The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-13

passed from arm to arm for the many
contributions of affection that are wait
ing in competition upon it. These
graces are of incalculable value to the
little soul, little does the ordinary moth
er think of the amount of good for life
She is doing while impressing the in
raliable kiss in the unconscious attitude
of maternal love. He discovers no
selfshness there, but believes that his
mother is allhis-lives for him, to keep
and bless him. 1t is not only adapting
him to aproper standing in a world of
brethren, but fitting his life to God,
true worship depends upon matured
affections and confidence; and what
ever influences to this habit not only
secures virtue but piety. The piteous
reply toimost charges of vice might be
81 had no mother or home during
childhood, or, they were not made low
ing to mel" it might alsoays be "I
hare not learned to looe and trust
felt no heart locked in mine, in which
/ could conide my interest. A careful
observation of evil shows that the chief
cause is want Of the interest in hu-
manity. The wretch feels himself an
outcast, and that humanity is false, be-
traying, and abstractly selfish, and tn at
its refinement is its disguise, SO that
the law of Jselfpreservation demands
that he must "play his own part -
Not few are puzzled to al,oays see
the Divine face of Humanity, but the
individual rarely commences precip-
liant decline from virtue till his faith
is gone 10 e'1iioir1'2a si1 eHihi'la'D
While we recognize in man the pow
err to will, we must duly consider the
force of circumstances, and the advan-
tage of light and its capacity. What
he is, he very much owes to the train
of conditions through which his life
has passed. He moves the victim OF
hidden forces, and though he may be
aware of it, and of the means of pre-
vention, despite his own efforts, his life
is projected through home made char
acter till it has expended its force.
And no family is so poor as not to have
the temporary means of making a good
one. None is wanting in time, none is
wanting in skill and science. r The
history of great men has established
the fact that it is not money, nor sci
ence bred parents. Disposition is the
endowment of an education. And thi.
is as practicable in ''poverty'svale" asir
the abundance of wealth. If it be sait
l have not the time and cannot endure
the labor, I would ask for what do yor
use time, and for what do you labor
/ if not for your and your family's good
Will you give your children wealth
and not character to preserve it, O
profit by it? or, will you see that the,
are we'll provided with a knowledge o
the way of life and the things tha
make for their actual peace. Besides
do not discover that you reed NOR
: time nor to labor more only condue
/. | = q {
/ your life right, through your time an
labor. What the young child mus
have he gets from your spirit, not fror
your intellect. He cannot comprehen
what you say, but what you constant
feel Z The son bestrides his stick o
5 trundles his wagon not because he see
. any use in it or that he wishes to lear
: the art of horsemanship, but becaus
: he glories inthe disposition of his fatt
er. The same may be said of tn
: daughter that handles the domesti
toys or dresses the doll-she does j
: not that she wishes to benefit any on
:, or learn the art of house -wifery, bu
i she loves to deport herself in the mar
v ner of her mother, for she talks to he
!, symbolic infant as nearly as she can j
the spirit and habit of her own man:
And we can set down in the nursery {
9 children and soon see how .smamma
l. talks and acts toward her children; s
n accurately does her habit fix upon til
, nature of the child. 1t is idle to pr
. sumo to advance the young mind upo
!; a standard of principle by simply d
Al scribing its preference to him, for /
s. should be will fxede uponit before re
% son dawns; and while we wait for th'
1period, perhaps, unperceived to us b
will have climbed high upon anothe
'e If therefore the parent wishes we'll fl
e the child, and desires to secure to
10 the best lot in life, he must look abo
. and choose a standard for it, assume
!. himself and daily live it out before hin
is 81 samoo sd smi5 ~ A CITIZEN.
Is By. WHAT AUTHoRITY THE re
d tapists at Albany persist in thrown
i. impediments in the way of our troop
- Yesterday, ]. Meredith Read, Adjqtar
General of the State of New or
1t telegraphed from Albany to Colon