The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-01-28


| What to others was but rude. unsightly
stone, to his educated eye was buried
glory of art, and he discovered at glance
what might be made of it, mason
would have put it in a stone walk; a cart
man would have used it in filing in, or
to grade the streets, but he transformed
1t into creation of genius and gave it
value for ages to come" Parents, may
not your children be likened unto Just so
many blocks of marble newly from the
quarry? and are you not the sculptors? ?
Strange, but true, that all those little hu-
man blocks of yours are born with the
attributes of both angel and devil The
angel is invariably there, and if you
know how, you can bring it out of that
two-fold nature; and then by giving your
child an education make his life useful,
and by teaching him religion make his
death happy. When the angel grows
mightier, Satan grows weaker. The more
prominent the one, the more obscure the
other. If the angel reign, he carries the
key, and Satan is held chain-bound, and
contrawise. Whenever you see one of
those seemingly harmless, inofensive
creatures, who never benefits himself, OF
anybody else you may come to the con-
clusion, sthat neither the angel, nor
the devil have been brought out But
clinched, like to mighty champions of
equal strength, with muscles strained to
the "top of their bent" they stand within
like statues. Each afraid to relax. lest
the other conquer. Satan is more at
ease, than his antagonist, while in this
powerless state; for the occupants of
despair sing new song when an ally
succeeds in silencing a Christian But I
am DEPRESSING. Parents, you are the
makers of immortal fates You shape
the bent unto good or evil Listen to
additional authentic testimony of the
need of parental restraint. OF seven
thousand nine hundred and sixty-three
inmates of reformatories in the United
States in 1870, fifty per cent were
orphans; and of four hundred and fifty
two juvenile criminals sent to the New
York House of Refuge during the same
year, almost sixty per cent. had lost one
or both parents. Of the three thousand
five hundred and eighty youthful inmates
received into the Mettria, the celebrated
French reformatory, one thousand five
hundred and forty-two were parentless.
These statistics corroborate the state
ment made by the "Prison Association
of New York in their report of 1869 In
seeking for the causes of crime, the pro-
nounced want of due parental care and
government the most prolific of all.
They declared after careful study of
statistics, and personal conversation with
thousands of criminals" they were as
sured that ''baclz of all other causes, un-
derlying all, and giving potency to all, is
this lack of early domestic restraint and
discipline
Some parents, as if good qualities would
grow spontaneous, take little pains to
cultivate, restrain, and discipline. Wan
tonly they twist the sappling in the soil,
and the crooked oak tells on them in
future years Now, before we enter on
the practical part, take another glance at
your beautiful little human blocks, bet
= | WI INAAOhAA eeS PASS4ONo JOhSAo- my "a Y
subject to your molding chisel Your
words, your actions, yes, your very
thoughts, are intuitively working on
those little statues. You bring frowns
or smiles on their plastic faces at your
will; you encourage or you depress you
elevate or you degrade; you distort or
you beautify; you make angels or you
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of human events you are father, l con-
gratulate you, for in this domestic rela-
, ton you will be of more value to society
than childless man. Mr. Beecher says,
GA man must be bolted and screwed to
the community before he can work well
for its advancement; and there are no
such screws and bolts as children" Inas-
much as you are given children as an in
heritance; and since you can in nowise
! cast the responsibility and blame all on
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent-being your
self, by singular coincidence, the human
agent that brought your child into exist
: ence-it unquestionably behooves you to
= let your studies, your efforts, your life,
? be devoted to elevating, charging, rein
ing, and ennobling the mind and charac-
= ter; in other words, to developing the
, angel in the-human-bIock.
e CHILD TREATMENT.
) 1t is the implicit duty of children to
n honor their fathers and mothers by ODE
y dience and good works; and it is EN-
phatically the duty of parents to exercise
: frmness in seeing that their commands
Y are obeyed.
y For me to attempt to lay down a set o.
/ rules applicable in all the diversified cases
d of child government would be absurd
n Utterly impossible. There are so many
It different temperaments. L can however
e give general directions which may be o
# inestimable value to the reader. II
l. speaking of directions calls to memory
!. the common sense" directions that DR.
n Hitchcock received from lady on enter
e ing wilderness. The doctor must needs
: pass through nine miles woods where
If travellers almost always got lost and fire.
e quently came out at the place of starting G
n DIR. Hitchcock, on entering this mucl
|. dreaded labyrinth, met an old woman
l. and asked her to give him some direc
u tions for getting through the forest so a:
e "to fetch up at Plymouth rather thar
h Sandwich. Certainly" was the reply
|. 81 will tell you all about it with the