Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-11
help in your home duties. Every house
keeper needs grace. II Martha had
possessed more religion she would not
have rnn out of the kitchen To

help IN your nome duties. Every mousse
keeper needs grace. II Martha had
possessed more religion she would not
have run out OF the kitchen to
( scold Mary in the Presence Of Christ.
1t is no small work to keep order and
secure cleanliness and achieve economy
and mend breakages, and control all
! domestic matters advantageously. Fam
lily expenses will run up, store bills will
come in twice as large as you expected,
| furniture will wear ont and carpets un-
ravel. There are in many OF these
Christian homes those who administer
this department of household mntters
with an adroitness and energy and COM
posurc and faithfulness which never
could have been reached but for the
grace OF our practical Christianity. The
annoyances which exasperate and wear
out the spirit OF others, to them become
the means OF spiritual development and
sanctticatlon, and these employments
which seem To have only the relations
OF an hour, come to WELD the grandeur
OF an eternal history, and
Augment the Welfare of Endless Ases.
You will SEE the effect OF grace on the
parental heart in the proper discipline
OF children. The rod, which in other
households is the first means employed,
in this will be the last. All harsh epi-
thets will be dropped. You scoundrel.
You villain. You knave! lou are the
worst child ever knew. | will thrash
the lie out OF you. Such chastisements
as that makes future thieves, murier-
ers, pick-pockets and the outlaws OF so.
cie;y. That parent or school teacher
thar strikes the child on the head de-
serves the penitentiary. But the cor
rectIon OF child's faults is high mis-
sion and no lar,mt can escape it.
Bessed is that iaiEcr. blessed il that
mother that has divine help for the stu
pendous undertaking. Mas for those
who come To this du.y ti.I9r with pas.
sion and reckless as To sGhs' qTent re-
sulls. See no choice hr'w IN the two
evils OF destroying the e.. ii through
severity or destroying it iAlough laxa-
tivcness Of discipline.
Both Are Ruinous and Blasting.
There is a happiness which those will
most perfectly attain who lay hold OF
divine guidance In their PRAYER.
SO also will We want religion in help
ing us to set proper example. The
young heart is in malleable condition.
Cowpcr said oil the oak:
Thine was when, settling on thy leaf = fy
Could shake thee 10 the root; and time has
been
When tempests could not
Children have quick ears, and they
take up the isolated words that are
dropped, and they put them together
Have You never been surprised months
after some conversation you supposed
was not understood by the younger
members Of the family, some question
on their part reveals the fact that they
know all about il. Your child thinks
that what father does is right. Too
young to have any ideal model of right
eousncss and truth, he takes his parent
for model. Those things which you
do knowing them at the time To be
wrong, he takes for propriety OF con.
duct, and his reasoning is:
Father Always Does Right.
and father did this, therefore this is
right. No one ever gets over having
had wrong example set him. Your
conduct will be more potential than
your teaching Your laugh, your
irown, your smile, your walk, your
dress, your greetings and good-hycs,
Your comings an'i golngs, your habits at
table, your tone Of voice are making an
impression that will last million years
after You are dead. And the sun will
he quenched, and the mountains
crumble, and the world will die. and
eternity will roll on in perpetual cy.
clps but there slIal! he no adminition OF
the force Of your conduct upon the
voung ewes that see il and the Young
ears that hear it, BY this | would not
inrulcate cold reserve in the presence
OF your children.
Bc Not 10 Them Emperors, But Compan-
ions.
Go out and ride with them and play ball
with them and skate with them and
show them that YOU have an interest III
everything that Interests them. Spcn-
sippus. nephew and success Of Plato,
in the Academy, caused pictures Of JOY
and glalnesS to he hung in the school.
Do not let y0u children feel, when they
come hy You, a. though they were
playful ripple dashing against rock.
Tell them what you have done and what
Won expect to DO. Let them know that
YOU were once like them, boy, and
that YOU know all a boys temptations
and ambitions. They will respect and
honor YOU the more. You may Tor
while make them believe that you are
some distant SUI trn ltural cnulsence,
never having had any Of the weaknesses
OF human nature ami shove Your child
of hv Your rigidiiy OF manner. But
thev will find out alter while that
You are Only Man.
and when once they have themselves
discovered the secret your natural con.
troll is gone. Parents do not pay
enough attention 10 the sports OF their
children. Aristotle said that children
oughtto begin to study stseyenteen at years
Of az: before that time their chief ocCu-
PATTON ought to be amusement.
take step higher, and ask you
what vDU will do with YOUR children
religious interests, II you have no re-
ligion Yourselves. Parents never get
So sinful or worldly but they wish their
children TO he good. Among the prs'
oners in ,the police court in Can
ada was young woman with child IN
her arms. She cried:
80, God, Let My Babe Go
Send some good woman for it. ! can
never take my babe into cell. Ii is
innncpn'. am wicked. Tie child il
fit for Heaven. II has never sinncd.
On. let it not he tainted with a CELL
A brazen creature can" mp and offered
to take the child. No. no, no. no.
vou," said sh,; will not some good
mother ,ase this child And the
chill ~. taken aud the mother give l.
an ari,u. 49,, an sad at will be bet.
ter for YOU, NY child, never TO see me
again
However ~ asrray parents may ct
thew want Their children b'ess.d. iOu
may gve to yoar chi.i god books.
teach tn"m The CAtccal-n and take them
to church, but il yon DO this mechar-
ically,
tWill Haze 10 Practical Effect.
They hav" stare! Tor eternity, and are
YOU sure ,hsy are on the night rOafE
When lnat yuuHg form, which ~ your
| jov ani pride, shall have wasted IN The