South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-16

will about that house you build. Yet
there are people i'm this world who
have taken the blood out OF human
hearts with which TO buy material
for their houses"
Draws Contrast.
He pictured viTdly the home OF
the saloonkeeper and the gambler in
contrast with the poor mothers
whose Iife-bloOd. the character and
souls of their sons and husbands.
has gone into the building Of those
homes
Willingness of all 10 help in bear
ing the burdens of the home, he said,
was "A primary need for peace and
happiness. "It would bring happi-
ness into the homes of all Americans
If every son and husband kept house
Just one week a year. and girls.
there is Just as much religion in
helping your tired mother as in trot-
ting off TO the r. y. =. L. or the
Epworth league"
The loafer he characterized as
one of the evils OF today. declaring
The time has come when the world
will never again excuse idleness.
Work is the one great need OF the
hour" Bringing this point home TO
parents. he cried You sin against
the soul of your child if you don't
teach that child the dignity OF serv-
ice"
Need Of Peace.
He stressed the crying need for
peace and harmony in the home. for
the spirit Of Christianity which will
check the grinding of the divorce
mills which are about TO destroy the
home life OF America.
There are men in America who
are actually being driven from God
by eternal nagging Of their wives. l
know Of them-men who are being
kept from the church by nagging
wives who profess Christianity"
He,plead for what ne said was
prim.Ay need in rearing of a Chris
tian family. that fathers and moth
ers set the example Of Christianity
by prayer and by conscientious eff
fort 10 keep right with God.
Some fellows. don't pray at
home" he said. because their own
families know that they are not on
the square and they are ashamed OF
the sham.
speaks OF Children.
Speaking of the positive necessity
Of setting an example 10 children
while they are in the character
forming age. ne told of incidents
where children mimicked the slight
est action OF their parents and
elders. When I spat through a
grating thoughtIessly and turned to
see my little son splitting. l called 10
God 20 ask Him that If that hoy was
10 do everything his father did, help
me TO lead a clean Christian life
The man who thinks he has sense
enough 20 rear children without the
help OF God is an egoustical fool, "
he declared.
He named the four flgurative bat
Elements Of the Christian home.
First" he said. lis family discipline
which brings "a respect for the au-
I thoritv OF the father and mother
I and in later life brings respect for
the law. The man who IT. his child
hood took his fathers word as law
is going 10 respect the laws OF the
land simply because they are laws
I made by the proper authorities.
Reverence for Bible.
There is the reverence for the
. Bible II there isn't some reverence
for the word OF God brought back
into the homes OF this country. the
homes are going 10 ruin.
"I would place as a batuement
the family altar and set apart a
period Of every day for family
prayer.
The last battlement is consistent
Christian living. Live a life which
will show 20 your children the good
OF Christianity. Do YOU wonder that
some children wonder II religion
isn't a joke and the Bible "a lie when
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