Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-06-23
" Honor thy Father and thy Mother

Our young readers must bear a word of ad-
vice upon this point. Your parents are kind,
indulgent and affectionate-you love them,
they have a claim upon your love; but do
you honor them? Do you study to be re-
spectful, teachable and cOnsiderate in their
presence? Do you give heed to their admo-
nitions-do you fly to do their will-do you
study to please them? Are you careful about
your associations as we'll as your words or
acts? Perhaps, your parents sleep under
the clod. Do you remember them with af-
lection and revere their sweet memories p
They bore honorable names when alive
Truth, honesty, virtue were written upon
their shields. Have you been careful to i'm
itate their example, Or have you brought dis
honor and shame upon their good names by
your reckless, ~dishonorable course? Son,
daughter, ~recollect that God has written it
upon stone, Honor thy father and thy moth
er, that thy days may be long in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee" Are
you the son of an honorable father, and do
you join in the social glass at the saloon or
the grogs shop? Are you on the high-road to
drunkenness and disgrace by indulging the
intoxicating beverage? What can more dis
honor your parents than this !? Young man,
: if you want long life and honor, Honor thy
father and thy mother" Learn a lesson
young men, young women, from a heath en-.
When Cyrus, afterward the sovereign of Per-
STA, had attained full age, it is said, he was
:; offered the hand of the daughter of Cyaxares,
: his only child, in marriage, with a pledge of
the throne of Media. TWAS a tempting offer ;
one that most men would have readily en-
= braced. But Cyrus has been schooled to du-
ty-taught to honor his parents. Favorable
Ior as his own judgement was to the proposition,
and strongly inclined as he was to accept it, he
declined to accept until he had counseUed uiE
hisJather andmother. What a fine pattern fol
modern imitation. How few young men pur
sue the wise and prudent course of Cyrus ii
-, forming matrimonial alliances. Indeed, how
many a spoiled girl of this age, feels it to be
J. quite alettingdown to consult Ma and Pa at
:. proper time on matters of this kind. Puffe,
up with a fancied' self importance-dreami
that they are wiser than their parents, man
a hair-brained girl has rushed heedlessly int
the most solemn and most difficult of all rC
sponsibilities, and alas when too late, hav
bitterly mourned their folly. Life to such
apt to be short. Their days have been fe'
in the land, Let the young take warning.
'TRUE.-Says Rev. VIM. Reid, a distinguish
ed European clergyman | have been doir
-. what has laid in my power for the last twel,
years, by press and voice, for the revival
5d1 true religion; but l must now express it
my matured and solemn conviction, that v
have no ground for expecting any extensi
U0 awakening and conversion of the careless al
ungodly, until the ministers of religion al
Christians generally abstain from all into1
- eating beverages declare themselves unequ
Co. Vocally on the side of sobriety, and thro
- themselves into the breach caused hy4i
Ill liquor traffic, determined to roll back the
Re-. gions of intemperance, and by becoming
, tho ~vocates of abstinence and prohibition,
rand their utmost speedily to put to fight the
on mics of the alien"