Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-14

earth growing into one, knitting life
into life, blending soul into soul, for
a union that is not TO reach beyond
the valley of shadows? Husbands
you are the head of tie home, why
not be the head OF the home for eter-
nifty?
| The life of the world is strenuous,
and the door CT the home should shut
out the storms and stress but should
not Shut out new and wholesome in
spring influences. 1t should stand
wide in hos pitablc welcome to friends.
The home life that is narrow and
selfish is dull and enel waiting.
Some years ago twenty thousand
people gathered in the old Castle
Garden. New York, to hear Jenny
Lind sing, as no other soLgstress ev-
er had sung, the sublime compost
tions of Beethoven, Handel, etc. AT
length the Swedish nightingale
thought of her home, paused and
seemed to fold her wings for high
er flight. She began with deep emo
The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world" This is saying
as old as the hills, but were it true
our great men in our great cities
would not be on trial and sent to
prison pens for Doodle and graft. .
When the hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world there will be "a school
house on every hill top and no saloon
in the valley"
In the race of life, in the contest of
physical endurance, in the moral
tests that come, that chlld has not
far chance who has sprung out of
the mud of the streets. To know
the breath of iacs and the rustic of
autumn leaves, to be up with the
lark, to battle one 5 feet in the dew
of the pasture, to go to bed with the
song of the whip poor will -those
memories are like guardian angels.
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Invite your friend to church. You
invite him to your home, you invite
him to your lodge, you invite him TO
your political meetings, your parties,
your lecture courses and your inter-
tainments, why not invite him to
your church? Tell Your pastor to
preach little better and the choir
to sing a little more sweetly next
Sunday and then invite your friend
10 your church home to worship with
you,
ton to pour forth Home, Sweet
Home. " The audience could not
stand it. An uproar of applause
stopped the music. Tears gushed
from the eyes of that vast multitude
like rain. After moment, the song
came again, seemingly as from heav-
en- almost angelic, Home, Sweet
Home. " Home was the word that
bound with spell twenty thousand
souls, and Howard Payne triumphed
over the great masters Of song.
AS king over the stalwart oak and
lofty pine, the fig tree would have
been a dead failure and as much out
of place as some of our politicians
are in congress; but for bearing figs
the oak and pine are its interiors.
Bearing figs is the grandcst thing in
the world for fig tres. 1t shines in
its own sphere. but strip. led of its
fig bearing power, it has no excuse
for existence. Sometimes a mother
who reigns q majestic qu EN- in her
own household fcrsake her quiet
sweetness of home rule for noisy,
rough, public career, for which she
has not the slightest qualification. OF
course there are no such mothers
who are readers of this paper, but
we have seen them and so have YOU.
!
Honest poverty should he respect
ed and not scorned. 1t was in the
homes of the lowly that we often
times found Christ when upon the
earth, and in our day it can be truly
said that we meet Him there oftener
than elsewhere.
1910 has now passed into history.
No year in the history of the world
has left to our young men brighter
examples of the old maxim that
Honesty is the best policy" No
other year has soon tho downfall of
so many men holding high positions
in society, in financial circle and e.
ven III the church. Men who lived
in palaces and were next to worship
ed by their fellow men at the dawn
of 1910, were behind prison bars
when the old year bid farewell. The
heads of many of our great insurance
companies and banking houses have
in their desire to get rict. quick"
stepped aside from the path of hon
esty, with the result that never fails
to follow such course, and the new
year finds them disgraced and dis
honest.