The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1909-01-09

whelming result I honor Morse and
Newton and Faraday ard Bell and
/ Edison and Hewitt and all the other
Industrious inventors Of the centuries
because God has enabled them to bring
honor on the lands that could claim
them as citizens.
But God has fulfilled the blessing OF
my text in still another way. He has
made the home scene Of light. wher-
ever his name is honored among the
| people Of the earth be has let great
tidal waves Of gladSome light roll
through the homes OF these people and
/ oil the vestibules and the parlors and
the sitting rooms and the bedrooms
and the kitchens as among no other
people OF earth. II you are looking for
the highest types of domestic peace
and happiness. do you seek them In the
pagan homes? Where do the heather
lands offer domestic refinement and
purity like those found by our owp do
| nestle Preside? Answer me. ye who
call the cross q lchimera.
In Heather Lands.
Would you find those happy homes
/ down by the burning CHATS OF India
There man looks upon woman as the
/ slave Of her husband There in former
days the widow had 10 ascend the fu-
reral pyre Of her dead husband. There
the little child was OF such infinitesi-
NAL value that the crocodiles used to
! fatten their young upon them. and
there infanticide was so common that
some mothers could not tell how many
OF their babies they had fed to the
scaly. loathscme reptiles. Would you
look for those happy homes in llcen-
tious Rome. where marriage was con-
sidered a spiders web and where vir-
! tue could not be found In the Roman
lexicon and where some women had
been married and remarked SO fire.
! quently that they had difficulty In re-
Numbering their alliances: Would you
find those happy homes among the
African jungles. where caHnibaIs ban
I quoted upon the flesh OF men or among
the nomad tribes of North American
Indians. where woman was looked
upon as beast OF burden? Tell me. in
all the history Of the world. IL you can.
! where motherhood and childhood are
so honored and the names of wife and
sister and daughter and mother so re-
vered and where the domestic life is
so happy az among the fresides OF
Christian homes. Oh. can you ever
cease to thank God for the light that
was sOwn for you under the domestic
! roof?
Your mother was not great woman
as the world looks upon greatness. She
was not a famous authoress. like
George Eliot or Alice Cary or Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps. She was not a
great refoFmer. Ike Susan 3. Anthony,
or a great leader OF armies. Ike the
Maid Of Orleans. She was not an art.
LIST. like Rosa Bonheur. She was an ex-
pert in washing dishes. bct she had
never cultivated the magnificent art of
/ decorating china as some of her daugh-
tiers do. But from the very moment Of
her advent into the world she was an
hOnored member Of the community In
which she lived. First the home of her
mother was filled with sacred joy
when she was born. Then during all
the days Of her girlhood she was treat
ed with the tenderest protecting care.
Then your father came to court her.
He was her lover TO the last. Then
! her children arose to call her blessed.
And when at last her poor tired body
was laid to rest by her dead husband
hundreds Of her friends whom her life
had blessed stood about her open grave
TO weep there Tell me. where can you
find such honor paid TO womanhood
except In Christian land filed with
Christian homes? Am wrong when
state that the great tidal waves of
gladstone light roll through the rooms
OF the Christian home? Has not God
blessed the Christian nations with the
highest type of domestic felicity?
Christian Governments.