Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-12-12

ed by children. The creation of the world,
the origin of evil, divine foreknowledge,
human liberty,the Immortality of the soul
and various other elenen is Of elaborate
systems, belonging to childhood. Mer
trace the connections of truths, and thei1
ethical applications and relations, but the
simple elements of the most reconcile
truths seem to have gained in them very
little by the progress of years. lndeed,a
ruths whose root and life is in the Infinite
are like the fixed stars, which become nc
anger under the most powerful telescope
than to the naked eye. Their distance is
too vast to make any appreciate yaria-
ton in magnitude possible. They are
mere points of light.
Boys have their soft and gentle words
too. You would suppose by the morning
racket that nothing could be more foreign
to their nature than romauces and vague
sadness, such ideality produces in adults =
But boys have hours Of great sinking and
sadness, when kindness and fon lness are
peculiarly needful to them.
1t is worthy of notice, how soon a little
kindness, a little consideration for their
boy nature, wins their confidence and ca
~resses. Every boy wants some one older
than himself, TO whom he may 60 in moods
Of confidence and yearaing. The neglect
of the child's want, by grown up people,
and the treating of children as little noisy
imps, not yet subject to head aches, be-
cause they are SO frolicsome in general, is
a fertile source of suffering. One of the
most common forms of seltishness, is that
which refuses to recognize any experience
as worthy Of attention if it lies in a sphe re
below our own. Not only ought a manic
humble himself as a little child, but also
to little children.
A thousand things are blamed in them
simply because measured by our manhood
standard, they are unfit whereas upon the
scale of childhood they are congruous and
proper. We deny children's requests of.
ten upon the scale of our own likings and
lislikings. We attempt to govern them
by a mans regimen, and NOT by a child S.
And yet, baggered, snubbed, and scold
ed on the one hand; petted, fattered and
INDUCED on the other-it is astonishing
how many children work their way up to
an honest manhood in spite Of parents and
friends. Human nature has an element
of great tonghness to it. When we see
what men are made of, our wonder is not
that SO many children are spoiled, but that
SO many are saved.
The country is appointed of God to be
the children's nursery; the city seems to
have been made by malign spirits to de-
stroy children in. They are cramped for
room, denied exercise, restrained of whole
some liberty Of body, or if it is allowed, ii
st the risk CT morals.
.tl~ are not half educated who are not
experience of the open country. For this,
if for no other reason, parents might make
an effort every year, to remove their chill
dren for some months from the city to
the country. For the best effect, it is de
sirable that they should leave city utterly
behind them. 1t is absurd to 90 into the
country and find all the ~luxuries of a city
1t is to get rid of them that they 90. Men
are numbered an hampered by too much
convenience in the city. They grow arti-
fetal. They lose a ielish for natural beau.
ty and the simple occupation Of rural life.
Our children need separate training ii
country education. We send them tc
the Polytechnique for eight months
But for four montbs,w W. send them to(od's
school, in the openness and simplicity OF
the country. A diploma in this school
will be of service to body aad mind Will
life lasts.