Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-03-29

That parent; lOt iHS'hncey' VINO dalIlS HIS
chill lien that labor is degrading, and that the
lowly were born 10 toll, to be the ''hewerS oi
wood and the drawers Of water," is most Ger.
tainly educating them 10 deSpse toll OF all
kinds, and need never expect them to fulfill
his anlicipa,ions OF seeing them grow up use
ful men aud women, an honor 10 him and or
namenls TO society. They must be taught that
life is o reality, which must be grappled with
earnestly; and that 10 do anything or 10 be
anything in the world, requires the utmost
patience and unceasng exertiun; requires that
they shall ever
-Is'' ----"Be up and doing
,rr -...t With life for any fate
y,l. .y-s Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn tolab9r aud to wait"
Let US imagine another exa .nple ofimprop-
cr education. Suppose child, little boy
for inst nee, while he is yet as pure as the
angels, before his mind has become sufficient
ly Strong 10 distinguish right from wrong sup,
pose that almost as soon as lIs uhSRlliec
tongue can siammer out the simplest words,
his rlisg,li,ed father should teach him To
sSeaT, and should smile with delight as the
most houid language came from his pure lips
---rliink you, my friends, that chllG, WIN Sucn
daily training, would become lovely and
could not be the case, for this early training,
. these first impressions, would grow with his
growth, would in fact be pari of his being,
inseperable and unefIaceotIe. No oa(ter train
iny. however skilllul, could remove these deep
wSymarkS from his being. This may be sup
posed an improbable case, and We all hope
that no parent would SO far forget his duties,
and his responsibilities as parent, as 10 teach
hi, child 10 proGame the name Of God. But
are there not opportunities offered, like IN
kind. and lmoSt as effective in their suicidal
results, rs though the parent was himself The
teacher I . ...
While our youth have no home amuSements
In keen them off the streets ut night; while
the Vicious and prolane, that meet 10 spend
their evenings together, that they may not
he left to muse alone upon their wickedneSS,
(ror hold that 10 pm ,ral or pruiane person
IL good company for himself, from ihe simple
fuct that wickedness loves company better
than medilation;) while these are the compan-
ions of the young we need have no doub;
that their education is progressing rapldly.-
And what an education. from what tutors !
M v friends,I trenib!e VIXEN reject how many
bright boys, how many gifted minds, thai
might become stars of the FIRST, magnitude in
their tay, ,liat might serve their country aud
the world acceptably and honorabiy, are now
being educated for The Jail. the State prison,
and The galows. Educated, loo, as have
said ,by meeting with The vicious and the pro-
fame, hearing them talk of theif last night S
reyels, Of their drunken roles, aud of theiT
midnight orgies. The boy listens al first with
woaher, that any one can he so lost 10 all
sense OF virtue and right. But by degrees he
catches the spirit, he becomes used 10 hard
words and har iened deeds, lie goes forth mic
the company Of his own youthful associates to
reci,e TO lie the deeds done and he language
used. Soon, oh ! how soon, his SenSlbnily has
Poae How soon he forgelS his mothers olt
repestel admoni,iom: never 60 into bad COM
many, never use bad language. How sooT
ibe Tongue tina! uttered but the pnrest words
and the lips through which n0poisoned speech
had ever pas>ed,are both polluted. How Soor
the Young mind that has been taught TO looF
IN to Co a, the tra0t Author of all things
and to never mention his name bat in fesrfu
accents, perhops but in Me little prayer iha
lie has pronounced before he could think @
p folliug into The wooing arms Of Seep,-ho"
soon, say, he uses that name with more Ia
miinrity than he does tina. Of his own father
say gith more Familiarity, for where is The
90 aye, where is the man, that would oil al
occasions, whether in anger or in mirth, ust
his faiber's name lightly in the presence
The father? No one, presume TO say, woul'
do il. Allow me 10 say here, that advert II
swearing in this system ofinproper educator
particularly, because believe 1t 10 be lEt
promoter, the foster father, OF a multitude o
sins. As long rs yCu can keep boys Ian
gnage pure, that long is he safe, for from th'
"luiln IS OF the heart the mouth Speaketh,'
This, then, is the improper education. Ant
how strong the hold i! has upon lis learners
How il clings 10 its unfortunate victim, eveI
after lie would break away from his loathsom
embrace. Allow me then, in this connection
to soy 10 any and every one present, who ma
be in the halt OF using proiane language, a
/ would say 10 every one so addicted: quit
once. Don't say to yourself, yet a little Ion
ger, and then, when become settled in life
and age has caused me TO leave off the !rlyol
ties OF youth, then will cease 10 swear
Don'l delay, friends, would say il could,t
every Swearer in the world Not word d.
We utter, but that will affect our minds through
out our whole lives. Every thought, an
deed, leaves mark which shall never be ef
faced. Man may be in the habit oil swearing
and then quit, but that mind Will never be S
pure, so free from stain, as though no ba
word had ever stained II. IL WIZ dIWaSs "
source Of regret 10 anyone to think, as HE
shadow begins 10 tngihen towards Tie even
ing Of his days, tl.at he has ever taken th
nnme of God infyoin. And how much NOR
plessan; will ops days on earth be, with wh
satisfaction shall We look back upon our pas
llves,s ifthey have been wisely spent, If =
bad habits have been praclSed, and II ou
whole lives have been as pure as we the
shall wishlhey had been My friends, | ma
bean enthusiast on 8ihis point, or perhaps
mOnomanidc, hutI can but believe that vhe
you and l-shaH stand in the presence OF God
iutiiat bright land toward which we are o
tending, we shall see blssoned before our ia
ces IN unmistakeable character, The pe.let
picture OF our whole lives. No, a word, NJ
anoct, nor O thought, or ennoliOn.wii be los
O., how many Of us viii need no sentence
but tseH-condemnet, will turn away from tn
presence oflhe good ond pure, 10 seek OF
homes among those who, like ourselves, di
despite to lie promptings oEthat better M
tufs that our Father has given us to guide 4
81 ihe right. 10 ' '..sff ,1fe'hl 20 ''.S
Such my friends, will be the'home, and'th
fate of.many, very many who ATE being edu
tedsleorder', Ia OUT dosgerles, our bar-foom
ahdotr drihkinaaHd gambling through