The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-06-26
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What the harvest shall be depends
mainly on what we plant and sow.
A happy home is within the reach of
every family if they only choose to make
it so. Interesting pictures should adorn
the walls of every home; they are the
loop holes of escape to the soul. leading
to other scenes; they are books. histories
and sermons that may be read without
turning the leaves.
Love is not easily provoked.'s What
a panacea for every irritation of home
life? How it wards off those hasty i'm
pulses and prevents the escape of the
harsh rebuke. How it bends low the
heart until the storm passes, and then
how much brighter is the suns glow
when the mists have cleared away? Let
this love illuminate your home and YOU
will find in it the counterpart of heaven.
When once home is regarded only
as place to eat, drink and sleep in, the
work is already begun that ends in
gambling houses and reckless degrada-
tion. Young people must have fun and
relaxation somewhere, and if they do not
get it at home they will seek it at other and
less profitable places. Therefore, let the
fire burn brightly at night in the winter
and let the doors be cheerfullv thrown
open in the summer and make the home
stead delightful with all of those little
arts that parents SO well understand
People who have warm friends are
much healthier and happier than those
who have none. A single real friend is a
treasure worth more than gold or prec-
iouS stones. Money can buy many
things, both good and evil All of the
wealth of the world cannot buy friend,
or pay you for the loss OF one, and we
are the worst and weakest of spend
thrifts if we let friend drop of through
inattention, or let one push away another,
or if we hold aloof from one for petty
jealousy, or needless slight One good
friend is not to be weighed against all
the jewels OF this earth.
Try to make others around you hap
pier. This is religion. This is Gods
kind of religion. Protect girls in their
virtue, boys in their manhood, adults in
their earning, and man in his sublime
right to think as far, and as fast, and in
as many directions as it is possible to
pierce the gloom. Be active. Be up
and get. Do not sit in the house, day
after day, trying your very best to be
sick. Do not grunt or growl every time
that little pain or ache lights upon you,
or camps in your door yard to be nursed
into active belligerency. Do not think
that you are the only one who has
money. Or the only one who has land.
Or the only one who has sickness. Or
the only one to whom sickness comes as
the process Of physical dissolution goes
on.
Do any of us know the power of in
fluence? Give a child his first years in a
loving christian home, good, noble
mother, consecrated, loving father, all
working harmoniously together, for the
good of all mankind, that home may be
humble, but it is home" in the truest
sense of the word. And after years may
bring temptations and trials and cares,
but the influence of that home can never
be blotted out, nor its power for good
ever overestimated. Surely environment
is much stronger than education. First
influences will last untililfe itself is gone
If our influence counts for so much,
ought we ever to grow weary striving to
make good thatinhuence strong for good?
But how soon, when we have made
good resolutions, and promised to be
more thoughtful and kind, do we fall
back into the old listlessness and let the
opportunities for good pass by. that
would make US rich with their blessings
If there were more push in the world
there would be fewer hungry, half cloth
ed, homeless, suffering children; fewer
broken down, dissipated men and WON.
en-; less need of alms-houses and houses
of correction and homes for the friend
less.
Push means lift for a neighbor who
is in trouble. Push means a lift for
yourself out of the slough Of dependency
and shiftlessness, out of trouble, real and
iancied Push never hurts anybody
The harder the push the better, if it is
given in the right direction. Always
push up hll-few people need push
down hill. Don't be afraid of your mus
ces and sinews; thev were given you 10
use. Don't be afraid of your hands;
they were meant for service. Do not be
afraid of what your companions may say
Do not be afraid of your conscience it
will never reproach you for a good deed
but push with all of your heart, might
and soul, whenever you see anything or
lsanybody that will be better for a good,
long, strong, determined push.
If there is any good being done in any
place where you happen to be, push.
DEBT- BEWARE OF 1T.
Young man. vou that are about en-