St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-01-20
Cruelty 10 -iIaa aHd Beast.

From q recent characteristic and prac-
tical-addrcss by Rev. J. +. W. Ware on
the above subject we fake the following
extract
Thinl, oi thc hours givcn to studies
ana graces which only make superficial
woman, and wipe out the honesty Of girl
hood; the stimulus of school prizes,
which worry the brain and corrode the
heart, and educate not Il BIT OF pnched
waists and tortured feet and studied pos,
ture, and look and tone set to the pre-
scribcd mole. Run over the whole de-
basing catalogue Of crIeltics which we
manage to aGoln with the name Of Cl,i-
cation, which we yield to as necessary,
with which We supplant TIE grace Of Ma
turc b. the caricaturc Of art then add
the memory ui how children are chidden
and twittcd and snecred at, ami checked
and reduced ami kept under; how the
inevitable eXu1c;anCe OF spirit Is made
into token of sin; how in ten thousand
ways they are irriiated, lhwar:ed, coaxcd
here, punished there, the subjects OF the
most tickle, irritable, unreasonable rule
and think you will have Il mass of cru
elites sufficient to set you thinking, ana
important enough III themselves and III
their consequences TO give heart ana land
long and serious employment. Social
cruelties are cruel enough the whole
hungry pack OF things with which men
hunt down the characters and happiness
OF others, loud mouthed, many-tongucd,
busy, infamous, and taiSc-thc cruelty
that NEEDLES with other peoples private
affairs, with their expenses, with their
dress, with their housekeeping, their COM
ing out and going 10. with their rising
and their rest, the colOrs OF their carpets
and the style Of their crockery, and tho
position OF their guests, and the manage
ment of their children; but the cruelty
that exercises itself upon little Child
the cruelty that does not know itself tc
be cruel, that plants 4 pain for life, We
ought to have no patience with, show ne
quarter for. We ought 10 ely out ant
insist that tins 50 tender and important
, time should be exempt from tyrannie:
. that dctract not only from what God or
dams for its present, but what we ough
to secure for Its future. lie were wors,
, than brute who should Chain a it'll,
child in some narrow and dark and fetit
, cell, and leave it to grow there in soil
tudc, ignorance, and want. And wha
, is he who binds the free spirit Of a chill,
to the whims of his own world-worl
heart, supplants lis freedom by the de
| mandS OF society, and ties it down to con
2 vcntlonalities, and makes it into starry
cd and artificial man! There are wors
things than prisons, aud stakes, and knots
: and inquisitions. After that they hay,
t torn or killed the body they have no NOR
that they can do. That is the leepes
+ wrong, the lowest stoop Of cruelty, which
t touches the heart and imperils the soul
: And there is q deal of cruelty in on
domestic lntercourse-in that intercourse
even which ou5 Int TO be rid of every sus
picion OF 1t. Think of the cruelty tina
} there is in a sharp look, in an inconsid
] crate word, hasty injustice, the cruelt,
= of little stings and fiings, the cruelty tina
h plants its thorn, and leaves it TO worr,
. and tester, L will not help you, but jus
= run over the cruelties you notice i'll dali,
e life, the strange cruclties in the most in
d innate and delicate rela:ions-nay, don
Y look attcrmotcs in others iiud and bran
i your own beam-by the confessings Q
c your own experience, see how much cru
a city mars even the dearest intercourse q
n man, and feel how much need each on
/ of Us has OF reform.