Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-19
NATIONAL LIFE
RISES AS HOME
is MADE RIGHT
Importance Of Good Surroundings
and Discipline for Children
Sundays Topic.
By MALCOLM H. EDDY.

imam our luQlNluudl iliE. lIuiF luu
life is governed by heredity-in the
blood-and by early environment,
which is the home. Better homes
is the solution" sums up the sub
stance Of Billy Sundays sermon on
1.-The Home" delivered last night.
He spent much Of his time espe-
cially near the first of the sermon
charging upon the great impOr-
lance of home life, how it is the
greatest institution and the most
Important factor in building up a
strong nation He showed the
things which go to make the home
a success in sending children into
the world who are able to follow
the right path.
Il believe in bIOod-that blood
will tell" he asserted. He showed
how the nationality of many old
rulers Influenced their actions, and
how the parentage of many famous
men. writer's and the like, was re-
sponsible for traits in their char
acters which made them achieve
the things they did.
make Children Obey
"I believe in home authority and
discipline. Whether boy will re-
spect laws is determined by wheth-
er he will obey at home or not If
it wasn't for the little ichneunOn
which eats the eggs of the croco-
Ndile, the Nile would be Overrun
SSh crocodiles in two years. You
have to take EN- young. And it's
Just like that with kids. Get at
them while they're young and you
can accomplish the things you
want to instill in their minds. But
listen, you can't fool them. They've
got your number. You're their pat
tern and they'll follow it if it leads
to hell"
Carefully worked out, sound ad-
vice about the raising of children,
he gave in connection with this
topic Some parents are so darn
ed afraid that their boy will be
called a milk sop, that they let the
bars down so low there is nothing
to stop him in his mad. wild rush
to hell But I have noticed this,
that the boy who is tied to his
mothers apron strings, who can't
tell four aces from a load of alfalfa
when there are 40 applications
for the job, ne goes home with the
blue ribbon and tagged number one
in other words he comes home
with the bacon.
Don't Shut Door.
"Of all devil-inspired sentences, |
/ think this is the worst a child
should be seen and not heard
Don't close the door of your home
to the light for fear the sun will
fade a little bit of carpet Let the
sunshine in. Children are made to
play Their tongues are made to
be used. Don't put an embargo
on%shem."
Zone of the last statements in the
sermon was. The world owes a
debt to mothers. The greatest men
OF the world were mOther-made
men. Fathers can't always go
straight. it seems. But whenever
we try and discover what it is jeOp-
ardizing our homes and when we
refuse to respond to the request
and the appeal and the tears and /
the pleadings of the mothers, OH
sure oblivion awaits for that ma
ton"
The evening was given a dra- I
matte climax, at the end of the {
sermon, when the evangelist told /
the story of John Howard Payne, /
who wrote. There's No Place Like I
Home" A long and imprisoned I
eulOgy, it was in which the name I
of the man referred 10 was with I
held until the last sentence. I
Then. merging with the last word, /
the choir began to softly sing Mid .
pleasures and palaces, though l /
may roam. be it ever so humble"
and the rest. There was a visible /
change in the feeling OF the audi
ence, so powerful was the infiu-
enCe. and many Of the listeners
saw mist before their eyes.
ALast nights crowd, in view of
the rain. was very gratifying. to
say the Least. There were possibly /
500 vacant seats on the floor, and
400 in the choir left. An attend
ance of ZOO in a house holding
s 900 can be counted successful in
any kind of weather. This speaks
well for the loyalty Of Sundays
tri-City supporters.
Prof Robert Matthews led the
song services, which were unusual
~ enthusiastic Homer A Rode
HEAVIER will be with the campaign
again by the first Of next week, it
IS expected, and will again as
sumo dictatorship of the choir /,
Rev. Attree Smith of the First
Methodist church of Moline led in
the opening prayer.
Eject of Personal Work.
Men will work harder to win !
in business and politics than the
church will in religion. I am dis
yusted with them all. You think ;
you can just open your church door
md ring a bell and you expect peo-
pie to come. That's been going on 5
ong enough. The church has got :
o wake up and do something" is
he way in which Mr. Sunday yes
erday afternoon sized up the
,hurch which lacks in personal eff 2
ort. But the element of failure"
he said is not confined to the ,
;Hurch. NiBety-nine per cent of t
he business men fail Only three !
men out of a thousand succeed
ust about three and the failure of 7
hese is due largely to the lack of !
.efnita systematic work. No poll f
ical battle is won on the stump. {
a blear-eyed, bloated- e
aced, bulI-necked whisky-soaked,
in-horn politician will win more
-otes than the most siIver-tongued '
.peIl binder that ever shouted the /