whatever that child is when it steps
out from the threshold of the home,
nine times out of ten that Is what it
will be when it butts up" against he
world. And when he bids his ma good
bye and heads out into the unknown
to earn his bread, what he is beneath
that roof will be, nine times out of ten,
out in the world.
Gladstone and Talmage.
Gladstone and Talmage were one
time talking about the questions If
the day. Gladstone asked Talmage
what he thought was the question of
the day and Talmage replied that there
was but one question; settle that ques.
ton right and you will settle all ques-
tions, and that question is the question
of religion in the home.
/ And / say, settle the question of
Christianity in your homes and l will
settle the question of drunkenness, the
question of brutality the question IF
vice. You settle the question OF
Christianity in your home and / will
knock every saloon into hell and
will clean our state establishments Of
the damnable old rubbish and the
grating bull neck OPTICIANS that
stink up and down their halls. The
fall lower than the home life.
When Napoleon was asked tn:
greatest need of France he sail
Mothers" If you should ask me to-
night what Is the greatest need of
America I could answer in one sen
tence that would ring down through
the ages. I would tell you that the
greatest need of America Is the prin
ciples of Jesus Christ, taught beneath
the roof Of your home. I have
no faith in the woman who will talk
about salvation and make hell out OF
her home. I have no patience with
her at all. There is no use talking
about clean hearts when your children,
look like ragmufflns. Don't talk about
a perfect sanctif1ed life when the kids
; have got patches on their breaches
and no buttons on their clothes.
can read of the mothers love-or the
lack of tin the hieroglyphics of tht
kid.
Nations Real Home.
Henry W Grady. that magnificent
southerIer. whose life was altogether
} too short for the good of his native
land. said that he was in Washington
| for the first time in his life HI
stood OH Pennsylvania avenue ant
: looked off to that magnificent pill
: on the hill now as the capitol of on
country. The tears rolled down hi
) cheeks and he said, well, WELL well
: that is the capitol of my nation, tn
! home of my nation, that magnificen
: pile on the hill" He stayed for days
and wandered through it's halls, the
) turned his footsteps to the south t
: spend several days with souther
3 day he opened his Bible, gathered tn
, children around him and read an
] prayed and committed the little broo
/ to the keeping of Almighty God and h
/. said: 81 was mistaken; that pile o
) the hill is rot the home of my natio1
a but the home of my nation is found i
s the planters home, in the dugouts an
i in the log cabins, where beneath tn
4 roof they teach the little ones tn
l. teachings of Jesus Christ"
r What makes the nation great? NJ
I high raised battlements, not cite
:, proud with spires and turrei
4 crowned. No! Men, high minded me-
!, these make a nation great. So trai
= a child in the way it should 60
I believe in blood. believe in goc
;, blood and IN bad blood; I believe
- proud blood and in humble blood;
. believe in religious blood and in i
:, fidel blood; in honest blood and
;. fighting blood; in virtuous blood al
y licentious blood; in heroic blood ar
- in intellectual blood.
~ The house of Stewart was famo,
,s for cruelty and vice from the da.
,f Of Mary. Queen of Scots to Xii
II Charles l, King Charles II and Xii
~ James !, VINO showed the world VIII
. fool a Scotchman can be when
- Scotchman is a fool. The Scotch a
~ famous for their persistency and b,
20 dog tenacity I have never seen
"a. Scotchman in my life who was n
~ orthodox. have seen many Scotchm
"a who weren't religious. They fed the