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Show HOME., ' Confidence, faith, love-r-these three things,' developed de-veloped and made permanent in every home, make home-life worthy of the name. Children must have confidence and faith in their parents, and love must be the guiding influence throughout the family fam-ily if joy and peace are to reign therein. The development de-velopment of these virtues is a study Avorthy of most profound thought. Confidence of children is never gained by a practice of deceit by parents. Children naturally trust the father and mother; they, look to them for guidance and advice. Sad, indeed, is the day a boy loses faith in his father a girl loses implicit confidence in her mother. Parents should guard their words and actions with zealous care that their example may have a healthy moral influence over their children. The imitative faculties of children lead them naturally into the path which those about them. make. If the path be in the straight and narrow way, their early life will be a safeguard whose influences will be felt throughout the most stormy career. It is a trite saying that first impressions are lasting, and if it means the first impressions of children in the worlol, then it is most true. If parents par-ents have a great love or a great loathing for something, some-thing, no matter what, the children in the family will grow up with the same unreasoning, unreasonable unrea-sonable feeling toward that subject. It becomes a part of them and will cling like an old superstition in the brain, and may never he actually ffot rid of. i . - . t How important, then, that a child's early impn'-- siou of his parents should be one of trustful confidence, con-fidence, which, with the passing years, will gro into filial love and devotion. j An alarm has been sounded that the home, the ; old-fashioned family life, the privacy, the dignity. , the close and sacred relations of the family an-loosening. an-loosening. However this may be. if true, the loosening loos-ening means a revision to the primal instincts ol man. a decadence of the race, ami a corruption ot j the family and through the ramifications of th-family, th-family, a cancerous growth on the body politic. Xo one may view the increasing businex of the divorce courts, the large apartment houses wher-no wher-no children are- allowed, the alleged "emancipation" "emancipa-tion" of mothers, the niacin of ehildrou in home, and other practices of this kind without feeling in his heart that herein lies the downfall of the nation. na-tion. Repudiating the home is the beginning ot the end. The home should repre-eni the ideal- of ir-possessoi-s. wherein love and happiness reign. I' should be founded on marriage a- laid down i the AlbWise Father. It should stand as a mon- I mnont to your memory, a oered place, virtu-u-. j pure, and God should be the foundation upm. ! which the entire superstructure is reared. |