The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-11
Religious Sentiment,

tons, given habitually, are what win
and preserve the heart, and secure COM
fort.
A QUAKER's Philosophy. = The
following lines, said to have been writ.
ten by a Quaker, contain the true phi
losophy of life | expect to pass through
this world but once. If, therefore,
there be any Kindness | can show, or
any good thing | can do, to any fellow
human being, let me do it now. Let me
not defer or neglect it, for | shall not
pass this way again. Let this be my
epitaph
What ! spent had
What | saved left behind;
What | gave away took with me.
GOOD ADVICE TO PARENTs.-Always
speak in pleasant voice.
Teach your children how to work
how TO obtain living by their own
effort. Teach them the nobility and
dignity of labor, that they may respect
and honor the producer.
Teach your children the evil of secret
vice, and the consequences of the use
of tobacco and spirituous liquors teach
them to be temperate, orderly, pune.
tual, truthful, neat, faithful and hon
est.
Encourage your child to be careful of
personal appearance to return every
tool to its place to always pay debts
promptly to never shirk duty to do
an equal share, and to always live up to
an agreement.
1t is an erroneous idea which many
farmers have that manure applied in
the hill, or directly beneath where a
plant is to grow, does more good than
the same fertilizer spread broadcast and
well incorporated through the surface
soil.
Teach your children to confide in YOU
by conference together. Tell them your
plans and sometimes ask them their
advice they will thus open their hearts
to you, and will ask your advice. The
girl that tells all her heart to her mother,
has shield and protection about her
which can come only with mothers
advice and counsel.
Give the children your confidence in
the affairs of your business. They will
thus take interest and become co-work-
ers with you. If you enlist their re-
spect, then their sympathy and COOP
Grafton, they will quite likely remain
to take up your work when you have
done, and will 60 ahead perfecting what
you have commenced.
If you are farmer do not overwork
your children, and thus by hard and
dreary life drive them off to the cities.
Arise at reasonable hour in the morn.
ing, take an hours rest after meals, and
quit at five or six O'Clock in the after
noon. Let the young people in games
and other amusements have a happy
time the remainder of the day. There
is no reason why farmers family
should be deprived of recreation and
amusement any more than others.
Is IT TO Your INTEREST ?-We take
readily to anything we know is to our
interest in the business and affairs of
life. We exercise no little care to dis
cover what is such. Is it not well to
exercise a similar care as to our interest
in spiritual things, and discovering what
is such, take to it readily and with a
purpose
Let us here affirm it is to your inter-
est to be a Christian. The truest phi
losophy, the highest wisdom and the
most varied experience of men prove
the truth of this assertion. The testi-
monY of the best, most useful and hap.
piest among men in all ages, prove it..
Intuition, reason and revelation prove it,.
In the face of such witnesses you
should not doubt for moment, at least
give a respectful, earnest, honest and
immediate consideration. You would
be CONVINCED of your interest in other
matters, and act accordingly, upon
half the amount and credibility of tes
timony. 1t is to your interest in the
future, 1t will secure to you an Sin
heritance,h a ''mansion," 'king-
dom" "crown." You can not cheat
yourself, never so willingly into the
assurance that death ends your exist
ence, or that living in sin you will re-
ceiye the reward Of heaven in the life
to come. Then is longer than now
the interests then are greater than
now; and gain then, compared with
now, will make the latter seem but
loss. If not q Christian, whatever you
may gain in the present you lose the
joy and glory of never-ending habita-
tion among saints, with angels, and in
the presence of God in the future.
What profit to a man if she gain the
whole world and lose his own soul ?''
1t is to your interest to be a Christian
in the present. The future is not SC
far from the present. They are closely
related, linked together, and the former
reaches into the latter. 1.-THE kingdom
Of heaven is at hand," to be realized
here, in some measure at least, by all
who enter it there. 1t is true from the
united testimony of all Christians, the
best men and women that have evel
lived. 1t keeps you from violation OF
the laws of life and health, prolonging
days and escaping pain. 1t keeps you