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union RECORDER, MILLEBCEVILIE, CA., APRIL I*. IfU
Rebuild the Dikes! Or is the
American Home Safe?
(By REV. ELAM F. DEMPSEY)
(Srrnv
of a city of more importances than
the city itself? To ask these ques
tions is to answer them, and the un
avoidable answer contndicts all the
pretentious theories of the apologists
for immorality.”
Experience Jurists Alarmed For The
Home
Upon the witness stiOtd, let us
now put two experienced jurists.
First, we will hear Judge John B.
Hutcheson of the Stone Mountain
Circuit, in his chnrge to the Grand
Jury:—There is the important power
of investigation in your body. You
are called upon to perforin a service
that no other body of citizens in our
government can do but you.
“You see it in the newspapers, and
you hear it in addresses and ser
mons, and in private conversation,—
you hear the people discuat the ills
of the present time, and the seeming
ly disorganized rondtion of the.
country. I do not pose ay a reformer, j w *th
preached by Rev. Elam F.
). D., Presiding Elder of
Oxford District, before tbe Sec-
nJ Quarta/ly Conference of tbe
Mdwsy and Oak Grove charge, nt
Midway church, Hardwick, Ca., Sno-
* y . 7:30 P- n... April 15, »»2B. and
pithed in the Union Recorder,
IliBtdgeville, Ga., by ananimons re-
„,t of the above Quarterly Confer-
.ace-)
—"I know him, that he will
mmand his children and his
household after him, and they
-hall keep the way of the Lord
to do justice and judgment.”—
Gen. 18:19.
"Train up a child in the way
he should go; and when he is
old, he will not depart from it."
—Prov. 22:6.
"Ye fathers, provoke not your
hildren to wrath: but bring them
up in the murture and admoni
tion of the Lord.”—Eph. 6:4.
"And he repaired the altar of I and I can only give my opinion,
the Lord that was broken down.” I believe if I was called upon to pre-
Kings 18:30. scribe for the condition of the coun-
Home Precious To Every Heart j try today, that I would not use sooth-
‘‘Home, there is magic in the Sound | R >' ru P» nor solves, nor liniment.
Said George Foster Pierce, the elo- j ^ would start with constitutional
:u« nt bishop. "Home-keeping hearts j treatment, that would go into the
,r>• happiest," said the gentle sagc.”| hlood and the very vitals of the body
Men seek paradise in starry dome,” politic.
pla
id Browne the dramatint, “but God
•d Heaven on earth and called
ne!” Another writer adds, that
< as Paradise was home to un-
len Adam, even so is home para-
!• t‘* the good among Adam's decend
S.” But it remained for the home-
wanderer, John Howard Payne,
-mg the one supremo hymn of
ne love in his immortal “Home,,
Home”! How
Gentlemen, the place to try to
cure these evils is in the home. The
fathers and the mothers have the
greatest responsibility—more than
the court, the sheriff, or the jurors.
The fathers and the mothers are
the ones who mould the character of
the future citizens. The child of to
day will be the citizen of tomorrow.
“Almost every child that is born
this country has a good home and
words, "Mid pleasures and palaccf affectionate parents,—parents who
trh we may roam, be it ever so Relieve in doing right,—but they do
humble, there’s no place like home.”
Home is a word that vibrates a
rhord in every heart and man’s bert
thought of heaven, the ideal state, is
that it is man’s eternal home.
Home Essential To Tko Nation
j Precious to the individual as is
■he h< me it is no leas precious to the
itself.
of the family is the nation
nted on his threshold, his
‘*mi!y gathered about his hearth-
-ton«. while the evening of .a well
• r,t day closes in scenes and sounds
:h.i! are dearest—he shall save the
fepuhlic when the drum tap is futile
the barracks aro exhausted,” said
hf matchless Henry Woodfin Grady.
"There is but one question; settle
hat and you settle all othem That
luestion is Christianity, and that must
'<■ settled at home. The homes of
h< people are the soul of the na-
lf| n. -such is the emphatic witness
f William E. Gladstone, Prime
of Great Britain.
Th.. inescapable conclusion from
above testimonies is that “more
an anything else, we need a re-
'n! of hearthstone religion."
'* The Americas Home Safa?
In answering this question—a
• st ion whose far reaching import-
<e is seen in the statements just
"Ught forward from scripture and
' m leaders of men—let us put on
witness stand two great preach-
Minii
j] tion of laws of the state. If chil-
1 dren are not controlled in the home,
they wall: right out Into the world to
become law breakers.”
Hooded: A Ravival af Horn# Piotyf
Haw?
These four witnesses assert that
the American home is not-sa^that
it must be improved, that the- dikes
that defend the home from storms
and foes must be rebuilt. For, it is
a light upon the darkening scene,
that the American home has been of
a high type, that family altars have
prevailed in other generations, just
as Elijah on Carmel did not have to
provide an entirely new, but rebuilt
the old altor, so we may rebuild the
Christian home in America, But
how?
Bold, indeed would one be to
speak overconfidently in reply to
this urgent and yet difficult ques
tion. Some answer, however, each
one will give. Let not that answer
he one of indifference, or of shirking
responsibility. Everyone is duty-
bound to do all he can to make and
keep our homes Christian.
Now, of course, no one of us can
do everything that is needed; still,
everyone of us can do something. We
are not required to do what we can
not do, but we arc obligated to do,,
might, what we can do.
Suppose, for example, not to name
any but the Souhtcrn Methodists,
(though the statement, of course,
applies to all other churches, too)
that the 2,500,000 members of that
denomination would cuch do all he oi
she can in this matter, as ought to be
the case, what a powerful impression
would be made for good upon the
entire nation.
So, permit me to make three practi
ca! suggestions ns to how each of
may help make and keep the Amer
ican home, Christian.
First, by player, pray
greatest power man can
greater than eloctricty. It is mightier
than thought. Suppose every night
hearted man and woman, through
out America, offered daily, fervent,
believing, prayer to God for the
home, we can not imagine what it
would' mean in the solution of ths
problem. For one thing, it would
convict of inconsistency everyone so
praying, who was not doing his best,
or hers to make the home in which he
lived, Christian.
Second, by doing ail you can to
form n right public opinion in this
matter. By conversation, at home
and abroad, by letter; by articles In
the press; by public speech,—in
every way that offers, let each of
us be the apostle of hearthstone re
ligion, the advocate of the family al-
angeliht of home piety.
not always realize the full measure of
their responsibility. The home takes
the raw material and turns out the
citizen of tomorrow.
“A great many boys are brought
into court that are not so much to
blame for their condtion as their
parents. Some of them have never
had a fair chance, but the law can
not let them go free on that account,
declared Martin Luther. “The! There are lnan >' b °y* that haVe »?° ne
riding in the doorway of his to the penetentiary when their fath
ers and mothers were directly re
sponsible.
“I was shown (at our Georgia
Training-School, near Milledgcville) j Public opinion is just the coalescing
a number of files, giving the history
of the boys, and the surroundings in
the homes from which they came.
Over seventyfive per cent of those
boys had not had good surroundings.
Their fathers and mothers did not
belong to or attend any church; they
did not go to Sunday School. In
other words, the home was not con
ducted as you good people believe it
oupht to be conducted. I do not say
that the home alone can always save
them, but a good Christian home is
the greatest power today in the de
velopment of character. Sta*-* with
them in the home, and just such
boys and girls as are turned out
from the homes, just such citizens
will they be.”
Another Georgia Jurist, Judge
John D. Humphries, of the Fulton
county Superior Court adds his
weighty testimony: “I have said on
many occasion;* that, so far as I can
recfcll, no young person has ever
come into my court charged with
crime who had not first wandered
away frem parental control. Re
bellion in the home leads to viola-
F,r -«. We will usk Dr. T. DeWitt
•i mailgp what he thinks of the home
•'Ti'l hoj-cpublic:—This great metro-
P'lium minister declare*, “The
• ■ ultured in the family circle
ar *’ an absolute necessity for the
If there be not enough moral
pnncif.it. tr> make the family coherse,
f cr * "ill not be enough political
pnncifi!.. ,, make the state coherse.
? * b,rm that upsets the ship in
•' '‘h the family sails will sink the
•rigate of the constitution. The door
,n<> * ,o me is the best fortress, no
° n, “~~no republic.”
'•i'h-.p Warren A. Candler, out
s u»mling Southern Minister, writing
'•-.ring the World Wnr, speaks this:
I' 't is not safe for the nation
Lave drunkenmen and licentious
among its soldiers and sailors,
,s riot safe for these immoralities
prevail among the citizens of the
■non. What is dangerous in war
■' ust he hurtful in peace. Are not the
‘•utios of peace as sound and import-
as the obligations of war? Does
n°t the home need as much protec-
J° n ^ rom immorality an the canton-
aunt? i s the camp in the suburbs
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into one of millions of private opin
ions, and, in America, public opinion
is King. Let us sway thin King’s
sceptre in favor of a Christian home
for every American citizen.
Third, by cherishing the memory
of our own Christian homes. Alas, for
him who has no such memory and
shame upon him who, having it, never
muses upon it-
Herc is an example of how one
man of genius let memory make him
holier and gentler. The incident is
as redolent of home religion as the
wild woods are of spring blossoms.
Harry Stillwell Edwards in recent
number of his “Coming Dwon My
Creek,” gives a po^ .• account of a
day of musing spent in the spring
woods, after describing natural sights
and sounds, he thus delicately weaves
in the ognant thread of heart
memory:
“My little girl, she slept and slipped
away
Through the radiance of a spring
sunrise
To her old home in Paradise.
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Her hair was brown, her eyes the
softess gray,
l see her here beside me in the woods
today.
Here, with face uplifted and smile
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And fairert gift that reborn spring
And love, and wakened memory bring
Her little hand in mine.
Shadowy leaves on a shadowy screen;
Shadowy clouds that drift between;
Shadowy bird that hurries along
Blending echoes of far sweet songJ
But fairness of all, a little white hand
Out of the shadowy mystery land.”
Ah, me! my friend^ because of
Christian homes, and because too, of
the Christian’« resurrection hope, how
many there are who know the purify
ing ministry of the “little white hand
out of the shadowy mystery land.”
Such a memory of a Christian home
here below is a white angel to guard
us from things that defile and to
guide us to that Heaven that is our
eternal Home. Blessed is he who has
such a memory! Thrice blessed thoye
who bestow this memory upon other
hearts! withered be the hand and
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The fairest rainbow to me, a sure
basis of hope that our American
family life will not be destroyed by
a flood of evil breaking down our
sheltering dikes, is that rainbow
about t%* family fireside. That
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one cad and mother at the other,—
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