The New York herald., 1870-11-14


leads In PRAYER, commenting children and parents
TO me care and guidance or Him who has given ali
the living life. the hymn before the sermon Is an
nOunced and parents and children file OF 10 their
respective pews and the space thus left unoccuped
Is Ied up by a crowd or strangers VINO had waited
In the lobbles for the conclusion Of this ceremony
The unity OF the service was preserved oy the
preaching OF sermon admirably appropriate
Epstle to the Ephesians, w., 6-"And ye fathers
provoke not your children TO wrath: but bring them
up IN the nurture ana admontion or the Lord"
me mystery OF life seems never more near, SAID
Mr. Beecher, aud more wonderful than at the Begin
nng OF lite The little germ OF being that lies so ur-
consciously developing ltselflnto an influential ire
ls 70 an thoughtful spectators mystery, looked az
from any point Of view. Leaving the physical
subject 10 the physioloslst he would conne himself
simply TO the great question OF the training oil chill
ment had very much changed in the present genera
ton. The Old English rule OF desporic government.
and where 1t Is now practsed in Germany. has not
been known in America. The strctness even OF
the family government In New England has been re-
Taxed. and he thought with advantage. the milder
ter for us. Children here earlier assume
their rights. They lose their reverence, but not
their love, Reverence finds very poor soil to grow
In In America ana when 1t does grow it grows
very scrubby indeed. Giancing at the rationale or
this question Mr.. Beecher turned to the religious
aspect and read the following verse, the first Ia the
chapter from which he had taken his text:-"shll-
dren, oDey your parents In the LORD, FOR thls ~
right" Children, then, belonged TO Christ, ana IL
was this that should be the ruling influence OF aI-
lily government. That government was best IN
good, and so arranged that each chld could govern
se IN the detail Of the mode Of as
among Wncn were the following
CHILDREN TELL LIES.
Well, truthteng was very much like learning arch
ery-yon hre Q good many arrows before you can nit
the mark The telling or truth was q great educa-
ton. He could assure those who heard him that
to tell the truth all their life long. Children had
much that was bad in them, but then we must never
forget that we are born In DIRT and nastiness ana
through life. But although her child was bad the
mother must not think she had got Nero In her
cradle. Neither should mothers think they had got
saints born TO hem-ony the raw material OF Saints,
taat has on got grea, deal OF spinning
into anything like perfection There are some
parents wno are 50 Iond OF their family government
that they govern their children to tile devil child
Is like watch it must not be wound up too much.
IL was better that child should blunder and do
things imperfecty than that 1t should blindy follow
copy. Trust your children as soon as IL Is SAFE to
do so, and then teach them where they might have
done better. city man once told me that ever
since he was ten years OF age he had, he believed
done as he thought best, or rs he liked. lie had %
sensible mother, who, when he asked her about
anything or he did or wanted to do anything about
which ner approval was doubtful, would speak TO
him thus:-"My son, think about 1t, aud II you can
reconcile 1t to your conscience ana to your own
honor shall not say a word.n Now this boy was
taught to say 'nor himself ana it was better q
thousand times for man TO say mo- himself than
even for HIS vile TO make him say MOI IL was
sometimes great perplexity to some people when
they saw families who had been allowed 10 run Wild
y, III,
gong TO Sunday school, turning ont well; the boys
becoming bright honest, prominent men In the
world Ihey looked at The deacon's family, the
minister's children, aud tncy see now badly they
have turned out.
/ AM MINISTER'S SON.
and have not turned out very badly. | mention
this as compliment to my father and not 10 myself,
and use the illustration because 1t is Il popular im-
preston, and not because beneyc 1t as a
tact; for | should be false to my belief
III the inevitable success of moral principles
If 1 could believe that the families OF all
IN fbn nf
turning our bad. But the reason of this Is
IN the training oil the good mans family. The boys
straint, and when they get their liberty, as when
they are sent to college, they abuse IT, and turn out
drunkards and worthless TO society," The boy who
has not had the Restraint OF religious household,
been thrown upon himself, has learned IN q thou
sand ways to help himself. Among the many things
he mas learned to govern himself. 1t often happens
that mother. whose conscience has been active
and demanding has hidden away from the boys
gaze all that would dim the lastrc of character she
thinks she has produced; but at fifteen the boy
goes into the world aud the world Is a great wonder
box TO him. He had never seen IT, mover heard of
it, and he goes for it, and with it, too frequently
goes down. He i like a man VINO Is thrown INTO
defence.
Mr.. Beecner then at some length showed the
and which must be considered In all true cduca-
ton. There was, irst, the animal lie. then
a4s s sry ~ the the aessns sna and moral
All these were to be developed in tnelr order
physical forces for physical conditions; ana there
not be spared. For moral conditions lei notning be
used but moral forces. Thus the child is taught
allow the higher faculties to control the lower
When the enid gets to fifteen sixteen great
change occurs from the physical to the moral and
care should then be taken in the application OF
moral means. Naturally this was the order IN
which children would develops for he did uoL be-
neve in
FIvE-YEAR.OLD PURITANS.
Wnen a child thus develops itself it may be quite
certain that That child Is marked Tor early death.
However much we may sympathize with the grief
OF parents Llus deprived oi their children it was
quite certain that tner little ones living an u-
natural life. Next to Inls p1ecoclty OF periec
ton was the more objectionable presentnient OF
gh fOrty years Old In manners ana fifteen years IN
age. Children very wise ana very good not yet out
OF their pantalets was sight that ought TO make
us feel very s0rrOwful. Mr.. Beecher closed by q
powerful and earnest but convincing Illustration
OF the law or Kindness. There was an aroma IN
mirth, in love, in playfuness and Kindness that
dilused itself throughout the household The say
Ing that sGod condemned the world because OF SIM
never converted q soul, but the saying "God so
loved the world that he gave his Son to die for it'
has converted myriads.
SOUTH SECOND STREET METHODIST CHURCH.