The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-18

the righteous, where it is builded and
how. He knows what kind of home
you have, and the family circle is not
complete unless you take Jesus in. With
Him you II have peace
Some think that to have a fine
| building is to have a home. DR.. Henry
| Van Dyke wrote a beautiful thing
when he said:
turned an English poet s book
! And found upon the page,
| Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage
Yes, that is true and something
more
| You will find where 'er YOU roam.
That marble floors and gilded walls
Can never make home.
q You have never approached real
greatness in your home until YOU have
prayed with your children. You cannot
have a home as God wants it to be UNI
til it is founded on God s Book and
kept full by the spiritual life of the
father and mother. Family worship is
not a difficult service to hold in the
home. A single verse of Scripture while,
you are seated at the table; simple
prayer which includes the needs of
y ana
your children would never forget it.
You are making an eternal mistake if
you bring your children up without
this sort of an atmosphere He'll is too
awful and Satan is too real to send
them without the influence of family
worship. If after you fathers and |
have gone to our graves our boys can
read the inscriptions on our tomb
stones and say, That s my father; he
was the nearest like Jesus Christ of
any man / ever knew, that will be
worth while. Yes! That will be worth
while
DR.. Chapman told the story of how
a hard working farmer and his wife
and two girls denied themselves ne
cessaries in order that the boy might
90 to college. 1.-The time comes for
graduation and the boy stands UP to
deliver his Grafton. Up in the gallery
an old father, an aged mother and two
sisters, poorly clad their faces shin
ing, are leaning forward to catch every
word, and when the honors are be
slowed and the medal given to their
boy he takes it in his hand, walks
down from the platform, through the
crowd, up into the gallery and kneeling
down beside his mother puts the ribbon
WHICH ran through the medal around
her neck and says: This is yours: it
belongs to you all. / should never have
had it but for you. And the old father
with tears running down his cheeks
turns to his wife to say: What
great investment We have made!''
Some of you are marking out for
your boys pathway different from
that. Some are marking out pathway
TO lead them to fame. Better start
them on the way that leads to the cross.
The home of the righteous shall
stand
Zone of my friends went home
from such a service as this and spoke
to his wife, saying: I think we ought
to take a stand for our children and
claim them for Christ, and such
card as this was prepared: AS mem
bers of one family we affirm our faith
IN Jesus Christ as our personal ga
viour. and count ourselves as one Of
Him The name of the father. of the
mother, and of the children at home
old enough to sign it We're put on this
card. The servants of the house were
asked to sign it, and when they went
to sleep at night this covenant bound
them all together What a great thing
1T would be If the homes in Brattle-
boro should thus be pledged for Him,
A little newsboy erected a stone
over his mother 5 grave and with
mallet and chisel with his own hands
roughly cut the following inscriptions;
MY MOTHER