The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-09-28

But tnere are other ways IN Whlcn
children die from their parents fault in
not teaching obedience.
How many young girls wreck their
health because they do not think of obey
ing the mother whose wisdom and eXper
fence warns them Of their danger? How
many wcN insufficient clothing in order
to have slight waist. thin shoes to adOrn
their small feet, and hands freezing in
kid gloves, with the weather below zero,
paying the penalty in those dread dis
eases Of the vital orgrns which result
from sudden chill, ard exhausted vital
ity How many more make utter ship
wreck of character because they have
not been brought up in obedience, and
in respect for parental government II
that poor girl, whose life and character
and violent death have recently been
laid bare with disgusting detail, in order
to convict her murderGrs, had been ac-
| customed to obey her mother wouid She
ever have left her home us she did, on
been returned to it dead and dshonored!
Nothing in I'LL the CHASTITY revelations OF
| the trial was SO significant to me as the
| pathetic ayowul of her mother that she
tried to prevent her child from going ont
at night with the comrades who at last
begulled her to ruin and death. but tile
girl would not mind her.
Then again, Rachel, you mourn over
the spiritual death of your boys who are
no longer the dear honors OF your age,
but set of drunken, profane, loungine
| fellows, a disgrace to You, To society, to
the State. Why are they so? Did you
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for law, for honor, for industry or did
you bring them up to eat whatever they
| liked on your table; to drink the daily
| stimulants of coffee and tea YOU use
| yourself: to indulge their eager appetite
for food as improper for them then as
whiskey and cigars are now Did you not,
III the abundance of that foolish, weak
self-pleasing, that you choose to call
motherly love, make it your delight to
give them anything they wanted to eat
or drink
Did You not when they were sick give
up your time your strength, and voul
life to nursing and waiting on them, be-
cause they screamed if any other hands
lifted or any other lips sung to them
Have not You yourself done the tasks
they should have done, to let them "
nutting or fishing or shooting lou have
trained them to he without self control,
without an idea Of unscfishncss, or a love
| OF labor. You have turned them out
into the temptations If the world with
out any sort OF strength to resist them to
live and die a curse to others aS we'll as
themselves.
one such man comes back to me as |
write, among the thousands have seen
man VINO from infancy was spoiled
wrecked from LIES beginning by the folly
of Il mother; a man whose utter selfish
ness and ,li-indulgence ruined other
lives that but for him, might have been
noble and useful; from whose morosp
temper his family shrank as from the tac,
OF a wild beast and who has lived lone
life with scarcely friend to regret him
when he dies, or 4 memory ot peace t,
leave behind him. Never taught to obey
to deny himself Il pleasure, t. consider
those about him, Or To feel that there
were any other rights than His own it
had been better, Rachel, to have mourn
cd the death Of His holy in its waiin-
babyhood, than to regret this death, in
life, Of heart and soul.
| have heard and read much about TN,
| cruelty OF breaking child's Will: much
that was affecting and plausible, but
still believe that the GOD who made
| children knows best how they should IL
| trained, and find in His Word too manl
counsels as 10 Obedience to believe ii
any better way. If a child is taught
early enough to accept the mothers vii
in place of its oNn and have seer
babies in arms trained to obey They
viii grow up in such 4 habit Of submis-
! sion, that obedience viii be unconscious
and instructive, inauguratcd with nj
! sharp struggles, no shame ut punish.
ment. no angry rebellion, no "brcakiug'
Of spirit.
When men and women shall at lcngt
discover that "godlncss is protitaOl,
unto M things, having the promise o
the life that now is.' as wei as rot thai
which is TO come and follow The cOun
sci of Scripture in the education Of theil
! children, as well us in the guidance oi
their own life; then, and then only, Il.
| one OF the many things that are addcc
also unto Us who seek the kingdom
Of God, will children live and thrive anc
be glory and honor 30 their parents
and death, when it comes to any of them
be indeed the result Of His inscrutablt
Will. not Of mans blind weak folly. Tn,
Congregati0nalst.