The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-06-18

linen loaded with tempting food for
those we love, and we wear beautiful
clothes; but all this never yet made a
home, with the real home atmosphere.
We may have this, and use it all to
make life sweeter and brighter, but it
takes true, consecrated, christian
mother to makeFa real home.
Only a mother can give the proper
home atmosphere, and even she must
fail without the help of God.
Except the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain that build it," the
Psamlist tells us. When we look at
all the sorrow in the world because
God is not in the home we realize the
truth of this.
No home is what God wants it r.
be without the family altar, and the
family altar depends upon the moth
er; if she wants it she can have it, but
she must have the Bible ever ready,
that no time may be lost for the busy
father.
If the father will not help she can
have it with the children and pray for
him, only she must start during the
babyhood of the Oldest child if she
would avoid friction. This puts the
children in reach of the gospel.
DR.. George Truett, of Dallas, Texas,
tells a tender story of a young man
whose father was a wealthy and prom
inent man, and deacon, and yet his
son had never heard him pray. After
tender sermon on the necessity OIL
the family altar, this deacon promised
his pastor he would establish a family
altar that night if it killed him. Next
day the deacon's son sought the pas
tor and told him of the family altar,
telling him also that he had slept none
the night before because he had real
lied for the first time that he was
lost and that eternity meant some
thing-and now said the boy, 1 have
come to you to help me. In a few
moments DR.. Truett had the pleasure
of leading him to Jesus, a thing he
could not have done but for that fam
lily altar.
The mother must be patient and
sweet, even under the most trying
circumstances; if she would gain the
perfect confidence of her children.
Her god-given work is to train her
children, and no outside work, not
even church work, ought ever to inter-
fere with this. Some one has said
"the mother who lives in the nursery
will be the one to rejoice when the
children grow up"
If the mother stays at home and
really trains her children, teaching
them Gods plan of life, she can lay
the foundation of character that will
enable the child to resist the tempta-
ton to use cigarettes. Keep him off
the streets, at least until his character
is in large measure formed and then
know his associates. Deeply sympa-
thize with him from babyhood up, try
ing to get his viewpoint at all times.
God never fails in His promises.
Read His comforting promise in Elk.
20: "And showing mercy unto thou
sands of them that love me and keep
my commandments.
DR.. Broughton, of Atlanta, Ca, is a
striking example of this. Dr. Brough-
tons father was a drunkard, but his
mother was strong, spiritual woman
who prayed with her children for their
father.
One day the father wanted to send
he son to town for a bottle of whis-
ley. The boy was only twelve, but
Z told the father he couldn't buy it,
his anger the father peat MIN un-
q. rcifully, which was repeated three
~ as he continued to refuse. AZ
TVS he went off to town and was