The Republican journal., 1912-04-25
Christian Herald and is commended.

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the lady had been one of those progress
sive women who go to the polls and vot
while the husband cares for the children
Her children shall not study at home
Certainly not! They shall enjoy life lik
other little animals. They shall 60 t.
school nine or ten months in a year.
they do not get as much practical educa
ton before they come to manhood as Lin
coin and Garfield did with very it'll
schooling, what of that? The husband
earns the money, and it is better to bu!
the knowledge than to have the littl,
dears work for it.
Religion also nowadays is manufac
tured by the preacher and sold to hi
hearers like dry goods by the square
yard. Life and character are nothing
any more. Among human relations the
most important is that existing between
man and wife. Granting that they have
equal influence and authority, in case Of
disagreement somebody must possess the
deciding vote, otherwise the family is
ruined by continual pickering. Grace
Duffield Goodwin. Washington, D. c.,
lady, writes in the Christian Herald: "a
properly constituted home must have a
head, and, in disputed matters, court
of last resort. To my mind this is the
husbands place. So long as woman is
willing to have her husband the,legally
responsible member, she should be willing
to yield to his judgment sufficiently to
render his position stable" Amelia E.
Barr, a well-known author, writes: GIN
my youth women accepted marriage with
all the obligations the ceremony de-
manded; and no doubt the majority of
them found, as l did, that in obedience
they commanded; and by remuneration
obtained all they desired. These women
knew that woman's rank lies in the
fullness of her womanhood. A different
kind of woman is said to represent her
sex today. She is aggressive; she has
exacting pretentions and what she calls
advanced opinions; and she claims to be
highly educated, and yet is uneducated in
the worst sense of the word.''
The reiaJlon OF children to parents and
to the community is undergoing change
which deserves the consideration of our
best minds. Smaller Mathews says in
Religious Education: 1.-THE word au-
thority just now is not very popular, but
l am convinced that there will be no
more regard for authority in the nation
than there is regard for authority in the
nations homes. There is plenty of need
for children to learn that experience
counts for something; that fathers and
mothers know more than their children
as to the proper time to 60 to bed, proper
persons to play with, proper things to
lat, proper books to read and proper
plays to see. Children, who wheedle
heir parents into letting them act fool
silly are being educated to bride legisla.
lures into letting them act lawlessy."
1t is hard for many young men to
realize the financial ruin that hangs over
them if they feed horses at cost of one
lollar per day while they are changing a
front yard fence, or pay interest on the
cost of buildings that they could get
along very well without. Wherever you
see luxury, as rule, somebody endured
to lay the foundation of that
fortune. A religious paper says: "Is
here not in our annual Thanksgiving
Inner reminder of that far-off Pass
'ver feast at Jerusalem when one who
vas about to die gathered his family of
'aith about him, and as he broke the
bread and passed the cup, said to them:
This is my body which is broken for
you. This is my blood which is shed for
7ou." So as the sons and daughters of
he aged couple looking across the table
Upon the bent form and trembling hands
If the father might we'll see there the
body broken for them, or noting how the
,olor has faded from their mothers
'heeks or the light from her eyes in the
ong struggle and sacrifice Of which they
lave received the fruits, might also think
# the blood which has been shed for
hem."
When we learn facts about the human
'ody, about the surface of the earth, or
my other subject, we are simply learn
ng something known by our Father in
leaven; and when we learn something
'athar knows, are we not becoming
more like him? Jesus taught that he
vas the way because he marked out the
way to God, the truth because he spoke
yords received from his Father in
heaven, the life becal Sc following his
Instructions produces life. The central
fact of all his teachings was that he was
obedient to his Father and allowed the
Fathers thought to actuate his body as
t actuates all nature except sinful man.
No human body was ever big enough
to contain all Of Gods spirit, but that
portion of his spirit which actuated the
person of Christ and other human beings
is sometimes called Holy Ghost or Com
forter or spirit of Jesus.
A certain preacher has said that the