The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-19

our race certain mental faculties, and i'm
planted in the human heart certain innate
desires, which operate as powerful checks
upon the selishness and evil propensi-
| ties of our nature Prominent among
| these are mans innate love of character,
his sense of honor, his regard for the
feelings Of friends, the admonitions of
conscience. How valuable are all these
| Without them whai security would there
be for public morals or private virtue
Without these counter checks upon the
passions, what would our race be !
Ii is wise provision of Providence
that the youLg are placed By the condi>
tons of their nature, under the care of
parents and teachers.
A child in his early yeats is helpless
aud dependent. in subsequent years,
when dependencies. in degree, lessened,
wants of higher character appear
mental wants, and dangers of more fear
fu character-moral dan ters. Through
inexperience and wrong mental tenden-
cies, the child is unprcpared to encoun-
ter these evil influences. Hence the
proprie;y and necessity OF governmental
restraint at home and in the school,
room.
Restriction and authority are blessings
which God designs for the good of child:
rem through the agency Of their parents
and teachers.
Surely there is wisdom and benevo.'
lence in the divine plan which provides
for the young, restraint and government
at home and in the school: tina, restrainl
and government so needml for them in
their inexperience-so needful for them
in the midst of the temptations that sur
round them--so needfu for them in the
absence of seB.eontrol-so neecful TO
cultivate in them a symmetrical charac>
ter Sad indeed, then, is the condition
that childhood in which indulgence and
neglect, lake the place Of restraint and
watchiulness
Neither parents nor teachers should
regard the imposing Of reasonable res
straints upon children as an evil, but
rather as one Of the indispensable means
and conditions OF excellence.
Children and youth often consider res
strain, an evil bu, teachers and parents
should not. Young persons often strive
to csc ,pe from the moral checks with
which Providence has surrounded them.
They often desire to throw OF parental
control-,o be set at liberty from the
moral guards by which parental affection
and authority have sought to protect them
from evil. To some, the laws Of the
school are irksomc. Others are restive
under the restrictions Of refined and
Christian society. Thus many young
men, to escape these curbs, leave their
homes at an early period, or make choice
of sea-iarlng life, or emigrate to Cali
fornia or other parts of the land, where
they shall feelless the bride and may en-
10Y a Stacker rein.
But this desire to escape from restrain,
is unwlse.
This parents aud teachers should feel
and endeavor to inculcate upon the young
entrusted TO their care. 1t is law. both
of the material and the mental world,
that restraints he imposed. Let but a
single star that glitters upon the diadem
OF night break away from the restraint
which the law Of gravitation imposes, il
would rush in wild devastation upon 9th.
er planets, marking its pathway through
the heavens with chaos and ruin. Let
the volcanic powers within our globe, OF
the antagonistic substances OF the eartt
break away from the wise laws TINT nov
control them, and It's destruction woult
speedily cnsue.
So is il in the mental world. Th'
| Creator has placed men under restraints
wise and benevolent. Mans nature need
I Their. Wlhoul these influences to reg
S ula,e his desires and actions, he woul'
D be like soldier without his aimor o
weapons, like fort dismnnlled, like
cn.tle unguard,d d.
Let parents aud teachers. then, re
T member the necessity fr imposing re
7 s,rainls upon the young. Let them re
member iha, il is one OF the condition
= oG human excellence. Let them tenc
Q the youth under their care, the necessiI
r Of law and its utility Let them incul
cate upon the young the importance c
cherishing the restraining influence
which Providence has thrown aroun
4 them, the Importance Of self-governmen'
. Let the yourg be taught that good re-
= oluliop, a yiriuous habit, seli-in'Pose
restraint, may prove weapon OF sue
i cessrul defence in the day Of fierce tenn
taupn. -MassachuSeHS Teacher.
a. Franklin said" When see hou,
> furnished with books and newspapers, fin
intelligent children but, if there are no pi