Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-30


nected There with-The Parent the
Teacher and the Child as the Teacher
Parental Authority and Other Points OF
Interest to the Father, the Mother and
the Child.
Last night the Rev. Mr.. Hulburd, pastor
of the First M. E. Church, preached the sec
ond of his series of lectures, entitled, HWe
and Our Neighbours" In natural sequence.
the first lecture being "Mated and Married"
the subject last night was "Born and Bred;
or the Parental Relation" The subject was
introduced with reference to Bible text
Throughout the discourse the honest truth
and facts were listened to with intense at
tenton. Herewith the GLOBE gives ex
tended extracts from the discourse:
THE PARENTAL RELATION.
discoursed last Sunday evening of the
marriage relation, claiming for 1t peculiar
sacredness and solemnity, as having been.
on the part of the contracting parties, vol
untary; and I discountenanced all outside
pressure and the influence of unworthy mo-
tives, and I have to say to all don't, don't.
don't sell out or be sold out; and don't
allow your passing fancy to carry you away,
for remember this is for life the VOWS until
death US do part-un]ess Chicago or Indiana
intervene, and then think that the parties
ought to be compelled to live there. Again,
this relation is Of divine institution and is
his chosen symbol for the close and sacred
relation between him and his church. But
have now to add that il receives added i'm
portac ce By the fact that to it is committed
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the young of the race, until they come to
such years as are supposed to have fixed
their habits and matured their judgment.
A home includes the conjugal and the pa
ternal relations. We sing, 'what is home
without mother" and say home is not
a home, in which children are not born and
do with the estimate which is put upon
children. You will sometimes see i'll adver-
tisements of real estate this ''tenants wanted
without incum brances." How do you sup
pose man feels who indites notice like
that? How does he look? Well, I'll show
you picture of him. He is admirably
painted in Dickens Christmas carol of
<'Scrooge and Marley Old Scrooge snarl-
ing in his inner Office at his hearty, happy,
but penniless nephew, who wishes him a
"Merry Christmas" And 1 should expect
such an one to be haunted by troops Of lit
tie children, who would come in his sleep
and tweak his nose and pull his hair and sit
upon his chest. ''Incumbrances'' forsooth;
wonder if such were ever little children!
But landlords are not the only ones who re-
gard them as such. Bend forward now
listen and I'll tell you secret Don't for
PHYS sake let it get into the papers! Listen
must whisper it, lest it get outside. There
are women; gay, thong htless women; frivol-
GUS women in St.-St. Augustine, Florida,
and elsewhere, who can talk of 'shorrid
brats," and they, too, regard them as in
cumbrances. And I'd tell you another Sc
cret, too, only some of you are rot married
and don't want you to think too hardly OF
your fellows.
came one night into the city of Ant
werp, Belgium, and the cannons were
roaring and fireworks blazing; bells
ringing and the people shouting
themselves hoarse. Not supposing for one
moment that they knew I was coming, I
didn't think it was because I was coming,
and wondered what it would be. I soon
learned that girl baby had been born the
night before; and was still surprised as
knew that Belgium was the most densely
populated country on the face of the globe,
and I thought such events too common to be
thcs celebrated, but it was all explained,
when learned that the new conner was q
daughter of the king. That told the whole
story to my satisfaction. But now let me
read to you the language in which our fret
mother greeted her first born: Sand she
bore Cain and said, I have gotten a man
children are an heritage of the Lord. AS
lo., -, Id
children of the youth. Happy is the man
that hath his culver full of them; they shall
not be ashamed, but shall speak with the
enemies in the te:''-127th psalm. To
the pair to whom children come as an heri-
tage from the Lord, sense of responsible
ty and an awful joy will come with them.
The child lies in the cradle a bundle of pos
sibility. Possibilities of awful and colossal
ILL., possibilities of vast and varied good.
To the parent is largely committed the taste
OF developing those possibilities. Like the
sculptor, stood before the rough ASHER
of marble, of whom the child asked what he
was going to dowith it, to whom he an
swered: see an angel in that marble and
am going to get it out. So under God
these parental hands are to work and bring
out the wcndrous beauty Of the Venus Di
Medici, or the horrid contortions of the
LAGOON.
There are homes into which it is calam-
lily for child to be born. Homes that are
cursed as the dewless hills of Gilboa, and
regret to say that they are not all what you
would call unchristian homes. Either the
parents may belong to the church, or they
may not; that makes little difference IN this
case But eau tell you my friends if you
undertake to make any capital out of'wnat |
admit in regard to some people in the
church, forwarn you not to attempt it; for
you ought to be thankful, that we keep them,
for if the sweet and gentle religion of Christ
can't make any more of them than that,
what on earth would you do with them,if they
were out in the world? But repeat there
are such, whose very religion takes a sour
turn, and the sourest thing in the world is
sour goodness. Find parents who have that
and look out for the devil in children. If
Col. Robert Ingersoll had lived with my faith
or and mother, he would not be an in
fdel to day. But his hard
old minister of father looked
solemn and talked pious in the pulpit on a
Sunday, and abused his wife and children
on week days; talked like minister in the
pulpit, and acted like the devil out of it,
And what wonder that the brilliant, sunny
hearted boy should think if that was religion,
he wanted none of it. But, bless you, if he
could have lived in the sunshine of my faith
ers house and known them as I did, and
never hear cross word in his life. Correct
US? OF course they did; how do you sup
pose they could get along with g restless,
turbulent spirit like mine if they didn't.
My mother would begin to talk to me, and
cry over me, and make me feel so bad at hav-
ing grieved her, that if she hadn't whipped
me should have wanted to kick myself for
my meanness in having grieved her. It was
q kind of relief to be whipped. Why, the
sun shone all the time there, and the house
was born in hadn't only two little 7x9 rooms
in it, and father didn't own that, either.
But, sir, the throne room of tha Tuillaries