The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-11
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Religious Sentiment,


fort.
a QUARER's- Philosophy. - The
following lines, said to have been wit.
ten by a Quaker, contain the true phi
losophy of life / expectt to pass through
this world but once. If, therefore,
there be any kindness | can show, or
any good thing l can do, to any fellow
human being, let me do it now. Let me
not defer or neglect it, for l shall not
pass this way again. Let this be my
epitaph
What | spent l had
What l saved l left behind
What l gave away l took with me.
COOP ADVICE TO PARENTs.-Always
speak in a pleasant voice.
Teach your children how to work ;
how to obtain a 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
| fNIts biIu IlC utDCCS VI tllt lOt
of tobacco and spirituous liquors teach
them to be temperate, orderly, pune
tual, truthful, neat, faithful and hon
est.
Encourage your child to be Ca 3of
personal appearance to return every
tool to its place to always pay debts
promptly ; to never shirk a duty to do
an equal share, and to always live up to
an agreement.
1t is an erroneous idea which many
farmers have that ANU applied in
the hill, or directly beneath where u
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 a shield and a protection about her
which a come only with a 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 co-op-
GRAFTON, they will quite likely remain
to take up your work when you have
done, and will go ahead perfecting what
you have commenced.
If you are a farmer do not overwork
| your children, and thus by a hard and
dreary life drive them off to the cities.
Arise at a reasonable hour in the morn
ing, take an hours rest aftermeals, 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 a farmers family
should be deprived of recreation and
amusement any more than others.
Is IT TO Your INTEREST I'VE take
readily to anything W. know is to u
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 a 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 ties
timony. 1t is to your interest in the
future. 1t will secure to you an Sin
h~eritance," a mansion" a "king-
DOM" a ''erown." 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-
| ceive 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 a Christian, whatever you
may gain in the present you lose the
JOY and glory of a ne~ver-ending habita-
| ton among saints, with angels, and in
| the presence of God in the future.
| What profit to a MAI if she gain the
| whole world and lose his Owl soul ?"
1t is to your interest to be a Christian
| in the present. The future is not so
| 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 reallzed
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 ever
/ lived. 1t keeps you from a violation of
| the laws of life and health, ~prolonging
! days and escaping pain. 1t keeps yoa
from violating the principles of con-
: science, promoting peace, ~contentment
J and comfort. 1t commends you to the
confidence, respect and love of your
/, fellow-men. 1t guards you against a
thousand ills aud troubles to which you
! are subject by sin.