The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-22
PARENTS ARE BLAMED FOR OOzE-SOAKED
SONS, SLIPPING QUICKLY TO PERDTTION;
MAKE HOME INVITING, IS ADVICE OF BILLY

and he will command his children and
his household after him." In Genesis,
18th chapter, 18th verae.
In his Thursday night sermon Mr..
Sunday said:
| am going to throw myself upon
the prayerful sympathy of this con-
gregation, with a prayerful hope
that what / have to say may arrest
your attention and grip your heart.
Somebody has said the sweetest word
in the language which we speak, no
matter what cline, whether where the
sunbeams dancing in sunny la belle
France or upon Ceylon's perfumed
shores or midas coral strand, or
where the Frost King holds sway in
the KIondike of the north the sweet
est word in the language is Home"
whether it means that the Esquimo in
his igloo or whether it means it to
the Indian in his tepee on the plains,
or TO the millionaire in his palace on
Fifth avenue.
| want you to go with me for a
brief time to the most sacred spot
in all the world, the one around
which clusters more sweet aSSocia-
tons and precious memories than
any other in the universe-and that
- is home. The longer | live and the
more l visit up and down the land
and see the joys and the sorrows and
the successes and the failures of
men and women. the more l become
convinced that the home is one of
the greatest problems we have.
Nothing Can surpass
Home Influence
The homes are like streams pour
ing forth their current into the great
world. and they should be the center
OF everything that is noble and in
spring
Nothing should ever be permitted
to wrigele its Infamous destroying car
cass across your threshold to assas-
sinste virtue, or to murder any thought
that might lead that boy or girl toward
God, or on their knees to develop a
Christian character.
| think the proper or improper
settlement of the home question is
the most important question in the
world, and you never can settle 1t
right, my friend, unless you settle
first of all that you as a father and
mother will be Christian and serve
Jesus Christ. 1t will mean the JOY
and sorrow or the veal and Woe of
more boys and girls than any SINH
lar question that comes up.
But nothing will ever make happy
the father or mother who waits for
the coming footsteps of some girl
who has become careless and frivol-
Gus and coquettish, and it won't be
long until, perhaps, she will help to
feed the brothel, or she will become
the mother OF an illegitimate child
because of her Indifference. Or some
whiskey-soaked boy who bears your
name is putting a stain upon the
family escutcheon that wealth and
: culture can never in the universe be
Z able TO erase.
Every gambler leaning over his
card table and stalking his soul on
the next show down; every drunk.
ard reeling, and staggering, and jab
bering, and Numbering, and mutter
ing, and vomiting, and spewing, and
puking; and every fallen woman mer
chandising her womanhood for gain
in some dark, rotten, Fostering spot
of a great city, once was as pure
as the morning dew They knelt
by their mothers side and perhaps
said: "tIow I lay me down to sleep
l pray thee Lord, my soul to keep
Too Many Women
Are Frivolous.
And of many of the women, too
much cannot be said in just con
demnation. OH many of them they
are frivolous, and they are silly, and
they are eXtravagant, and they viii
throw to the winds all restraint O
mOdesty and of prudence, and of re
ligion, and the many virtues which
are so noble and attractive IL
womanhood, and they allow them
selves to be flattered, and BAN
boozled, and cajoled by lot of good
for-nothing. empty-headed ginks VIII,
call themselves men. They ought t;
be arrested for going around disguised
as men,
You wouldn't call some of then
men if they didn't have whisker
and breeches on - and they loan thei
presence to vaudeville, have it il
their homes; they indulge in drink
ing and in gambling and they ar
more familiar with these terms thai
they are with English and classi
literature more familiar with tn
costly brands of champagne and wine
they know more about PiperHeid
sick, and they know more about tn
names of the expensive champagne
and wines than they do about tn
Word of God.
| think one of the prettiest pic
lures that God or the world eve
looked upon is TO see a father an
a mother who are Christians loo
arms and then take hold of the han
of the oldest child and the next an
then the next and on down to tn
Youngest. and see the whole famil
go on singing and praying towar
heaven.
Mothers Who Are
Faithless To Trust.
And the blacklist, vilest pictur
that God or man ever looked upo
is father who is not q Christian
a mother not a Christian, lock arm
and take hold of the eldest child an
then see the whole family go shriel
ing on to hell. And of the bigges
monstrosity that God or the worl
ever looked upon is a mother wit
children playing around her knee!
and they never hear from her lips
prayer, and never are taught Jesu
Christ o! the stepmother woul
be a godsend if she only had religion
That is not all. II is disgrace
YOU that if your boy or girl has eve
been saved and goes to heaven b.
cause of what some stranger laugh
them. and not because of what yo
taught them. Somebody elsei
they ever 90 to heaven ii won't b