Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-10-29
Training Children.



II Is no small thing to bring up child.
"Train up a child in the way he should
90, and when he is old he will not depart
from H. is very easy TO say but to train
up a child in the way he should 20 is not
50 easy to do. The task is hard though
the text i' short Aud no man can re.
count the history Of il. think that the
most wonderful book that could be written
would be a book 10 which an angel should
write all the thoughts that pass through
faithful mothers mind from the time that
she first hears the cry Of her child, and
knows that it is born into the world and
rejolces IN the midst Of her griefs from
the moment Of her absorption. or aunihila.
tion, pouring herself into the child. Her
wonderful ghdness of fatigue her unwil.
liugncss TO divide her care with any; her
heroic sacrifice Of all that is brightest and
best IN lis, with 20 prospect of rcmunera.
ton except the satisfaction which she feels
in serving that little mute aud helpless
chlld-thcse are past description Let the
party drive and the gidiy dance whirl
round, and the lights gIisten; she that last
wear was Jelle courted on every side, and
finding her highest JOY in the praises Of
multtude- Of admiring suitors; she, the |
very hight Of whose joy, few months ago, |
lay outside of herself in admiration, is now
mother. Behold her, in a little cottage.
with no great wealth with. it may be. !
only moderate competence with no wit
ness with none to praise, and, for the
most OF The hours Of the day with no com. |
panionship but little babe, aud babe thai |
cannot sing to her, but can only cry to wor- |
ry hcr-that cannot even look at her and |
know her. No sound Of music rreets her |
ear. There is nothing to relieve the tedi-
um OF her life except this little one. 1t H. |
her JOY to take her babe, sick or we'll, night
or day, and bear it in mothcrly arms
Whence this sudden Transformation il
which her pride has gone out and selfish.
ness in her is dead, and her life is trans
mu'ed into providence ?
Men who in all other things are living
as other men do, sef.h and proud in tn,
household are angelic-for here the father
falls into the same partnership. Direct, |
or Indirectly he is made to participate in .
this bounty and culture Of love
When one of the little army Of the fam. /
lily brings cut is banner and calls for vol
untcers, and another. aud another till tn, |
has its regiment band. see how
many there are that respond to the cal
Look at those families where there are ivr
,ix. seven eight, and blessed he God /
eleven, as there were in my fathers house
hold, whore the ceuter was-vbat Tn /
eldest born, that now had grown large aud |
strong, and that was subtle. and ingenious /
and fertile in all expedient2 Was it tho~c
whose faces were full Of signs Of prema
turely developed kuowledge} Wasit thos
who had function and powers in life? Wa
1t the grown up boys and girls? No Still
'he altar was the cradle, and the create
served the less Was the babe sick ? There
Sas not a door in the house that dared to
creak. The very foot Of the hired servau
in the kitchen was softened All sight,
Hnd all sounds were taken out Of the way
The whole commonwealth of the household
bowed down to weakness and to want Wa,
there ever such an empiying Of self? Wa,
there ever such serving in the spirit Of
iisinterestei love2