The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-30
At The Cumberland
Presbyterian Church


dance at Sunday School. and much
interest was manifest by all present.
At the morning hour the pastor
spoke on the subject, Home, using
as a text Proverbs 1877, Better is
a dinner of herbs where love is,
than a stalled OK and hatred there
with" He said, "A home is some
thing that we are all striving for and
upon the walls of the same should
hang these words of Solomon. A
home does not consist of the things
we can add to it in material way;
but the real home is made up of love
and mutual respect for one another
A man who processes to be a Chris
tian and isn't is ahypOcrite; just so
true is home that is called such
and isn't. a hell. One of our great
present-day privileges is to live in a
land of Christian men and women
and Christian homes. A bed of ros-
es itself, with all of it's fragrance
and beauty is not to be compared
with the sweetness of real home
where is found unity of spirit and
love. The material things amount
to very little when compared with
this. The condition of the homes in
our churches is the condition of our
churches as a whole, for if the right
spirit is felt in the homes it will be
felt in our churches. None of our
homes are perfect, but all the good
things found in life emanate from
the family firesidei where there is
love and sympathy which protect us
from the ills of life. No picture has
ever superseded in memory the one
of our childhood home. Impressions
received there will last forever and
ever. What pleasure it would be
to unload responsibility and go back
to the boyhood days when we were
carefree and happy! AS we grow
up to fight greater battles-as we all
do-those first indelible impres.
sions received at home grow brighter
and brighter.
I'VE are taught in the Bible not
to build our houses upon the sand
Would to God we could impress this
teaching upon the youth of our land
We try to construct homes, some
times, upon trivialities such as beau
ty of face, personal allurements, or
abundance of wealth; but this will
fail. Our homes should be builded
upon the confidence we have in our
companions and the other inmates OF
those sacred walls. mans happi.
ness in his home Is measured by the
confidence he has in his wife, Con.
fidence brings sunshine to any home,
where the children may get the prin-
ciples of right-living so firmly i'm
planted in their lives as to be a life
long bessing to them. Such a home
is founded upon rock. Let us care
fully guard our tongues, for the ef-
feet of unkind words in our home
will show on the faces of the loved
ones therin. If we make our homes
what they should be with love and
confidence, heaven itself will be re-
fiected there. God give us homes
flooded with heavenly sunlight, in
which we may travel thro this mum
dane existence to the heaven beyond
that Christ has prepared for His
own. Let us build our homes based
upon Gods Word"
Following a beautiful song service
at the evening hour, the pastor spoke
on, How to Be Saved" selecting his
text from Jas. 4:7-S. "One of the
greatest tasks on earth is to try to
teach an unsaved man how to be
saved-Quite as hard as to try to
tCdSh a bhhu man W oCC vi uCdu
man to hear. We can. in the first
case, as int he latter, only lead him
to, a Physician who knows how to
cure him. There is not enough hu.
man skill in the world to get a man
to heaven. There are thousands OF
ways in which human skill may be
used to advantage; but in this il
plays no part, in saving the soul OF
an unsaved man. However, there is
enough human skill in the heart OF
any man for him to understand how
to draw nigh to God.
IF any man will resist the devil
he will flee from him, for the devil is
always seeking the man too weak
to resist him, 1t takes resistance to
say, No to those things that tend
to drag us down and to kill. God
give us the power to stand firm al
the right time. to trust Him implicit