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There ia no place on earth so eacred or bo dear. It is there the weary workers, and the sad-hearted, fiod rest and comfort, protection and peace. To all good and virtuous psopie the word home <8 a charm and an inspiration. Wherever a man roams he never forgets this one eacred spot. The heart of the travellers ia distant lands, the missionary ia the wilds of an African desert, and the tennpest- tossed manner on the sea, always in times of diiBculty and danger turns tike the needle to the pole— toward home. That one spot has always the uppermost and the warmest place in his heart of hearts. A^ be paces the deck of his ship ou a cold, eiormy night, he thinks less of either the ship or himself than he does of those dear ones he has left behind him at home. And when the ship arrives safely in port be singe with all his heart, — ■'Homo again, Home again, from a foreign shore. It fills my heart with Joy, to meet my fr;encl8 onoe more." The love of home is a strong and uni- versal sentiment, deeply graven in the human heart Even the ladian savai^eand the Hottentot has bis wigwam and bis but, which although a bushranger and hunter, iH his home, and which to bim is dearei than any other spot. THE DIVINE CREATOR hai implanted this sacred feeling in everv heart, in common with other creatures who build houses, adapted to their nature and habits. i'he human family home was duubtles? insti- tuted to serve important moral purpo es in connection with the divine goverument of nation^;. Ia proportion as a man rises iu character and religious refinement, be will emleavor to improve and biuutify bis home. And as a mau get^ down in char- acter and selt respect he will ne^lecc his home and h'n family will euffer. It is the same with WOMEN. Home is a mirror which reflects ch^r* acterbeit good or oad. Sbo>v me tbe home of a man or woman and I will tell you what sort of HtuflF they are made of. On the other hand a man's character and happiness depend much upon the char- acter of hi4 home, and the habits aud tem- per of hi4 wife. Let the storms of life beat never so violently without, if a man bus a pleasant cheerful ho.ne and a good tempererd wife who meets him with a smile when he retains from the toil and trials of tbe day, he can bid defiance to the rmJest blasts, fur such a home will give bim a safe ani sure retreat from every storm of life. His home is bis castle, there be is safe and happy, especially if there are little ones grooving up as olive plants around bis t^ible. Whatever a man's circumstances, be he as rich as a Jew, if be has uo home, or if his home b? cold and cheerless aud made more so by a scolding, gossiping wife, he on hardly be either eood or happy. He has no retreat, no qmet-rest- iug plaue in life's journey, no soft pillow OB which to rest his often weary head, and consequently he sometimes feels as if life were hardly worth living. The rich may find a t jierably good suhslituta for home, for "money answereth all things," but the workiogman must find bis home in the beitrt And bosom of his wife and family, and every one in a nc )v country and city liketh'S shoulit, if possible, live in hia own cottage and "sit under bis own vine and fi(5 tree." No one needs our pity more than a man without a borne. It la said by a certain 59088 OUll CITY HOMElS. writer, when speaking of Niipileon I., thai probibly one of the chief ciU'^es of hn tiecouiing an ambitious military adi^eatur- er, waa tuat he w^s never dotBeHticiiiy happy, — never had a happy home Cold and cruel because he never knew and (elt the mdlowiDi; aad cheering luda nee of a '•eiweet home." Home more than any other agency developed and manifests the innate eympathieH and fi ler fei^liog't of our nature. Who among us han not oeea the rough, strong man uh eweet and gentle as a child among bia little ones at horn . ? To me one of the most pleasant thiog-i to beneen in our city, eepecuily in tbe cold Beisoo, is to take a walk along tbe streetn between six and eight o'clock in the evening, and see the well lighted roorns witli the table set and the family seate I around it, partaking of tbe " cup tha* cheert*, but not inebriates," peeping into the evening papers, or chat- ting over ttie events of tbe day. Such pleasant evmiog scenes have often re- minded me of whiit probably were the sad feelings of the author of " 8weet Hjme," when be wrote that beautiful poem. He had no home, and hid j Ht observed euah a t'Cene as I bave sow aescribed, when he retired into some corner and wrote — Home, sweet home, There In no pUce like home ; Be it ever so humble, Ihere Is no place like home. However bumble a man's home may be, to him it is the sweetest spot of earth. The family ia a DIVINE INSTITDriON. '•God has placed the solitary in families." " He is the God of all the tamiliea cf th"! earth," He has given laws f jr their regu- lation and well being. These laws are ie- sigued to promote and perpetuate purity, love and goud order. If obeyed, they bring peace and prosperity ; if disobeyed, die- order and punishment. WORK AND WAGES. Erery man should have "a fair day's wages for a fair day's work," and every man ban a perfect right to sell his labor and skill in the highest market His labor is bis capital, and he has a rizbt to put it where it is safest and where he can get the hi|he han icer fjr her ".he neares*. herring and th the excuse ache all fore-< Kcuse her th^". 8 belter, ■•.i , fearing thac le than a red k'ternoon very ing and ie out ebe returns, a the tea pot, and boxes t they are tbe V in her life, nbibed eome- hu9, diy afcer being pretty all is disorder, d URE, very common >icture of real sed men and '8 are driven their evenings ich are more ler will endea- i-ECTURE. vor to make her house as lilr and attrac- tive as posHibie, ao that she may induce her husband to upend his evenings at home, as he shouU, with his wife and children, when he conveniently can. But the fault is not always on the 8ide of the wite. Sometimes It is all the other wav. Both would do well to remember the old saying "A good Jack makes a good O II, andago}d Gil! makes a g>oJ Jack." Much depends upon both Jack and Gil', whfttier their home is happy or mis- erable. Another important matter is ECONOMY. The cultivation of habits of economy will contribute much toward the comfort and happiness of home. What a man earns by the "sweat of his face," should be expended carefully in the cheapest and bf8t market. Some wive^ will make a dol- lar go a great way further than others. Some spend money needlessly and without care'ui thought, and they are surprised that their purse gets empty so soon, while others never spend a cent until it is really necessary, as they know that money is mnch easier spent than earned. As a rule women know ho»v to spfind it bet- ter than men. There should never be two separate purses. The husband and wife should have only one interest, one aim, one heart and one purse. Separate interests rarely fail to create acrimony, covetnets Everything should board, " waste not, and domestic strife, be open and above want not" is a good MOTTO, and every working man should trv to save up for a rainy day, f jr such days 'come to all. Ic ia a good thing to have a friend in your pocket, for as the Scriptures say, •' alversity trieth friends," that id huma , friends, for -vhen you need them most they often fjrrake vou, but, as " Poor R chard" says " when I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good morrow" The husband is the divinely appointed HEAD OP THE HOME. I know that some strong minded women dispute this, but it is true nevertheless. A quaint old writer has said that " the woman was made out of tke rib from the Bide of the man, and not out of nead to top him, not out ot his feet to trample upon, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to b« protected by him, and near his heart to b") loved b" him." She owes iier high position to that Bjok which teaches her ihit she is not to usurp over the man. There is a Bp°cific place f)r her ia the iiome and in the family. She ha^ her own sppcial dometic duties marked out, and no good can ever come from her changing places with the man. They have a mulml in- terest in the well being of the family. They are •• one flesh,'' and whatever injures one will injure the other. Both Rhouljppleat pair, Will ami occuNloa ti forbear, AnUsimethl UK every U ly tli«yllve, lo pass along, and perliupi lorKlve." SANITATION. On this important matter relating to our home life, it has been my custom to deliver an annual address, which, I believe, has not been without some go >d effect, for in some known cases heelih bus been greatly improvad, and possibly some live:) have been saved, and much sorrow prevented. I now repeat my form^ counsels. The lime will agaiu Hoon be here when many of our citizens will •« move," and some who now listen to me will te looking out for new homes. L-t me say then : Avoid all Hwarapy localities, narrow crowd- d streets and lari*8, and closely crowded yards. Se- lect, if possible, a house on high ground, fronting scuth or eouth-we-t. See that the street is well sewered and the house well drained. Much practical aiiention is now being given to this feature of sanitation in this aud many other cities. Other things being equal, those cities anl houses that titi the best sewered and drained will have I he lowest death rate and the best health. We, none of us, can get all we wieh with OUR CITY HOMES. regard to the choice of locality, bouse and drainage, but W3 cud ~!1 keep these iu»ii- terd iu miod when luoving to anew locaiily or boutte. Ghooae a bouse where you cin get pleoty of light and aoNsniNE, for DO houfle can be healthy in which the BUD does not ohiue. No pliot can grow without punligbt, oeitber will a treo bear fruit to perfection, nor a fljwer blo3m in a Bhad^ UDventilated room. So with human plaois aiid fi)werf>, they often wither and die in our city homes from sheer want of Bunebine. Tue cultivation of window plants and ii )wera, and tne hod^s of a canary bird, will niaKe home all the sweeter. PROPKB VENTILATION. Pure air ih au neceijuary tu health and comfort, as pure food or pure water, and yet buudredf, perhaps thousands, of our citizens, pay little or no aitentiou Vj it. Prom fall lo spring you will fiad ih*ir doors and windows closed against the ad- mission of pure air, or any air at all, from outside, as if against a thief who would eteal their clothes. F^ir better have clothes stolen than their uealtb. For months they are inhaling the same noxious air, that has pasHed through their lungs a thousand times. No wonder that we have a bigu death rate, which is caused cbieti/ b^ the death of young children, and which is a disgrace and a shame to ufi. Of course there are other causes, BucU as a very imperfect eewersysem, defective drainage aud some thousands ot •tiuhy cisppiis, which chifflv affiot the health of itie poor. By thene tbiug) the rt-putatiou ot our city suffers, while in otner respects it is one of the healthiest and most beautiful c ties on the continent. Meanwbile let us do our best to make our homei as sweet nnd healtliy as pofstble, 'by constant cleanliness and ventilation. Sydney Smith when visiting bis friends us^d to say, glorify the room, open the bhutters, up with the blinds, let iu the wuu- ligbt and glorify the roim. QjoJ aovice. But great mistakes^ wefear, are Homeiimes made in our schools and home'', by letting in a rush of cold air up)a the children, when thev ara overheated by the previous warm tsmp^rature of the room. Serious consequences have been known to result from this. We may overdo anything, and it should be rememberel that in all schools there are almost alwiys children in a delicate state of health. Much care is needed in regard to the proper manner and time chosen to ventilate the school-room and the bouse, or much barm may be done to the health of those inside. I know well that many refuse or neglect to venlilate f)r economical reasons, beciiUHe, as they say, it keeps the bouse warm and saves fuel. But much more than ibis is often lo'-t in the languor, sickness and bereavements which comeaaa consequence, to say nothing of d ictorn' bills. Theretore, it actually pays belter to venti- late prudently oar city b >mes and schools. CLEANLINESS. There is a good deal of truth in the old proverb, " Cle»nlinees is next to go llinees." A dirty Christian or a dirty Christian home would be a spiritual curiosity. 8uch a tiling could hardly be, for true religion never fails to improve a man in all the re'ations of life. Ic cleanses and purines him in-ide and out. If you show me a dirty home, I will vouch for it that the woman who lives there has much yet to learn of the fir-t duties of a Christian llf^ The man who said tb^t " God looks at the heart, and his heart was so clean that it aiJu't matter much whether hia house and bands and face were cluan or not, " wasn't much of a Christian. You may be sure that if there is no religion in cleanli- ness there can be none in dirt. A clean, tidy, cheerful home is genrrilly a heiilthy one, and an unclean home is generally an unhealthy on«>. Cleanliness makes all the difference. Plenty of paint, whiieW'isb, soap aud water are good, he)i.i.; 'things in a hoube— the more the bet. a. THE WATER TAX. He was sorry to learn that the water had been shut off from four thousand homes, as that meant an increase of dirt, misery, sickness and death chiefly in the homes of the po >r. Doubtless some de- served to be deprived of water; pissibly out cf four thousand there might oe some — say one thousand — whoare dissipated or dishouest aud will not pay, but then you have three thousand left, perhaps many of th m widows, aged and infirm persons, and some out of employment, who would gladly pay if they could. Was it then politic or just, or humane to deprive such of our citizens of that which is so essential to health and life? We are assured that the needs of the eiuk have been kindly considered, but thki — L 1 rejjaril to fue choHen to Dd tbe bouse, to the bealtb ell that naaoj f>rec(}DOiDioal y, it keep^ the But much the languor, hich come 88 a if d ictorn' bills. better to veoii- iH aud HcbooUi nth in tbe oM t tOKOIliaesH." jhristian home sity. Such a true rfligioQ oaa io all the 68 and purides u show me a )r it that tbe \% much yot to \ ChrUtian lif». od looks at the i) ulean ttiat u ' bia bouse and lean or not, " You may be rioD io cleaoli- irt. lue is gcDfrilly 3lean borne is p. GleaDlioeBS 'lenty of paint, ter are good, -the more tbe X. that tbe water four tbousaud icrease of dirt, 1 chiefly in the )tle88 Bome de- waier; p)88ibly might oe some re diBnipated or y, but tlien you erhapB many of iufirin persons, ant, wbo would Was it then to deprive euch bat whicb is and life? We leeds of tbe iidered, but thht LECTUHE. I* not sufficient. I bdifve that it Is stry difRcult to know what is tbe b'st ihii g to do uudrr the circumstancps. But an the matter stands it setmn to me to be unwise, if not cruel and wicked, to cut < If the water, enpecialiy at tbiw seanon of the year, from so many of the homes (if the poor. I have often eeen the grevious con- sequences of this utiwise iKilicy, and hope that a remedy will ^con be found. I bt- iieve collectii g th" tax hII in one »\im is a mi»tske,af) many find it almost impopsible to scrape it together. It is very difficult for some of our "city fathers" to realize this. I am strorgly inclined to tbii k that the only remedy in to levy the tax upon property, and collect it from the landlords, who can ouar^ie by adding it to tbe rent, which id generally {^aid monthly. 0E1UDR£K, There are children in most homes, and when they are well behaved and healthy they contribute no liUle to make the home sweet am) lively. " Children are an herit- age from the Lord," thev sre His "little ones/' "the lambs of His flock," and therefore should be carefully trained and Kindly carfd for. Eirly and prompt obedience should be one of the flrni lesions in B child's life. " As the t-vig is bent the tree's inclined." You may bend the young twig and cause it, to grow almost in anv ehapeor form you like, but if you leave it anhile you will And that itiHstifi'and strong, and will resist all your attempts to bend or train it iu«o any shape. It is so with a child. Nature is full of use- ful lessons if we will only ODen our eyes. There is a verv common and serious mistake made by fathers aud motLers in training their children. So*ne mothers leave all the chastisement to be done by tbe father, but if he attempt to use tbe rod himself she will take sides with the child, and thus fruptrate the purpose of the father in inflicting the punishment. They should always be of one mind, and the rod should never be used in anger, but in love and for the improvemsnt of the child . Almost everything with regard to a chill's future depends upon its early training and the example of its parents at home. Tbe character and comfort of home depends n}Uob upon the behavior of Ibr ess, Chribtlik*'neBe, that ia religion, pure and undefiled. Christ should r< ign in our hearts, and then he will reign in our homes. A home without religion ia like a bouse without a roof, there is no proteetion from ihe tempests and trials of life. Nothing can make up for the absence of religion. It is the "one thing needful." A home may be every, thing that wealth an 1 refinement can make it, but if piety be not there there can be no solid peace, no sweet repose, euch as Christ alone can give. Have we not seen homes of this kind, only lacking this one thing? On the other hand, a home may be never 'ho humble and obscure but if true religion and Christ be there, it will be in the bt&t and highest sense asweet and happy home. We have seen and known euch homes, and we have had eweet fellowship with those in them who could truly say, "I have learned in whatsoever sUikt I bu, therewith to be content." "The Liril liieds'^tb the bp.bitation of the just." •• Gudliu^ggf v/ub ocBtentnaeQt ii great £3J0." 8 OUR CITY HOMES. THE tND. I have »pok«n of the itnporUnoe of giv- ing altentioQ to oleaD!ine^8, oMer, «ood- omy, sobriety, eanitaiion, ventilation, the piopfr iraiDioK of childrea and religion, aa thini;H oaloultted to make our homes both healthy and happy. If you will give them the aitention which their importance demands, you will gain much with regard to the life present and the iif« to come. l>ur home life htre IS designed to fit us for <» better home above, vhere there will ^e neither sickness nor death, and where Qod will wipe away all tears from our eyes. He concluded by Hayinii that if any apology werj necessary for addressing them so plainly on that oo- caeion on a sulject so vital to health and life, It must ba hia long servic* in i'viait- ing from housa to house,'" in order to make their homes more "eweafand healthy and happy. As oitizena in this regard, we own • duty to every other o'tizen, and especially lo tho»e residinsc near us, " for no man liveth to himself." If e7ery citizen doea his best to k'^ p his own hoax sweet and healthy, then we shall have a, healthier city, a lower death rate, and a belter repu- tation. At this time, after we have tiuffeied so much, Montreal expects evttj man (and woman too) to do his duty. Sweet the Home, when Ood Is there, And love Alls every breu<tlrt^n»»aA3 ioa in '.'vitit- rderto m»ke I healtbj ftnd J, we ow« m Dil e«peoikIly for DO mun oitizBD doe« I sweet *od ) a healthier \ beder repu- bavexufleied every mtn ty. Iiere, their prftjrer,