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. _Do Not Drink Alcohol Or Form Other Bad Habits_ Drink is the curse of the age, and it has been truly said of it “A man is a fool who will put that in his mouth which will steal his brains.” The habit of drinking intoxicating liquors is not a mere personal vice, it is public and affects every person belonging to or connected with you. Looked at from a business standpoint, it is a destroyer of opportunity, and undermines the most brilliant prospects in life. It leads to moral and physical death. If you hope to win you must not drink intoxicating liquors, it matters not whether you can stand them or not. They will get you finally, besides that, nobody wants a man who drinks. Drink brings on other habits that are destructive of character and opportunity. A man who gambles will drink. Why? Because he knows he is doing something he should not do, and the drink hardens his conscience. The hardening process continues and he forms all sorts of bad habits. The more he forms the more reckless he becomes, then it is a case of “Good night” to everything decent and noble, or worth having. There are few cures to bad habits. They become diseases in the course of time, and fatal diseases, besides encouraging other diseases by reducing the resisting power of the body. There is a preventive to all bad habits, however, and only one—never take your first drink of intoxicating liquor; never gamble for a first stake; never taste the first dose of cocaine to know how it will affect you. In other words: never begin a bad habit and it can not become your master and crowd you out of the companionship of men.