The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-22

intellectual powers and indomltable
will, with refinement of manners and
devotion of domestic duties. Her
home was the family school, where
the children were taught in the most
thorough and methodical manner.
From this home came John Wesley, a
man of the greatest strength and
beauty of character the light Of
whose noble life has been shed over
two continents.
Byron, with all his superior quail
ties and great genius, was, as man,
failure, which may be attributed 10
an unhappy home. He inherited a
quick passionate temper from his
mother, who at times seemed insane.
At one time having spent some time
in travelling he returned 10 England
in the full blaze OF his dawning fame,
and the poet became the lion of the
day. He married, but the union
proved an unhappy one. In about a
year, Lady Byron suddenly lief. her
husband. AT this, the poet left Eng
land, and gradually plunged deeper
and deeper in vice. His characters
are said to be in various forms repre-
sentatlons of himself, governed by
neither law or love.
Sometimes we find some usually
good homes in which the parents
unconsciously exert bad influence.
For zeal without judgment, like a
torch in the hands of the blind, is
destructive indeed. For the parents,
good christians and endeavoring to
rear we'll their children, nevertheless
fail, in this, that they expect too
much, they think that they never
should do anything wrong, they hold
them off AT a distance, and. do not
gain their love ard confidence, and
taus unconsciously harm them. For
the children will rebel as is natural
70 youth, unless the restraint is ac-
compauied by wise love. The parents
do not allow recreation, as il is against
their principles; they think that
children should not mingle in society,
and so confine them almost TO soil
tude, thus depriving them of many
Of the harmless pleasures of youth.
Do you wonder then, that they re
gard their home as prison and long
for the time when they can leave
home and parents forever But if
the children cannot engage in the
sports so natural to youth, with their
parents consent: they will do so with
out, and here arises the first evil, that
of disobedience. After this first evil,
others follow and soon he children
pay no attention to their parents
commands, and the parents when too
late see their mistake in being unwise-
ly too strict.
Union makes any place, home ,
the lack of it Pandemonium. 1t
often happens that parents take OPP
posite sides the father perhaps too
severe and the mother TOO indulgent.
Nothing is more injurious TO the
child, than for the mother to counter
act by soothing coincidence the adj
monitions of the father. Children
will soon lose alike love and respect
for their parents, when there is this
lack Of harmony. One parent thus
holds the reins, without the rod, and
the other uses the rod without the
reins. Sometimes the child is given
over TO the mother exclusively till a
certain age, when the father begins
to act without the mother. Alas for
the child! 1t is never too young to
be ruled by the father, and never too
old to come under the softening in
fuence of the mother. Home gov
eminent is neglected in two ways,
either By over.indulgence or by the
iron rod tyranny. Some parents al
low their children to do what they
please but, "give thy son his way,
he will hate thee and scorn thee for
ever"
Home helps to form the character
Home is the first school. We there
receive a training for good or for
evil. There is not a word, nor an
act, nor even look, which does not
teach the child something. Charac-
ter is ever being framed and moulded
there. Home education is the most
lasting, following man IN its memories
to his grave. Home influence is like
the calm, deep stream; it moves on
in silent but overwhelming power.
Or, like an oak, it strikes its roots
deep, and spreads wide its branches.
Or, like the lily that braves the
tempest, and "the Alpine flower that
leans its cheek on the bosom of
eternal snow" it is exerted amid the
widest storms of life, and breathes a
softening spell in our bosoms, even
when heartless world is freezing up
the fountains of sympathy and love
A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.