Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-01-31
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From the Sunday School Times.
| WON'T,
Br THE AuTHoR OF AUNT BETSY S RULE"

Children, boys especially, like to say
81 won't" Perhaps they may be glad
to know tha' thorc is Il right place to
say it. There are times when it is the
best word To use.
One Of the right places for boy to
say'l WON'T right up and down, with
out any pOliteness Of tone or manner,
is when he is tempted by other boys
to do what be knows to be wrong.
On snch an occasion let boy come
out with Il won't" full and clear,
sharp enough to cut through all oppo-
sltlon, and namely enough 10 fill the
tempter with confusion; tor bad boy
is easily siienced, if one who knows
what Is II ght will st;and up TO him and
face him down rcsolutcly y The Bible
tells us that If we resist thc devil he
will flee from us o. course, then, a
bad boy, who cannot be supposed TO
have us much cunning an,i courage as
the devil, would give up if mantully
met, and resisted
Il say, Harry Lorton, don't You
want to go fishing this afternoon p
''Oh yes. Where are you going o.
"To willow Brook, and, Harry. we
are Just going OF without saying any
thimg about it,"
] his was said by Ben White, a. tie
two boys were leaving the schno:
premises.
"Why must mt ne tell OF il, Ben
III tell you. You know t.t. n.:.i,.,.
e;sld he had been sent for, since u ~.
tered the school room. - -.,. {. .:...-
ls.i,I'!, so he had ~udd.ny y .tye.r-d g,
itave nu sci,u>i this afternoon ~,
=" n"y- are jaet going t. So. If Ia
.:','..'t a. usual. and inun s!art aIIl !.r
" ;i.'W- Brook"
"3ut / must ask leave at hom.
Bat You see this is different. Ne
snail be gone only as long as we are
away at school, and nobody will know
we have been anyw here else. Sam
Motion says it will be capital fun"
as he going?'
Yes, he knows where he can get
a boat"
Il promised my father that | would
not 90 with Sam Motion, because he
swears.'
"You can be good yourself. SO that
won't hurt you? You can take care
Of yourself can't you?"
"Why, yes, guess | can. But then
| promised"
well, yon needn't 90 with him Go
with nae. am not bit afraid OF nciug
hurt
If should deceive my father, he
>roald never trust me again He said
10 me the other day never try to de
ceive me, Harry. If you should, it
would he II dagger in my heart So l
must ask him if | may go"
"But we don't want anybody to
know it. And nobody will, unless you
go and blab, and Harry, there needn't
be any fuss about it. You are TO 20
with me and have nothing to do with
Sam. Motion. 1t is capital day for
trout, aud we shall have IA sail, and be
at home just at the time we come from
school" -..s..
Il wish | could CO." said Harry, as
this tempting picture of pleasure was
presented, and it somehow seemed to
him little different from planning out
a regular excursion unknown to his
parents.
We cannot exactly tell how. or why,
it seemed 50, but we know boys, when
they want to do II thing very much,
have way of pretending that their
parents did not forbid exactly this very
thing. Harry tried TO think that as
his father let him go off and stay du-
ring school hours, and let him do as he
pleased during the recess, and as tins
afternoon was only longer recess, nc
might just play at Willow Brooli as
well as in the school grounds What
difference was there?