The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-18
PEACEFUL SUNDAY
A Sermon with Scarcely a Scream In 1t and
Mostly About Children.

MObJiI AuOut OHiAuAone
The election being over and no lives
having been lost upon the wrecked stea
mer Rhode Island, Mr.. Talmage Sunday
last was constrained to talk to his COL
gregation about children. Having pro-
perly bewailed the sacrifice of Jephthah's
daughter, he remarked that much Of the
system of Chlldren's education at the
present day was system of sacrifice.
He said that six or seven hours ofschool'
ing per day was much too much and
characterized "this herding of children
together in ill.ventilsted school rooms"
as holocaust" "Politics," said he, III
his ejaCulatory way, get into the school
houses, and while the politicians are
pickering and quarrelling, Jephthah's
daughter hourishes. Some of the schools
of this country are preparing tens Of
thousands of children for early graves.
1t is too often the case that while chlld's
education is being finished the child is
herself finished. The Cramming system
is bad. If the plan of seeking to make
seers of infants is to continue there
ought to be side by side with the school
an asylum for the ricketts,. It's push and
crowd and cram and stuff and jam until
the child's health is hopelessly impaired
l know a boy at school who had more
mathematics and Greek and Latin in his
head than all the rest of us put together
What good did it do him2 At the age of
eighteen he was an idiot. To me there
is world of pathos in the story of the
little girl who, during the deliriun of
fever, constantly reCited the multiplica'
ton table. Be careful how you make
the child's head ache and it's heart hutter
hear a good deal of the black mans
rights and the Chinaman's rights and of
woman's rights Would to God we
could hear more of Children's rights"
This sentiment Tas received with ap.
plause by the audience, and Mr. Talmage
then left the school house and entered
the "family circle" He described those
ill.regulated house holds in which the
"baby's high chair is the throne and the
baby rattles the sceptre" He didn't, he
said, believe in anything of that sort.
children who are given their own way"
said he as fervently as if utteringa new
and stupendous thought, grow up to be
miscTeants. Then you have the seeds
that ,ripen in that crop of young men
who may be seen staggering about the
streets and who refer to their respectable
male parent as the 'Guv'nor' and the
old chap"
But on the other hand Mr.. Tslmage
would not, he dt clared, have the home
discipline too severe. Above all he dep.
reCates the reprehensible practice OF
growing and nagging at children. "Bet
ter" said be, "far better a good round
of the old fashioned slipper. Petulant
scolding and fault. finding irritates with
out correcting. The bloom of cbild'a
heart can never be seen under cold
drizze."
But. above all, Mr.. Talmage would
have the children brought up in a reig
ious atmosphere. He mentioned az
worthy of all imitation the case OF fond
mother who had little prayer for each
OF the little garments worn by her in
fant, and who breathed the little prayers
out as she slipped the little garments, and
on, and he did not forget to mention thai
the babe thus sscredly and leisurely
dressed grew up to be an estimable mem
Der of society. "This is a goddess age o.
money worship" said he, (which boasts
that 1t can write the Lords prayer OF
one side Of ten.cent piece and the ter
commandments on the other, and w
can't train up the children too religious
ly."-M Y. World, 8th.