Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-06
BEING A GOOD
FATHER MANS
HIGHEST DUTY
Weaknesses Inevitably Leave I'M
press Upon Progeny, Sunday
Tells Maize Audience.
By =. z. BUFFUN.

Men of the tri-cfties who attended
the afternoon meeting at the taber-
nacle yesterday were impressed
with the fact that Chickens always
come home to roost." That, in truth,
was the topic, and the time worn
adage was applied in an intimate
and striking personal way to mem
bers Of the audience.
No man who heard the truths
enUnc1ated left the meeting without
something that lie could take to his
own life with profit The sins and
designations that men indulge in
were recounted and their effects
portrayed faithfully and with
force and cIearness that was at
times startling. The fact was i'm
pressed that mental and physical
weaknesses resulting from evil
habits almost invariably are trans
mitted to offspring, with tendencies
even more pronounced in the same
direction.
An instance was cited where al
cohol saturated parents had found
ed line of lawbreakers, paupers
and imbeciles which ran through
the fourth generation without a
departure from type The fourth
generation was the last for the in
dividuals which comprised it were
all IDIOTS, bereft of the power of re-
production.
On the other hand the history of
the descendants OF q clean pair. of
high grade stock was recited, show
ing line of men and women high
" useful to their generations,
many holding places Of honor and
not single instance of onviction
Of crime.
Hope for Childrel.
Men always hope for greater
things from their children than
they themselves accomplish Only
the most abandoned father encour-
ages or even views with equan;mity
the tendencies of his son to follow
his own straying footsteps and yet
the power of his example is greater
than any verbal warning to the
contrary and disastrous results
are almost inevitable
And that is not all. The new gen.
Grafton always goes the old one
at least one better As Mr. Sunday
said while you old fellows are
scratching gravel to get once
around the track your son VIII cir
Gle it 10 times" The sins of the
father are visited upon the son. not
once. but ten-fold.
Personal liberty is all right if one
doesn't exercise it too far The
moment ones personal liberty leads
him to get upon the toes Of his
neighbor, then something is likely
Z to happen. In sparsely settled
country one may take more libsr-
ties than where it is crowded. The
more people there are the more
laws the state needs to enact to
curb entertainments upon individ-
ual rights. The man VINO breaks
the law of the state is a criminal
He who breaks the law If God is a
sinner. The peLitent.ary is a
square deal for the man that will
keep the law. Heaven is a square
deal for the Christian. He'll is a
square deal for the sinner.
No father wants his son to grow
up bad-to lie, to steal. to drink
whisky, swear and spend his days
in idleness Nobody wants that
kind of a boy around There IS no
place for him in any profession or
any line of business or industry, |
and society. turns him down And
yet when whisky drinking, cigaret |
smoking, disappearing loafer mar |
ries a gum chewing, jazZing, fash !
lily dressed, empty headed Jane !
what can you expect of their /
progeny?
God has provided one place and |
that is at the mercy seat where he |
answers the prayer of those that !
come weeping, through faith in |
Jesus Christ and all the fitness you /
require is a sense OF your need !
When you have acquired that come, !
and he will take you in.