The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-05-06
555}l6Srsoll gatelliget1ter.
I'll Take What Father Takes


I'll Take What Father Takes,
:s:M. hatMil you take. to drink ?''~ asked
the waiter Of young lad, who for the
first time accompanied his tather.to pub,
lie dinner. Uncertain what to- say, ana
!. feeling sure that he would not be wrong
.Tke followed hissfathers example, he re-
piled, seTll take what father takes.
The answer reached his fathers: ear,
and Instantly the responsibility of his 20;
sition, flashed upon him. If he said, "l1l
takelaie, ,'.,Ss ashe had always said before,
his son would take it also, and then! And
the father shuddered as tho history OF
several young men, who: once promising
Sas his own bright. LAC, had been ruined y by
srrong drink, ,startedeup in solemn warn va m
ing before him. Should his hopes all De
blasted, and that open-faced noble lad De,
come q. burden and q curse asthey .nao
sbecome9a But for strong drink they
,x2Wou|d have been active, earnest, prosper
ons; men: and if it could work such rum
supon fhem:yEas- own ad .sist :eaicier
= Ban i ghtning these thoughts passed
4 through his mind, and in moment the
decision. was made. ;t' #. the boy falls ho
Shall not have meto blame" )" and in tones
.tremulous with emotion, to the astonlsh-
--s;jnlentof those who knew him, said, 'sWalt-
@er. take water;''' and from that day to
His strong drink has been banished from
that mans table and; from that mans
:, home. s.:.1a...s. = ee....ss....@s
; That young lad in:the brief utterance,
was reallythe representative OF the gen,
,h@;eration to which he belongs. God has
so directedit, that a father is the highest
.safithority;in the worldtolhis child. w no
does not know. that s.AIy father said So"
.issthe end-of controversy with the little
.,.ones around >us WHO does not see the
parents tones, and gait, and manners, re-
: produced continually in the children,
whose nature is now .soft as wax orc
eeiye. an impression, and rigid as marble
I to retain 1t; = and who watch with quick
:; and Initiating eye, those who, to them,
{. are God S viceregents
Would that swe.c could impress upon the
sfafligr sssffafligrs and, mothers Of this country the
soiemn fact that the: future character Of
the children is.being formed by them.
That if they are trained up in the way
hiey.should go, when they are old they
:. sNilI net5depart fromsit. But if they be-
come vain, sensual, and degraded, the
seed will have been deposited, and the
bias given in the early morning of their
lives IF we.teach them that strong drink
j IS asgood creature of God; they will be-
!. .lfeTe us; ndwhen, depending upon our
dgment and truth, they shall have taken
ii, and it shall have shown itself to. be the
a.deVil's masterpiece, and have bitten,
/. crushed, and dragged them down to ruin,
isssre may weep and pray as we please; the
Hame will bo our own, and we must not
:. accuse God, or cast reflection upon the
Gospel. We shall have sown to the flesh
mud of the flesh have l.eaped corruption.
: God willha7e visited the sins of the father
; upon. the children They only took what
their. fathers took. Ii, ON thc other hand,
: We banishstbe fiends from our homes, and
:. in the hours when their young and trust
tug hearts are, most open to our Teachings
i we tell them that wine is d mocker, that
.cgtrorg drink is raging, and warn them
.thatsno serpent is so dangerous. no adder
So much to be dreaded, we shall be-co
workers, with that al-nerciful and wise
God; Who, TO- preserve them from taking
it, has sent them into the world with a
]. Ioathing:of its taste. Our children. will
Believe us: They will grow up with nat
!: ural instinct, fortified by our instructions
: and examples They will be preserved
from tie poisonous. influences Of the de-
! stroyer. There willsbe a bridgeless gulf
ss555ketWesn them, and the companions who
Z are most likely to lead them into the
saswaystof sim They will be preserved from
habits electromagnetic and waste. They
,aEill have no companions but those who
walk in the ways of God, no employment
fof their spare time, but that which is
zelevating and purifying; and when we
5xpass to our reward, they will rise up and
call rs blessed. for they "took what their
: fathers took. .""-Erchange,
sAlBAEY SoInooUY.-I am here. And,
ST this is what they call the world, don't
think much of 1t. It's a very tiannelly
world, and smells OF paragolic awfuly.