The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-20

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| CHILDREN keep our feelings fresh. The
heart often grows old before the body
| and the hearts growing old has often a
before its time I've seen men old at
thirty, and men young at sixty. Children
bring man back to his early days; they
| make a man to be boy and woman to
be girl once again. / saw our doctor
| the other day playing cricket with his lit
tie boy, six years old; he had five stones
set one atop of another for wickets, and
| his crooked walking stick for bat; and
| the young chap was working all his might
| to bowl MIN out. The doctors whole
heart was in the game, and he laughed fit
to split his sides; and all this while there
was grand cricket match worth seeing
the doctor therefor he had been a great
cricketer when he was young? Because
youth is our fresh time, and what
brings us back to youth brings us
back to the old fresh thoughts and
feelings; and this was Just the way the
doctor used to play with his brother when
they We're children-long, long before he
thought of giving any body physic, and
when he took precious little Of it himself
The child was drawing away the DOCTOR
mind from his cares-and, poor man! he
had plenty of them al the time-ard STIR
ring up his spirits. Depend upon it, his
blood coursed more quickly through his
veins after that game of cricket than it
did before 5-g ar ov f7t
Children give us healthy springs and
motives for work A child makes the
parents feel that they are looked forward
70 as proVlders-of course, under God
for He is the great provider for all. 1t
makes a man feel himself to be somebody
when he gathers the children round him
and looks at then, and says to himself,
They're all looking to their mother and
me; I'll buckle to like man, and they
shan't want if can get"
Is it not something to feel ones self
valued and loved; to feel, "Well, how
ever little | may be made of in the world,
l know place where I'm put at high
| 1gure?" No man should be ticketed up a
bargain in his own house; bargains don't
| pay anywhere, least of all at home. There
was Mrs White, a neighbor of mine in
former times, and she used often to say, Il
like my husband always to come to a ris-
ing market-the price of him is always
going up. l am always raising it; and
Pm teaching the children to raise it; and
the good mans feeling himself more
precious to us all every day. IT'S fine
thing, and better than any drink in the
world to cheer man up, to have the testi-
mony OF ones conscience as to having
done ones duty; and when Joseph sees
the children all decent and dressed in his
earnings, and fat upon them, depend upon
1t he's happy; If he weren't happy he
wouldn't call me mother in the way he
does"
But" says Mr.. Jakes, "hold on a mo-
ment; the young ones will grow up, and
then they'll care no more for their parents
than calf does for cow" 49,.
l was coming to that point. Who is
that old lady living with you, Mr.. Jakes?
think heard the saddler saying he was
stufing cushion for your spring cart, to
take her to church on Sundays
ooh! my old mother you mean; and a
good old creature she is. She was good
mother to me: I only wish I had my
father along with her."
Exactly so-exactly SO; you were their
calf, Mr.. Jakes; and I'm saved any further
dwelling upon this point, for you're as
good an instance as / desire for the use of
child after it's grown up. Many pa
rent owes all her comfort ar i happiness
In after life to the care and provision of
her children; and it is Gods will that
children should help their poor, helpless
parents. If children don't put tn. mselves
to the uses God intended them tor, then
that's their fault, bu. the use remains the
same for all that. r-r5
And even dead child has its uses.
There is nothing lost in this great crea-
ton. There are in Gods providences
uses for the dead as well as for the living.
We may not see them, or we may mistake
them, but they no less truly exist Dead
children have their own deep use for US.
We have seen that there is blessing in
having nursery in the house is there to
be no blessing in having nursery in the
hearts 80 20
When the little body is taken out of the
nursery of the housc--the bright life
gone, the warm flesh cold, the laugh all
stilled--then it is taken into the nursery
of the heart, to be bright and warm there
as long as that heart beats-to laugh and
sing in the secret sunny chambers where
death cannot reach it-where it can live
on just as it used to do in nursery DAYS Of
old. There are nurseries in which there
is no nurse; and happy is that parent
who, when child is taken, furnishes
nursery instead of setting apart grave
yard in her heart.
There are some, perhaps. who will look
on this as sentiment, and nothing more !;
but /, for one, know that it has its living
use. 1have nursery in my own heart and
there are six little ones there, and find
their use to me. As the world would say,
/ have no child now" but myself say
that have siX-six here, far in herein
my heart. 80. -..r. ..5.
And this is why I go from time to time
to the neighboring town, and bring home
sick child with me to nurse until it is
well again. Those children cannot recover
without change of air and scene, and
without good nursing. The hospital can
do something for them, but not ali; ari
enjoy finishing what it begins The little
ones would not let me rest, even if I were
inclined so 70 90. They are ever talking
to me and SAYING, Father be kind to all
little children, for His sake who is always
kind to us; and for our sakes too" Some
times they say, "who soas kind; ;" and
then remember the many blessings they
had when they were alive; and some
times they say, "who is kind" and then
see them all so bright and joyous, and
think how well they are taken care of !;
and how can I but bless others, for His
sake who blessed and blesses mine We
have many happy days in our house
which no one knows anything Of When
the sick ones come, talk to the little
ones within, and they seem to say,
Father, let them have our bed and our
playthings." And when they go away,
Ghey oeeu W say asher, give them
flowers to take back to the crowded town,
and give them kiss, for we children love
kisses )" and I do all that the little ones
within ask; and a great deal more too.
Isn't dead child of use when it can thus
make man blessing to others ?-British
Workznun sr3 Lax EHf 20
Almost Buried Alive. en-
We to-day met with Mr.. William Day,
a resident of Springfield, Ill, who is re-