The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-05-08

ments to young people, which they rel
Iish none the less for being taught the
laws of God at the fireside. TO min
gle wisely and well the sobriety and
power Of religious culture, with the
| fun and frolic of cheerful family and
social life, may not be an easy art, but
the failure to do it has sent many and
many boy to the bod There is moth
ing in the Bible, the Greed, or the Cate
chism to discourage amusement in its
season, and if young people cannot
have it with the company or consent OF
their parents, they will have it on the
sly, and to do anything on the sly, is to
be in league with the devil.
Just as l was emerging from my
teens Twas invited to join party Of
young people for an evening sleigh-ride.
Not being in perfect health, l feared
my father would object, and concealed
my intention; and when the evening
came, I left the house quietly to join
the party. l had gone but a few steps
before his trumpet voice called to me
as was Fastening down the street,
and I turned with fear that my evening
pleasure was over.
"Where are you going" he asked me.
Mindful of the Ratchet and cherry
tree, ! said, "To meet number of the
young folks and so on sleigh-ride"
aHnve you money enough to pay
your share of the expenses"
II have some, but perhaps had bet
ter have a little more to make a sure
thing Of it.' And he handed me the
money, which l thanked him for and
hurried away again, thousand times
more thankful for such a father,
than for the money or the sleigh-ride.
l told the story to the company at sup
per, and they voted him model parent.
In the case Of this young man who
died for murder last Friday, the fatal
mistake Of the father was casting of
the son; leaving him to himself; giving
him up; refusing him the refuge of
home and the shelter Of fathers arm.
Our Heavenly Father never does SO by
US. We are hayward, wicked, migrate
full, rebellious, profligate. But while
we are yet a great way of, He has
compassion on us. There is no crime
so great as to justify parent in dis
owning child. The son may become
4 drunkard, and that is the most hope
ess of all the failures to which human
ty is exposed. But drunkard is not
altogether lost. And the cases are So
are as to be almost unknown, where
children have gone into vice and ruin.
Unless some defect in parental culture
paved the way --t
Honor to parents is the virtue that
las promise Of long life and prosperity.
md disobediencc to parents, neglect of
heir counsels, and rebellion against
heir authority make victims for the
allows.
When | was wandering in the Holy
and, | noticed near the towns, a val
~ or hole into which the carcasses off
casts were thrown, and there dogs and
irds of prey devoured them. And
lenl knew the meaning of that terri
lie prophecy: "The eye that n,ocketh
t his father and despiseth to obey his
lother, the ravens of the valley Shall
lex it ont, and the young eagles shall
at it." The child who begins his ca I
eer by despising parental restraints
NIL grow up bad man, break all law,
ONE to sad end, and be cast out as ,
xecuted criminals were, into the val. /
y Of the slain, and there the birds of
rey would feed on him. And SO have a
seen in my own country, that the food t
the gallows is furnished by lawlcss, t
sobedient, profligate sons. God set t
re world in families, and life is blessed 8
cursed as the sacred relation is hon. o
ed or despised.-N Y Observer. s
HE following anecdote has outlived I
early youth, but it still reads we'll: Il
'hn Phoenix tells the story that he \