Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-07

use of the rod? Does the Bible author
ize ito Turn to book of Proverbs writ
ten by solomon: Prov. 10 chap, Is ":
IA rod Is for the back of him void o
understanding" (l3, "a "He that
snareth the rod, hateth his son, but he
t6at Ioveth him ehasteneth him be-
times"
ga, 1877 "Withhold not correction
from the child, for if thou beatest him
| with a rod he shall not die"
COG, 81 "a whip for the horse, q bril-
die for the ass, and a rod for the foois
10, 15.) 1.-THE rod and reproof give
wisdom but a child left to himself bring
eth his mother to shame.n 4.
IT may be said that Solomon was
| here talking about family government.
| Well grant that he was. These verymen
that favor abolishing punishment IN the
school, saw it ought to be abolished In
the family. And n Of them SAID,
ssHow few now use the rod in their
families But when a teacher enters
a school and the patrons of that school
tell him iftheir children DO not OBEY,
him that he is at liberty to use the ROD
ON them; and if the teacher whips after
this consideration it seems to US as
though he assumes the duty OF the
parent, and hence these proverbs are
applied to the schoolroOm andthe teach
er has no right to be blamed.
Now gentlemen yousee you set your
selves in diametrical opposition to Sol
ONION. When Solomon speaking by the
spirit of God says the rod and reproot
give wisdom, you say, Its not so
Lord, I've seen it tried and IL only
makes children worse, it is a rehc OF
barbarism." How ignorant and old
foggish Solomon was to not know
this?
Solomon, you ought to have come
down to this age of refinement ana cav
~iliZation in the nineteenth century, To
this great embodiment of wisdom, to
have learned of them your superi0rS.
Now it is fact that has been obserV-
ed by the wisest, that there Is a retro
grade in children, that is, they are not
as obedient to parents as they used to
be, and take more liberty than they
once did. A man who is close OBJ
server of men and things made this re-
mark: ''There are no boys and girls
now, they are all men and women"
Now sisot this alas! too true. What
boy who has arrived at the age OF
ten, asks his parents permission to go
anywhere? Scarcely one in ten, but
with an affirmative, says, "pm going"
Why this retrOgrade and indifference
to parental authority. Is it because the
children are whipped too much? No,
for they tell us the practice is dying out
in the family rs well as the school. So
it cannot be the whipping that causes
it; but is it not more likely that it is
caused by the parents neglecting to en-
force their commands upon their chill
dren, and they ought to do it instead OF
trying to succeed altogether by the pre-
sentatiOn of motives.
But the a~bolitionists of corporal pun
ishment tell US that we are living in too
refined an age to whip u children:
One of the New Testament prophets
before whom passed the future like Il
panorama, said that in the last days
children would be disobedientt to parents,
unthankful, unholy; perhaps the writer
of this had reference to that refined age
spoken of by the West Virginia SolOns,
when the rod would be abolished in the
school and family, and all restraint AMI
fear of punishment taken away from the
child. A HAMPSHIRE TEACHER.