Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
RetrlbutiOn.
ri REV. JOHN HALL, D. D., NEW YORK

NJ REV. JOHN HALL u. D., NEW YORK.
When a mother disregards the laws of
health in the treatment of her little one, no
matter from what cause, she suffers in the
care, toll of nursing, anxiety regarding the
child in whose system she allowed TO be laid
the foundation of disease. And it will not
alter the case that she did not know the
laws she violated, or did not think of them,
or was so placed that she could not pay to
them deserved respect. Inexorable law is
asserted, and she is punished
When man eats or drinks what does not
conduce to the healthy nourishment Of the
body, he suffers for it sooner or later. Nor
will it avert the penalties that he can plead
his ignorance of the effects of his indul-
gence. The diseased brain or disordered
stomach vindicates the dignity of law.
When lady deceives her husband in the
matter of expense, obtains goods on credit,
when he wishes to buy only with cash, she
endures the consequences when the bills
come at length in the Just displeasure of
her husband, in the loss of his confidence,
and, perhaps, later, in the evil influence of
her example on her children. That she has
excuses, reasons of her own, and the like,
will not avert these sore evils.
When parents make the one son a play
thing, forget their obligations TO train and
restrain him, indulge his every whim and
foster every form Of self in him, in selfa
sertion. self-peasing, self-will and self-indul.
gence, they reap as they sowed in the young
tyrant who rules them before he is in his
teens, and breaks their hearts before he has
attained his majority. That they loved him,
or did not think of the future or had but
the one, is no barrier to the flood of misery.
Men can see this principle in operation on
the narrow field of individual or family life
but they are slow to notice it, and still
more slow to lay it to heart, for practical
uses, on the broader field of social and ma.
tional life
When we allow an ignorant and vicious
population to grow up in the community, we
are punished by the example, the contami.
mated atmosphere, the injuries inflicted the
costly defences against the evil, or the ex.
pensive machinery for detecting and punish
| ing the criminals. The school is cheaper
and better than the Jail; the Sunday-school
and the church are better than the police
court. Let us ignore the cheap and needful
agency, and we must in tardy self-defence
provide the costly and imperfect remedies
for the consequences of our neglect.
| When the rich and influential keep away
from the poor and obscure-as they do il
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it be the folly of thoughtlessness or vanity
brings in time its penal consequences. Alien
alton follows, distrust is bred, envy anC
iao'y iI;''a Us op'luS ~, o1o Poo' p eena, s;.,,
~ ~ w 'iio oAoi 1i'e VI o'en Ju'o au'noi '.y
vno i9oI ievo'eu oonio W ooun' 'ue nlo;e IA
eneii naVui ai eiet,iieo anu .no.o 10 a.
mass VI inliai'i'iia1ie lia.oi Ia. y
mnion .ne vorcl Vi an inoenuiaiy pass;o,
nas only !" oe pu. 10 Prouuce acoi,agraVlo'
L ta.al W oo.l' pu1 iii19e sraV9 " 'hose VIZ tr
nave most 10 lose. Hence 1ne ihcaicuiao,
Vaiue ol ehe kiloly eHeceS oi the weii'to-u'
on oehaii Oh the Struggling, py whici goo'
leellhg is produced ana nalhtaihed, ahS I'
ciass Is pouhu 10 Grass, OF more corree.iy
.ne Peop,e are iuseu ihoo one pouy in wnie'
heau anu manu- alu iooe are oohoen. III 'nei
Piaces' anu neither says 10 'he o'her'
nave no neeu Oh Gnee'
III the United states ohis lact heeus al .a ~,
more 70 De reinemoered from the very uin
oui.ies ,iias ne IN 'i,e way VI uoi,is emu ah'
seuue ueeus' n iaoy' ioi eAa'npie, mus I'll
young ana handsome giri whom she mas en
saeeu as heiP, heePihg iate pours, OF uau
gerous company, one taxes her lhto ne
room, says 10 her' Jane, l nave notice
tnat you are out iate, that you nave irleho
VINO, happen 10 Know Is not well htted U
DE your friend, ana peing IN sort OF wa
as nother 10 you here' l ADVISE you 10 sta
Ill anu 10 drop thls acquaihtahce. but Jan
says Ihuignantiy' " Am 1 hot uoing III
work What business have you with IN
alter that NOW ten chances 10 one, IN
empower nolds her peace iets tne girl TAX
her way, BUSINESSES her wheh IL suits her, all
W .ne voice Oh conscience or Oh ir'emuiy az
honi'io4 from an OUTSIDER says il al iaSui I,,
oases ~ no use Cryilg 70 ihleiieie, ,:,is ne
> are 50 aosurd,y ihuependeh, tney Will hhei
gNe you ihsoiehce' lrieu iI
oh tne large scale the consequence
= hegiecteu auty III this one reia'ion Is u
grown OF CLASS OF poor ana ultihnaIel
e "Ie'cheu' ruined persons, the IehpIers
others-eVeh Oh the SONS Oh the euPioyer
. VINO III right state Oh 'hings, mlght nay
= saveu 'heih-ahu Ine 700 many inmates
= I. prisons, pehitehtlarles, asyiums that IN the
\ nanne ilpei mary Magdaiehe, anu III u
:. = snocking suicides which prove the haruhe
- Oh transgiessorS Ways
= az .nis ihoihehu' aCDentioh Is caiieu 70
= lhdehhite danger 10 the common peao
q Whlch Is known VagN eiy py the name
" communism ana socialism. IL we
a enough as piece Oh linnedia!e police-eilo
10 guard against local ana Irritating OF
= breaks put ~ VIII DC Dad enough II u
!, community rests there' Error Is oad' Dut
~ Is oiteh the result oil negiecting gre
o truth' rolticai corruption Is pad put
comes IN no small degree from good men
. chewing politics llgh taxation Is pa
n ou. IL IL olleh tne iihmeaiate OF lhe inulr.
% and 50 Communism is bad, but II large
- tiows from disregard oil the oblgations
u | kQOWlelpp. OF nlage and OF DrODertV.