The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1902, Page 3

J,THE SUNDAY CALL. < 'S\ ['e ¥ 3 home ke us really do our best to m happy Patience and t nabitual in the ex Jent tra What does amount to, if we first duties_in the ¥amily Love— making iife worth one ot an aifec Fault-find: such love. 1 s must_ become will _those “Dear old run, always the proper thing toKknow ms mother, 1 but serve ouly tne te. For a nation to c out this idea Greek philosophy is t5 commit national suicide Just to the degree that the peo- nation l‘l“xhlrl from the true form tie nd home flaw was h fair. mil are they not-d for in- d immorality. .The nation ¢ rise higher than the life of the constituting that nation. therefore,” as one has said, the family circle that the star of hope, of religion and civil rights is to be beautifu spends it and let it go down and all would e jurned Inio the dismal darkness of midnight out moon or star to guide keeping tI the weary pilgrim on his way. » - and DY This being true, we are to regard with age and pove exceeding anxiety any indications of loss and luxur of power and purity to our homes and to May the m of the moss to the old guard well the sacredness of the fami.y thatch be our in each of our {iuos tle and the fireside. homes. What nt world we would Bepieemsi1 ys Dr. Talmage: *“When at last we have if this we t be oo W Ccome to calculate the forces that decide sald of our the destiny of ns, it will be found humble, “H that the mightiest and grandest influence looks,” bec: came from hcme live there ‘Spurgeon said iome is the grandest covering up G instituti iy ? 5 ng know! den called home “the sacred refuge tefves, and, I ; : S lace el by, the Sigourney is right when she says: ard of beuity eyt he strength of a nation, especially of a As Luella D. Sm republican nation, is in the intelligent a : | e or homes of its peopie.” O jah _is . Ther ‘“supb as it has been said, b “that our home life could be put into some s ¥ permanent forms, and then our houses Let ea 8 e fu Wia piuy uld be buried by a catastrophe like and work and cai Ae 2atll that of Pompeii, and at the end of eight- In the stody. Vot een centuries be brought to light. What id taiv. 3 - L el v. »se to the curious inves- As you el talv, gy RN : - v? What does God see s Al perplex, leave behind t do others see? sin I don’t know what is seen. but there are - some thines that ought to be seen in our in. find a part of heaven - homes. Thev should be the commnon ~ p center of attraction for all the familv. Home 1d be the place where we G Holmes epeaks of it in this way: most are and love most to be. This will ¥ a ome of our. childho o ection clin naturally follow if home is attractive - e v e e Home = implies Yamillarity. “Home, s g our nome 7 sweet home” is indeed a common s though clad in autumn brown, ment—and a chord to which all hea; annot well overestimate the im- O e PSVhat makes it so? Because the senti~ ice of the home institution. as it should be, this would ment lies nearest and dearest to the . tiveiin Mwan fia-+ be' the sentiment af 'ail. . Bomp oght heart. We believe that the beautiful song 3 ~ EBAA- e PARpY “Home, Sweet Home,” is the true tran Parents and children should all combine D T author's heast at the time af “Whenever life in search of back again disaj One day p - friends and a thousand in another tired and di I don't mean rat the building, performed acred service Home is not merely four square walls pictures hung and gilded. Filied with shrines the heart hath buildea. the faithful dove there’s one to love jome’s not house and room, ation the wants Dgrcs not m wdividual family > to greet us? we love to meet us! home is the foundation stone of T religious and barracks sc It is to be feared that home life and influence is anything but desirable in very many instances. What a sad condi- tlon of things is suggested by the con- gtant grinding of the divorce /mill! There is so much effort put forth to adcrn and beautify the house that the Leme is neglected. Parents seem bent on ctting rich and on beautifying their ouses and the premises, to the neglect of the home life and the welfare of the children. Many homes may well be compared to the frame of a harp that stands without gtrings. In form and outline they sug- gest music, but no melody rises from the empty spaces; and thus it happens that home is unattractive, dreary and dull. Love, peace and confidence make the heme. The dwelling itself cannot make the home. There is very little home in many a big brownstone palace. There way be much of home in the meanest cottage. The house isn't costly nor beau- tiful. The furniture is the simplest, but perfect neatness is seen. Rag carpets may cover the floors, or if without even such they are clean. But the home is leasant and happy. The sun shines Prightly and fills the house. But the kind spirits that govern the home are the main source of joy. Love, peace and confl- dence are manifested in all the family relations. The noble wife and mother, though burdened with household cares, cheers all the others with her kind words and sympathy. She trains the feet of her little ones in the heavenly pathway. The husband, a plain, hard-working man, 1s a clean, pure man, good to his children and kind to his wife. The children, though not gorgeously arrayed, are ekilled in refined manners and gentleness, and they are a crown of glory and bless- ing to mother and father. 3 fmee with Holmes when he says: “I1 had rather eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of, John the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all my life, than consume all myself before I got into a home, and take so much pains with the outside that the inside was as hollow as an empty nut. Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of garment, house and furniture are tawdry ornaments compared with domes- tic love. All the excellence in the world will not make a home, and I would give more for a spoonful of real hearty love than for whole shiploads of furniture and all the gorgeousness the world can gather.” An attractive home doesn’t come by chance. It must be planned for. lived for, sacrificed for, prayed for and suffered for. It is the fruit of w building. A great singer had just finished sing- ing “Home, Sweet Home,’ and many of the &udience were in tears. “It is a beautiful song,” said a girl to an older woman who sat next to her. “Yes,” was the reply, “and the senti- ment to which it moves all these people is beautiful. How much happler the world would be if every one had as much principle as sentiment on the subject, and followed out a plain everyday rule of making home sweet.” The girl turned thoughtfully away. She hardly heard the next song. She was ac- knowledging to herself that, in spite of ner love for her home, she made it un- happy every day of her life by her will- fuiness and quick temper. How many of its_writing. The following version of the writing of to have been related by » Howard Payne: = author, . the wor me to me. r the world, “Home, Sweet Home' I had begn pretty much and in time I drifted t as 1 wandered alone and through the city I be- homesick. I took a great The song of the r moonlight through rfume of the flowers—how 1ded me of home! nued Mr. Payne, “the senti- my head a long first ¢ ment had be time. I cot e rhyme. One evening as I n the Tuileries, and the stars w aring_out from their hiding places, the strain of a beauti- ful melody was borne on the air. It was a Sicilian tune. I h rd it years be- fore. It w: actly what I had been waiting for. eart full of home I hurried back lo¢ in a remote part of Before was over ¥ work was done. Th e mad poem. I had har my poc but one or two nds helped me. passage to Am as paid. At las got back. There were sad changes. A few only were left ng vlace like home You observe I may be some people fter all, there is normal heart. There in make-up country,"” ard Y may not be drawn v o home sentiment. B man who loves and reveres the pure ho sentiment is in nearness to the Eternal Home. Payne has but written the language of all normal human hearts. Explain it in any way you please, there 18 no place like home. When any one begin to lose taste for his or her home and prefers to spend most of their time elsew they may well suspect their lives, or élse the home is not what it should be. That e yyment is dangerous to one’s self and de tive to the home which keeps one much away from home, especially after the business hours have ended. The love, peace and confidence of the home must be carefully nour Time must be taken to eare £ den or all its beauty wither and vanish aw peace and destroys tt metry of the home is the lack of heart nourishment. Home should bhe a place of safety here and a guide to heaven abave. The ‘moral atmosphere should be wholesome. temptation within its endanger the tender h there. The mother 1 should be pure and godly. The soclal flls that sin against the strength of vouth and warp us from the living truth should be debarred from our homes. The world has set its snares to catch the feet of ¢ 1 fragrance will What mars the e beauty and sy of the home There should be no d precincts to that nestle father love 5 wary youth; that i3 sad enough to con- template, but to think of innoc feet being ensnared In the meshes of sin within their warm home nest Is = {nz. h;&;d Yet that is often done In wars n which parents foolishly think to pleas ar;r! h;‘lp thetr children. = D case et home be at le e nl safety for childhood Sad yoorn T should ever bear in mind that all grounded hopes of true social ratfonal life spring from and hav roots in the culture of pure home: that is strong and enduring grows out of this holy sol lurks the disorder that corrupts soclety and endangers the nation or abide those pure graces which bless and enrich soclety and guarantee national perpetuity. A To-day and always it will be true, as in the days of the First Napoleon, that what the country needs most is mothers. For with home and holy motherhood; with home and noble fatherhood; with home - protected childhood; with home and holy faith enshrined in the hearts of the people who have learned to love home, both church and nation are secure. What- ever militates against the home strikes a death blow at every interest of humanity; whatever strengthens and protects and purifies the home is so much toward the advanée of hu- manity. The best way to accomplish the needful national reforms is to make the homes of our country the schools and nurseries of every Christian grace and virtu One summer afternoon during AR in efther Here either e Clvil War a Southern general sat under a tree with some féllow officers. A shell from a Northern battery suddenly crashed over their heads The officers ned to safer places. One lingered—the others, looking back, saw him stooping to the ground, a@s if he had found something of great value. It was a broken bird's nest; this was the secret. The general was re- placing it with its sacred burden. May God help each of us that we may belp toward repairing some broken home! May we all realize that the surest way to make an ideal home here is to make the heavenly home our flual destination!