Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-11-05
RigOr for Young Life.

folks need this home word from DIR. Bel
lows
Life is an earnest battle. 1t is no trife
to have nature fearfully and wonder
fnlly made-strong desires that must be
regulated, enormous exposures that must
be avoided, fatal proclivities that must
be resisted and overcome. And there
fore it is that we SO much need that ear.
ly training, that early discipline which it
is hard to see whether parents and gov
ernors are more slow to apply or child
ren and youth more reluctant to receive.
Let the fault lie where it will, it is q fatal
fault. Success, usefulness, virtue, happi-
ness, peace, salvation, heaven-all de-
pend upon your entering life fitly armed
in suitable moral harness with proper |
convictions as to what the exposures,
dangers and temptations of body and
soul are, and with such settled rules, hab-
its and principles, such trained con-
science, such an established reverence
for God and duty, as must deprive the
world of all its power to deceive and be-
tray.
Those of us who are parents should re-
member that it is we who put the harness
on our children. They don't grid them
selves. 1t is we then who are mainly
responsible for its want of strength, its
loose illfiting character. In our tender
ness we refuse to draw the buckles where
they will hold, and if the shoulder chafes
or reddens ever so little with the strap,
E we are the first to remove it. We are
sorry to think that the young bosom
must contract its inspirations beneath SO
: sturdy o coat We lift the sandals and
plead for the feet that are to press their
I rough seams but where are our recol-
lections that we do not think of the
o sharpness of the spear that that heavy
4 corselet is to resist, the weight OF the
a battle-axe that leathen head piece is to
e. annul, the roughness Of the road those
q stout shoes are to make smooth is II
4 not because of the tenderness of the flesh
! that we need our leathern mail, and are
= we to, dread our armor more than our en-
:. emy That is the miscalculation OF life
. the sacrifice of our lifelong safety te
% our immediate convenience; of our whol'
a use fulness and honor and triumph a
p men and women to our short season 0
IN careless, acknowledgement, negligent hap
4 piness, and freedom, from self-impose
MS restraint as boys and girls, as young me
10 and maidens.
The IMMuSIrIEs oETIIE PooR,-Poo
"a people never live in brown stone fronts
lie elegant villa residences with all the MI
es. den improvements. Consequently, IN II
en- dead winter their furnacegrates nev;
,as break down, their flats roofs never brea
We down, their fiat roofs never leak, the
ar water-pipes never burst. Their plat
Ike glass windows are never broken, the
for dumb-waiters never give out, their P
er- tent burglar-alarms never go off at u
to wrong time. Their coachmen never &c
nd. drunk careless servants never cra'
nd, their Sevres china. In fact, one OF t
me chief happinesses Of poverty is exeml
ent ion from the affliction of servants. ]
or Irish rage around the humble dwellin
the of the poor. When the daughters OF pt
de- erty exchange calls, their conversati
ess. may dwell on pleasanter themes them
the trials they have undergone with the COZ
zen. the minutie of the chanbermaid's sl'
as enliness, the fact that the second girl
/, it more than mistrusted of taking thing
af- it not being fashionable yet to speak
d to defalcating with the spoons, though
he shall doubtless soon reach even t
arg point of whitewashed sepulchrei'
like The enormities generally Of what Pun
the has dubbed servantgalism dist
ides not the peace of poverty.-Lippinct
$ es- Magazine.
nou ESCAPE FROM MoRMoNIsM.-The \
- :. ~ York Sun of Wednesday gives ma
ting i've of tho axner;ence Of Emily ]
es il a 5, r