Year: 1879

HAPPY HoMEs--sERMoN BY REV. DIR. EDWARD


EvERETr HALE


He went down and came to Nazareth and was
subject to them." was the text chosen by the Rev.
Edward Everett Hale, who preached in the Church
of the Messiah yesterday Might We not give more
thought to the management of homes. so as to make
them nearly reflex OF the eternal home? asked
the preacher. Might not spend more pains on our
boys education in teaching them to make homes
happyY People who write to show that woman
should not vote say it is her duty to make homo
happy. So it is. but it is just much
the duty Of man to make home happy:
This, the speaker said. was the paramount duty OF
which he took occasion to speak. There are two
diverse temptations regarding home One the in
dvidualizng folly of time and the pretence that
nun il to live for himself alone. This hurts men
and turns them away from their duties. On the
other hand, all theories of communism social
that tend to abolish family relations and subst
tute for them the social machinery which is to do
by wholesale what the home should do A thought
full, conscientious boy comes from country home
to work in New York. His work, perhaps. is not
hard He has six hours to himself in the evening.
What shall he do? l like to him 90 to the
theatre and opera aud the reading room for time,
but after he tires of this he begins to learn that
man lives for himself alone. II he has gone into
and learns vices he begins to for his
rooms. He invites friend to spend an evening He


makes preparations for hospitable reception OF him.
But the other danger that presses moro closely
grows IRON the fashion Of doing everything on q
large scale. People think that because great rail-
road carry passengers cheaper and better than
small great organizations do the work of the
family better than the father and mother We think
that our children should be taught their domestic
duties in schools when they ought to learn them at
home. Domestic influences 30 to the foundation OF
manhood and womanhood and have to be considered
In legislation. The Swiss workman makes his part
OF the watch ut home. The American workmen and
workwomen go to the shop aud leave their children
10 run in the streets. The American system is, per-
haps, the best for Watches but the Swiss system is
the best for men and women


Il do not believe" continues Mr.. Hale. THAT in
the long the suffrage will be given to every
man who is twenty-on years old Our American
experiment in that direction q novelty and not
altogether success. Neither do 1 believe that it
will be given according to property. 1t belongs to
those who have interest i'll society, who have
homes. What going to do? We ought to
make home happy AK yourselves few test ques-
tons. Will you play whist at home with your chill
dren. or do you prefer to play at the club? Will
you spend an hour two OF evening reading
'lyanhoe' to them, will you leave them to read
Red a Rose il She,' something worse, while
you 80 to the theatre to see Sara Bernhardt? The
home is wretched when the father appears only for


hurried meal and seeks the attractions of lite else
where. or from which the mother escapes as from
apesthouse. II home is heaven, as it may be- it is
because each one--father. mother and child-does
al he can do to make it happy"