Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-22

( strong man IN
a business or civic
life who was not
made so in the home. It is true that
sometimes we find men of character
who never had any true home inf1u-
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
let the home be what it should and
the product turned out will rarely be
disappointing. Our forefatherS were
able to lay 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 results!
If they have family worship and seek
Gods help and guidance daily for
themselves and their children and all
their affairs, they find it unfaiHngly
true that .sGod 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. t.God is love- and the
home in which he is made first is a
home filled with love. Fortunate is
the community and the nation which
has many such homes. The men and
women nurtured in them are ''the salt
| of the earth.'' Without such, cor
| ruption and decay inevitably ensue.
| Supporting the structure of all that
| is good and true and noble in the
world is the cody home Remove it.
| and our social and national life will
| soon morally disintegrate.
| kT,<,
| godly home a more important place
than the cody individual, where, we
| would ask, does the godly individual
| come from if not from the god1y home?
| What workshop produces him? Ger
| tainly not the schools, the shops, the
market place nor even the church,
| without the help of the cody home.
| A nail factory turns out nails; shoe
| factory, shoes; a wagon factory,
| wagons and a home, humanity.
| The ideal for commercial factories
| should be to turn out the best product
they can. This, though, is not always
| their aim, for low prices and compe-
| tition create demand for articles of
| an inferior grade. There is no such
| demand, however, for the product of
| the home, for no quality of character
of inferior grade meets the de-
mands of God of the times. If a
! manufa curing firm aims to turn out
|
| sibly make, its members are always
| studying the problem of ways and
means to enable them to approximate
their ideal. How much more should
parents study with Gods help to turn
out into the world the very best prod
uct?
In thinking of the home as turning
out into the world a product called
| humanity, we should ever bear in
mind that it's product is to endure
throughout the ages. This leads Us
back to very first proposition
| that if there is any place more thar
any other on this earth where Jesus
Christ is needed, it 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 oul
children up .sfn the nurture and ad
monition of the Lord but this W.
cannot do unless we are ourselves
Christians back of the produc
is the producer. With all the con
sequences involved in parenthood,
: seems incredible that men and womel
! | will assume it without being them
J selves in a position to give to thei
, children that which will make ther
the very best product. namely godIi
: ness The child is not so much re
{ sponsible for what he becomes as
the parent in whose care and train
ing he is brought up We cannot &c
away from the scripture, which says
'Train up child in the way he shout
go and when he is old he win not de
J part from it,; or. the little gin
|, | put 1t, Train up child in the wa
: he should go and when he is old b
will go So"