Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-06-29
A Word to Parents.


around you the circle of your health
full and beautiful children. VIII you
bring contagion into such circle as
this? Shall those sparkling eyes be-
come inhamed, those rosy checks pur-
pied and bloated, that sweet breath
be tainted, those ruby lips be blistered
and that vital tone of unceasing cheer
fulness be turned into tremor and
melancholy? Shall those joints so
compact be unstrung, that dawning
intellect be clouded, those affectionate
sensibilities benumbed, and those ca
pacities for holiness and heaven be
filled with sin and fitted for destruct-
ion. o; thou father, was it for this
that the Son of God shed his blood
for thy precious offspring; that, aban-
doned and even tempted by thee they
should destroy themselves and pierce
the heart vii h many sorrows p
Wouldst thou let the wolf into thy
sheep-fold, among the tender lambs =?
Wouldst thou send thy flock to Craze
about the den of lions? Close then
thy doors against more ferocious
destroyer and withhold the footsteps
of thy immortal progeny from places
of resort more dangerous than the
lions den.
Should a serpent ofvast dimensions
surprise in the field one of your little
group, and wreath about his body its
cold elastic folds, tightening with every
breath its deadly grippe, how would
his cries pierce your soul and his
strained eyeballs and convulsed ago
nies and imploring hands add wings
to your feet and supernatural strength
to your arms But in this case you
could approach with hope to his res
cue. The keen edge of steel might
sunder the elastic folds and rescue the
victim, who the moment he is released
breathes freely, and is well AGAIN
But the serpent Intemperance twines
about the body of your child dead
lier grippe and EFFORTS a keener cry of
distress, and mocks your effort to re-
lease him by a fibre which no steel
can sunder. @ .T -f
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while bone after bone Of your child is
crushed, till his mortal agonies are
over, and his cries are hushed in
death. DR.. BEECHER.
The INTEMPERATE YOUNG MAN,
Drunk! My boy drunkT' and tears
started from the mothers eyes and
she bent her head in unutterable sor-
row. In that moment the visions of
a useful and honorable career were
destroyed, and one of worthlessness
| if not absolute dishonor presented it.
self Well did she know that intem-
perance walks hand in hand with pow
erty, shame, and death, and her moth
er heart, pierced as witba sharp-point-
F ed steel. All! young man, if the holy
feeling of love for her who bore you
is not dead within you, shun that
which gives her pain; adhere to that
F which gives her joy. If she is with
you on earth, she does not, can not
desire to see her son drunkard. IF
she is with her Father in heaven, shun
that course of life which shuts the
; gates of heaven against you, and de-
bars you from her society forever
The drunkard can not inherit the king
dom of God. J o. nd
APPETITE AND IT'S ABUsEs.-It is q
generally understood fact, that God
! ordained all things in this world for
the especial use Of man, at the some
time giving him the necessary reason
: ing faculties to determine what was
= and was not good for him, both as re-
CARDS the nature, quality and quantity
of it. There is no appetite that man
has, but what he can abuse, unless he
, will restrain it; and we know of no
! law by which he can be prevented
+ from doing SO, unless it may be the
J moral law, and that to be effective,
must be inculcated by our mothers,
} under religious training.
5 Some indulge to such an excess in
. eating that they become gluttons, and
: die at an early age; as for instance
: the man who lately, in Ohio, ate fifteen
y hard boiled eggs, and died the next
. hour. Others contract habits of eat,
: ing luxurious food, and die of gout
, and apoplexy before arriving at mid
L die life. Others allow their appetite
81 for strong drink to grow upon them
! to such an extent that they sacrifice
l 4 family, pride, property, health-every-
? thing in fact that is worth living for
z and frequently end their days by
J suicide 81 .aofss5s aIogig
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