Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-09-28

WHAT WILL EDCCATE THrsE CHILDREN2
Mothers, your example will educate them
your conversation with your friends-the
business they see YOU transact-the Iklngs
aud dl>Ilkjng5 you cXpreSs-thC>c Will cdu-
cate them; the society you live III, Will ed
uCate them-yOur dOmestics Will educate
them; and whatever be YOUR rank or sltua-
ton in life, your home, your table, and your
behavior there-the.c will educate them
10 Withdraw them from the unceasing and
potent influence of these things is impossi-
Bile; except you were to withdraw yourself
. from them also. Some parents talk Of be,
ginning the education Of their children; the
GnOmen; they were capable Of forming an
Idea, their education was already btyun-
the education of circumstances. lnsCnslble
education, which, like insensible Precipitation
is OF more constant and powerful effect, aud
OF far more consequence 10 the habit, than
| that which is direct and apparent. This ed
ucation goes on at every instant Of time; it
goes on like time-vou an neither stop nor
turn its course. Whatever these, then, have
a tendency TO make your children, that, in a
| great degree, you al least should be persHad-
ed they will be.
lou may engage teachers as numerous as
! you please, to Instruct your children in
things useful and praiseWOrthy. in theirown
| place, bCtyO must. by the order of nature,
educate them yourselves. True indeed, YOU
send your children to another school, aud
this is the best in the whole ncighborhood,
and the character of the teacher is not only
unexceptionabIe, but praiseworthy.
When your children come home, too, you
put book of your own selection into their
hands, or even many such books, they read
them with pleasure and personal advantage.
| Still, after all this, never one day forget that
the first beck they read. nay, that which they
continue to read, and by far the most nducn-
| tial, is that Of their parents example and
daily department. Ifthis should be disre-
garded by YOU or even forgotten, then be not
at all surprised when you find at another
day. to yoGr sorrow and vexation, and the
interruption Of your business, and even the
loss OF your domestic peace and harmony,
that Your children only know the right way,
but still follow the wrong.
BIGoTRY-The Rev. T. NJ. Hopkins,
of Canton, Ohio, publishes in the Ohio
Observer minute statement Of the our
rageous conduct Of Catholic priest, the
Substance Of which is as follows: A child
having died, the mother of which was a
Catholic and the father Protestant, the
clergyman above named attended the fu-
neral, not expecting to officiate but as one
Of the audience The Catholic pries',
however, unexpectedly, not being present,
the father requested Mr.. Hopkins to Off
ciate. This was Immediately made known
to the Catholic priest, who ordered the
grave to be filled up, and on the arrival
of the procession at the graveyard they
were refused an entrance, and bY no en-
treaties could the priest be prevailed upon
to suffer the grave to be re-opened, not
withstanling other members of thessarne
family were laid in that ground, and all
this outrage upon the feelings of the be.
, reaved parents at time of all others Ten.
d2red the most acute, because Protestant
r had in the estimation ofthis bigot desecra
tedthe deceased child by making prayer
! ut its funeral After sufficient DELAY foI
) the purpose, the decee sed was buried in ;
Protestant burying ground. Such an &C
requires no comment. The feelings anc
views 1t calls up in every breast will be
: sufficient
, AMERICAN AND FOREIGN B1BLE So
: ciETY-We learn by Br. smitzer that th,
n Holland Purchase Association raised b,
/ subscription the SUN of one thousand dol
e lars for this object. The progress of thi
+ society is still prospecting, not only in thi
e State, but in various parts of the Union.-
5 tn Virginia good deal of noble feeling
manifested in behalf of the unadulteraieC
:.trapslation:-H y baptist Register.