Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16

Edited and COnducted by
j. f. Ian ENBA UGH.


end. By little and little, great things are
accomplished.
''water falling day by day,
| Wears the hardest rock away
And so of repeated kindness will soft
en- heart of stone.
Murmur at nothing; if our ills are re-
parable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it
is vain. The real wants of nature are the
measure of erjoyments, as the foot is fhe
measure of the shoe. We can call only
the want of what is necessary, poverty.
five would obey the moral law, we
must not permit our minds TO dwell up
on impure subjects. There are persons
with whom We must not associatc there
are places where we dare not 20, and there
are things we should not see or know, if
we would preserve our purity and self re
spect, and yet our imaglnations will carry
Us to the forbidden places, permit us TO
mingle with the vulgar crowds, ID see and
hear their improper things, and We can
believe there is safety in such an excur
sion. The fancy may lead Us merry
dance in forbidden fields, and bring us
! such is pot the teaching OF experience.
! The poet says:
''Toe 10 the youtl: whom fancy gsins,
Winning from reasons hand the ieins."
| Many young person indulges his inn
agination N wandering. where in person,
at present he cannot follow; in hearing
what he dare not tell; in seeing what
shame would forbid him to disclose, and
reveal. These flights of unbridled fancy
can not be INDUCED in with safety they
are the prolific source OF all crime, and
sin, and shame, and he who supposes that
such hulnoring of the Imagination is not
wrong, may, and probably will, live TO re-
pent of its qualification. The moral law
demands that We shall not think wrong
the civil law Furnishes the thought only
when il is expressed in the deed
The maxim that, AN idle brain is the
DEVILS Workshop" reveals grea; truth,
which all, but particularly the young,
should understand. If we would be pure,
we must be engaged in subjects of real
interest and profit. The mind must not
only be kept free from impure imaginings,
oucit must not be permitted TO indulge in
useless reverie III ALL
Revcric is defined To he "a loose or ir
re 5ular trsil of thoughts, occurring in
missing or meditation" When persons
allow ib, b,mselves To- be carried away from
present pursuits in the qualification Of
lie and unprOiitable thoughts, they are
acquiring habits which will very serious
| ly interfere with their intellectual growth.
Many pupil passes hours OF valuable
time III the indulgence of wandering
thoughts which ought To- be devoted TO
real study. Not only is time wasted in
this manner, but the mind becomes seri-
oasly injured in the exercise of such men,
tai diss patton. Such-dreaming, castle
building employment is fatal to all real
excellence in scholarship, as well as to all
real pro yress in virtue. Ii we would be
pure, We must shun every tendency which
leads t. the indulgence of improper
thoughts
suppose it is true, heterodox though
it be TO say, that old people have faults as
well as their children. 1t is also true that
though system is good thing, yet sys-
tenn can become household tyrant.-
These two points settled, we take occasion
to alludc to the habit some very good and
otherwise judicious parents have, of lock
ing up the house every night precisely at
the old fashioned hour of nine, without re-
regard to The innocent and, think proper
wish of their gro'on up children, that their
young friends should not be driyen away
thus early. 1t is just this tightening of
the cord of discipline which weakens and
ultimately destroys it.
Parents should think of this, and of the
time when they were young themselves.
l have also known a father insist upon
taking his after-dinner nap in the parlor
when he might as well have withdrawn
to another room, and not compelled a
painful silence from all the rest of the
household for an hour or more, when his
children were brimming over with inno-
cent mirth. l think nothing is lost, but
much gained, by proper concessions In
these regards to the young people, whose
shoulders cannot ali at once be made old
would have home the brightest of all
possible places, and this is one way to
make it so. Then, instead of separate
pleasures for parents and children, to me
there is no lovelier sight than that ofpub
lie amusement. Many boy and girl
might now be the pride and Joy of home,
instead of its sorrow and shame, had this
desire to give them, in an innocent
form, the amusement youth Graves, and
aoia haus. been judiciorsly regarded.
Then. again, some parents forbid utter