Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1913-11-28


The consequence is that the sturdy character that
up under the strenuous discipline of the past
is not nearly as general as it
1t is not the child but the parent that is to blame
It is not the school but the home that creates and
encourages the school conditions and which makes the
social conditions and sanctions the prevailing public opinion
that is to blame.
The hardheade5 business sense of the country has
ceased itself with the bringing up of the youth
and has turned the affair church the school,
This has opened avenue for faddists and cranks
and they have worked it to the limit
These same faddists will raise all manner of ques-
tons about the church.
Why, they ask. do not go to church? Why is it
difficult raise funds with which do the work of
religious organizations? Why has the church lost its
influence in the community and its power over men?
If we may presume to answer let it be as follows:
1t because the same of responsibility per-
vades the church circles that has taken hold of the social
and domestic circles,
Religion has been removed from the home to the
church, just the child has been ranspantedfor all
practical purposes-from the home to the school,
The trouble with the church is that it has too
much region-t has all the religion of the whole parish,
community shut up within it's four walls. People take
it thereus they would bring potted plant hot
house.
When religion was taken out of the home when men
ceased pray and the home altar stored with the
relics and the old furniture attic then was that
the decline of the church began.
When there is religion in the homes of the congre-
cation there is nothing the matter with the church
An empty chruch treasury and underpaid ministry
do fo IN
parish
That condition prevails only when all the religion of
the congregation is stored locked up the church and
none of it brought back to the home.
The amusement craze, referred to in the first half
of this article is responsible for much of ths-respons-
BILE for the deterioration of the home
Men have invented all excuses for staying
from home and the have finally become tired
of staying the job alone and they have with
accord begun make ezcuseswitness the socals the
parties the heaters the soca centers and the fash
1onabe clubs that have followed the heels of the lodge
and the "smoker.' -
With father and mother doing their duty to the
lodge the club the children found home more
less of cold cheerless waed-in affair and they toe
have taken to the outside world.
The consequence is that in far too many instances
home has become uncomfortable, small lodging house
where less congenal acquaintance come to cal
their MONDAY lunch and gather spend the nght-or the
early morning hours.
What you expect from organized society from
the school, from the church that has for it's foundation
homes thus despoiled?
The home is societys starting point, the foundation
of state and nation
You not build up sturdy. honest thrifty nation
upon homes that hftess dsoyal and void of char
acter.
If want thrift in the state you must first have
in the homes that constitute the state
If you want fair just and unselfsh administration
the affairs of state must have those qualities in thu
homes from whence your electors your official
If you want culture and education distinguish you
state then culture and education must also have place
in your homes.
If you expect religion exert an influence over tn
state and nation then that nuencne must first be felt
the homes.
Thus you may recount to the end the ills that human
the bottom of it all.
i Put the things that you want into the homes of tn
people and you will have no trouble in finding them
the various ramifcations of organized society.
Congressman Hammond has been asking the agricul
ra department what the farmer should do for the pre-
venton and of hog cholera and the department
back with the standard advice about preventing
and using There nothing new in what the de
cholera. it may convince the farmers that Hammond
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