New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-27

to sudden gusts of unreasonable wrath an
equally :Djudioious endearments. Is it an
wender that such q child grows up ungov
6fn2ble and stormy in nature, . victim q
passions engen tered and developed by Oh
very sllpowerful hand which shout
have Sepressed the evil and cult
waited the good, Woe to that chill
whose mother is SO much the votarv O
1 fashion and pleasure, who 10 60 engaged il
| the rounds OF excitement and frivolity tina
| she has not the time to attend properly t
! the buildings of the mind, With no heart t
tell Of Jesus love and teach infant lips t
| pray. as If any work or amusement were {
be compared with the importance of edu
f'cating an immortal soul placed in her hand
| for time and eternity. What are the vapi'
follies of society! What the glare ant
I glitter Of the ball room or of fashiOnabl,
life! What the mimic tragedies upon En-,
stage 20 the solemn tragedy in the nursery
| where young and plastic minds and heart
I as eager for moral nOurishment as the BODY
is for food, are left to ignorant and some
times vicious and susperstitious hired at
tendants and are having implanted the
seeds of ruin or are biased tor evil forever
Yet thousands of homes in our land present
this aaddest of all spectacIes, and out OF
them come the multitudes of trifing
I warped. vicious natures that are ready fol-
every silly and sinSul course, a curse to
themselves, to their parents and to society,
and ready to perpetuate the evil as they
| grow to maturity and have families of their
| own.
| A little boy of six years old was seen
| staggering like a drunken men over the
floor. 1t seemed very amusing and pro.
vOked q laugh, when asked why he did it,
he answered-I am walking like papa
does sometimes" Yes, and when little
older. be takes what made papa walk so
strangely. and the pay becomes a reality.
He follows IN papa's crOaked steps, and
starts on the drunkard's career. How
many sons are instructed in dissipation
at home. They see the bottle on the table
freely used. The wine glass is there, not
put at first to the child's lips except very
little at the bottom we'll sugared, but the
time soon comes when larger drafts
can not be denied even though he be warn
ed against them, for example speaks more
forciply than words.
l know Christian man who has seen
mis- only son., bright youth full of
promise brought home at night dead
drunk. l can scarcely conceive of any
more agonizing sight. But he started
out in his course at his fathers table.
That father Is not q drunkard. o no!
worker in the Sunday school, shining
light in the church. But he had his wine
upon his table and distributed it among his
friends in his social evening companies
The boy got his lesson there. The fruit is
bitter, but it is natural and legitimate. and
no prayers or tears can make the thOrns
bring forth grapes or the thistles figs. Il is !
a divine law for Christians as vel! as 9th.
ers, that "WhatsOever q man seweth, that
shall he also reap" Yet It is true that |
Of protesting Christians put this |
evil before their households and ther some I
times have to mourn the terrible results. I
Little do they think of the anguish in store;
Dr. if their, children do not rush to ruin, there
q the lowering Of moral tone, the learning
% tamper with sin, the lessons of which are !
,aught at home. Home! Is there . more
'acred and hallowed places How fearful
hing when instead of a defense against Gin,
. builder up of moral worth. it becomes by
Is demonstrating power che source Of ]
corruption to our children, through the
riminal thOughtlessness Of parents who
lace temptation before them.
Think. too. of the durability Of first i'm. !
'ressions The Germans have q proverb
hat What little Johnnie does not learn.
Ohm learns never" Biologists will show
ou bit Of hard rock ON which is tho foot. I
rint of bird, or the imprint of fern
ears ago. when that rock was soft clav. a !
ird lightly stepped upon it for moment, I
+ slight bre. ~ blew leaf there. and an
Impression is made which the ages have
up and can not ruiz out. The
lightes, breeze of temptation may blow 70
he ehild's mind in it's formative state, or a
ruei or wicked word may step. for an
lstant, upon it. and the influence is
lere tor eternity.
The sensitive plate of the dagrerreotype
as etched upon it in finest liles by the
IN The features of u friend; but no eve can
se them unit! the plate is put into the de-.
clipping bath.
In our households this etching PROCESS is
Ding On daily upon the sensitive minds of
title children. We may not see it now,
kept occasionally by a word or act which
'vea!s something within. but the develop ,
g bath OF years brings it cut into full re- !
eff, fixed and rigid, and we discover that /,
lr boys and girls are in maturity what we :
'oduct of delicate impressions, often un. !
given. Into their hearts 90 :
any lessons We never designed to reach
EN-. No man can long deceive his chill
en- as to his character. If he would train | y
EN- for God it is necessary for him to be :
hat he seems He may appear well to | !,
Q world while false and selfish and hol. +
v, but keen eyes at home see behind the T
ask, and quick minds there initiate the !,
ii character. q
A large boy. whose childhood had been a n
ri one, and who was, as consequence, $,
'ss grained and morOse, was asked about 4
cry crooked tree in an orchard, how it | r.
,ame so. He answered sulkily, '.Some. -
~ trod on it when it was baby" How a,
ch ruthless treading upon child's spirit a.
re IL. crooked apple tree may bring v,
tn as good fruit as o straight one, for 3,
INT know, but crooked moral being IN
duces only unhappiness and evil. Lord OK
ron was an example of this. man, as m
confess. of brilliant genius, with most M
,inating style in his writings, vet the | On
son of asps turks in many of his verses. ha
ause as child his sensitive nature was "a
lden upon and crooked by his mother. W;
these wrOnged children pay back to th
ETY. at last with interest, in rutfianism mr.
'aricus grades. all the evils inflicted upon M M
,hn Trebonius. German schoolmaster. ia,
was Martin Luther's teacher used to
ear always before his boys with uncov. ar,
head. For" said he, "who can tell ira
t may. arise up amid these youths! Civ
e may be learned doctors, cage legisla- thi
and even princes" He little knew TIL
among them was the SOLITARY monk ne,
shook the world" SO should we, in a no,
Ain sense. reverence our children. They to
,ot simply pleasant playthings, the TOW eye
heur, 10 he treated as puppets or dolls. JUS
are not rs slaves on whom one may yor
y vent sudden passion, nor are they cat
hines that can be governed by unbend- dro
rules and regulations. The manufac- aw,
: comes home from his mill, where by boo
sting screw or crank or lever. all works r0u
nicely and exactness according to his we
to find company Of children having viii
rent tempersments. tastes, and moral the
he can not cast them all into one owe
mel and govern all by the same in. thel
DE law. He must study each in his | soul
9Th and weakness. to adapt himself r
Y to each To davalnn encnurana 70 ~