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


note the smart, hippant style meant to b
funny and to court . laugh, in which a r.
puted crime is dressed so a. to make it al
petizing. There are glazing head line
, which tell of debauchery, dissipation
adultery and other phases of wickednesl
/ while in some papers lecture to educat
the mind and soul, a religious meetin
| viour is dismissed with a short paragraph
or il considered not worth reporting. The
/ read the false moral teachings Of thes
public educators, in which lawlessness an.
! sensitiveness to affront are Landed as chiv
| airy, and taking tie law in ones own hand
| to redress supposed wrongs Is called
"knighty act:' in which there are constan
| appeals TO prejudice a. the proper motiv
I power, and the continual attempt to faI
the embers of disc0rd into flame. The,
see the pleas for every ungOdly amuse
! ment and the denunciatiOls of such a
would. in the fear Of the Lord, reach
higher and holier way. This is the pabu
lum placed before our children's minds. /
it without efects
I Then, too, there are other papers at til,
book stands, with what may be designated
as ieud pictures, such as approach as nearly
| as possible TO the indecent; suggestive pic
lures which serve 60 infaMe the mind; and
there is reading 20 correspond, either silly
stories that give an altogether untrue idea
Of lite, or something worse. All Of which
| tends TO dissipate religious Impressions
1 and to cater to lives of ungodliness and
vice. They see public offices used for posi-.
| tons of plumber, the sport of parties who
| desire to enrich themselves at public cost.
| They mark corruption in high places and
chicanery and fraud by which men are often
influences Of Satans school. They are
mighty. They disease che mind. They cor
rupt the heart. There are multitudes of
forces at work to eat out moral stamina,
and or children are subjected to them.
And yet these children are to be legislators,
leaders of thought, rulers, centres OF social
circles, fathers, mothers, and, more than
all, these children are to go out into eter-
nifty either as saved or lost. There is the
danger, too, that through them all these in
. fuences will be perpetuated from gener-
alton to generation. Our children are in
training schools that we think not OF
II. What shall offset all this Good train
ing in the way they should go. place first
the Christian home. Nothing can take the
place of this. This is the mightiest of
human agencies for our children. God has
put them into our families. and placed upon
US the responsibility of rearing them for
Him and heaven. We can not shirk it, We
are to instill into them true Christian man
hood; to build Ep by Divine Grace their
moral natures; to lead them to the Lord,
that they may have spiritual life impaired
They are to be taught by precept and ex-
ample that their help 10 in God. The world
acts as it God had retired from all interest
in affairs. Il bows him out of society. and
selfish interest takes the place If Divine
law. We need to take cur children right
up to God; to teach them that He is looking
on: that an atom Of principle Outweighs
mountains Of expedienoy; that right and
wrong are not convertible terms, but "a
distinctly defined and as eternal as Coo
himself. We must teach them to distin.
guish evil and TO hate it. a. Hannibars
father taught him to hate Rome; to stand
alone and with God against wrong. Not |
TO go with the crowd. and unin- |
iuenced by popular clamor. We muss-so !
GRITTY them against temptation that they
IAN not 60 down before the most insidiOus
md subtle Of evil powers. Life is battle, I
nd the foes besettine our children are real I
md active and malignant. We must tgAin !
hem as soldiers 70 endure hardness and |
light the good fight of faith. They are not |
o whine and fret at opposition and Difficult.
les, but 80 overcome in the 0Ame OF the !
lord.
But no mere moral pfecepts, however
trongly enforced, will do this. You may
ring up your boy thus as q good business
nan and respectable citizen. smart. sharp, |
hrewd. ana honest, as the world goes. But
he truest manliuess is lacking Il he be not
rought to God. Society is honey -combed
vita dishonesty. and no mere human power |
an stand against it. We need in this great
york Divine power; nor can We succeed |
Without il. That man, do not say Chris.
ian. for I mean every man b. he what he !
nay, takes q fearful responsibility upon
imselt who has family and has no altar
t prayer: who can see this evils around
i'm ready to seize his little ones. and de.
ends merely upon human wisdom and
trength to ward them OFT. That boy you |
0 love: that little girl who is the light of |
our home, have You NO occasion to gather !
lem before the mercy seat, and in their |
resence and hearing ask God to bless and
ave them! Do you love your child and
ct never commend il with sobbings and !
ears TO God: What bulwark against sin
10 family altar is! How often has temp.
.tion dashed against it in vain: What a
lace to teach and reach the heart: You
ring your children there to the Word.
on show your reverence for it and de:
.ndence upon it. Though so big and
ely wiser. Here is Interchangeable truth. '
ere is my source Of strength. |
ere is the unfailing fountain Of peace and a
y. The world may rage without, business t
res may vex. but around this altar of c
aver, in the light Of Gods word, there ia I b
renity. You read it for yourself and chill. f
en-. You teach them 70 hallow it and to b
Ike it into theiv hearts and lives. And h
en-. with them, you knee! before the Lord
d confess your Gins and weakness, and n
K His grace and love. You plead for b
ur little ones. Your heart and theirs are / d
rred, and Gods glory shines into you and IL
an. There is no such wonderful power ! n
er them az this. You may lay down "
'ral codes, and lecture on prOprieties, and ci
int TO distinguished men for them TO ! 10
ulate, but all this is as a feathers weight ! fe
fore that simple &C: OF daily degoutly
ding with them God Word, and going I'll
h them to the mercy seat. wonder I di
i every parent, Independent Of creed or II
'tessiOn, does not do this. wonder how al
n dare neglect it; and say alas! for I th
{ household where there is neither godly liz
her nor mother to usa this mighty power. ! W
IL said that the leaves OF certain tree I III
offensive to venomouS serpents. A n
veler reports having once seen q bird Of
ing signs of distress, picking leaves from
tree and carrying them to her nest. wi
accomplished, she sat upon branch. I ru
r by, to await results. The traveller on
ICED snake slowly winding its way up on
the nest, and, at last, with glistening au
) and distented jaws, its head was lifted ~
above the edge. ready to Gevour the | dis
nglings Of The nest. when. suddenly ! ne
hing sight of these defensive leaves, it DR.,
,ped to the earth. as if shot, and glided
y. So may we use the leaves of Gods oh,
( in the family nest. So may we sur snl
I'd our little ones with prayer. So may go]
lnstiil into their minds the fear of God. fhe
IA is the beginning OF wisdom. and ead m
q to the Cross OF Jesus, and TO evil can rar
come them. If. therefore. we leave ho,
defenseless: will not the blood OF their t;oI
} be upon US! WI
It many children have not Christian | Oils