Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-06-17

Let me single out, from many, IhTee:-rtz,
The Household, the Church and the Pro-
JsssioHs.
The seeds Of much crime are sown in the
household. and ripen in such occasions as the
church and the professions give.
Obedience to Law is social salvation; DISC
bedience, social anarchy. III wished to rear a
generation Of good citizens, and had the full
control of our race, | would secure, as the first
essential prerequisite, loving obedience among
children in the formative period. would do
this on the principle laid down by the ancient
Roman-Iet children Be educated in irhGt you
cish them 10 praetise chen they are men. But,
to neglect such education is to have men prac-
tisc what they should not. Major N said to
his sen-'John William, come in and go to bed"
81 WON'T! replied the boy. "Wsii, you
needn't" by the father, closed the dialogue.
The bluntness Of this disobedience is only that
in which It it differs from the general indulgence
too often granted. From a careful training Of
children, parents have been departing, more or
less, for the last half century. 1t was long, long
ago that it used to be said-"a child cannot be
made to understand why he should obey, but,
as he grows older, he will see the reason, and
then he will yield to so reasonable a duty"
The nurture and ddmonition has been ex-
changed, extensively for this, in families, and,
an alarming dereliction of duty, both in the
household and in the state, has followed.
Where obedience to law has not been en-
stamped, early, on the heart, reason is too fec
bic to enforce it in after years. 1t is HABIT NOT
REASON that gives fixture.
In the earlier stages OF society ,fImi'y govern
mcnt was, mainly, in the hands of fathers; but,
with the growth of lucrative business (such as
agriculture, trade and commerce brought foIth)
that government passed into the hands of mo-
Tiers. Such apportionment of duties between
husband and wife may have contributed to an
increase of riches for children, but deprived
them of what was of much more value to them
viz, a correct training. If, when a boy
reaches manhood, he has the education and ha-
bits Of industry and obedience 10 lap, he will
make property enough, in the course of life;
and, what is more, will find constant pleasure
in the right use Of means.
even If the wished for ends denied.
Yet, while the busy means are piled,
Thy bring their oun Teudrd."
Even if the mother knew the nature and
the necessity of family government, nature has
not endowed her with power to enforce. That
| ,1,;nIy =, MOI hos fup alton and - 10 tb,,o tIat
she shows little wish to enforce obedience while
she may.
If the Bible had a thousand defects, it is of
priceless value here. ~ know Abraham" says
God, 4" that he viii bring up his household after
him. "Train up a child in the way he should
60, and, when be is old, he will not depart from
it, are the wise words Of Solomon. And it
was Paul who required that the " children be
brought up in the nurture and admonition Of
the Lord But little attention is given to
these divine teachings, and any one can see the
effect by comparing a people where they are re-
spected with another where they are allowed no
control. What can compensate society for the
fatal neglect. Disobedience at home, and will
the magistrate, when manhood comes, fare much
better?
Head education is being enforced, but this,
without a corresponding education of the hand
but paves the way to the prison. Ninety-two out
of every hundred persons in the jails of the ma
ton, in 1871, had no hand employment. Head
skill with idlencss, is suited to result in the dis
orders and crimes that are so rapidly and fright
fully taking on, all over the land, the proper
tons of an epidemic, or, perhaps, still more
correct, a mania.
Whether those in society. to whom the Gull
ture of the rising generation is committed, will
sec their opportunity to save the coming nation
from a fatal collapse, is a problem, that should
command universal attention. d.