The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-09-28

mature which tend 70 misIead aud cor
lrupt their better feelings. However, the
acme is not yet reached. Children that
should by al. means remain In the nurs-
lery unless Papa or Mamma or some
other person accompany them, are per-
mitted to run hither and thither with
out any cognizance whatever being
taken OF their department. Evil things,
like weeds, and even thorns on thisiles.
spring up spontaneously. They need
no cultivation. Deprayed nature has
strong affinity for evil communications,
and when unrestraincd BY moral culii-
vation sympathcticaiiy invites them.
Me thinks hear some or. say; II tell
my children what Is right. and II they
don't do it. can help IT," II can't al
ways keep them under my eye Sup
pose YOU do all this, and even more,
does il prove you have made what you
have taught impressive! Docs IL prove
that you have enforced your precept ?
Two teachers enter the school-room AT
the same time. and they each have just
exactly the same kind OF material to
work upon, and teach precisely the same
thing; one succeeds and the other fails.
Why? Because the one imprcsses his
students with what he teaches, the other
does not. Again, because you can not
keep your children always under your
EYE, does that prove that you should
llneyer take any notice OF Il cir conduct /!
'lCerlaillv not. My friend. have you not
noticed The difference in the crops Of the
!. man that weeds his corn while small,
sand The one who ploughs in the middle
lof the row letting weeds grow IN the
lhil. The same rule applies in training
achidrcn. Cine keeps close oversight oi
his children, and like the teacher that
impresses what he teaches, and the far
! .ner who takes the eeds from the hill
Ireaps The full reward OF his layor. His
sltraiaing Is success. The other allows
his children 10 follow their own ipclina
Itions without even looking 10 see il
\ weeds are choking out the better par
Iof their nature. and then complains o
1.-The rudencss of young people. What
saws one has night gatherings got 10 d.
with all OF this2 IL has this 10 do: th'
Young from the eight year old boy u
.,libe Young man Of twenty, collect q
some designated point, perhaps at sing
ling. or might meetings. and, II the.
Is remain on the premises until the exer
!cises are over, instead Of returning home
,hlthcy form into squads and play . gam
lac caiyls ot enter upon some Other evi
course. and then report that they earn
,elhome as soon as the evening exercis
cIoscd thereby doubling their Grim
ctbv practicing deception. Satan Is IN
father Of darkness and seeks to deco
some unfortunate victim into mis- way
fe in the night, rather than in the day. iii
agents laDor with more zeal in the dar
ItLan IN the light While the larger pal
oi the best people in almost any comml
lnitv are reposing, tho rabble aud IN
y. evil are always on the stir. You slun
Itlbvr upon your downy pillow and y
'r' 'lvour children engage in the devices I
'ss lSatan and his coSworkers. because
re sings or B. breaches at the school hons
~ ar pcrchance the church. Habits Al
"y formed and modified i,y association
IN And as habits form the character. Il
~ associations should be carefully selecte
II A friend said 10 me. good men when q
y, ns socialed together will naturally seek
''h make each other better. 30 Will the a
~ sociations Of young people have Il
~ same tendency. But the present mann
~ OF assembling and conducting things
an night generally, is 10 make the asso,
ne ,ations bad, rather than good. In co
~. clusion, let me give an illustratio
ny Early last spring, At late hour in {
o'e night, after preaching at the scho
aiy house. the crowd came along the roa
.imaking a large amount of nnnecessa
!. noise, until they reached the crossiI
!. There they must stop and talk nonser
na' while. and then after They began
disperse one Of them hollows "hurr
M for Tildcn and Hendricks 10 which
'eh youth Of about twenty summers repsi
rs s.hurrah for iI-ll-f-re." This he wot
ng, by no means have done had bis parcl
h's been with him, neither would he ha
mas acted so in day time. A lol Of little =
70 big hoys. and some girls too, laughed
na' what this ilmanerly foolish fellow
eny said. Had their been no night meet
aye the children and youths Of this conn
'iuc nifty would not have heard his profa
aAN ness. And really we do not supp
~ III one Of them remembered anything
' ,nc preacher said, not even the text.
you PHiNEAs
are
'nu, nam General Lew Wallace Is maxim