Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-06-03

The OLD NEGRo's LoG1c.-A clergyma
asked an old servant his reasons for belle,
ing in the existence of God:
Sir" says one . see one man get sick
cine; and next day he is better: he give
him another dose, it does him good; he Keen
on til! he gets about his business. Anotbe
man gets sick like first one the doctor come
TO see him; he gives him the same sort O
medicine; it does him no good he get
worse; gives him more, but he gets wors
all the time till he dies. Now That man,
time to die had come and all the doctors i,
the world couldn't cure him.
Zone year | work in the corn field, pillow
deep, dig up grass and make nothing bu
nubblng. Next year | work in the same
way; the rain and dew comes, and made
good crop.
II have been here going hard upon fifty
years. Every day since have been in thi:
world | see the sun rise in the East and SCI
IN the West The North star stands where
1t did the first time ever saw it: the seven
stars and Jobs coffin keep on the same patti
| IN the sky, and never turn out. 1t amt Sc
with mans works. He makes clocks ant
watches; they run we'll for while, but they
get out of fix and stand stock STILL But the
sun, and moon, and stars, keep on the same
way all the while There is a power which
makes one man die, and another get we'll
that sends the rain and keeps everything in
motion"
What a beautiful comment is here fur.
nished by an unletlered African on the
language of the Psalmst: "The Heavens
declare the glory of God, and the armament
showeth His Handiwork. Day unto day
uttereth speech, and nj ght unto nigh,
showeth knowledge"
A HINT TO MorHERs.-"I wish needn',
60 to school, to-day" said Johnny to his
mother, one bright, pleasant morning. ~
don't like my school, and never did don't
want to 60"
This was feeling which Johnny had
always had. and it was his mothers fault
that he had it; for from the time he was two
years old, whenever he had been doing any,
thing wrong or had been noisy about his
play, his mother had always said, If YOU
are not good boy, PIl send you ri eht off to
school; so that he had grown up with the
feelings that school was of all other places
the least to be desired.
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meanor in the morning, he was started off
for school full half hour earlier than usual,
as punishment. Johnny must indeed be a
genius to withstand such influence. Would
it not be better for every mother TO teach her
children to love school; to inspire them
with ambition to attend school to be always
punctual, and always prepared with good
lessons? Would it not be better to have all
the errands attended to the evening before,
so as to insure punctual attendance I?
Would it not be better to neglect every
other morning dnty rather than allow a
single child to be five minutes lale.
Mothers are already aware how much
they can encourage their children by ex-
pressing an interest in all that concerns the
school, listening to the story of their sports
in recess. and seeking for detailed account
Of each days Rotations; not with view to
finding fault, but simply TO show an interest,"
which is always delightful to a child. If
they have failed in one recitation, encourage
them TO feel that the next will certainly be
perfect.
Let the sunshine of mothers love fall into
every child's heart, and let her words of en-
enlargement to do well-yea even to excel
lead many wanderer who now hates his
school to love it, and seek 1t as a delightful
place.-Noruich Examiner.