Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-06-15

! Nv "eJ oy Wnlcn we can surround ourselve
by good society so readily as by being rooc
ourselves. II we plant good seed, we ma,
calculate with great degree of certainty
upon securing good fruit. Ill plant frank
ness ana open heartedness, l expect to rear
them and | have no right to expect tc
reap them unless plant them. If L 20 tc
man with my heart in my hand. | have
goou reason for expecting to meet mar
win h's heart in his hand. Frankness be
gers irGnEness, just as naturally and Just a.
certainty, under the proper conditions, a!
IKE produces like in the animal and vegeta
ole kingdoms There are men who dC
everything by indirection, who meet one Il,
"ar'Iy as II words were traps and pitfalls
VINO manage friendly interview as a genc
raj would manage campaign, and if they
make thelr demonstration FIRST, we are plac
ed upon our guard We unconsciously be
come wary aud distrustfnl They plant dis
trust aud Secretiyenes', and they produce
in us after their kind No man can be treat
ed frankly in this world unless he himself bC
frank. If we would win confidence to our.
selves, we must put confidence in others
The soul is like mirror, rejecting that
which stands before it.
The young naturally take on the mood.
and accept and reflect the influences around
them more readily than the old, Just as a
new piece OF land vii produce better crop
than one which is worn or pre.occupied. A
virgin mind is like virgin soil. It con.
talns all the elements of fertility. and is
adapted 10 the production of any crop H.
has been exhausted in no department of its
constitution. 1t is not occupied by roots.
aud shaded by foliage. 1t is not turf bound
ana dry, but is soft and open, and clean
and moist, and ready for the reception of
any seed that may fall upon it. Until age
brings Individuality, the mind seems to
have little choice as to what it will receive
Then, indeed, 1t does reject much seed that
falls upon, aud much fails to take root be-
cause OF the pre-. occupation of the surface
a sensual seed is planted in the soul of a
young man, and produces its kind but
the same seed tossed upon an older soil fail,
10 sink and germinate, because the surface
is pre-occupied, or, more frequently, because
that peculiar element Oh which the germ
must rely for quickening aud sustentation
has been exhausted. Some manly or Chris
tian grace falls upon young mind, and
quickly strikes root and rises into flower
aud fruit, while the same grace throwa upon
an adult mind would fail 10 reach the soil,
through the vices that cumber and choke
it. 1t is thus thas home and the school
room are literally seminaries-plnces where
| seed is sown--and it is 10 these that we ex.
pect and intend that every seed shall pro.
duce after its kind lie, US talk about this
little.
once heard person say that one OF
his acquaintances whom he named. had no
moral right to have child Why was
this harsh judgment uttered Because he
was hercditarily scrofulous, and would ne.
cessarily entail upon his offspring the fami-
y taint. If there were even a show of
justice in this what must be said of pa.
rent who does not possess a single
moral quality that even he, a the
selfshneSs Of his parental love, would desire
to see implanted in his child 2 How many
homes are scattered over Christendom 10
which no good seed is sown How many
selfish, niggardly, vicious parents are there,
who, producing after their kind, by genera
tion and by influence, are filling the world
with selfish niggardIy and vicious children!
How many homes are there in which the
gentle words of love are never heard in
which the tender graces of Christian
heart are never uttered How many ia.
theirs arc there whose lips are black with
profanity and foul with obscenity, and
Eyo and hnIn I
How many mothers are there whose tongues
are nmbIe with scandal aud bitter with
scoldiug, and whose brains are busy with
vanites and jeaIousies Ali ! if there be
any man or woman in this world who has
no moral right to have child, it is one
who has not single trait Of character de-
sirable to be reproduced in child. Scrof.
ula may be bad, but sin is worse. Bodily
taint may be terrible, but spiritual taint is
horrible
1t is a general truth, under the law that
everything Produces after its kind, that
children become what their parents are. A
simple people, virluous aud healthy, will
produce VirluOus, healthy and true-hearted
children. A luxurious people-lazy, sen.
sual, wasteiul-will produce children like
themselves. If we go through The vicious
quarters Of great city, where licentious,
nesSs aud drunkenness and beastly vices
prevail, we shall Gnd that though all die
before old age, the communities are abun-
dsntly recruited by the children which they
produce. Men, principles, ideas, vices, all
have children, whose features betray
their parentage ; so that no parent has a
right to expect a child to be better than
its father aud mother On the contrary,
be has reason to believe that every.
thing child sees wrong in the parents
will be initiated There is no way by
which bad parents can bring upa family
we'll. There must be in the parental life
good principles, a sweet and equable tenn
per, tender aud loving disposition, hrm
seIf.conlrO, pleasant department, and a
conscientious devotion to duty, or these
will not be found in the life of the children.
Bad seed, sown in ne quick soil OF chlId'S
mind, is sure to spring up, and to bear fruit
alter its kind. No sensible man ever dreams
Of gathering figs from thstlCs, or grapes
from bramble. bushes, and no man has the
slightest right to suppose that ne can bring
up family to be better than he is, The
plant will be true TO The seed ....
We are in the habit OF bearing that the
children of a certain neighborhood, or