Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-19
MANS DESTINY.

The appearance of q man upon the scene
of being constitutes new era in creation;
the operations of a new instinct come into
play that instinct which anticipates life
affer the grave, and reposes implicit faith
upon God alike just and good, who is the
pledged "rewurder of all who diligently seek
Him." And in looking along the long line
of being--ever rising in the scale from higher
to yet higher manifestations, or abroad on
the lower animals, whom instinct never de,
ceives-can we hold that man, immeasura-
bly, higher in his place, and infinitely higher
in his hopes and aspirations than all that
ever went before him should be, notwith-
standing. the one grand error in creation
the one painful worker, in the midst OF
present troubles, state into which he is
never to eHter--the befooled expectant of
happy future which he is never to see? As
surediy no. !. He who keeps faith with His
humble creatares--who gives even the bee
apd the dormouse the winter for which they
prepare--will to a certainty not break faiih
with man-wi,h man, alike the deputed
lord of the present creation. and the chosen
heir of all the future. We have been look
ing abroad on the old geologic barying-
grounds, and deciphering the strange in
scriptions on their tonbs, but there are
other burying- grounds aud other tombs--
solitary church-ya yards amongshe hills, where
the dust of martyrs lie, and tombs that rise
over the ashes of the wise and good; nor
are there wanting, on even the monuments
of the perished race, frequent hierogly phics
and symbols of high meaning, which darkly
intimate to US, that while their burial yards
contain but the debris of the past, we are
10 regard the others as charged with the
sown seed of the future. : Hugh Miller.
THE FAMILY CIRCLE.
The Baltimore Sun alluding TO the preva-
lence of crime among boys, very properly
asserts that one of the main causes of de-
cline of morality is the decay of parental
discipline. The family circle, the domestic
hearth, is the true fountain of purity or cor :
ruption of public morals. Most people be-
come what they are made ut. home. They
60 forth into the world, TO act out the char
acter they have formed in the first fourteen
years of their lives.
is it alleged that children have become
more unmanageable than they used to be
we tCpiy hO0L HuittAu ubo mum ~
relations are unchanged
Children are just as amenable to authority
as they ever were. This is the main Pur-
pose for which Providence has made them
helpless and dependent, that they may be
trained to obedience, to order, to industry
and to virtue. 1t is not true that parents
have not as absolute control over their chill.
dfen as they ever had. Where there is de-
pendence, obedience may be enforced. The
real fact is, that parents are too indoient
too negligent, too Indifferent to take the
pains to train up their children in the way
they should go. 1t requires perpetual vigil
ance, and they get tired. 1t requires self
control to exercise proper authority ovei
Others. Self-ccnquest is the greatest victc,
ry of all. There can be no just parenta
discipline when there is no character tt
back it.