The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-05-09


.uasl the rule to find a
81 strong man In
III business or civic
life who was not
made SO in the home. 1t is true that
sometimes We find men of character
who never had any true home inhu-
ences, but when you find one man
who has developed into real man
hood without true home influences,
you find hundreds, who because they
never had them, are moral wrecks.
set the home be what 1t should and
the product turned out will rarely be
disappointing. Our forefathers were
able to lay q substantial national
foundation because they were made
stalwart, God fearing men through the
influences Of the Christian homes In
which they were nurtured.
When fathers and mothers take heed
to the words Of Jesus, seek We first
the Kingdom of God and his right
eousness" and make him first in the
home, how glorious are the resultsl
II they have family worship and seek
Gods help and guidance daily fol
themselves and their children and all
their affairs. they find it unfailingly
true that God Is faithful" that his
promises never fail, that their every
real need is supplied and that his
favor and blessing surpass all OF
earth's riches. God is love-" and the
home In which he is made first Is a
home filed with love. Fortunate Is
the community and the nation which
has many such homes. The men and
women nWsured in them are 1.-THE salt
OF the EARTH" Without such, cor
ruptlon and decay inevitably ensue.
Supporting the structure of all that
Is good and true and noble in the
world is the cody home. Remove 1t,
and our social and national life will
soon morally dislntegrate.
II 1t seem that we are giving the
cody home a more important place
than the godly individual, where, we
would ask, does the godly individual
come from If not from the cody homel
What workshop produces himl Ger
tainly not the schools, the shops, the
market place nor even the church,
without the help of the godly home,
A nail factory turns out nails; shoe
factory. shoes; wagon factory
wagons; and a home, humanity.
The ideal for commercial factorie,
should be to turn out the best product
they can. This, though, is not always
their aim, for low prices and compe
tition create a demand for articles OF
an inferior grade. There is no such
demand, however, for the product o!
the home, for no quality of character
of an inferior grade meets the de
mands OF God or OF the times. X {
manufacturing firm aims to turn ou'
the very best product they can pos
slbly make, Its members are alway'
studying the problem of ways ant
means to enable them to approximate
their ideal. How much more SHOULD
parents study with Gods help TO TURF
out into the world the very best prod
uctf
In thinking OF the home as turnin,
out into the world a product called
humanity, we should ever bear ID
mind that its product is to endure
throughout the ages. This leads u,
back to our very first proposition
that II there is any place more thar
any other on this earth where Jesus
Christ Is needed. II Is the home. With
out the help and direction of the
master workman, cody character can
not be produced
The Scriptures tell Us to bring our
children up 'in the nurture and adj
monitlon Of the Lord" but this we
cannot do unless we are ourselves
Christians; so back OF the product
Is the producer. With all the con.
sequences involved In parenthood, II
seems incredible that men and women
will assume Il without being them
selves in a position TO give to their
children that which win make them
the very best product. namely goili-
ness. The child Is not so much re-
sponsihle for what he becomes as is
the parent In whose care and train
ing he is brought up. We cannot get
away from the scripture. which says:
s.rrain up a child In the way he should
60 and when he Is old he viii not de-
part from IT,: or. as the little girl
put II. Train up a child In the way
ne should 20 and when he IL old he
viii 80 So"