Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-03-03

dangerous tendency They are calculated
to form any thing else Than right notions
and character among children. I,
6. All the domestic arrangements of
every family should have special regard
to the training of their children. The !
right training of them should be prime
object, and every other interest of the fam
lily should be made to bend to this. The
hours Of retiring liz the evening and rising 7
10 the morning, the hours at which meals
are taken, kinds Of food and in short all
the habits Of the family should have d.
rect reference to the right training OF the
children. Nothing should be suffered to
enter into the family arrangements thai
has tendency to injure their health, their
intellect or their heart. No company
should at any time be received and enter
tanned whose conduct may endanger the
manner or morals ofthe children.
Z. Mothers should never, under any
pretence whatever, neg lect their own child
rem for the purpose OF attending to other
matter. Mother, remember that nothing
can compensate for the neglect Of your du-
ty to your children. This is your first
great indispensable duty, 10 train your
children in the way they should go. At.
tend to this then, whatever else you ne
! glsct.
s. Do not suppose that you can attend
to this without yourself being devotedly
pious. No mother has begun to do her
duty to her children, who is not supreme.
ly devoted to God, and is not endeavoring
to train them up for God. Some mothers
will neglect their children under the pre-
tence of going to meeting and especially
attending protracted meetings, leaving it
as they say, with God to take care oftheil
children while they do his work. They
seem to think the time spent in. taking care
of their children is almost thrown away
And even some seem unwilling to have
children because they shall have to throw
away so much time in taking care ofthem
Now woman, you ought to know that a
leading object of your life is to bear and
train up children for God-and that time
is as far as possible from being lost which
you spend in this employment. II
Other women. instead ofneglecting thei
children TO attend to their devotions ar
neglecting their deyotions almost altogeth
er, and pretending to discharge their dut,
to their children while they are neglect
ing God and religion. Now this is equal
erroneous with the other course. N
parent can train up children in the wa
they should go, without maintaining
spirit of deep devotion to God on the on
hand, and on the other without payin
the most rigorous and unrenlitted atten
ton to their training, physical, intellect
al, and moral. Mothers should be en-
phatically "keepers at home" Durin!
the minority Of their children, they shoul
consider it their great business 10 trai
them up in the way they should 60.
9. But in doing this they should cor
suit God at every step, and should M
imagine that they begin to do their dut
any farther than they consult the Twin
oracles, and live under the constant GU
dance of the Holy Spirit.
10. If you would train your childre
in the way they should go, be invincibl
firm in training your own family, let oti
er families do as they may.
IL. Remember that if you resist tt
true light or neglect your duty to yor
children, God will visit the iniquities
the fathers upon the children, and upo
the children's children, unto the third ar
fourth generations"
Your brother in the bonds of the GO
pei, G. g. FlNNE4.s
STAV FRY