The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-05-14
A Word To Parents

To expect to dam river with q
feather, or drown a hurricane with a
tin whistle, is about as reasonable
as to expect by argument or advice
TO change the inclinations Of young
people when they are under
the influence Of the passion
they call love, aud are determined TO
marry the objects of their desire
Say what YOU will and do what
vou will. and / will have him." said
one girl, and she did have him, with
intemperanee, poverty, beggary, in
sanity, and death TO close the scene.
Would YOU marry him if you
thought these stories were true -
said Christian minister to young
relative who was committing her
heart into the keeping of one against
whom evil charges were brought by
mutual friends who had opportunity
20 know the truth.
"No, | would not" said she; but
no one could conTince her of the
truth Of the statements. Twenty or
thirty wears of pain and sorrow and
broken heart and broken spirits have
done the work for her at last.
Would you marry him if YOU
knew he drank liquor?" said wo-
man to a fair young girl.
"Certainlv | would-marry him
and reclaim him." was the answer; !;
and she did marry him; and ere she
had passed month with her husband
she wa. advised by her friends to
leave him, and after a year Of abuse
and sorrow she returned TO her faith
ers house, a poor wrecked shadow Of
her former self-feeing from her bru-
tai, drunken, adulterous 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 | can say,
will effect them in the least, except TO
hurry them on to their terrible doom.
Why is itg Partly because they
have never yielded their wills to par
entail control and have always had
their own way, and partly because
their parents have never warned them
of their danger, till it came upon
them like an over running food. Par
ents do not win or encourage the con-
fidence of their children Old people
forget that they were ever young, and
young people do not remember that
they may vet be old Mutual conf
denee is needfuI to mutual comfort
and Improvement
If the mother would say to her
daughter in early life-long before
the dangerous period eomes-"My
child, there will come time when
new feelings, impulses, instincts, and
emotions will sway you, and when
the opposite sex will awaken in you
passions which often prove stronger
than judgment, reason and conscience;
and coming under the influence of
some young man, you will be liable
to use your self control, and be swav-
ed by their will, aud think his thoughts
aud feel his feelings, and say Yes to
his requests, because it is his viii 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 influence YOU
cannot understand, and can neither
control nor resist, and which NAV be
strong in proportion as its source is
vile and worthless, and your only Sc
curity from it is to place your future
in the hands of God, and watch your
paths, and thoughts, and avoid even
the outer circles of this dangerous
by investigating and judg-
ing first, and loving afterwards and !
only yield your affections when and
where unbiased Judgment will declare |
that it is safe and right to yield 1
them"
If such warnings and Instructions