The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-06-03
From the Ph.eaological Journal.
The Lash in the Nursery.

THE New York News utters a protest |
against Furnishing with blows the mis-
deeds of five-year-old offenders. 1t might
have added rebuke to those who, with
sharp words wound the spirits of their
little ones, not less than the lash tor
lures their flesh. Perhaps it takes less
time to put eheck-reiE on the energetic
little mischief by a sharp word or smart
blow; but the method of the sun as
against the wind is nowhere more potent
for good than in the nursery.
sit is impossible to measure in ad-
vance the physical results of corporal
punishment when applied with intention
to inflict pain upon these undeveloped
babies. One can hardly judge at times
whether child of five years of age is
sick or well; at one moment ii is playing
| merrily, at the next. noping, fretting,
complaining and showing unmistakable
! signs of physical distress. Those small
bundles of humanity contain enough
| aches without being subjected to the tor
| lures of the lash and probably many a
time some lurking disease has been pro-
voked and aggravated by the shocI- and
sting of thrashing given for some tri-
/ fling. perhaps unconscious or unavoida-
bic, breach of nursery discipline. =
Northampton Journal.
But if those little bundles of total de-
prayity' show temper, or will, why not
whip it out of them Is not that accord
ing to St. Solomon? Didn't he say some
thing about ''sparing and spoiling2 And
if the Bible teach it, why not follow it ?
| Doesn' it say, ''an eye for an eye" and "a
tooth for a tooth p Doesn't it say dam
nation and death to the wicked? Aye,
but one who came to save sinners taught
the doctrine of penitence and pardon, of
| q of cIn 0l life
l-"Suffer little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not" Overcome
evil with good, and so forth. Now, it
is found by at least one Scriptural com
mentator that Solomon meant by the
''rod," not a whip, but the rod of the
spirit, which has a different significance
and we see no objection to this view. A
. turbulent and high-spi-ited colt may be
subdued and rendered tractable without
the whip by kind, christian Rarey, and
why not high-tempered child? Is il
not chiefly in knowing how? Could pa
rents and children read the characters o.
their children-and their own-woulo
! there not be leg kicking, cutting, scold
ing, cursing, swearing, and whipping
t We know at least one young person, nov
fifteen years of age, and the best behaved
, person, without exception among all oul
} acquaintances, who was never chastised
, never even punished This boy is spir
tied, intelligent. energetic, and promises
= to become a selfhelpful and self-relyin:
character. He was never spanked" hi
? ears boxed, put upon a dunce-block, shu
a up in dark room, or sent to bed with
!, out supper. The parents of this fifteen
E year-old are sober, sensible, joyous, tenn
e perate, and deeply-religious people. l
p is a faultless family as the world goes
Love is the only authority known amoni
them. If there be such condition a
/ Heaven on earth" it may be seen in tn
/ faces and characters of these good. happy
. and godly people. What is the secret
|, That perfect love and confidence whicl
s "casteth out fear that mindfulness Q
e each other, and willingness to serve, eacl
:, preferring the other to himself or to her
i self; perfect selfcontrol, and each livin
f. up to the command to do by others a
we would that others should do by us
!, There is no need of the lash in such
e family. And why are there not NOR
Il such families?