The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-30
THE PARENT AND TEACHER
"Hoiv shau I educate mo anu. >

rev pave the time, they think, or the ability 10
nsuuet their children themselves perhaps fewer still
,s means Of securing competent private tutors
izeu during schoolboy days al least in the household
ony-he parents The teachers, aided, far deficiency
OIL lme or knowledge requires by proper assistants espe
caly the older children for the Younger Parents owe
great deal more their children than they almost ever
practically ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS time, and more patient
PAINS ,akns effort And. unhappily they very often al
low even their inadequate sense of obligation to exhaust
Itself IN adonng and pampeng the body and treasurng
up solulu material inheritance. The time generally de-
votel 10 such obecls II applied directly 10 the mental
ana moral training, would secure POSSESSIONS nmeasura
Oily peuef man SILVER or fine gold Many phlanthro-
pis,, many Christian. would exert ultimately far
WIDER and happier influence by efforts concentrated upon
ms own household than by all his splendid, earth
circing Schemes of benevolence. Nay, we doubt not
ina. ministers Of the Gospel to take one prominent ex
ample often ruin souls, directly and indirectly, by
neglecng their children than they by their preach
ing God commits the child to the parent with special
injunction This, OF all human SOULS your first care
Whatever else time may fail you accomplish. make
OF time enough to train up this child for Never
dream thai any boased fidelity 10 others will compensate
Tor the neglect OF what is thus specially given thee in
charge How strange is IT, that so many parents can
satisfy conscience with the plea that their abors for The
body leave lime for attending TO the mind and heart
Tor yaiDly hope to avoid their responsibility God by
following the tgnis fdaus OF their unchastened pleas
ues, and dgnlyng Them with The names of necessity,
or Their duty TO society and friends, while their own
thoughts should such reflections these arouse. like
lions in her path, in the soul OF woman :! Do such pa
renis Especially such mobers think that their be-
nevolent efforts n foreign ieds) for The poor and dest
ue, justify leaving their own offspring TO than
phanage And not these duties 10 the poor and dest
tue, how much less will vain AMI giddy pleasures
clean thoughts unla u Conversations away from home,
fulfil the plain, and simple and beautiful requirements OF
Gods holy law, which, il followed. will, like fruitful
soil moistened by the genial rain. and warmed by the
pure sunshine flowers Of the hearts Joy and
the souls satisfying happiness TO spring up along the
paths of home and difase the grateful perfume of that
peace which passeth all understanding throughout the
family circle! j
The peculiar advantages of a family training are in
separately connected with the affections which God has
family circle What mpel, like true parental love,
10 patient and persevering toll for childs welfare
What readily obedience that authority
which affection, beanng in the eye oil command, makes
sacred! What natural purity OF morals comparable
to that which the deicacy OF mothers virtue rehnes!
Whom will good son SO assduousy labor 10 please as
beloved moiher' And how much the stimulus to vir
tue, that sons heart. diminished by that mothers
absence, and the removal OF loves eye IRON the details
I OF daily conduct sense OF duty animates many a
teacher to waichiu effort but how much stronger and
higher and hoer should that sense be in paren's-
especially in mohePs-heart! Christian love alone may
excite the former he teacher) to strong endeavors but
with the latter Qhe moher) il should be only addi
tiona excitement A sort OF affection may grow up
between teacher and pupil, but cannot well be as
powerful as the family tie. Moreover, the child edu
Gated al home, and he alone be efecually guarded
from depravng associations And, IN an uninterrupted
family relation, children may undoubtedly, be best pre-
pared for their future family duties lin view OF the du
ties and responsibilities here indicated-whch God
seems TO have assigned especially mothers-how vig
liant should they be, alike of their actions, their words,
and their very thoughts; how careful not TO leave that
sacred temple of the family uDtenanted for day, lest
evil influences creep in 10 usurp the place and impair the
authority of The God-appoined guardian how scrupu-
lous 10 keep clean not only from all outward slan but
free from all inward consciousness recollection OF i'm
pure feelings or unholy thoughts, lest that instructive
sagacy of the child which penc,raes all DISCUSSES and
never sleeps shall detect the damned spot and losing
respect for his mother lose with their only
the incentive 10 love. and The desire to obey her"l-Jor
nal Of West Jersey Col School for dprii, 1851,