DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR PARENTS OR YOUR FAMILY
Every man is judged by his home life.
What kind of a son are you? In answering this question which will be asked to determine your character, the only answer possible to insure favorable consideration is “a good son.”
The home life of the nation and of the race is vital. If you are a home preserver or a home builder, your station in life is assured.
To sum up the requirements you should stand upon the platform open to the eyes of all men as a good son, faithful brother, kind father, helpful friend, and a good citizen. It is not difficult. Such virtues come to be a habit if practiced faithfully.
It is easier to be all these than to be vicious, and wrong with your parents, family, and relatives.
“Honor thy father and thy mother that the days may be long in the land which I will give thee.”
Something of a promise, is it not? It is a promise that has been strictly kept since the world began.
Your mother suffered for you; your father struggled for you, and you can not repay them with ingratitude. You may be higher than they, better educated, more of a social ornament, but you are theirs, and only the vain, foolish and wicked would neglect them.
It does not pay to treat them with contumely and scorn because they do not make the same fine appearance you do. There is no man or woman on this earth of higher social value to you than your parents.
If you are a man of family, remember that you are building up a posterity. You have fulfilled a noble mission, the greatest on earth. They owe you something, but the indebtedness is mutual, you owe them much.