Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-11

RESPONSIBILITIES enter into the lives OF their child
rem guide them by love; make home SO onsnt
that they can not be drawn from It, Motnefs
should be more patient; fathers more considerable.
If they will stop to govern themselves they VIII
never resort to corporeal punishment 10 govern
their children. If they would stop to think nVe
minutes they would never strike cniio. Aosn
ers should have more time to devote to them, ana
not be compelled to neglect them for work when
another might do as well. Fathers should speno
more thought upon their children and less upon
money. Money is good, but brings little comfort
after a family is ruined. Drunkenness is eating
at the vitals of our social structure, and II we
wish to reform the world from it and other vices,
we must in the forms of our children, people the
world with truer, nobler men and women. Guard
the child well from the pernicious Influences OF
fear and intoxicatiou, and when he becomes
grown up man he will not be coming home drunk,
to break the mothers heart. All other things
should pale in Importance before this.
Persons of our faith are called by hard
names because we differ in some things from the
evangelical churches. make no war upon the
churches but would gladly work with them for
all objects of reform-yet will affirm one thing
positively-that no person can read the Bible
understandingly and believe it, without being a
spiritualist because the Bible il full OF spirit
communications from first to last. When knew
that the spirit of my father came to me and
watched over my suffering life, that he loved and
guided me still, then was my spirit at rest. Then
I studied the Bible Understandings. Then I
knew the old story of "lake which burneth with
fire and birthstone" was but an ancient fable.
Then knew that we should be rewarded accord
ing to our works.
We believe that every person must suffer the
consequences of his own acts, that when our lives
are pure death brings no dread. We simply
cast off this casket of tesh and'friends in!spirt
life are waiting to greet US in their angel home.
We believe that no other person suffer for US,
that as the hand if placed in the fire. is burned
and suffers in consequence go when we trans
gress moral law we must endure the penalty.
We can not leave it until the eleventh hour and
cast our burthens upon another, but we shall
suffer according to the deeds done in the body.
We shall be rewarded according to our works.
1t is not an easy task which we impose upon
ourselves in coming to these conclusions. But
beliefs not matter of will we must believe
according to evidence let the consequences be
what they may. No person should be censured
for their belief, but they should be censured for
shutting out light or in any way cramping the
to it or not, and the best preparation We can
make for the future is, to search out the truth
and obey it, l know it is much harder than the
faith which the world accepts upon that point,
because every day we must watch that we do no
evil lest we make wound upon the soul which
must ever wear the scar.
You would call me an infidel, but am only an
infdel when L am false to the light within my
own soul. must do my du'y according to the
dictates of my own conscience, and you have no
more right to censure my belief than 1 yours.
Just as leave this world, so shall enter the
next, and you cannot suffer for my unbelief or
my shortcomings; and it behooves me to watch
and work diligently. Spiritualism teaches the
purest morality, and that if you try you can live
purely, for you are all better than you SEEM Not
of you but has craving to rise higher and do
better than you do. The angels know this, and
know your motives-are constantly wi you and
watching you, and If you listen to them they will
help you. 1t is fearful thing to close the door
against them. When you come to know this it
will be a far greater inducement for you to shun
evil and do good than the fear of hell possibly
be. Only little while and you will all prove the
truth of these things. Mrs. Grundy will have no
influence when you lay this body down, AMI 1t |
We're far better to act independently now, no mat
ter for public opinion, for this generation will
pass on, and these things have been telling you
will be tes'ed-and regrets, deep and lasting will
follow those who sell the happiness of the future
for popularity. Z. B. Fl.