Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-05-17
Obedience To Parents.

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l Ole little miss vi about nine years of ag
! say to another who might have been ter
, years old:
J snow. Pm going to be the mamma
: and you'll have to mind me-"
Indeed, WON'T" said little Miss Ten
years old.
J Why, you're only ten. That isn't tot
J old to mind your mother. Some girls dC
when they're twelve" replied the frs,
named.
That was al l heard, but that wai
enough to set any mother to thinking
Ten years old. and beginning to assert her
own authority. but allowing that some
girls did sill obey their parents at the al.
vanced age of twelve!
| wonOer if any of my little readers are
like this little girl Do any OF you treat
your mothers with disrespect; tell her
when she has asked you 10 do something
that you are not going to do il, OF when
she says: Daughter, | do not think you
had best go out tonight" or do not
wear yonr new dress On this dark day" "
do you reply: "Well, I'm golLg anyhow "
and, IL won't go to church if cant wear
my new dress!' have known Just such
children, and think sometimes if l could
hear the conversation in many lovely
looking homes | should be greatly sur
prIsed to find how many young ladies
there are now a days, who i'll society ap-
pear arhiable and kind and pleasing, but
who make their mothers and their homes
very unhappy by unamIable. dIsrespectfuI
conduit | presume when they were
children they talked about minding mamma
as did this little girl heard on the street,
and after the habit was once formed of
being dlsobedient ard disrsspectful, 1t grew
upon them, and they no doubt were of'en
unconscious OF the severe criticisms passed
upon them by those whom they considered
admIring frienas.
A number of years ago | was well ac
quainted with beautiful and talented
Young lady who was much admired by
large circle of friends, young lady whose
parents were proud of her in many ways,
and yet because of her disrespect toward
them they took no comfort with the daugh.
ter who should have been a constant de-
light 10 their hesrts and in their home.
Those who knew her best, and were
accustomed to visit informally in the
family, could not but notice her faulty
manner toward her parents, and partic-
ularly toward her mother and | often
heard friends IN speaking of her say:
"What bright and beautiful girl
is, bat bow shamefully she treats her
motherl She seems TO have NO idea of
child's duty TO parent"
AT enc time Judge, who had met the
daughter in society, and enjoyed her spark
ling conversation and witty repartee, dined
at the house. Twice during mis- brief visit
the daughter spoke in such sighting
tone to her mother, once refusing u listen
TO her suggestion, and was SO disrespectful
In her manner toward the one whom above
all others she should treat with respect.
that the Judge remarked to friend that
evening;
Il do not want to hear any more praise
OF Miss. A young lady who has so
little character, so little self-respect, as to
allow herself TO treat her mother as she
did to day, has lost every particle of my
admiration. All her brilliancy and educa.
tion goes for nothing and shall henceforth
feel like avoiding her,"
Doubtless Miss-was unconscious at
the time that she was treating her mother
in an Improper manner, so accustomed haf
she become TO the bad habit, and PERHAPS
she even congratulated herself on the 90 ID
impression she had nade up the distn.
gUlshed guest Could she have heard the
Judges opinion, she would not have sung:
20, wad some power the giftie gle us
To see ourselves as Ithers see u.s.
and yet it might be well if a correct esti-
mate of her character had been portrayed
to her.
But not only do disobedient and disres-
pectful children deserve and receive Justly
merited criticisms from all who know
them well, but they are disobeying the
direct commands of God, and SO causing
lbs dIsplea>ure- To some of ycu, per
haps, this thought has never come, that
every time you treat your parents with
6ishoror or disobedience, you have added
one more to your SINS against your Heav-
emily Father. One of the Ten Command
ments you know reads: Honor thy
father and thy mother" Did you ever
ask yourselves the meaning OF that CON-
mand, aud then see if you were ooeving
il? II means 10 treat your parents with
esteem and respect, with Difference and
Submission Are YOU weli-pleasing to God
in this respect At another place in the
Bible We read: Children, obey your
parents in all things, for this is we'll
pleasing unto the LORD"
Now there are number of other COM
msnds OF that kind in the Bible, but | |
c.nnot find any verses where it is SAID
that children must obey their parents until
they are twelve years old, or sixteen years
old; neither can hnd verse telling the
children that they must obey their parents
In most things, but once In awhile they
can do their own way. instead of readiEg:
''Obey your parents in all things. But
how many there are who act as if they had
right to do their own way, aud were not
dlsobeylng their Heavenly Father, and
had no forgiveness to ask for their dis
obedience.
One Of the good things recorded OF
Jacob was this, that even In the matter
OF selecting wife. when his parents told
him not to take one from the daughters
of Canaan, ',he obeyed his father and his
mother" And how Old do you suppose
he was at thai timei About forty years Of
age, and do not believe he ever played
that he was too old to mind mamma. Now
those who take the advice of their parents
and obey them when they are young will
be happy In their confidence and love as
they grow into maturer years, will become
their cherished companions, and more than
eli receive the blessing OF God which is SO
often promised 10 the obedient, and to
those VINO honor father and mother, and
VIII escape the terrible fall predicted for
those who mock al their fathers and despise
TO obey their mothers
king Henry WIS" Palace.
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