The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-16


the blood OF Jesus Christ.
1t there Is place on earth which
should be kept purer and more sac
red than another. 1t ts our home We
should guard Our homes against any
thing that would defile or desecrate
its sacred influence. We bar our doors
against thieves and burglars. but I'm
purity after any fashion Is greater
despoiler than any thief. The thief
will rob you OF peace. and heavenly
joy You let impurity cross the
threshold OF your home, respect for
its sanctity has taken fight out Or 7
the windows. When we enter some
homes, we are conscious of the sacred-
ness OF the place. Many homes are the
dumping ground for impure stories,
vile language and suggestions OF evil.
The whole atmosphere is laden and
reeking with vice and moral poison.
As soon as you come in contact with /
them, you are conscious that you are |
irlhaling a vicious influence, which is /
more deadly than the bite OF the rat
tlesnake The stability OF our repuh-
lie, the future OF our political life. the /
honor or dfshonor OF our citizenship |
and the Institutions which we hold |
dear, the reverence For God and sac
red things, depend upon the home |
life Of today. a nation is no better |
than her homes. There is but little I
doubt that when the parents are on
their way to heaven rejoicing with a
consistent Christian Life, their chill
dren Will go to heaven with them. But I
if the parents are on their way to he'll !
their children choose their pathway
to hell after them Fl the hands that
rock the cradles rule the world, de-
cided the destiny of men and nations.
then those who rock the cradles, sing
the melodies and form characters,
ought to be pious and pure
\ Every child has the right to be we'll
born, well fed, we'll educated, and to
be brought up under the influence Of
"a Christian father and mother. If
your child has bad blood, that may
be his grandfather's fault. but IL he
is not we'll fed. clothed. educated, and
given Christian training. that is your
fault. believe In good blood, bad
blood, honest blood. thseving blood.
llstful, murderous blood. courageous
and coward1y blood and It Will come
out in our children. If you want to
sheep, hogs and dogs, you must have
good blood back OF him. Blood
counts in animals If good blood Is
SO necessary IN the production Of am
finals, it is also in the production OF
la higher quality Of manhood. Many q
man is more particular about the
breed Of the blood Of his stock than
he is about the breed and the stock
Eof his son-in-laW and daughter-in-laW.
/ Like produces like Parents repeat
themselves in their children, bodily,
mentally and spiritually.
Anyone can marry. The vicious and
idepraved can marry and propagate
their srecies as vel las the hest quail
Isfied. Thousands are half damned at
birth. They only add to the number
whose wrists are to be chained and
isn1anacled, to fill our iai1s and peni-t
Elllms and niingle with thieves and
Hive in the cesspools Of infamy, and
I'LL up the ranks Of the dying 1iber-
tines. pros itutes and drunkards. You
do not need to worry about your chill
5I.ren being like you. They will be like
Isyou. If you are kind and pure, your
children will be kind and pure. II you
gossip about your neighbors. they
will gossip about theirs. II you lie,
EHEour children vii lie Il II you have no
prospect for the Lords Day. neither
twill they have respect for the Lords
Day II you swear, your children will
curse and swear II you get drunk
II they will stagger and spew around
Il the church and you are prayer1ess,
II your children will live like heather
b too.
Second SIS will walk within my
l house with patient heart
\ I know some people when they
s!are away from home, that the light
Isof heaven seems to beam In their
;Leyes. Their eyes are as gentle as dove
eyes and their words fall from their
Hips as sweet assnectar.4b but when they
4 are. behind the home door, their eyes
4 lfash firesand their words are as cruel
las swords. I would rather live In the
l3humblest hove1 In your state with
listinging insects and Shiny toads than:
|! to live in a: palace NJ th some people
4 sI know who call themselVes Chris
A!tians. How gentle, Kind, patient and
FLOWING we ought to he wi til those with
n whom we are bound WI til this pecu-
|aliar relationship. If we have smile
n flor the stranger. let us have one for
our family II we have kind words for
/ thpse without, let us have them for
II those who are! vi hin our homes. Love
dnakes homesa- para Use. The absence
\ ofs 1t 1nakes,it a little he'll Often In
III fits or passion, harsh words are shox
from the lips like harbed arrows and
Z We wound the truest and dearest
friends on earth,
,Ttfr-d g ST vii i walk within my
n house with aFprayer ! heart IN
Sd believe IN some old fashioned
hfngs: Annone the number is the old
fashioned family altar. has been
the bulwarks OF many Of our piouss an
Acestors It has been the rock upon
(which the homes have rested and en-
Il dnred through storm and tempest
4You Will not wonde Ter that II champion
this subject VIII en- q tell you that from
nv earliest reco1tectI Ion heard my
I father's voice In prayer and saw the
tears STREAMING down by mothers
cheeks at the family altar. We could
4 save our country from this Eht and
curse Of divorce IL we. would build
Iour homes on I'll s family altar. have
EInaver heard of home being spH ut on