Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-07-18
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10 expect to dam q river with a feather,
or stop nn earthquake with plaster, or
drown q hurricane with n tin whistle, is
about as reasonable as to expect bv argu-
ment or device TO change the inclinations of
young people when they are under the in
fiucnce of the passion they call love, and
are determined to marry the objects oftheir
desire.
"Say what you will, and do what YOU
will, and ! will have him ~ said one girl
and she did have him, with iptemperance,
poverty, beggary, insanity, aud death to
close the scene.
"Would you marry him il you thought
these stories were true ?' SAID a christian
minister TO young relative who was COM
mitting her heart into the keeping Of one
against whom evil charges were brought
by mutual friends who had opportunity to
know the truth.
l. mo, would not" said she but no ono
could convince her of the truth of the state
ments. Twenty or thirty years of pain and
sorrow, and broken heart and broken spi-
riis. have done the work for her at last.
"Would you marry him if you knew he
drank liquor ?' said u woman to fair
young girl.
Certainly ! would marry him and re-
claim him." was the answer. And she did
marry him; and ere she had passed q
month with her huscand she was advised
by her friends to leave him, and after q
year Of abuse and sorrow she returned TO
her fathers house, poor wrecked shadow
of her former self, fleeing from her brutal,
drunken, adutcrous husband, to save what
little life she had left
Ten thousand girls stand on the verge Of
the same abyss to-day, and nothing you
can say, or l can say, will effect them in
the least, except to hurry them Oh to their
terrible doom.
Why is itp Partly because they have
never yielded their wills to parental con-
troll, and have always had their own way,
and partly because their parents have me-
yer warned them of their danger, till it
came upon them like IN overrunning flood.
Parents do not win or encourage the confi-
dence of their children. Old people forget
that they were ever young, and young peo-
pie do not remember that they may yet be
old. Mutual confidence is needful to nlu-
tual comfort and improvement.
If the mother would say to her daughter
in early lifelong before the dangerous pc
riod comes-"My child, there will come
time when new feelings, impulses, in
stincts and emotions will sway you, and
when the opposite sex will awaken in your
passions which often prove stronger than
judgment, reason and conscience; and
coming under the influence of some young
man, you will be liable to lose your self.
control, and be swayed by his will, and
think his thoughts, and feel his feelings,
and say yes to his requests, because 1t is
his will and mind that makes you speak
the words he desires to hear all this will
come and you will be liable to be swept
to ruin by the force of an inhuedce
you cannot understand. apd can nei-
ther control nor resist, ana which may be
strong in proportion rs its source is vile
and worthless, and your only security from
it is 20 place your future in the hands of
! God, and watch your paths, and thoughts,
and avoid even the outer circles of this dan
gerous whirlpool, by investigating and
Judging first, and loving afterwards and
only yield your affections when and where
unbiased judgment will declare that it is
safe aad right to yield them.n
If such warnings ana instructions as
/ these were given from day to day in early
/ life. how many young girl would ponder
the paths of her feet, and walk carefully
that she might escape the ruin that attends
so many in their wayward course.
/ Mothers and fathers begin in season with
/ your children. Prepare them to rightly
estimate tic Hew instincts and emotions Of
moturing life, not by joking and hectoring
! them, but by wise and loving course.
/ Win their confidence and keep it. Pre-
serve their priyacies {; shield the secrets of
their hearts from the rEde gaze and mock
ing laugh, and let them feel that it is the
safest thing that they can DO to show their
first love letter to their father, or whisper
J their first tender secret into their mothers
ear, assured that they will find such COM
municatiops, a patient, courteous, reason
able and tender reception, and have the
best of counsel, with no daIger that their
confidence will ever be betrayed.
Parents, train your children in time.
They have this sea TO sail oversee to it
that they study the chart and know the
rock before hand. Tell them the things
they need to know. Guard against the
wreck and ruin that destroys so many of
the young. Train up child in the way
he should go, and when he is old he will
not depart from it."-1he Christian.