Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-10-10
IHAvET'T TIME.

I HAVEN'T TINE is the somniic, erring man
gives to crying Conscience, a quietus given,
when other lullings fail.
| hayenttime. pleads the father, to see to
my childrens mental and moral culture. /
havn't time to learn what company they
seek and keep, or what language they use, or
how they treat their mother and each other.
1t takes all of my time to attend to my farm
and business-to see to my fences, fields,
garden and cattle-to get my fuel and mill
ing and to do mytrading. haven't time to
look after the children, their mother must do
that, she has nothing else to do.
I hayen'ttime, signs the mother, to instruct
my children as | ought. | haven't time even
to learn how they are progressing and con-
Quoting at school much less to read to them
and talk with them of Calvary and the New
Jerusalem. They will have to read for
themselves; ittakes all my time to do their
work and mine-breakfast, dinner and sup
per to get-baking, washing, hopping,
cleaning, sewing, mending, knitting and eve
rything else to do. @, dear! I haven't time
to teach the children anything! But, then,
they 60 to school and their teachers have
nothing to do but to instruct them.
| haven't time, laughs the brainless belle,
to help mother in the kitchen, or to learn
how to cook and SOW. | haven't time to
spend evenings as my brothers would like to
have me, in reading, playing, and talking
with them. / haven't time to read dry Phil
osophy, Metaphysics and other things thai
men study. Ohi.Iw so glad that, in ouy
society; Il IS xsredghk vulgar for a lady Il
know anything of Church or State affairs
l am glad that we ladies are not expected te
be conversant with such thrash" as foreign
and domestic news. I am glad that | an
not a "strong minded" woman; for my part
[ am perfectly contented to let the men mo
nopolize all the knowledge, business, worl
and pay, all | want is to have my spendin;
money furnished me.
[ haven't time, like some, to go abou
town hunting needy widows and orphans, o
to play the good Samaritan It takes m
three hours every day to make my toilet
then, my birds to attend to, my practicine
calls to make and receige,-shopping t
do,-dresses to get made and re-made.
haven't time, now, to read the novels an
stories that / would like, and much less tin
to spend in the kitchen or in the study.
: haven't time, says the penurious, ina
: tive temperance man, tojoin any formal ter
, perance society with initiation fees and dues
, it takes a great deal of time and money f
: [ shall never become a drunkard, even if e
6 OIJ OtAlOl " "CtS u StOStSlIOp3 dIIU IL W
, ers want rum and are fools enough to drin
q | am not going to trouble myself about the
affairs, or interfere with their business.
+ haven't time to hunt up rumsellers and d
: tillers, and talk with them of the happy
h suits of honest industry and sobriety.
!, haven't time to show them that they are t
first cause of making and spreading that p
4 son which is SO fast killing both body a
% soul. | haven't time to spend in helpi
: raise low, filthy, degraded drunkards FRI
the gutter it is their own choice, they {
~ remain there, they are free moral agents
But, ali there is altime when, 4 have
- time loses its lulling power; a time, WI
h it somnifereus virtues are changed to exi
II ing v~isitants a time, when those who h;
> used most viii see plainest, it's deceptive
II fuence.
10 Hark! haven't time, means the dying
bauchee, [ haven'ttimenow to hear your tea
ings. Why, o why, didn't you talk W
m me of these things before? [ haven't til
% now, to reform and make amends! And
10 death-enamelled eye wandered from his n
awakened father to his s~oulzwounded ms
er. Sister the deadnE-ssahds, in this |
SIS of Bibles and Reform, without one person
es his youth or manhood speaking kindly
earnestly with him, of his immortal SOU
,ss virtue, or Of sobriety. In his youth he
nd been neglected, reproved, and npbraide6
of his manhood he had been sighted, shun
nv and despised; but never, never had a fir
addressed his better nature, and angry II
but drove him on madly to dissipation.
Go, father, mother, sister, and temper;
man, go, now, and wash your hands,
"A Plate but will not his blood stain /,
~ hands Forever? :