The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

Ion OF OlTlBL uOeb uOL CIhulp tuo SuooVi
or curve the spine, or weaken the nerves
There are no malarias floating up from
the river oflife. The religion Of Christ
throws over the heart and life of child
a supernal beauty. "Her ways are ways
of pleasantness, and all her paths are
peace"
pass on to consider the susceptibility
Of childhood. Men pride themselves on
their unchaDgeability. They will make
an elaborate argument to prove that they
think now as they did twenty years ago.
1t is charged to frailty or fraud when
man changes his sentiments in politics
or in religion; and it is this determina'
ton of soul that so often drives back he
Gospel from mans heart. 1t is 30 hard
to make avarice charitable, and fraud
honest, ard pride humble, and skepti-
cism Christian. The sword of Gods
truth seems to glance off these mailed
wa riors, and the helmet seems battle
proof against Gods battle-ax. But child,
hood, how susceptible to example and
to instruction. YoI are not surprised at
the record: abraham begat Isaac, and
Isaac begat Jacob" for when religion
starts in family it ls apt to go all thro'.
Jezebel, murderess, you are not SUI
prised to find her sou, Jehoram attempt
ing assassination. Oh, what RESPONSE.
biiity upon the parent and the teacher
The musician touches the keys, and the
response of those keys is away Oft amid
the pipes and chords; and you wonier at
the distance between the KEY and the
chord. So it is in life; if you touch
child, the results will come back from
manhood or old age, telling just the tune
played. whether the dirge of great sor'
row OF the anthem of great joy. The
word the Sabbath.sChool teacher whis'
pers il the ear of the class will be echoed
back from everlasting ages of light or of
darkness. The home and the school de-
eide the Republic or the despotism; the
barbarisn or the civilization; the up.
building of an Empire or it's overthrow.
Higher than Parliament or Congress are
the school and the family, and the sound
of a ChiId's foot may mean more than
the tramp OF ost. What then are you
doing for the purpose of bringing your
children into the Kingdom of GodP If
they are 80 suscepuole; and if this is the
very best time to act on their eternal in
terests, what are you doing by way Of
right impulsion? There were some har-
vestersl IN the tields of Scotland one hot
day, and Hannah Lemond was helping
them gather the hay. Shelaid her babe
under tree; while she was busy in the
field there was a futter of wings in the
air, and a golden eagle Clutched the
swaddling band Of the babe and flew
away to the mountain eyrie. All the
harvesters end Hannah Lamond started
for the cliffs. 1t was two miles before
they came to the foot of the cliff Get.
ting there, who dared 10 mount the cliff?
No human foot had ever trod it. There
were sailors there who had gone up the
mast in the day of terrible tempest; they
did not dare risk it. Hannah Lamond
sat there for while and looked up and
saw the eagle in the eyrie, and then she
leaped to hel feet and started up where
no human foot had ever trod, Crag above
crag, catching hold of this root or that
root, until she reached the eyrie, aud
caught her babe, the eagle sweeping in
ferCeness all around her. Fastening the
child to her back she started for her
friends and her home. Oh, what dizzy
descent, sliding from this crag to that
crag catching by that vine and that root,
coming down further and further to the
most dar gerous pass, where she found a
goat and some kids. She said Now I'll
follow the goat, the goat will know just
which is the safest way down." and she
was led by the nimal down to the plane.
When she got there all the people cried:
"Thank God thank GodP' her strength
not giving away until the rescue was eff
feCted. And they cried, "Stand back,
give her airl" Oh, if a woman will do
that for the physical life of her child,
what will you do for the eternal life of
your boy and your girl? Let it not be
said in TIE great day of eternity that
Hannah Lamond put forth more exertion
for the saving of the physical life of her
child than you, oh parent, have put forth
for the eternal life of your little one.
God help you,
pass on to consider the power that a
child wields over the parental heart. We
often talK about the influence of parents
upon children; never heard anything
said about the influence of children upon
parents. You 60 to school to them. You
no more educate them than they educate
you. With their little hands they have
caught hold Of your entire nature, and
you cannot wrench yourself away from
their grasp You are different men and
women from what you were eff re they
gave you the first lesson. They have
revolutionized your soul, There are
fountains of Joy in yonr heart that ne yer
would have been discovered had they
not discovered them for You. Life is to
you more stupendous thing than it was
before those little feet started on the
pathway to eternity. Oh, how many
hopes, how many joys, how many soliCi-
tudes that little one has created in your
soul! You 90 to school every day-a
school OF deni !, a school of patience, in
which you are getting wiser day by day,
and that influence of the child over yeu
will increase and increase, and though
your children may die, from the very
throne of God they will reach down an
influence to your soul, leading you on
and up, until you mingle with their vol.
ces and sit beside their thrones. The
grasp the child has upon the parents
heart is seen in what the parent does for
the child. Storm and darkness, heat and
cold are nothing to you, if they stand
between you and your child's welfare.
A great lawyer, when yet unknown, one
day stood in the Courtroom and made
an eloquent plea before some men of
great legal attainments aud gentleman
said to him afterwald; "How could you
be 81 calm standing IN that august pres.
enCe2" Oh" said Erskine, II felt my
children pulling at my skirts crying for
bread" What strea . will you not SWIM
what cavern will you not enter, what
battle will you not fight, what hunger
will you not endure for your Children2
Your children must have bread, though
you starve Your children must be well