The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-11-01

child may be referred 10 one animal as pattern Of
industry and providence another as that of deness
and sloth The vegetable. and mineral creation also
is repete with moral instruction. She can awaken
infant curiosity by pointing the young mind to t>e
pening flower the conjecture Of the leafand to the
truly wonderful and geological structure of the globe
In a word, the mother can call TO her aid in this de-
ghtfu task all animate and nanimate nature-& this
she does, not by precomposed harangues,-not by
crowding and budding together mass of abstract
moral truth, for catechetcal lesson for Sabbath af
ternoOn, but by using the simplest language and turn
ing to her account every place, and season. and incl
dent.
Think how much the mother can do by checi ing
the first appearance of anger or malice or revenge
towards eradicating those PASSIONS and mpanting in
their stead the mild principles of the Gospel 1t not
contended that the mother of her own unaded eff
forts make new nature. But is it too much to say,
that with the blessing of Heaven her exertons she
may be instrumental even OF nesc creation-so that
the between the man favoured with such eff
forts during his infancy and childhood and the man
whose first years were unmarked by any such exer-
tons, may be as great as that between light and dark
ness. " Every imaginable remedy for the corruption
OF human nature has been tried, except that of nsi
ling into the infant mind the genuine principles of love
towards God and charity towards our neighbour, and
training itup in the way it should go. This method
has received many partial experiments on very lim~
ted sca!e and whenever it has been tried it has been
attended with the most satisfactory and encouraging
results But the experiment of training up commu-
nifty as Christians has not been tried in Europe nor in
America (Journot of Education)
"Chdren' remarks Cecil are very early CAPABLE
of impression. | imprinted on my daughter the idea
OF faith at avery early age. She was PLAYING one day
with a few beads which seemed to delight her wonder
fully. Her Whole soul was absorbed in her beads. T
SAID my dear you have some pretty beads there"
g Yes papa!" - And you seem to be vastly pleased
with them" Yes papa!'' well now throw 'em into
the fire." The tears started in her eyes She loolod
earnestly at me, as though she ought to have reason
Tor such cruel sacr'hce. "Weii my DEAR do as you
please but you know never told you to do any thing
which did not think would be good for your She
looked at me few minutes longer, and then--sum
moning up all her tortItude-her breast heaying with
'he efort-she dashed them into the fire. "W ELF"
sad " there let them lIe yon shall hear more about
them another time: but say more about them now'
Some days after bought her box full of larger beads
% '"J' VI ''i0 ""'i0 N'lius WHeh returned nome
opened the treasure and set it before her. She hurst
nto tears of extacy. "Those my chid'' said care
yours, because you believed me when told YOU it
would be better for you throw those two or three
2retty beads behind the fire. Now that has brought
you this treasure. But now my dear remember "a
ong as you live what Faith is 1 did all this to teach
you the meaning of Faith You threw your beads away
when bid u,because you had faith in me that never
ADVISED you, but for your good. Put the same
confidence in God. Believe every thing he saws in his
word. Whether you understand it or not have faith
m him that he means your good" Ifsnch then be the
influence OF parental instructions particularly those of
the mother, let no one decry them as unimportant
Can that influence be unmportant which has so much
to do with the formation of our very natures-n dcci
ding the question: whether the man shall aspire to the
perfection of his nature a reasonable being,-asa
being created IN the image of his Maker, or whether
he shall smother L" that immortal fire with Anres sha
red content an the exercise Of tie instincts merely,
which he possesses in common with the brute
no be COntnueG.J