Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-07-27
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From the Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent
Journal.
A MOTHERS TRIAL.


man, who was also ready at every cali Of duty,
and kept her lamp always trimmed and burn
ing.
With meek and conscientious fidelity she
also sought 20 train up her children in the
way they should go, not omittng the occa-
siona application Of Solomon's prescription
yet many confession she made upon bended
knees, and many a tear shed in the night hours
over her own shortcomings and the departure
Of here family from the path Of rectitude.
But with this laboring and praying mother
there was Que stereotyped style Of goodness,
and 1t was to produce this in all under her
charge that she abored. Servants and chill
dren alike were expected TO become passive,
unquestioning tame-spirtcd recipients of her
theology, or they were in the d" gall Of Bit
terness and the bonds of iniquity.' No mat
ter il nature had made a fiery impetuous
Peter, grace must make him docle undem-
onstrauve John. Good Mrs. Chase un-
derstood duty better than she did human ma
ture, but sometimes her ignorance Of the one
led her into a misintcrpretation Of the other.
She had four children, two meek, submissive
girls, and two boys. one Of whom was too
young as yet TO be the object or cause Of much
anxiety; the other, with whom our story has
most TO do, a fiery, impetuous, fun-loving
schoolboy of ten years rejoicing in mischief
and not repenting very etfcctually, except
when he felt that he had given pain TO one he
loved and he loved as he did everything
else with an dHimus.
With this boy. this erratic, willful, master
Fred. lay Sister Chaso's sorest trouble
Where could he have got such nature!"
she asked herself in prepleXity. Certainly
not from nc and IL il were in their father,
why have not the other children inherited IT,
Mrs Chase was firm believer IN total dcpra-
witty ;-if she bad ever been sccptical on that
point, she would have been restored to
soundness after short experience in manag-
{ ing Fred When the boys crratic propensi-
ties began 20 manifest themselves In his baby
hood, bis mother was puzzled, for the young
Z tyrant would lie awake when all Christian
babies ought 90 be asleep he would scream
from no conceivable cause, and manage TO
fight strong battles with those two red fists of
his when he should have quietly submitted
q TO his morning ablutions. As soon as he
grew large enough to run about the house,
which was earlier than any other child of the
family, he was into everything - nothing
could be kept safe from his dcpredations un.
{ less out Of his reach and the quiet, nicely
kept furniture Of the Chase domicle received
more scatches, dents, and belaborings geuer-
ally, than during the entire previous period
of It's household use After a while these
practices where checked by wholesome disci-
plne but what was kept under in one place
B would crop out in another. At church he
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