Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-10-15
No 5atrifite of lprinfiplrs.

In the ckground, aud piety sneered at or again
present life Under an aspect which is entirely uu-
reNl' anere utop'in n land of dreams and visions.
and not receive injury 50 serious that well might
shame those who should more carefully have guard
ed them against it. God speed the day when n
healthy vigorous, aud high toned htsra IRE shall
md its way into every hamlet in the land bat
save us from books that would poison its very sour
ces, and the froth and scum that is ever likely TO
hoat upon the surface. Let the young be rightly
Instructed and much of the danger is avoided -
Hence no maxim is more false than that which de.
elarss, "tims enough for religion yet" that you
are not to incuicate upon youthful minds the sen.
t'ments and practice Of true piety lest you should
irustrate their own judgments and tastes, or cast
gloom over the chcerlulness Of yonth.--
Against such maxim place thS saying Of the
wise man, The fear Of the Lord is the beginning
OF wisdom: good understanding have all they that
depart from evil.
Children, further, are eften exposed TO danger
from the erroneous views Of parents as Ia what is
the proper training for the young But in regard
! 10 this shall only remark at present. that pnren
tai authority and training in our time often
amounts to just nothing al all: and it is the will
Of the child. and not the matured judgment OF the
parents rules, Expused TO danger from all thess
causes it is not matter Of great surprise II the
Young lcit TO themselves, and uniortifed by sound
moral, aud igious instruction, should bring OF.
themelyei ruin; aud cn their parents sh,me aud
di.grnce. s. .# ..,. $50 I...t.
lior many mott hsart has nched over that
too fon diy nduged child, whom little restraint,
and littlekin advice early given might have saved
irem the vortex Of ruin. But neglected infancy,
and aegedted youth placed him beyond the reach
OF her prayetI and her entreates and if any thing
now arrests him it only be the super.abound
ing grace Of Christ. All! what is the truth whis
pered IN our ears from jnis. and prisons and pcn-
itentiaries; from aims houses, inhrmrres and asy'
lum1, from bfawls and riots, and broken Sabbaths
and dishonnred laws, from wasted health and repu.
tation, but the solemn truth of the text. The
thing that hath been is the thing that IS and al
ways will be "a child left unto himself bringeth
mis- mother Ia shame" " Let parents and others who
have the care Of the young remember what God
the church. aud society, demand oil them aud train
when they become cid they may never denart from
it, 1 cannot conclude these reflections with any
better advico than that which Nose, gave the chIl
drsn of Israel when urging them the careful
study OF Gods w0rds---"Ye shall lay up these, my
words in your heart, and in your soul, and bind
them fcf sign upon your hand, that they may BIZ
AZ pertleti between your eyss~-and ye shall teach
thon your children, speaking of them when thou
sitsst in thy hcuse, aud VIXEN thou wake by the
way, when thou iest down, and when thou risest
up; and the. shalt write ihem upon the door posts
ot thy house, aud upcn thy gates. That your
days may be s'ultiplied nnd the days Of your chill
d en-, SIS the land watch the Lnrd swore unto your
fathers 10 give the:n, as the days OF heaven upon
eartl,'
Fsemcnt, May, 1859.