Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-21
Some Of the Uses Of GhLIdrsn.r !

CHILDREN keep our feelings fresh. The
heart often grows old before the body
and the hearts growing old has often q
good deal TO say to the body's growing old
before its time. I've seen men old at
thirty, and men youngat sixty. Children
bring o man back 10 his carly days; they
make q man TO be a boy and woman TO
6e Q girl once again. saw our docter
the othor day playin cricket with his lit.
tle BOY, six years Old; he had five stones
get one atop Of another for wickets, and
his crooked walking-stick for a bat and
the young chap was working all his might
to bowl him 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
going on in the next field. Why wasn't
the doctor therefor he had been a great
crioketer when he was youngY 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 were childrcn-long long before he
thought of giving any body physic, and
when he took precious little of il himself
The child was drawing away the doctors
mind from his cares-and, poor man he
had plenty of them at the time-and stir.
ring up his spirits, Depend upon 1T, his
blood coursed more quickly through his
veins after that game of cricket than it
did before. hf. I-t.A4 LI ..l .'N- u
Children give us healthy springs and
motives for work. A child makes the
parents feel that they are looked forward
TO as providers-of course, under God
for Heis the great provider for all 1t
makes man feel himself to be somebody
when, he gathers the children round him
and looks at them, and says to himself,
They're all looking to their mother and
mes III buckle TO like q man, and they
shan't want if I can get"
Is 1t not something to feel ones self
valued and loved; to feel, "Well, how
ever little l may be made OF in the world,
know aipiace where I'm put at a high
figure" 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, neighbor of mine in
former times, and she used often to say,''I
like my husband always to come to fis.
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. 'Tis fine
thing, and better than any drink in the
world to cheer a 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 npon them, depend upon
1t he's happy; ii he weren't happy he
wouldn't call me mother in the way he
does"
but, says Mr.. Jakes, "hold on mo-
mTent; the young ones will grow up, and
then they'll care no more for their parents
than calf does for cow"
was coming to that point. Who is
that old lady living with you, Mr.. Jakes
think heard the saddler saying he was
'tutfing cushion for your spring cart, to
lake her to church on SUNDAYS.
"Oh my old mother you mean; and a |
good old creature sheis.A She was a good
mother to me. I only wish l had my
father along with her"
Exactly so--exactly so; you were their
calf, Mr.. Jakes and Pm saved any further
dwelling upon this point, for you're as
good an instance as desire for the use of
A child after it's grown up. Many pa
rent owes all her comfort and 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 themselves |
% the uses God intended them for, then
hats their fault, but the use remains the |
Jame for all that
And even dead child has its uses.
There is nothing lost in this great crea-
lon. There are in Gods providences |
lses for the dead as well as for the living.
we may not see them, or we may mistake |
ham No tntrlx - 1
children have their own deep use for us. |
We have seen that there is blessing i'm
having q nursery in the house is there to
DC no blessing in having a nursery in the
leart?
When the little body is, taken out of the
lursery of the house-the bright life
zone, the warm. flesh cold, the laugh all
it is taken into the nursery
If the heart, to be bright and warm there
IS long as that heart beats-to laugh and
ing in the secret sunny chambers where
leath cannot reach it-Yhere it can live
N just as it used to do in nursery days OIL
Nd. There are nurseries in which there
8 no nurse; and happy is that parent
Who, when child is taken, furnishes a
nursery instead of setting apart a grave
ard in her heart.
There are some, perhaps, who will look
IN this as sentiment, and nothing more
,ut l, for one, know that it has its living
lse. have nursery in my own heart !; and
here are six little ones there, and I find
heir use To me, AS the world would say,
I have no child now" !" but myself say
hat have siX-six here, far in herein
ny heart.
And this is why go from time to time
o the neighboring town, and bring home
! sick child with me to nurse until it is
veil again. Those children cannot recover /
Without change of air and scene, and
Without good nursing. The hospital can
10 something for them, but not all and l
njoy finishing what it begins. The little
mes would not let me rest, even if.I were
Inclined so to do. They are ever talking
o me and saying, Father, be kind to all
title children, for His sake who is always
lind to us and for our sakes too" Some
lines they say, "who Das kind" and
hen remember the many blessings they
ladi when they were alive and some.
lines they say, "who is kind !" and then
see them all 30 bright and joyous, and
hink how well they are taken care of
md how can but bless others, for His
AXE who blessed and blesses mine! We
ave many happy days in our house
Which no one knows anything of When
he sick ones come, talk TO the little
mes within, and they seem to say,
Father, let them have our bed and our
,laythings." And when they go away,
hey seem to say, "Father, give them
overs 70 take back to the crowded town,
nd give them kiss, for we children love
isses !" and do all that the little ones
'ithfn ask and a great deal more too.
'nf dead child of use vhenlit can thus
laSe 2 man a blessing 70 otheFsp : .Brash
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Almost buried 4iiyeagVA
We to-day met with Mr. William DayII /
resident Of Springfield, III, who is "a. I
lrning from che California and idaho
lining epvntrEi where he has been for &