Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-04
CHILD AND PARENT.

Hsn, OF BOSTON, at tho Cathedral Yesterday.
Services at the cathedral yesterday morn
ing were unusually interesting. High mass
was celebrated at 1890 O'Clock, the Rev. Father
Stanley celebrant, and the lesson and ep,stle
for the day was read as well as was the SCR
mon delivered by Father Bodfsh, of Boston.
The choir responses in the mass and solos
we're rendered in excellent voice, and alto
gether the service, at all times impressive,
was unusually attractive.
The text of the discourse was upon "The
Obedience of the Child and the reciprocal
duty of the Parent"
In commencing, the reverend speaker said:
The duty of children towards their parents
is explicitly set forth in the scriptures. It
is written: Children obey your parents.
But this duty is reciprocal. Parents are en-
joined to instruct, care for and cherish their
children. It is q mutual duty and natural
between the child and parents. Others as
sumo some portion of the duty, as the pas
tors, who look after the spiritual welfare of
the children. And in measure the State
assumes their control to make them good
and law-abiding citizens. The duty of pas
tor comes from the ecclesiastical law, as the
control of the State arises from the civil law.
With parents it is the natural law, and ema-
mates from the heart, there being written in
affection and the love of maternity and pa
ternity.
This provision of nature, the love of parent
for child, and attachment of child to parent,
was beautifully illustrative as fact in ma
ture, not alone confined to human beings.
In vegetable life the fruit chung to the parent
stem until it reached maturity; in animal
life the most ferocious beast protected and
tenderly watched and nursed its offspring.
The law which rests upon parents is natus
raj; the obligations upon others are self
assumed, in charity, duty or love. They are
voluntary and self-imposed, while God
places the duty upon parents
| which they can never !. escape.
It is one they can never put aside in justice
or to the pleasure of God. God intrusted to
parents an immortal soul with destiny fol
angelic life; for the parent to so shape the
life that it may become q sainted spirit in
the world of angels around the throne OF
God. In consequence of this great trust
parents should be zealously untiring in i'm
pressing their children with the great truths
of the perfection of Christian
life. Their education was with the parent.
Pastors, bishops and all ecclesiastics had
severed their connection with the world to
look after the spiritual welfare of such as
these. Their responsibility was an assumed
one, which with meditation and prayer
struck them with great magnitude. Yet
their work was untiring, and their efforts
were manifest in pastoral charge, the erec-
ton of schools and colleges for the educa-
ton of the young to the glory and honor of
the holy church. If through their self-de-
NAL voluntarily assumed SO much was &C.
complished, how much more it behooved the
Christian parent to watch, educate and care
for tie children. 1t will not be enough
when the gates of heaven are attained, that
you say you have observed the sacraments
and have lived holy life yourself. Where
are your children? will be asked. You
cannot be saved with your children lost
In speaking of the evil wrought by pa
| rental example, the reverend father said it
did not consist so much in neglect as in
actual impiety itself. Deplorable, yet so
frequently the case, the parent became the
destroyer of the child. Vicious counsel and
example led the child to and through the
avenues of sin. The first blasphemy heard
by the tender ears of the child was from the
lips of the father, and fell upon it's pure soul
| with an effect that left its mark in after
years of sin. We are enjoined to forgive
our enemies and pray for those who de-
spitefully use us. Yet how often are chill
dren raised up in an atmosphere of hate,
anger, revenge and neighborhood quarrels,
which are handed down from parent to
child. We are family of strong likes and
dislikes, and we never forgive, is sinful
utterance, frequently heard. Thus are chill
dren brought up, not in the spirit of love,
a nd a nh itv1o 0oho l.
our Savior.
The scriptures caution us against the de-
| sire for riches. Yet how often the sole object
of the parents is to acquire wealth, money,
and but the one lesson is taught the child.
wealthy neighbor is cited as an example,
commended for his wealth, yet in the same
breath which extols, the parent confesses
that many OF the neighbours transactions will
not bear the scrutiny Of justice and right. It is
get money anyway or anyhow. With such les
sons in example and by speech, is it to be won.
dered at that SO many frauds are perpetratedi
The mother was said to too frequently teach
her daughter vanity than to adorn her with
the modest and lovely graces of Christianity
by descanting upon dress and such vexatiout
vanities of life, even as they depart from the
doors of the sanctuary.
| In conclusion the speaker drew yivi6
picture of the beauty and loneliness of q
Christian home, and alluded to the tender
and abiding influence of Christian mother
which he illustrated by q pathetic story O
an erring youth who was reclaimed by tn.
thought of mother and his home. ssTrai1
up child in the way he should go and il
old age he will not depart y
The sermon was attentively listened to
and was delivered impressively and with
simplicity of diction which addressed itsel
wildly to all the hearers.