The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-07-26

| Grafton. are being watered continually
and are growing. All who love their
families, all WHO love mankind in gen.
eral, should awaken to the fact that
world that has lost its God must of
necessity be an unhappy world. Pla-
tonic philosophy may for a time serve
the purposes of the few, but surely
cannot serve the masses Of our race.
A goddess world will ere long mean a
discontinued world. an unhappy world
and, bye and bye, a world of anarchy
| and strife. This is what our world
wide education is leading to. Few of
our race can stand an education which
| recognizes no God. no revelation of
Him, no responsibility to Him, and no
hope of a future life which will be
effected by the conduct Of the pres
| ent
God In the Home.
We are not pleading for cant and
rant. We are urging that in every
home God be recognized to the extent
of the opportunities and influence we
enjoy. Parents have special respon-
sibility. Every father, in particular,
| as the head Of his family, should rec.
ognize the Almighty Creator, and hold
Him up to his family-"God First"
We need not urge upon Gods conse-
Grated people the privileges Of pray
er and the blessed influence which
comes through prayer to the younger
| members of the family. This is one
way of putting God First" ''In all
thy ways acknowledge Him." or, as
Joshua said: "As for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord"
Let us now step into your home and
measure things there by the Golden
Rule. AS husbands, how do you treat
your wives? AS wives, how do you
treat your husbands? Can you apply
conduct, to your demands Of each
other? Or do you act meanly, selfish
", taking advantage Of each other,
to the limit that the other will for
bear? Do you deal with your children
| according to the lines Of the Golden
Rule? Are you an ideal parent ac-
| cording to your own advanced stand
ard Of what a parents duty should be
| to his children?
| Do you remember that you have a
responsibility for their training, a re-
sponsibility so far as your circum-
stances will permit, for their environ
ment and happiness and education and
general preparation for usefulness in
life? Or are you Indifferent to their
interests, neglectful of your RESPONSE
bilities? Do you recognize that your
children have certain rights and that
these increase as they near maturity,
or are you forgetful of these, disposed
| to keep the children under the re-
straints Of childhood. souring their dis.
positions and making them unhappy,
until they resent the injustice and a
family quarrel results?
As children, are you thoughtful OF
your parents. their welfare, their wish
your children to be thoughtful of
yours? Do you remember the hours
I and weeks of feebleness and sickness
and toll which you cost them in your
infancy. and are you seeking to repay
those kindnesses and seeking to make
their last days the happiest Of their
lives? Are you observing the Golden
Rule toward your parents?
| How is it in your relationship to your
brothers and sisters? When they Dor
row your things without leave. do you
retaliate by borrowing theirs without
leave. and thus keep up a continual
fret and vexatiOn of spirit in the fam
lily? Or do you practice the Golden
| Rule Of justice and do nothing to your
| brother and sister, or their belongings,
that you would not wish them to do
to you or your things?
"Love Worketh No ILL.,"
All of the Lords people are to love
| Him and the brethren; yea. even their
enemies. However, let us now stop
short of love and merely consider
what the simple justice of the Golden
Rule would imply in our conduct.
How do our daily lives square with
this Golden Rule of absolute justice,
emitting love entirely?
| If you are an employer, do you treat
your employee in harmony with this
rule and do unto him as you would
have him do unto you, if your posi-
lions were reversed? If you are an
employee, inquire of yourself, do l
treat my employer and his business as
l would have him treat ME and my
business, II our relationship were re-
versedT' Do you treat your butcher,
your baker. your grocer. etc, as you
would like to have them treat you, If
your positions were reversed? Are
you polite to them and not inclined to
give them unnecessary trouble? Do
you pay them promptly? Or if you
are the tradesman, do you treat your
customers as you would wish to have
them treat you, If conditions were re-
versed? Do you charge them a rea-
sonable price only? Do you give them
proper weight and measure? Do you
properly represent your goods to them,
as you would have them represented
to you? Are you a good neighbour
Do you see to It that your children are
not a nuisance to others; that your
chickens are not permitted to damage
your neighbours garden; that your dog
is not a ferocfous one, and that his
bark does not keep the neighborhood
twake? In a word. do you treat your
neighbor justly. along the lines of the