Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-07

i6catf0n other than that lnseparablye con-
nected with the strict discharge Of their
doty. Where dwellthe married couple who
have united consciously on the principle Of
seifdenfal2 do not demand even that
they should in all respects have carried out
The principle, bur lett be known where the
couple are 10 be found who married with
this intent. III t'a 9f 80
L know not whether you will be free
enough TO permit such questions to appear
| in your columns, yet you seem to be some
what fearless Of outward Consequences when
truth is concerned venture 10 put them.
For this is in fact the test point therein lies
the mighty problem Of human redemption
as practical work. We have seen the
results Of human words for centuries, which
I'M al. the changes they have wrought seem
TO have left man little wiser and perhaps no
happier than they found him. Nay, even
Human actions beyond words, when they
hayeegen extended 10 blood shedding; when
The virtuous spirit in man has been strong
Eenough' 10 force him iosresist tyranny in
Eeverv shape from without, has still landed
him on the same unhappy shore, because
the virtue was not deep enoosh TO amount
10 aseif.denial, and 10 enable him to OVER
come the tyranny within. e 2#8 s1t ?.
i Verbal virtuous reaching, then, will not
better our children. Exempiar virtuous
Teaching may do something, and something
important too towards their reformation.-
4 Yet still il is only e-form-ation. 1t is COM
lparatiyely strained and forced work. Vir-
Etuous habits, merely as such, are very good,
but they are not thesbest. Viriuous habits
we know may be assumed they may be
tputon TO vicious natures, like acleanE gar
tment over a dirty skin. They who have
been born in iniqpity and reared in vice
must be as happy as they can with so much
their fate is no better, with so much of gvir.
tuous habit as they can adopt But the
operation must 60 deeper than this. Habits
which may be put on may also be put of
lagain. Re-formers may be again reformed
, A soft substance pressed into a new shape
: to-day, may be suborned into anotherfor
, tomorrow. II seems to me therefore no
j the best thing which can be done 10 preacl
Z yirruous habits on the part of parents, no
: is that conduct. though good, dhe best a
d which they can aim. Instruction as ives SCI
IS very much like the process Of clothins
II children in their grandfather's garments
i. L. does not make men of them. If thei
l. tancestoTs were ever so virtuous the virtu
ifl will not descendsby their old clothes. 'thei
e old doctrines, sor their old precepts. Thes
$ are every one Of them dead, and a virtuou
al nature is living substantial thing. Neithe
Of can more be expected. Of education tha
10 that il should develop dhe youthful bein
al such as it is, and no better. if they al
flapple-trees which you planted you anticipaI
G. a crop of apples; you do notexpect to gath'
Is oranges. Whosis so absurd as TO try
Iflforce apple trees into orange-trees WI
re then when selishness has been planls
th should we look for a crop of sseh-denia
IL We must plant orange.irees and then '
m fmay have an orange crop. and the appl
Of will not be seen. We must propagate Y
as rue, asd we need no longer educate for
raj Why should We propagate badness aud e
in ucate for goodness ?son.l+.-
as Parents can not fail TO transmit III
- characters to their children by an insp
lde ton or magnetism which is too evident
The be denied or doubted. They sec their o,
ds, image in Ihe creation in which they ha
e al participated. IL they wish 10 see virtue
hat or unselfish progeny they be virtuo,
J a unsel6sh progenitors, not in words and d,
II lrines, but in being and in act. sai
mp IL education signifies the enlargement
Ice, all that is good, and the eradication Of WI
md soever is bad 10 the human being, let it
ape all means begin with tae adults, and wi
iihese are educated, 10 this liberal interf
ind tat;on of the term, then let them by
,ost means become parents, but notiuntit ii
sc- For BY the eternal law the fruit must b'
IN Ak the same nature as The tree, and if evil
,fist fnot first eradicated from the parents it m
the lpermeate the child's being, and all the e
Fhig cation in tie world will fail in the atte
luess to make tharchild yiftuous born chilt
ame Such offspring must'go through the pal
arel, experiences which have fallen upon
. isparenis. Pains and diseases have var
iher conditions; bur primarily they all proc
ings from generation; that is their origin ID
laily the germ Of woe is laid. We want 1
own riages into which this germ shall not el
e IN Having such, the work Of teaching virtu
'sthe iehildren viii become light and easy. S