Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-03-17
No Sutrifite of lorineiples.
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Worth Reading.
Tommy Wilson came home one day with
tears in his eyes; he ran and laid his head in
bis msther's lap and sobbed aloud. She
pushed the curls back from his forehead,
kissed him and said
| What is the matter, my SON."
"Oh, ma" he answered, it's so hard 10
be good"
"What makes you think SO, Tommy?"
"Why, you know, mamma, yesterday was
the Sabbath and you talked to me in the eve-
ming about having new heart, and you told
me that must pray to God, and he would
give me one. and that then would love eve
rlbody, and always feel happy. and not be
afraid 10 die And thought that would
like TO have such heart and prayed when
| went to bed, and kept thinking about it un-
til L fell.asleep, and rs soon as awoke in the
morning, | remembered about il, and prayed
] again; and it seemed to me as if had anew
hea:t-l fe!t SO happy; and when went to
school triCd to be kind to all the boys, and
learn my lessons well, and to be good. But
this noon, George Johnson snatched my
ball, and got angry and calleGi him thief
And when we were playing, Charley Smith
struck me, and before thought struck him
! back again. And coming home this afternoon.
James Lswis called ME a coward, and cal
led him liar And so, ma, kept forgetting
and doing wrong, AID no matter how hard
try, can't be good 1t rs SO easy to get an
CRY, and bad words come out 50 quick
What's the reason, ma, that We ca2't be good
when we want to be?"
Mrs. Wilson thought minute, and then
said
"Do you remember, Tommy, riding down
hill on your sled, last winter ?"
"Oh, yes, mamma; the bill was covered
with snow, and it was beat down until it was
almost as smooth as ice; and l went down so
fast that it almost took away my breath. 4"
"Wel my son. but did you 60 up as fast? I"
"Oh, no, ma; it was slow, hard work, get
ting up. We would slip at almost every step,
and we couldn't get up at all in the place
where we went down, but had to GO
around 10 the other side, where the snow was
not worn as smooth and slippery"
Then it was easier to go down than to 60
up, was it"
"Oh yes; it is always so with hills.
"And the oftener you went down on your
sled. the smoother the snow got, and the fas-
ter you could go?"
Yes, mamma"
"Well, Tommy when God made Adam
and Eve, and put them in the garden, it was
as easy for them 10 do right as 10 do wrong.
1t was like walking on level ground; they
could go one way as well as the other. But
they shose to do wrong, and ever since then
the world has been like the side of a noun
tain. 1t is up hill toward heaven, and it is
down hill toward hell. And then, by doing
wrong we make the down hill more and more
slippery all the time Our evil habits are alike
our sleds; they smooth the way, SO that We
go faster and faster It's hard work even to
stop doing wrong; just as hard as for you TO
stop your sled when half f-way down and GO.
, ing like a race-horse. And it is still harder to
go NJ. We a.e all the time slipping up. We
are all the time slipping back. We find our
old habits tripping us up at every step" "
"Then, ma. we ght as well give up try
r ing," said Tommy, in sad and bitter tone.
did my little boy say so last winter, wher
he was climbing up the bill to ride down OF
his sled! He slipped great many times
, and once or twice fell quite down in the snow
!. but he scrambled up again and kept on try
E ing, because he wanted to have the pleasure
of riding down so swiftly over the smootl
I snow. VIII Tommy care more for few
minutes sport than for being good and going
TO heaven?"
Tommy felt ashemed of what he had said
He laid his head in his mothers lap, and wha
;. his thoughts were cannot tell But after a
while he looked up. as earnest as hero. ant
said
"Ma, I've been a FOOLS boy, thought
could be good right off, and with hardly any
trouble. But | see now that it is not So ant
| mean to try with all my might; and l know
: ma, that shall be happy even while an
trying; and God will help me, won't He, ma !?
!. "Yes, my son, if you are humble, and d
!. not think that you can be good of yoursel
e without His help You have learned to- da,
# how weak your own strength is. You mus
/ ask of God that He will give you a new hear
q to love Him, and to love that which is right
q and hope that you will pray every day, ant
often every day, for God to watch over you
!. aad keep you from falling, and raise you VI
when you fall; and that you will watch your
self, my dear boy, and try to overcome al
! your wicked habits, and remember what
Il down-hill. slippery world this is. and that We
j. must expect hard work in getting through i
4 to heaven. But that heaven will be wort
! all the efforts Of a thousand such lives as this
n And Tommy followed his mothers advice
: and he is now "a good man. He says he oft
; en- remembers that Monday, when he though
/, it was so hard to be good, and the hill and th
q snow, and the sled and he hopes that stor,
:. will lead some little boy who reads il, to qui
slipping down, and try to climb and perse
4 we're, and pray TO God.
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