Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-18
WELCOME PASTOR
EMERITUS HOME
Temple Baptist Church Hears
Rev. Robert ]. Burdette,
Who Fills Pulpit
REV. J. w. BROUGHER TALKS
Takes The Girl of the Home-hef
Faults and Ideals as
His Subject
REV. J. w. BR0UGHER TALKS

DR.. Robert ]. Burdette, pastor emer-
titus of Temple Baptist church, was
enthusiastically greeted by the sun
day school and congregation of that
church on his first appearance since
his return from the Orient. He made
an interesting address to the children
of the Sunday school and took part in
the preaching service. The auditorium
was crowded to its fullest seating ca
pacity.
At the evening service DR.. j. Whit
comb Brougher, the pastor, preached
on the subject THE Girl of the Home
Her Faults and Ideals" He said in
part:
1--WE have two beautiful pictures of
sisters. Miriam, the sister of Moses,
presents to us in many ways the true
characteristics of a dutiful daughter
and devoted sister. Mary and Marina
in the home at Bethany, serving Chrlst,
give us a New Testament scene OF
rare charm and exquisite beauty.
MIRIAM MATCHES
LET us look for a moment at Miriam.
You will remember that when Moses
was born Pharaoh had issued a decree
that every male Hebrew child should
be put to death The mother of Moses
was anxious, as every mother is, to
keep her beautiful child; but for fear
the Fgyptians might hear him cry, she
took him from the house and put MIN
in a little boat and hid him among the
flags along the edge of the river, ana
set Miriam to watch him, trusting that
God in some way would protect MIN
and permit her to keep him. You re-
member how Pharaohs daughter came
down with her maids to the river to
bathe. and finding the little ark, took
the child from the boat. Miriam $
quick wit is seen here, and she suggests
that she will find a Hebrew woman TO
nurse him. The world may admire the
motherly devotion of Jocabed and ap-
plaud the heroism and greatness of
Moses, but tonight I wish to place the
wreath of praise upon Miriam, the
faithful daughter and loving sister of
the home.
Let us look upon the young woman
in the home in the twofold relation of
daughter and sister.
DAUGHTERS EDUCATION
1.-THE daughter in the home, as we'll
as the son, ought to seek an education
that will fit her to take care of herself,
If need be, and to help bear the finan-
cial burdens of the home, if it should
become necessary. Personally, believe
a young woman's education ought to
be Just as thorough and efficient as a
young mans. There is no reason why
a young man should have a definite
purpose in life and develop his talents
and powers for the accomplishment of
that purpose, while the young woman
in the home should be content with a
smattering of artificial knowledge that
really in no sense equips her to meet
and solve the problems of life. Many
a girl can sing a little, play the piano
t,,1 or 7 n
and do a lot of other little Miss
Nancy things, and not be competent
in any one of them to make living for
herself and assist her parents in max
ing a living, if the necessity should
arise Many a daughter sits down at
the piano and MARBLES What Is Home
Without a Mother" while the mother is
down in the basement playing the irish
piano and doing the washing.
"a young woman should know the
science of self-support and should be
thoroughly equipped to meet the calls
made upon the home in hours of emer-
gency and contingency. No one can
tell what will happen. The bread
winner Of the home may be stricken;
even the firmest foundations have
sometimes suddenly disappeared. 1t is
a great and noble thing for young
woman to have so thoroughly equipped
herself with a definite purpose in view
that she can be a true helper in the
home at such an hour.
A. HUMDRUM SERVICE
1.-THE daughter of the home should
be fitted to bear her burden of the
work. That daughter is recreant to
her trust and to her highest privilege
who fails to learn early in life how
to help her mother bear the burden of
toll and anxiety that comes to every
home Many a mother might have
lived to a good old age, to have been a
blessing and inspiration to her house
hold, if her daughters had half ap-
preciated what she had to do and to
bear. A young lady graduate of one
of our eastern colleges came back to
her home and said to her mother:
Now, for one year at least, l am to
have the full charge and management
of this home. You can come and go
as you please-but for one year you
are not to think of any of the re-
sponsibilities connected with the care
of the home That young lady's col
lege education had not spoiled her for
undertaking the hum-drum service of
caring for household affairs, and she
honored her father and her mother by
accepting the obligations and insisting
upon doing her part to let them enjoy
a period of rest.
1.-THE daughter IN the nome SuOulu
heIp bear the burdens of sorrow and
suffering. That is happy home, in
deed, where the daughters loving
thoughtfulness makes her companion
to her mother and joy to her father
in the hour of sorrow and adversely
No one but q mother or father can
possibly understand how much the low
ing, tender, thoughtful sympathy of a
daughter means to them in the hour
of discoura cement and dependency.
But if a young woman is going to be
all that she ought to be to her home,
let her have q noble ideal of woman
hood and strive by all the powers that
God has given her to realize that ideal.
No young woman can make her
fathers or mothers heart happy who
fails to be a pure, bright, happy young
woman herself. Living a pure, bright,
happy life, she may do much to cheer
the heart of father and mother and to
bring sunshine and happiness to the
home.
AS A SISTER
"As a sister, she ought to set be-
fore her brothers and sisters an ideal
of womanhood. Many q young man
has had his conceptions of young Wo-
men generally lowered by the failure
of his sisters to live the ideal that he
had in mind for women. so you are
to be married? a young man was
asked. Yes, very soon,' was the reply.