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THE DAILY HERALD, IaTTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1887.
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lication f l)r. Tiiliii.ipiH w-rmojiH in le
ynd parallel. iSe.-.ide the English KK-;ik-i.i
- n: lioin, i:i 'ii(iiji Australia and New
V.land, th- : i tnoiis are regularly trans
li!c! int larema;cs of Cermany,
F ranee, Iialy, lnmark, Norway, IIus
i i and India. The K'"tlemen having in
charge the publication of these Kcrnions
inform in in tin's country, every
week, l:;. ,)(, i,) copies of tho entire
M inion are printed, and about 4,000,
00!) i'i other lambs, making over 17,
0'J').0t)0 er week. A similar arrange
ment a now l;ci;i made for the publica
tion of J Jr. linage's i'ridav evening
talks.
The mibj t of the uernion to-day was
1'arental i'.lueders," and the text was
I Saiiiwl iv, ls: "lie fdl from off tho
Heat I Kiel: ward by the hide of tlie Kale,
and his neck brake, an'l lie died: for ho
was ;.n old man, and heavy." Dr. TaJ
ia:i:;e k.i id:
This is the end of a i titory of. pa
rental neglect. Jude Eli was a good
man, hut he let his two lxiys, Ilophni
and I'hinehas, do as they pleased, and
through over indulgence they went to
ruin. The Mind old judge, L'8 years of
age, is ideated at the gate waiting for the
news of an important hat tie in which his
two sons were at tho front. An express
is coming with tidings from the hattle.
This blind iioriogenari-iii puts his hand
In hind his ear and li.stens and cries:
What CM'aiK-tii the 110i.se of this
tumult?"' An excited ineM'iigor, all out
of breath with the fiei-d, said to him:
Our army i ; d feated. The Kieii-d
c-het, ,-:!! - 1 I he ark, is captured, and
your win j are dead on the Held." No
wonder tin" father fainted and expired.
The tloiiu :-.. ie trygcly in which these two
hons were tho 1 r.igediaus had finished, its
fifth and last act. He fell from off the
scat hae!:w:;rd by tho side of the gate and
his iiivk hrake, and he died; for he was
au old man and heavy."
Kii had made an a v. ful mistake in re
gard t his chMdren. The IJihle distinctly
says: :ns made themselves vile
and he renamed them not." Oh. the
tin thousand mistakes in rearing chil
dren, mistakes i f parents, mistakes of
teachers i;i day wbool and Sabbath
cla.'.-'es. mistakes which we all make.
"Yiil it i:ot Im i:.--ful to consider them?
Tins country is going to ho conquered
by a great army. cmi'iMVed witli which
that of l;ddwiii the Firt, and Xerxes,
and Alexander, a::d Crant, and I.iv, all
put together. were in mmilers iii:dgniti
carit. They wiil cap! lire all our pulpits.
MorehoiiM's. faotorii--; and halls of legisla
tion, all our shipping, all our wealth and
all our hoiu rs. '1 hey will take pos.-es-ion
of all authority, from the United States
presidency down the humhlest inn
stahulary of ev-r thing l.tween the
Atlantic and l'aeil'c gcmhs. They are
on the march now. ai.-J they halt neither
day nor nighl . They will soon le here,
and all the present active population of
lliLs country r.ui.-t f-urrender and give
way. 1 r fe to the great army of chil
dren. 'Whether 1 'aey shall take j&cio:!
of everything o" good cr for Lad depends
upon tho sly)" of preparation through
which they j-ass on their way from cradle
to throne, ("io-ro acknowledges he kept
in his desk a collection of prefaces for
looks, wdiich prefaci s lie coulJ at any
lime attach to anything he wanted to
publish for himself or others: and
parents and teachers have all prepared
the preface of every young life under
their charge, and net only the pre
face, but the appendix, whether
the vohraie he a poem or a
farce. Families, and schools, and h.-gis
Iaturej are in our day busily engaged ir.
discussing what is the best mode of edu
cating children. iVfore this question,
almosl every other dwindles into insig
lulieance, while dependent upon its
proper solution is the welfare of govern
ments and ago;; eternal. Tvlaeaulay tells
of the war which Frederick the Second
made against (..V.en .Maria Theresa. And
one day she appeared lefore the august
hot. wearing mourning for her father,
and hold up in l.or arms l.afore them her
child, the archduke. This so wrought
ujon the cliieers and deputies of the
iropIe that whh half drawn swords they
broke forth in the war cry, "Let us die
for our queen. ?.h:ria Theresa!" So, this
morning. re;di:dr:g that the boy of today
is to be the ruler of the future, the popxi
lar sovereign. I hold him before the
American people to arouse their enthusi
asm in his lel::".if and to evoke their oath
foi his defer.se, his education and his
sublime destiny.
If a parent, you will remember when
you were aroused to these great respon
sibilities, and when you found that J'OU
had not done all required after you had
admired the tir.y hands, and the glossy
hair, and the bright eyes that lay in the
cradle, you suddenly remembered that
tiiat hand would yet be raised to bless
the world with its benediction, or to
smite it with a curse. InAriosto's great
poem there is a character called Kug
giero, who lias a shield of insuiTerable
splendor, but it is kept veiled save on
certain occasions, and when uncovered it
startled and overwhelmed its leholder,
who lefore had no suspicion of its bright
ness. My hope today is to uncover the
destiny of your child or student, about
which you may have no sjwcial apprecia
tion, and Hash uion you the splendors of
its inv.norlal nature. Behold the shield
and the sword of its coming conflict!
I prorrso in this discourse to set forth
what I con'-sder to be some of the errors
prevalent in the training of children.
First : I remark that many err in too
pre :t severity or too great leniency of
f:-.;:ii'y government. Between parental
tyranny and ruinous lasativeiiess of dis
cipline there is a medium. Sometimes
the father errs on one side, and tho
mother on the other side. Good family
g v.ernmcr.t i.; all important. Anarchy
a:;d misrule in the tic mestic circle is the
.rerimner of anarchy and misrule in
the stale. "What a repulsive spectacle is
f, ho?no without order- cr discipline, dis-rc-cdii-nce
and impudence, and anger
r.r.d falsehood lifting their horrid front
Lj the place vLicb should Le consecrated
to all that Is holy and peaceful ravl
beautiful. lit tho attempt to avoid all
this, and bring the children under proper
l't'.vs and regulations, parents have Bomc
thr.ta carried themselves with great rigor.
John Howard, who waa merciful to tho
:ri .ons and lazarettos, was merciless in
the treat mi nt of his children. Jthn
Milton knew everything but how to train
his family. Severe and unreasonable
v.n he in his carriage toward them, lie
made them read to him in four or fivo
languages, but would not allow them to
learn any of them, for ho said that one
tongue was enough for a woman. Their
reading was mechanical drudgery, when,
if they had understood the languages they
read, the employment of reading might
have 1m 'en :i luxury. No wonder his chil
dren despised him, and stealthily sold his
books, and hop4d for his death. In all
ages there has been need of a society for
th" prevention of cruelty to children.
When Bai bara was put to death by her
lather hecau.-e she had countermanded
his order, and had three windows put i'i
a room instead of two, this cruel parent
was a tyjH" of many who have acted the
Nero and the liohespierrc in the home
circle. The heart sickens at what you
sometimes see, even in families that ire
tend to be Christian - perpetual scolding,
and hair pulling, and ear bo::ing, and
thumping, and stamping, and fault find
ing, and te;ising, until the children are
vexed lieyond bounds and growl in tho
sleeve, and juiit, and relcl, and vow
uilhin themselves that in aTtcr days they
will retaliate for the cruelties practiced.
Many a home has lecome as full of dis
pute as w;s the home of John OTJroat,
who built J;is house, at the most north
erly point in Great Britain. And tradi
tion says that the house had eight win
dows, and eight d:xrs, and a table of
eight sides, lx eauso he had eight chil
dren and tin? only way to keep tliem out
of bitter quarrel was to have a separate
apj-ointiiK nt for each one of them.
That child's nature is too delicate to XjO.
worked upon ry ulelge hammer, and
gouge, and pile driver. Such fierce lash
ing, instead of breaking the high mettle
to bit and trace, will make it dash off the
more uncontrollable. Many seem to think
that children are flax not fit for use till
they have Iteen hotehoKd and swingled.
Some one talking to a child said: 4,I won
der what makes that tree out there so
crooked." The child r plied: "I supiose
it was trod upon while it was young."
In some families all the discipline is con
eenetrcd upon one child's head. If any
thing is done wrong, the supposition is
that George did it. lie broke the latch,
lie left open the gate. He hacked the
bannisters. He whittled sticks on the
carpi ts. And (George shall be the scapo
go;;t for all domestic misunderstandings
ar.d suspicions. If things get wrong ia
the culinary department, in comes the
mother and says', angrily : "Where
i ; George?" If busins3 matters
are jK-rplexing at the store, in
comes the father at night and says, an
grily: "Where is George?" In many a
household there is such a one singled cut
for suspicion and ca 'ligation. All the
sweet flowers of his soul blasted under
this jx-rpetual northeast storm, he curses
the day in which he was lx;rn. Safer
the child in an ark of bulrushes on the
Nile, among crocodiles, than in an ele
gant mansion, amid such domcjiio gor
gons. A mother was passing along the
street one day. and came up to her Kttlo
child, who did not see her approach, end
her child was s-.iying to her playmate:
"You good for nothing little scamp, you
lome right into the house this minute or
I wiil beat you till the skin comes oil."
The mother broke in, saying: ""Why,
lizzie, I am surprised to hear you talk
iike that to any one!" "Oh," said the
child, "I was only playing, and he is my
little boy, and I am scolding him, as yoit
did me this morning." Children are apt
to be echoes of their parents.
Safer in a Bethlehem manger among
cattle and camels with gentle Mary to
watch the little innocent than the most ex
travagant nursery, over which God's star
of peace never stood. The trapper extin
guishes the flames on the prairie by fight
ing lire with fire, but you cannot, with
: he fire of your own disposition, put out
the lire ef a child's disposition.
Yet we may rush to the other extreme
and rule children by too great leniency.
The surgeon is not unkind liecause, not
withstanding the resistance of his patient,
he goes straight em with linn hand and
unfaltering heart to take off the gan-gre-ne.
Nor is the parent loss affection
ate and faithful becatise, notwithstanding
all violent remonstrances on the part of
the child, he with tho firmest discipline
advances to the cutiing tlf of its evil in
clinations. The Bible says: "Chasten
thy son while there is hoe, anel let not
thy soul spare for his crying." Childish
rage unchecked will, after a while, be
I'Oinc a hurricane. Childish petulance
will glow up into misanthropy. Childish
rclsollion will develop into the lawlessness
tf riot and sedition. If you would ruin
the child, dance to his every caprice and
stutf him with confe'ctionery. Before
you are aware of it that loy of G years
will go down the street, a cigar in his
mouth and ready on any corner with his
comrades to compare pugilistic attain
r.K'iils. The parent who allows the child
to grow up without ever having learned
the great duty of obedience and submis
sion has prepared a cup of burning gall
for las own lips and appalling destruc
tion for his descendant. Remember Eli
and his two sons, Iloplmi and riiinehas.
A second error prevalent in the train
ing of children is a laying out of a theory
and following it without arranging it to
varieties of disperition. In every family
you will find striking differences of tem
perament. This child is too timid, and
that ion bold, and this too miserly, and
that too wasteful; this too inactive, and
that too boisterous. Now, the farmer
v.-ho should plant corn and. wheat and
turnips in just the same way, then put
them through one hcpper and grind them
hi the same mill, would not be so much
cf a fool as the parents who should at
tempt to discipline and eelucate all their
children in the same manner. It needs a
s'slilful hand to adjust these checks and
balances. The rigidity of government
which is necessarj- to hold in this impetu
ous iiEture would utterly crush that flex
ile disposition, while the gentle reproof
that would suffice for the latter would,
when used on the former, l lite at
tempting to hold a champing Bucephalus
with reins of gossamer. God gives us in
the disposition of each cliild a hint as
to how we ought to train liim, and. as
Gcxl in the mental Etructure of our chil
.r
tlren indicates at modo of training
js tno nest,
tns also Jiiuie.itea .
their future occupation,
the disiK)sition
Do not write down that child as dull be
cause it may not now lx; as brilliant as
3-our other children eir as those of your
neighbor. Semio of the mightiest iikmi
and women of the centuries had a stupi 1
childhood. Thomas Aquinas was called
it school "the dumb ox," but afterward
demonstrated his sanctified genius and
was called "the angel of the schools"
and "the eagle
of Brittany." Kindness
and natience with a child
will
conquer
almost anything, and they are virtues so
Christianlike that thoy are inspiring to
look at. John Wesley's kiss of a child
on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias Joyce
from a preiligate into a flaming evangel.
The third error prevalent in the train
ing eif children is the one sided doveloj
ment of either the physical, inte'llectual
or moral nature at the expense of the
others. Those, for instance, greatly mis
take who, while they are faithful in the
intelh-ctual and moral culture of chil
dren, forget the physical. The bright
eyes half quenched by night study, tho
craaijHil chest that comes from too much
1 Tidh'g over school desks, the weak siek
resulting from sedentariness of habit,
pale checks and the gaunt liodies of mul
titudes of children attest that physical
development docs not always go along
with intellectual and moral, llow do
you suppose all those treasures of knowl-
od"o the child er-ts will look in shattered
casket? And how much will you give
far the wealthiest cargo who
hen it is put
into a leakv ship? How can that bright,
sharp blade of a child's attainments bo
wielded without any handle? What are
brains worth without shoulders to
carry them? What is a child with mag
nificent mind but an exhausted body?
lietter that a young man of 21 go forth
into the world without knowing A from
Z, if ho have health of body and energy
to push his way through the world, than
at l to enter upon active life, his head
stuffed with Six-rates, and Herodotus,
and Bacon, and Ii I'lace, but no physi-e-al
force to sustain him in tho shexrk of
earthly confiicts. From this infinite
blunder of parents how many have come
out in life with a genius that could have
piled Ossa upon Bel ion, ar.d mounted
uxn them to scale the heavens, and have
laid down panting with physical exhaus
tion before a mole hill. Thoy who might
have thrilled senates and marshaled
armies and startled the world with the
shock of their scientific batteries, have
passed their lives in picking up prescrip
tions for indigestion. They owned ail
the thunderbolts of Jupiter, but could not
get out of their rocking chaii to use
them. George Washington in early life
was a poor speller, and spelled hat
h-a-douhle-t, and a ream of paper lie
spelled "rhcam," but he know enough
to spell out tho intlependencc of this
country from foreign oppression. The
knowledge of the schools is important,
but there are other things epiite U3 im
portant. Just as great is the wrong done when
the mind is cultivated and the heart neg
lected. The youth of this day are seldom
elenieel any scholarly attainments. Our
schools and seminaries tire ever growing
in efficiency, and the students are con
ducted through all the realms of phllos
e phy, and art, and language, and mathe
matics. The most hereditary obtusenoss
gives way before the onslaught cf adroit
i:isirt:cttrs. But there is a development
ef infinite importance which mathematics
.- nd the dead languages cannot affect.
The more mental power the more capac
ity for evil unless coupled with religious
restraint. You discover what terrible
power for evil unsanctified genius pes-s-eses
when you see Scaliger with his
rcathing denunciations assaulting the
best men of his time, and Blount
and Spinoza and Bolingbroke leading
their host3 of followers into the all
consuming fires of skepticism and infi
delity. Whether know ledge is a mighty
good or an unmitigated evil depends
entirely upon which course it takes.
The river rolling on between round
banks makes all the valley laugh
with gol ien wheat and rank glass, and
catching hold the wheel of mill and fac
tory, whirls it with great industries.
But, breaking away from restraints and
elashing over banks in red wrath, it
washes away harvests from their moor
ings and makes the valleys shrink with
the catastrophe. Fire in the furnace
heats the house or drives the steamer;
but, uncontrolled, warehouses go clown
in awful crash before it, and in a few
hours haif a city will lie in black ruin,
walls and towers and churches ar.d
monument. You must accompany the
education of the intellect with the eeluea
tion of the heart, or you are rousing up
within your child an energy which will
be blasting and terrific. Better a wicked
dunce than a wicked philosopher.
The fourth error often committed in
the training of children is the suppres
sion cf childish sportf uluess. The most
triumphant death of any child that I
ever knew was that of Scoville Haynes
McCollum. A few davs before that, he
was at my house in Syracuse, and he ran
l.l:o a ilcer and
a ilcer and Ins halloo made the
woods echo. You could near Lira com
ing a block off, so full was he of romp
and laughter and whistle. Don't put re
ligion on your child as a straight jacket.
Parents after having for a good many
years been jostled about in the rough
world often lose their vivacity, and are
astonished to see how their children can
act so thoughtlessly of the earnest world
all about them. That i3 a cruel parent
who quenches any of the light in a child's
soul. Instead of arresting its sportfulness,
go forth and help him trundle the hoop,
and fly the kite, and build the snow cas
tle. Those shoulders are tcx little to
carry a burden, that brow is too young
to be wrinkled, those feet are too spright
ly to go along at a funeral pace. God
bless their. young hearts! Now is tho
time for them to be sportful. Let them
romp and sing anel laugh, and go with a
rush and a hurrah. In this way they
gather up a surplus of energy for future
life. For the child that walks around
with a scowl, dragging his feet as though
they were weights and sitting down by
the hour in moping and grumbling, I
prophesy a life of utter inanition and dis
content. Sooner hush the robins in the
air till they are silent as a bat, and lect
ure the frisking lambs on the hilhide
until they walk like old sheep, than put
exhilarant childhood in the stocks
The fifth error in tho training of child
hood is the postponement of its moral
culture until too late. Multitudes of
j children hooauso of their precocity have
1 iecn iiijevi miu tiepiiin 01 iiuhy nuu
they ought not to go, and their intellects
have li ii overburdened and overstrained
and battered to pieces agiinst Iitin
grammars and algebras, and coming
forth into practical life they will hardly
rise to mediocrity, and there is now a
Bluffing and cramming system of educa-
tion in tho schools of our country that id
deathful to the teachers who have to en
force it, and destructive to the children
who must submit to tho process. You
find children at 9 and 10 years of age
with school lessons only appropriate f or
children of 15. If children are kept i:i
p -hool and studying from 0 to 'A o'clock,
no homo study except music ought to le
required of them. Six hours of study is
enough for any child. Tho rest ef the
day ought to Ixs devoted to recreation
and pure fun. But you e-annot begin
too early the moral culture of a child, or
on too complete a scale. You can look
back ujKjn your own life and rememlx r
what mighty impressions were made
upon you at 5 or 0 years of age. Oh,
that child does not sit so silent during
your conversation to lio uninfluenced by
it. You say ho does not understand. Al
though much of your phraseeilogy is be
yond his grasp, he is gathering upfront
y our talk influences which will affect his
immortal destiny. From the question he
asks you long afterward you find he
understood all about what you were say
ing. You think the child does not an
preciate that beautiful cloud, but its most
dejtcate lines are rebooted into the very
eieptns or tne jouintui nature, ami a
score of years from now you will soo tho
shadow of that cloud in the tastes and
refinements develojjed. The song with
w hich j-ou sang that child to sleep will
echo through all its life, and ring back
from the very arches of heaven. 1 think
that often the fir;t seven years of a
child's life decides whether it shall he
irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypocrit
ical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient,
honest and Christian. The present gen
erations c;f men will pass olf very much
as tlrey aro now. Although tho Gos
pel is of.'ered them, the general rule is
that drunkards die drunkards, thieves
die thieves, libertines die libertines.
Therefore to the youth we turn. Before'
they sov wild oats get them to sow
wheat and barley. You 1111 the bushel
measure with good con:, and there will
be no room for husks. Glorious Alfred
Cookmrm was convert ?d at 10 years ef
age'. At Carlisle, Ba., during the pro
gress of a religious meeting in the Metho-
dist church, while many were kneeling
at the foot of tho altar, this boy krali, in
a corner of the church e.'i by himself and
said: "Precious Saviour, then art snv
irg othe rs, O, wilt thou net save me?"
A I're.-bvterian elder knelt besido him
and led him into tho light. Futkroitod
Alfred Cookman! Tell me from the
skies, were you converted too early? But
I cannot hear his zt.zwct. It is over
powered by the kur.-.t': f the tens of
thousands who wero brought to God
through Ids ministry. I;aae Yv'nlts, the
great Christian poet, was converted at t
yearj of age. Robert Hail, the greet
Baptist evangelist, was converted at 13
years of age. Jonathan Edwards, the
greater-t c f American logicians, was con
verted at 7 years of age.
Oh for one generation of holy men and
women. Shall it be the next? Fathers
and mothers, you under God are to 'e-
cide whether from your families shall go
forth cowniNJs, inebriates, count'Ti'eiters,
blasphemers, and whether there shall he
thote bearing your imago and carrying
your naiiio festering in the low haunt.? of
vice, an;I nounuering in dissipation, a::d
makin
the midnight of their lives hori i'l
with a long howl of
ruin, or whether
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fl.-V.n V.-j -!- f.T.lt'rr .-1
Christians, the
reformers, tho teachers.
tl
ministers of Christ, the comforters of
the troul led. the h.eakrs of the sick, tho
cr.aclcrs of good laws, tho founders cf
charhublo institutions, and a great many
who shall in the humbler spheres of toi'
and usefulness serve god and the best iiv
terest ; of the human race.
You cannot as parent shirk the re
sponsibility. God h:is charged ye,u with
a mi.Tiio!i. and ail the thrones of heaven
are wu:i::g to sec whether you will do
your tV.:ty. Wo must not forget that it
is not much what we teach our chil
dren as what we are in their presence.
Wo wish them to be better than we are,
but the probability is that they will only
be reproductions of our own character.
German literature has much to say e-f
the "specter of Brocken." Among those
mountains travelers in certain conditions
of the atmosphere see themselves coi-iod
on a gigantic scale in the clouds. At
first the travelers do not realize that it is
themselves on a larger scale. When they
lift a hand or move the head this monster
specter does the same, and with such
enlargement of proportions that the scene
is most exciting, and thousands have gone
j to that place just to behold the specter
: of Brocken. The probability is that some
j of our faults which we consider small
j and insignificant, if we do not put an end
i to them, will be copied on a larger scale
in the lives of our children, and
perhaps
j Ciliated and exaggerated into spectral
I proportions. You ne(-d not go as far r,il
I as the Brocken to see that process. The
! first thing in importance in the education
! of our children is to make ourselves, by
j the grace of God, fit examples to be
j copied. The day will come when you
i mutt confront that child, not in the
church pew on a calm Sabbath, but amid
j Use consternation of the rising dead, and
i the flying heavens, and a burning world.
; From your side that son or daughter,
; bone of your bone, heart of your heart.
the father's brow his brow, the mother's
eye his eye, shall go forth to an eternal
: destiny. Y.Tiat wiil be your joy
if at last you hear their feet in
the same golden highway and hear
their voices in the same rapturous song,
illustrations, while the eternal ages last,
of what a faithful parent could, under
God, accomplish. I was reading of a
mother who, dying, had all her children
alxiut her, and took each one of them by
the hand and asked them to meet her in
heaven, and with tears and sobs, such as
those only know who have stood by the
deathbed of a good old mother, thoy all
promised. But there was a young man
of 19, who had been very wild and reck
less, and hard, and proud, and when she
took his hand she said: "Now, my boy,
I want you to proiuise mo lefore 1 die
that you wilt become a Christian and
meet me in heaven." The young ma::
made no answer, for there was io much
for him to give up if he made and Le;;t
ruch a promise,
But tho afjcel mother
; m.-iohh 1:1
"You v
saying:
won t ilony me mat lieloro J
; , win you.' 1 nu parting must not ne
l)irver. Till mo ?iiiw ou will servi
Cod and meet ni" i:i the land when
there is no parting." (Quaking with
motion ho stood, making up his mind
i :id h i!' :ng and ln-Miating, but at last
il n stubbornness yielded and lie threw
1 ;s a:
nus
around his mother's ni-ck and
raid: "Y
And as he
a. motliei; I will, I will."
finished the last word of his
; :onn.
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it-it
scendetl. I thank
Col the
Vcs, ho
yoim-
kept
nuui kept bis promi.-.
it.
May God givi
moiiiers and latliers tlie gladness ft then
children's salvation.
Fi r all who aro trying to do their duty
as parents I quote the tremendous pas
tag : "Train up a chil ! in the way in
v.hiclrfi'' should go, and when he is old
ho will not depig t from it." If through
rood discipline and mayor and codly ex-
niple ou are acting 1:1.011 that child.
y ou hae the right toe.-.p,i t him to grow
up virtuous. And how i.iany tears of
joy you will shod when you sec your
child honorable and jit. i and truthful
and Christian and su : ful a holy man
amid a world of di.-honc ty, ;i g'xlly wo
man in a world of frivol uis pretension.
When you come t ii they will gather
to bless your hi' ! hours, 'i hey will pu.-di
back tho white h'-;..; on your cold fore
head and say; " "w hat a ;.od father Id
always was to me!"' They will fold
yom hands pcncofidly a 'id say: "Dear
mother! She is gone. J 1 1 r troubles an?
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