Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-08-30
AInIess Lives.


Those are most unfortunate persons,
who are by their parents wealth relased
from their responsibility kindnstry- rpoil-
cd children Of the rich. Wealth in par.
entS' hands may enlarge the bonnds Of op.
portunity without destroying the motives in
the child, Of industry, aud sagacity and
perseverance but be is wise parent who
knows both how to earn and how to hold
The administration Of bis wealth. in such
way that he shall not destroy by it these
motives Of his child. When child secret
y knows that his fortune is secured 10 his
father, and that whether be exerss himself
or not, his prospects in life are very good,
be is apt to put forth little or no exertion,
There are many, thank God ] who are
made of such stuff that this will not satisfy
them. They have sterling independence.
There is 10 them an intrinsic pleasure In
ception Of manhood that is entirely incom.
patible with dependence upon others. But
too many accept this condition, rejoice in
it and hold back listlsss because the mo.
tives of industry are removed from them.
Blessed are those bankruptcies that, over.
throwing the fathers, build up the child.
ren. Many and many q man has asked OF
God and got of the devil, the continuance
of bis wealth, and the children we're sacvi.
feed. Many and many man has held up
trembling hands Of imploration to God, and
God lovep him too well TO hear
what he said, and let fly the bolts Of His
Providence, aud scattered the mans wealth,
and left his children to proverty, as the
world said, MOI to education; to neces-
sity, Want, suffering, cogent crowding
necessity, are kinder to your children than
you are. Yonr love is worse for them.
many times, than natures severity. What
they had needed long, and had not peceiv.
ed at your hands they got in your disas.
ter-the indispensable necessity of raising
up, and having q plan of life, and carry,
ing it out day by day. But there are
many who unfortunately live on without
being reduced to this necessity, and
who therefore manifest no considerable dc.
gree of energy. How many painted men
and women there are. How many houses
there are 10 which the boys and girls, for
aught that they do and are are of no more
Importance than the portraits that hang
around the rooms The old portraits
never talk; they comprehend nothing; they
are but spectral pictures on the walls
And in how many households will you find
shadowy children They are good
enough, and kind enongh, but there ia
nothing of them. They have no grit, no
will, no executive power. They are mere
pale, outline portraits of men that would
have, if they had anything to create them.
For it is not birth, but life, that gives men
into life. 1t is what you give yourself and
not what you have from father and moth.
er, that makes you fully born. Men are
not born till they are well grown and well
filed up. In this dismal happiness, in this
wrechedness of affluence, in the simlessness
and Istlessness of life that is surrounded
by such abundance that there is no pressure
Of motive, how many there are that merely
stand in life. without growth and without
fruit While they are present they are
not felt, and when they go they are not
missed. A great many people feel that
this is so.--H W. BescAer,