The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-03-19

providential order OF society Is tne ldtnlly:
Nowhere else and by no other means could
there be provided such tenderness, such
love- such undying interestfor any rising gen.
Grafton as through the Diyinely-appointed IN
stituton of matrimony, and hence OF regu-
lated parentage. In this way the great masses
are divided into little groups or companies,
and these placed under the care of the natu-
raj affection of fathers and mothers. here
are their own lives reproduced ana stanulng
before them with all the reality OF an enlarged
self-iove And thus children are born of love
and born into love- and there is over tnem
love less only than the love or COO. ANA mere
is theworld of the child; here the nrst races
are seen and the first voices heard, Here the
mind and the heart first awaken to conscious
| life; here are experienced the first lessons OF
discipline and authority, and here are taught
the first lessons of right and duty.
Could our earth have ideal homes we should
soon have an ideal society. And, oh! could
parents realize the Importance OF these carry
| years, and the sacredness of their trust, and
| the greatness of their work, they would teel
| that no other success in li1e-wealth, posltlon,
| power-for a moment compares with the hon
| or, the Joy of children we'll trained ana turned
! out into the great world strong and capable
| in the work and battle of life.
| We naturally look next to the school as
place of training for youth. Incur country we
| have the free, the public schools for ALL ana
nearly 10,0O0,0O0 children in this land are daily
gathered into these places OF instruction:
| There is no other public interest that should
lie so near our hearts as these schools We
have nearly 0,OOO,0OO In schoo-houses ana
furniture, and we pay many thousands Oh
teachers, but no money, no labor is doing SO
much for the future. Aside from the lntel-
lectua training there is a culture in manners
and in general morals In the dispositions and
habits of the rising generation that is beyond
price.
church tries to exercise the best care 1t can
over rising generations; and that 1t does
much good is not to be questioned. But the
church does not reach all the children SO
broadly as the public school tar more cnll-
dren go to Sunday-school than to public woT-
ship, and whilst attendance at this is good
the absence from worship that has grown out
of it is scarcely less than an oyerbalancing
evil. l should rather a child should attend
church and never see aSunday-school than go
to school and not TO public worship. VINO are
the attendants upon the average church or
to-dayf Are they not those who formed tne
habit when young2 The school is for rev
years; the church for life, Let us hope that
we of this church may be able soon to IND
room enough for our children rs well as our
selves in our public service.
The rising generation should be taught the
dignity and value of labor and should be
taught to work. OF the T,!S7 arrests in this
CITY l8T22-mofe than one-half-had no occu-
patton. 1dleness is sin against society. MOI
; to know how to do something and to do II well
is great misfortune to any young man OF
woman. To have no occupation is to be al
the mercy of everybody and everything, ana
!, to be exposed to every temptation.
l We have not yet understood all the mean
ing Of Gods thought, of labor OF ,rl "eatlng
bread by the sweat of the brow" There i
, more safety in work than we have thought
! there Is more religion in 1t.
: : You can have neither morality nor piety with
+ idleness. Labor is the measure OF value anc
the basis of the rights of property, and along
with labor and property go the great virtues
) of honesty and justice. 1t is not THEFT to tax
q clod from the field or pebble from thu
n beach. They cost no labor: You can no
, steal air or sunlight. And when people wori
q 7, for bread or property they know its value
q and thus know the need Of protection in thest
y rights, and hence they are slow to violate th'
a a rights of others. Through industry, and econ
il omy, and the gaining OF homes people sc.
- morality concerted, and the need OF law, ant
r Justice and truth, and honor among men !
4 thus seen, And all this is in so far religion
a training, and when religion Is seen us
y part of actual life the church will rot be some
"a thing to join, or religion to take up as SEP
% arate affair, but religion and the church vii
=, be part Of life. and people will be In tn
e church as they are in the Government OF II
>. the world.
q There are thousands of children withou
n homes; some are orphans, some outcasts
10 others of unknown parentage, and others sti
20 20 the children of poverty. Who shall care 70
h these? Whose are they? They are the chi
a. dren Of the State, and the State should car
N for them 1t is proper for benevolent indivlC
N uals and churcnes to do what they can, br
% %ni the State or society in its organic form shou
" y. see that these children do not grow up Ill Il
"a norance, and idleness, and crime: The ne
~ law for compulsory education in Illinois pr
n ~. vdes that every child shall have not less tina
. = three months schooling each year betwee
~ ~ the age of eight and fourteen. But is that a
% Illinois can do? Michigan has publ" Sta'
~ school that takes her children from tt
,iI hT county poor-houses, and educates the
iu and places them in homes; they are u
~ wards Of the State till they are twenty-or
ID ID years old. The Superintendent says in his r
ht port that eighty or ninety per cent Of the
70 will probably make good citizens. With u
AZ power hereditary against them, and all the
~ ~ associations unfavorable, that ninety p
d. cent. would probably have all been paupers
to thieves.
We 1t is cheaper for society to make men al
We women out of her unfortunate children th'
es- to provide prisons and police for C'Stactl!
oil. against them. Every child thus seveNAk
Nd. comes a builder, a producer. and not a {
if stroyer. And in this way the rapid reprodr
he ton of this class would be lessened, and fna
,ss might cease. In paper before the Phi
mis- sophical Society Of our city statistics we
ass read showing that in New York the descer
OF ants of one unfortunate woman alone
he furnished one hundred and fifty paupers
is criminals.
ar At the close of the rebellion the State
rs? Pennsylvania engaged to take care of t
lat twelve thousand orphan children needing
is sistance, and of these twelve thousand cf
)QI Qr6n aQm1CUeQ 10 tno DOluleTS OTpnuH DCu'
ay it Is estimated that not over two per cent.
eg- fail to make useful citizens. II Illinois,
ty- every State, If this whole country, would
ost the next twenty years, If necessary, cease
ed. cry public Improvement and turn the time q
ars wealth given to other things to caring for
led rising generation, 1t would be the best twer
,ur years of the Nations life. But we ne
1si- not stop any great industry to do this, wol
his rather should we need all and more than
Tho have In doing it: and at the end of that Il
er- the land would be full Of happy and skill
cd, laborers.
,of The laws of nature, of culture, of her
for itary, of God, have waited long and are WI
lon ing still for wise and willing hearts and hal
zen to begin the work of saving the world fr
wn ignorance and sin; and by every argum
as for great National interests, and by the
peals Of helpless childhood, and the suffer
du- poor, and the thousands in prisons should
Inc philanthropy Of our age be won TO work
as divine. oh, If each family could save o
len one other child; If each businessman, II el
eat lady of means could guide the steps Of
lty one little life, how would the future reJc
be ana the saved one rise up to bless their b
efactors In the great dayl
'xt.