The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-07


to great to ask women they love TO share
their meager living. and TO share their
struggles.
Men of our country and century do
not 90 to the extreme OF Oriental speech
/ in expressing sentiments and emotions, q"
/ he said. but in nearly every mans heart
! is the longing to have his own child in his
arms; TO have chubby little hands pat his
/ cheek and TO hear a little voice say
! fatherr
/ Compassion has been moved to erect
Iorphanages and other institutions for the
7 fatheTless child, but what about the child
4 less man? What about the old bache-
4 lors?
when God Became Father.
/ In Genesis there is a beautiful de-
/ scTiption OF the hour when God became
/ a Father-when He breathed into mans
nostrils the breath OF life, and man be-
came a living soul but while the breath
Of God creates man a living soul, it Is
| the first little cry Of his frst-b0rn child
a cry that tingles through his soul and
calls a man TO the throne Of fatherhood
when any man asks a woman 70
marry him, he is paying her the highest
compliment and showing her the highest
! honor within his gift. but many men
nowadays are too conscientious and con-
siderate to plunge a woman into life Of
hard work and killing worry through
marriage on q scant support. Such self
denial deserves our respect, not our con-
demnation
Others are bound by a high sense Of
duty in supporting others-a mother, sis
ter, or some reIative-and since they can
not support both. refrain from marriage
for duty's sake; and they, too, deserve
our respect and honor
The BIiEhted Bachelor.
still others are lonely. wifeiess and
childiess because Of their loyalty TO some
absent woman, far away or dead" said
DR.. Clayton. His treasured world is not
worth much IN coin, for IL contains only
a lock Of hair, letter, a photograph
The tender grace of day that IS dead
viii never come back 20 him He longs
for the touch Of a vanished hand and
the sound OF a voice that is still He
VIII be loyal 20 that memory till she
comes back, OF until he sleeps the lonely
sleep Of the dead. God comfort the wife
less and chiIdless man.
Now. the Bible honoTs and extoIs
fatherhood. It seldom implies that
man. however he may fail 70 discharge
his obligations in other relations. viii fail
TO be a good father.
Every boy nowadays needs his fathers
cOmpanionship more than he needs his
fathers discipline Of the old style No
woman ever fully understands boy. she
cannot His ways are not her ways. his
thoughts are not her thoughts. He hears
the call OF the dirt and responds with
alacrity whenever he can escape from
the bondage Of cleanliness. His pranks
startIe his mother into Mysteries. She
does not know that be is simply a young
savage on the way 10 the palefaced civ
ilizatiOn, but his father does, and grins
as he sees the boy is a chip of the old
block. Ii Is not many years before that
boy gets the girl-fever, and then he is
aiarm.ngly scrUpuIous about his apparel
wastes gallons Of good water I'm making
his toilet Some tiny slip of a girl has
changed him. and in a casual meeting has
made him do what his mother could not
make him do in ten years. Again, his
mothers heart aches and she cries, but
his faiuer understands
What is to become of that boy # his
father is not a comrade2 The boy viii
revere his mother at forty as he could not
do at fourteen Her affection and hsr
ministry are still essential 10 his welfare;
bur now he needs. too his father as he
never needed him before. Changes come
So quickly, Thrice happy is that father
to whom his boy turns for comradeshiD,
for that freely given confidence of child
hood is the crown and exceeding great
reward Of fatherhood.r