Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-09-07

gel Of death comes with his cold and icy
hand. No, no. The teacher and minister
cannot always be with your child.
But, my fathers and mothers, you can.
Iou can be. with your children when the
evening shades are gathering and darkness
is covering the face of the great deep"
When all nature is wrapped in slumber-
when nothing is to be heard save the baying
of the dog, the hooting of the owl, the rum
bling of the thunder or the whistling of the
wind-then within the silent halls of your
own dwelling, surrounded by your wife and
children, a lovely band, you can teach such
lessons and impart such instruction as will
be forthc best interests of the immortal souls
of your children. And when the hour for
retiring comes, you can teach your child to
fold its hands and close its eyes in prayer
that God everlasting arms may be around
and about it for good. You can be with
your child when it awakes from it's slanibers
and teach it to join with the laughing flow
ers, the babbling brooks and the singing
birds in their songs Of praise to the eternal.
You can be with your sons and daugtors
when they start out upon litc's tcmpcstuous
sea, to become the fathers and mothers of
our land, then you can tell them to guard
against the evils of thcirown hearts, as well
as the sinks of vice and crime by which they
will be bcsct You can be with your child
when the reaper whose name is Death
comes, and as he is snatching away your
child, you can point it to Him who said,
Suffer little children to come unto me
and forbid them not.
You can teach your children regularity
obedience, politeness, industry and charita-
blcness. You know not but that these lit
tie girls Of yours, around whose foreheads
arc hanging silkcn turls, may be the future
mothers of Washington, a Calvin, Il Lu-
ther, Wesley, or a Campbell. These lit
tie boys may fill the halls Of legislation, the
schools Of philosophy, the ranks of ltcra-
ture, the marts Of trade, the pulpit, the
desk of the editor, or the chair Of the teach
er Of common schools.
Then inspire them with a high sense of
justice, and you, will elevate jurisprudence
and humanize laws. There is no calling
however high and glorious, which these
little children may not fill Oh then, let
us cnkindlc their genius, give right dircc-
ton to their thoughts and high aim to
their young aspirations for excellence; thus,
we will have performed II great and grand
act toward the elevation Of our country and
the cvangelization Of the world. Let us
see that our children attend the Sabbath
school, the great reforming and regcnera-
ting instrument of the age, around which
cluster the hopes of the improvement Of
the race, and in which assemble innocent
childhood and generous youth, full of gen
tcncSs, docility and intelligence; the hopes
of our country, the stream which shall 90
forth to make glad the city of God. All,
but says some one, have not the education
to do all this Well, my friends, adopt
: the language of the Grecian poet who says,
II learn what's to be taught, | seek what $
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Scholars, a few words to you and am
done. You have been attending Sabbath
school, and many have been the lessons you
have rccitcd under your respective teachers.
$ You have learned that there is God; that
| He created the rounded woods, dark with
4 heavy foliage, the laughing fields, the dint-
cd hills, the valleys, the lakes, the rivers
and the ocean. You have been taught that
{ He sent forth His only bcgottcn and wei
beloved Son to die that you might live
n You have learned that He has prepared
c mansions of rest for all those who love Hin
Z and keep His commandments. Now, i
c you will remember and practice these teach
d ings, you will live lives of honor and di,
d deaths of peace. You will "makeyourlve
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