Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-30

wtnes. gambling, and all the sports Of
the Idle rich. Many have squandered
the fortune left them by their father,
and they so to untimely graves and
are to be remembered only by the
gambling hells, the grog shops, the
rotten dissolute lives they have lived
and the number Of young girls they
have ruined, from the time they
crawled from their mothers arms until
the undertaken screws the coffin lid on
their sinking carcass. Do you think
can make that any palmer? You
don't understand It, do you?
| And Of the women in our smart set"
nowadays! Too much can not be said
in condemnation Of them. Too much
time is spent by them outside Of their
homes. They have thrown to the wind
al lwomanly modesty and prudence.
They are flattered and cajoled, and they
look upon themselves as sort OF an
especial form upon which to hang the
latest creation Of a Worth or a Red
fern. They have a digestive apparatus
with which to digest highly seasoned
foods which some rich husband can
buy and cram into their outlets. And
they lend their presence to vaudeville,
and have vaudeville performances in
their homes, and their children are al
lowed to witness performances which
border on the obscene. And they in
dulge in gambling to such an extent,
poker, roulette wheels, champagne,
and all the whole, long list, my
friends, and they are more familiar
with poker chips and gambling de-
vices and frivolity than they are with
their bible, the English language or
classic literature.
Tho Only Remedy.
Train the children in the way they
should go. The only way to get rid
Of thieves is to stop raising thieves;
the only way to get rid Of prostitutes
is to stop raising prostitutes; the only
way to get rid of lihertines is to stop
raising libertines; the only way to get
rid Of drunkards for. your damnable,
miserable, hellish rotten grog shops is
to stop raising drunkards. The only
way you are ever going to get rid Of
gamblers is to stop raising them. 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 1t butts" up
against the world. And when he bids
his mother goodbye and heads out
| into the unknown to earn his bread,
what he is beneath that roof he will
be, nine times out Of ten, out in the
world.
Gladstone and Talmage were one
time talking about the questions of
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-
lions, and that question is the ques-
ton of christianity.
And say, settle the question Of
christianity in your homes and will
settle the question of drunkenness, the
question Of brutality, the question Of
vice. You settle the question Of
christianity in your home and will
knock every saloon into hell and
will clean out state establishments Of
the damnable old rubbish and the
grating Of bull-neck politicians that
stink up and down their halls. The
national life will never rise higher nor
fall lower than the home life.
Greatest Need is Christ.
When Napoleon was asked the
greatest need of France, he said,
Mothers" If you should ask me to-
night what is the greatest need Of
America, could answer in sentence
that would ring down thru the
ages. ] would tell you that the great
est need of America is the principles
Of Jesus Christ taught beneath the roof
Of your home. Don't let your children
lilo yxyi1a r No foifh
in the woman who will talk about SAL
homie. have no patience with her at
ALL There is no use talking about
clean hearts when your children look
like ragn1uffins. Don't talk about a
perfect sanctified life when the kinds
have no patches on their breaches and
no buttons on their clothes. can
read Of the mothers love-or the lack
Of tin the hieroglyphics of the kid.
Henry W.. Grady, that magnificent
Southerner, whose life was altogether
| too short for the good Of his native
land, said that he stood in Wash
irgton for the first time in his life, on
Pennsylvania avenue, and looked off
| to that magnificent pile on the hill
known as the capitol Of our country.
The tears rolled down his cheeks and
he said: well! Well! Well! that
is the capitol of my nation. the home
of my nation, that magnificent pile
yonder on the hill" He stayed for
days and wandered thru it's halls then
turned his footsteps to his South
land, and on the way home he stopped
to spend several days with a southern
planter, and he said that three
times every day they opened the bible
gathered the children around them and
read and prayed and committed the
little brood to the keeping of Almighty
, God and he said: II was mistaken;
that pile on the hill is not the home
Of my nation, but the home of my
nation is found in the planters home
in the dugouts and in the log cabins,
where beneath the roof they teach the
little ones the lesson of Jesus Christ"
What makes a nation great? Mot
high raised battlements not cities
proud with spires and turrets crowned
No! Men, high-minded men, these
make a nation great. so train child
in the way it should go.
Blood Will Tell.
believe in blood, believe in good
blood and In had blood. I believe in
proud blood and in humble blood. I
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