Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-17
BURDETTE breaches
ON TOPIC OF FATHER
Pastor Uses for Illustration the Prince
Consort, and Shows Place in
Family and World Which
He Occupies

Pastor Robert ]. Burdette of the
Temple Baptist church preached on the
topic. 1.-THE Prince Consort." taking for
his text Genesis 44:19: Have ye a
father?"
"One of the common titles given to
the wife and mother is the queen OF the
home,'" said Rev. Mr.. Burdette. she
deserves it. 1t is hers as blrthrlgnt.
The tiniest baby girl alseep tonight
in her snowy little couch is a princess;
But did you ever hear father called
the king of t4e home?' No wonder
you laugh at the suggestion. He is the
husband of the queen, the prince con-
sort; one who is defined in the old die
tionaries as a prince, who is the hus-
band of a queen regnant, but who has
himself no royal authority
"Wel, that will do for father. In
this position at least he is secure. He
is absolutely Indispensable. Mother inn
plies father. When the skies rain roses
on mother, father is so close at her
side that he has to put up his umbrella
to avoid getting half her perquisites.
Every time a bouquet is thrown her
from the audience father has to dodge.
When Cornelia, immortal Roman
matrOn, mother of the Gracchi, who also,
by the way, had a father, showed her
splendid boys to her aristocratic vis-
itor, exclaiming, These are my jewels!
the jeweler was governor of Spain un-
der the titles of praetor, and proprae-
tor, and a most humane and very
wise one: he was consul at Rome, he
was censor, a man renowned for his
great power of calming down internal
dissensions and his diplomatic abilities
in conciliating foreign enemies.
Father was considerable of a man,
out i'm a crowd of many millions of Ro-
mans, soldiers and statesmen. He
loomed up tall and majestic among the
tallest of them But the greatness of
the things father did beginning with
his gallantry at the siege of Carthage,
is overshadowed by something which
mother said
"Cornelia is usually depicted with a
boy standing at either side of her.
There were an even dozen of them-and
one girl. And they all called Tiberius
Gracious 'pater.'
Father does not figure very much in
sentimental literature. as an imper-
sonality. l looked over Book of
Quotations to find something real
sweet and tender or heroic and splen-
did about fatherhood' the other day.
A book of nearly a thousand pages. l
Motherhood another to Wife, and
father?-not one page, not a column
not one little section. l said, This book
must be edited by a suffragette' But
no; j. X. Hoyt was a fair minded,
painstaking, impartial man. A good
editor He simply couldn't find any
thing in literature about 'Fatherhood'
worth printing. Nobody write 'Odes
to Fathers Eyebrows. Nobody sighs
to be a glove on fathers hand, that he
might touch that cheek
by the time mothers silver locks
are woven into a poem fathers have
been woven into the loom of time, and
if you have a lock of his hair. i'm a
locket it's more than father has on
his head. He isn't often pretty
and when he is that's about all he is.
By the time he is so he has a chest
like a saucer and Il waist like a tub.
There's no use trying to enter father in
a beauty show alongside of mothers s
competition. You might as we'll enter
a Mexican dog in a eat show. But
somehow. he does manage to show up
fairly well in a free-for-all exhibition of
the human app'