San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 103, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 12, 1895 Page: 2 of 8
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The Great Republican Daily of Texas
PUBLISHING CO.
No. East Commerce St.
OFFICERS LIGHT PUB. CO.
Pn-sident and Manager T. B. JoHxaox
Vice-President W. S. Messmkb
Becretaa-J H C. Schtmacheb
Superintendent A Director W. T.Schvmacheb
Treasurer T. B. Jonxsox
Entered at the Post Office at San Antonio
Texas as Second Class Mail Matter.
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SUNDAY MAY 12 1895
There may be lots of fun in mak-
ing money but there is more in
spending it. So there is great en-
joyment in receiving kindness at
the'hands of others but not half so
much as in furnishing the stock of
kindness yourself.
The man who daily sits in intel-
ligent judgment on himself seldom
requires any one else to sit in
judgment on him. He is his own
judge jury accuser and witness.
When he acquits himself there is
no need of another condemning
him.
There is genuine fun and sad-
ness as well in watching one of
these billions eons of sanctimony
wrapping himself in his robe of
self-righteousness just like a
hedgehog rolled up the wrong way
tormenting himself with his
prickles.
Sam Jones seems to think that
the best way to catch a sinner is to
bait his hook with a chunk of hell
Are. You might as well angle
for a mad bull with a red rag.
Sam wants to read up on what the
Nazarine taught him in the fish-
ing business.
There are as many different
roads out of this world as there are
different people in it and yet some
people seem to think that there is
but one way out and that is by
their back door. Take a straight
road through the world and it will
carry you straight out of it.
There are a good many people
who are like the preacher who
having announced bis subject as
the “World the Flesh and the
Devjl” remarked “Brethren and
Sisters I will pass rapidly through
the world touch lightly upon the
flesh and proceed directly to the
devil.”
There are dead loads of sham
charity in the world the kind that
pockets fifty per cent for itself
pays forty-four per cent in ex-
penses and pays six per cent to the
objects of charity for instance.
This is not a charity that covers a
multitude of sins but it has dead
loads of fun at public cost.
The man or woman who is driven
into heaven in order to escape hell
would be as lonesome walking the
golden streets as an Egyptian
mummy suddenly restored to life
would be in the strangeness of
London and New York. Such an
inhabitant of heaven would ask for
a seat in hell as a special favor.
To hear the confessions of sin
that some people make in their
nightly prayers would make an
honest man afraid to sleep with
them if he did not know that they
were trying to run in a bluff on
the answerer of the prayer. Take
them at their word and they
would be mad as the mischief.
The sun shines just as brightly
and the trees are just as green and
the birds sing just as sweetly and
the river runs just as joyously to
the sea on Sunday as on any other
day. This teaches us that there is
no embargo placed on the enjoy-
ment c! the woods and the fields
and the groves and the streams
and all the pleasure of nature on
this day of rest any more than on
any other day.
The religion that saddles the
consequence of a man’s daily trans-
actions on his own shoulders and
gives him no scape-goat in the
shape of a savior to die for him
may not be as popular as the old
kind bnt it makes a heap honester
citizen. The fellow who thinks that
he can run up a hill with the devil
all his life time and then cheat
him out of it when it comes paying
time has no incentive to honesty*.
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS.
“The Home School*’ is again the
theme of the morning’s discourse.
The school having been considered
and the fitness of the teachers for
their work the instructions to be
given follow next. If as already
set forth love is the great quali-
fier for the work of teaching then
love is to be the first thing taught.
Perfect love casteth out fear.
Fear is the last thing that should
be taught in any home. It only
numbs the sensibilities and
frightens the little soul out of it-
self. Love casts out fear and fear
is the incarnate devil of home.
Love casts out fear and gives con-
fidence. Out of confidence trust is
born. Trust is the foundation of
all true obedience. This is the first
work; to teach love so that fear
will have no place; fear displaced
confidence is established; confid-
ence breeds trust the only true
foundation on which obedience
rests.
You cannot fool dogs and little
children. They have an instinc-
tive confidence in that which is
worth it and an instinctive dis-
trust of the unreal. If as husband
you are not sound at core your
wife may not find it out but if as
father you are not sound at heart
the little ones will discover it. If
you as parents truly love your
little ones and are sound at root
they will not miss it. They will
take you for what you are. Your
love will beget theirs and your
genuineness will engender con-
fidence. To your little ones you
are always the first. To them you
are their first objects of worship
their first objects of reverencetheir
refuge and defence and instruction.
There was a deep sense of the fit-
ness and necessity of things in
those old heathens who made pa-
rental love and reverence their re-
ligion. Out of this grew the wor-
ship of one’s ancestors. Unnatural
and low in the scale as we deem it
it is natural.
This confidence in father and
mother comes as natural to the
child as its breath. Just as it takes
its nourishment from mother’s
breast so will it take its truth
from mother’s lips. All that you
tell the little ears they drink in
and believe. They will always do
this until you teach them other-
wise. You cannot continue the
little one’s confidence in you with-
out you are truthful. You must be
uniformly so. What you are to
the child today you must be to-
morrow or you will confuse its
mind and disturb its trust and
make it suspicious. Not that your
instructions will not take a wider
range but they will be true to
what the child has already under-
stood. If you have taught your
child to be certain in its little
mind that what father and mother
say is so because they say so you
have laid the foundation for all
after instruction. They will na-
turally believe this at the first but
what is necessary is to have them
believe it upon the testimony of
their own little experiences. When
this is accomplished you have
made marked progress.
When father’s word is taken as
truth and mother’s say so for gos-
pel then obedience comes in as
naturally as light and air when
the doors are opened to the sun. No
boy was ever made truthful by be-
ing told that all liars have their
portion in the lake that burns with
fire and brimstone. Girls are made
liars by the white lies that they
hear mother tell and boys are
made untruthful by the black lies
and big yarns that father tells. If
your children trust you and they
cannot unless you tell the truth
they will do as y*ou ask them.
They will do this because they do
trust you. Obedience is the natur-
al fruit of confidence. As grown
up boys and girls we follow in the
path of those other grown up boys
and girls whom we have confidence
in. Man is an imitative creature.
As your child confides in you so it
imitates you. It does what it sees
you do. If you ask it to do what
you do it obeys without question.
It becomes obedient. This is a
great lesson. After this is fully
mastered and obedience has be-
come habitual all else is easy.
As your children grow in their
confidence and have little tales of
their own to tell they will come to
you with them. The natural cus-
todian of all a child’s cares and
troubles and pleasures and uncer-
tainties Is mother and father.
There must be no division in the
camp of parental counsel or the
house becomes divided against it-
self and will not stand. Confidence
in you naturally leads to a confid-
ing to you all that is in the child-
heart and mind. It is your own
fault if that confidence is ever
withdrawn. Take it for granted
that your child is not a fool and
trust it as a reasoning sentient
thing. Remember that it has its
likes and dislikes- and that these
are as much entitled to considera-
tion as your own. Treat them
with such consideration as shows
that you respect them and they
will grow to respect themselves. A
child that respects itself is never
disrespectful to others. Here you
enlarge the foundation on which
the child builds its character.
These are no mean education in
themselves; loveconfidence trust
obedience. The child that has
learned these in the home will not
readily unlearn thorn when the
home school closes. Important as
these are they may all be learned
before the child has lisped an in-
telligible syllable. Add to a good
prenatal endowment such an early
foundation as this and is not the
little one faced favorably towards
its future? That these lessons will
be more deeply impressed on the
child’s attention as that attention
is developed through observation
is of course expected but no after
instruction can take the place of
these first unconscious years.
Blessed is that home in w’hich
these first years have been so im-
proved that love and confidence
and trust and truth and obedience
are the first fruits of this parental
sowing in the home school.
How* many homes are there in
this beautiful city this blessed May
morn in which these plants are
flourishing in the garden of your
children’s lives? These are the
homes in which the sun really
shines; upon which the precious
dew of all sweetness falls; where
pure peace and happiness brood in
glad content and earth holds all
the heaven that it has title to. It
is certainly worth working for to
secure such a home heaven as this.
The gifts of earth are sweet and
the pleasures that are bought with
money are not to be despised but
the enduring pleasure and the in-
corruptible riches of a home life
like this are notcomputible in dol-
lars and cents. Beloved! If you
love your little ones whom you
have dowered with flesh then
dower them with the enduring
riches of character. Be yourself
noble in all inner things that in
like nobility your children may
pattern after you. Be in yourself
as parents all that you would
make them and they will grow un-
consciously into your image and
likeness. This is at once the penal-
ty and pleasure ol true parentage.
Who shall set limits to a home
influence that is grounded in these
love trust truth confidence
obedience and true self respect. Do
well and wisely your work in this
primary department of the child’s
school and you will have little to
fear when it goes out into the ether
schools of life. Carry with you
this Sunday the sunlight of this
sermon and remember that
the Light pulpit in not ordained
to preach smooth things but only
the truth. These things are true.
If there be any virtue and any
praise in good think on these
things. This sermon also is ended.
Dean Swift once spoke of a man
who could takeoff his flesh and sit
in his bones. If a man could take
off his flesh and see his soul how
many would recognize themselves.
This is the reason so many are
afraid of death. They think when
their flesh is shu filled off there
won’t be enough of them for a sign
board of what they were.
The boys make a big mistake
when they think that they can
give the girls points. The average
girl will lead the average boy a
year by the nose before he suspects
it. Boys are always puzzled to
know what the girls are up to but
the girls know what the boys mean
every* time. They are built that
way.
Pay your debts to your fellows
in all things; in cash goodwill
helpfulness sympathy charity
and all else and there will not be
much inquiry as to what you owe
God in the day of debt paying.
It is a long way to heaven but
earth and home are close. Let
your charity begin at the nearest
point.
There is a world wide difference
between the women who turn their
fruits into pickles and those who
turn theirs into preserves. It costs
about tbd same one way as the
other bdt the difference O my I
From the way in which some
Christians regard the Sabbath one
would suppose that the maker of
days had a special grudge at the
day that comes between Saturday
and Monday.
The man who is honest in his
business just to the extent of keep-
ing out of the clutches of the law
is just as honest as the fellow is
religious who is only religious
enough to keep himself out of hell.
There is something essentially
rotton with a man’s religion when
his neighbors are afraid to trade
horses with him without witnesses.
He is an infernally mean manor
woman who grudges little children
their enjoyment in this world.
Every wise mother and teachable
learns more from the children
than the children learn from her.
Be pure and it does not matter so
much about the pious.
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.
Written for the Light.
The oldest political stagers and
prophets are the most astounded
of all men when a popular earth-
quake shakes up and shakes down
parties and politicians.
The result of the presidential
election of 1888 was unexpected by
the Democrats and also by the
majority of the Republicans. It
indicated a very great change in
popular sentiment of the Union
from 1884.
But the result of the election in
1892 was still more unforeseen and
unexpected. The Republicans at-
tributed the election of Harrison
in 1888 to the popular condemna-
tion of Cleveland’s anti-protection
utterance and hastened to enact
the McKinley bill which was high-
ly protective but in 1892 greatly
to their surprise Cleveland was
elected by a sort of tidal wave in
spite of the McKinley bill.
A still greater surprise is in store
for political prophets and old stag-
ers in 1896. Old party ties have
been loosened generally and
snapped in twain in many instan-
ces.
The opinion has been gaining
ground among the masses that
too much cost has been paid to
manufacturers and the gold bug
squad and that the concessions
made to these two classess by
Congress have been at the expense
of sacrifice of the interest and wel-
fare of a very large majority of the
people.
This sentiment has become uni-
fied in the minds of the people
and it will bear fruit in 1896. Pro-
tection has lost ground and palled
on the people. There has been a
revulsion of popular sentiment on
the coinage of silver. The people
have snapped the leading strings
by which politicians managed
them in past years and thrown off
their party blinkers and have been
doing a good deal of thinking on
their own hook.
Bimetalism has always been
dear to the people. They have
been used to it all their lives.
They never were in favor of mono-
metalism nor are they content to
allow England and other Euro-
pean nations to dictate our finan-
cial policy.
The leaders of the two old parties
have ignored these changes in pop-
ular sentiment and fancied they
could continue to hoodwink and
lead the masses. Silver coinage is
daily gaining strength in every
state in the Union. The people
ascribe low prices and congested
trade to the legislation against sil-
ver and the practical adoption of
gold as the sole standard of value.
Three-fourths of the Democratic
and Republican parties are for bi-
metalism and are determined to
vote so as to obtain it. No more
straddling and two-faced platforms
will be tolerated.
The Populists have lost ground.
Their platform is too visionary for
reflecting men. The people are op-
posed to paternalism. Half of the
Populists in 1896 will cut loose
from that party and vote with the
silver party. The Democrats and
the Republicans will do so too.
Care of a Bird Dog.
Written for the Light.
Feed your own dog; don’t leave
that for your neighbor to do.
Use coconut oil soap and leave
the lather on for about one hour;
then let him swim or wash him off
with clean water. Do this once a
week and you wont be troubled
with fleas.
The dog being a carnivorous
animal meat is his proper food
and if fed properly and but once at
night giving them all they want
they will thrive. Whoever saw a
butcher’s dog that was lean?
Owners of dogs should remem-
ber that salt is as essential to an
animal as to the human being and
it should be given with their meat
when being fed.
Raise your kennel at least a foot
from the ground in summer and
take out all hay or straw leaving
a clean bright floor for them to
lay on. This is cool and healthy.
Proper exorcise and plenty of it
at the right time will keep a dog
in better condition than all the
medicine you can buy.
In the treatment of canker of
the ear so common with bird dogs
in this climate daily running will
do more toward healing the dial
ease than lotions. Cleanliness
of course recommended.
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