The Republican journal., 1913-07-10

father has controlled the children when
small by use of the rod, according to
Scripture; here is another chance for
the mother to ALLEVIATE the children S
affection from the father by often re-
minding them of what would otherwise
be forgotten. That wife who tells her
husband he shall not control his own chill
dren, imposes upon her husband and in
f1icts an irreparable injury upon the chill
dren. Children without guiding hand
are like ship without rudder. They
might accidently float into port, but the
chances are all against them. Many
succeed when thrown upon an open sea
alone, but by far the greater proportion
of beautiful homes are the result of gen.
erations working along the same line.
The young lady who gives all her
earnings to her mother and then marries
expecting her husband to do the same
lect. She is a good daughter but poor
wife. Parental love is good, but there
should be limit to it. 1t should not
usurp the love of God or the love of hus-
band or wife When a wife tells her
husband that he, being the last to come
into the family, cannot expect so much
affection as other members of the fam
lily, she has a wrong conception of the
| family relation. When she tells him
that he is expected to care for her par
ents in their old age, but her brothers
must have their property, she mas not
been taught common honesty. When
she tells him in little fit of i'll humor
that she can live without him or any
other man, she may be speaking the
truth, but she is also sowing seeds of
discord. When she always turns to init
mate friends and ridicules those who
have given her a few dollars, because
they didn't give more, just watch her
descendants and hear them curse their
father for giving them a thousand dol
lars because it was SO little.
/ have been In homes of poverty and
homes of luxury, homes of love and
homes where loved ones had proved
false and disappeared from existence as
we remember them. Here there is a
blank in nature. Some wish they had
land to cultivate; others have it given
them and are 100 lazy to plant it. 1t mat
tiers not whether We regard the Bible as
a written word of God or the reflection
OF the human race as in a mirror. 1t
is correct portrayal Of humanity as it
is, the good and the bad are all pictured
there. That family which does not study
this great masterpiece is missing some
thing which cannot be replaced; that
school in which it is not read is deficient
TO that extent at least. The community
which can not spend a portion of the
Sabbath in its perusal is thoughtless of
its best interests. While the Bible is
one of the principal channels of light it
is not the only channel. During the
past winter have found Sunday schools
spending most of their time not in dis
cussing the ancient facts put down in the
lesson leaf, but the application of that
lesson to present day conditions. The
only use we have for the past is the les
son 1t has for our present day problems.
Ii nations have gone to ruin under GER
tain conditions we should seek conditions
which have proved more conducive to
human happiness. Unfortunately for
the world, the homs, the most important
1t is matter of chance from start to
finish. Each family must fight out its
own battles as communities did before
the organization of government. If
everything pertaining to the home were
CLEANED from the Bible we should have
treatise more valuable to the school than
any science now on the list. 1t would
give not only the rights and duties of
different members of the household but
the sentiments to be inculcated and those
to be discountenanced or condemned.
Now the school expects the home to CO.
operate in the formation of character,
but dares not place in the home any
standard tor fear of offending some
body. The day when men dare to stand
for the right seems to be past. A church
is liable to be cold while printing office
is always warm because printers ink
will not work in a cold room. 1t would
be blessing to the world if preachers
were like printers ink and would not
work in a cold room.
If we listen to lecture by some one
high up in the educational department,
we hear sentiments which no one can
censure or criticise. In some localities
our schools are taken out of the hands of
the children and placed in the hands of
those better qualified to manage them.
But no authority has thus far VEN
tured to come into the home and console
the children who are broken-hearted be-
cause their father wouldn't let them
build new barn, or to teach those older
persons common sense who taught the
children they had the same rights in the
home as their parents. These things can
be taught as successfully as algebra.
A man and wife were divorced, and
both married again. Now the man &C.
knowledges that he has no business abil-
ity. His first wife is proving her bust
ness ability and he has first-class earning
capacity. If some phrenologist could
have told them at The start their proper
sphere in the family, how different the
result
Many fail for want of honesty and
promptness in business. Many more fail
because of doing the wrong thing first,
as the farmer who builds his front yard
fence before he sows his clover patch or
plants his potatoes.
First is the IDEAL If child would as
soon be beggar as a banker or mer-
chant, there can be little hope until an
ideal is formed. GEO. M. COLE.
Husum, WASH, May 10, 1918.
the KING Of ALL LAIATlvES.