The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-07
Throe Hinderances.


There are three hindrances that are quite
apt to get into children's lives and impede
their progress The first to be mentioned is
lretfulness. 1t is a terrible stumbling-block;
ii destroys the peace of the childs life and
the loved ones in the household. 1t robs
the hours of childhood Of much of the happi-
ness VIII CHI ought to belong to it. Ii puts
put kers in the child's forehead, makes the
IA ce look as if everything in the heart was
always aWry.
1t takes away the pleasure Of companion
ship with ones friends, in fact ii mars the
whole outlook of child-life. With such a
child nothing is right the weather is too
hot or too cold; the clothes are too tight or
too loose; friends all have something about
their ways that is Undesirable: some other
school but the one the parents select is al
preferable. If there are certain duties to be
performed each day. the child who is en-
numbered with the habit of fretfulness will
worry and talk over the acts To be performed
hong enough To have done them
three times over. Work done in moments of
fretfulnesS is much harder than il taken up
in cheerful spirit.
Remember, children, that fretting over our
duties wears us out much more quickly than
the doing Of them. Indeed il is healthful
for each child to have certain duties at home
70 do every day, and when such work is done
with the heart put into it," il is accom-
plished much more easily. Don't let this
habit of fretting which begins in cObwebs.
end in iron chains which You can not break
away rom after YOU become men and wO-
men.
The second hindrance is procrastination-
putting off the duties that you know ought
ard must be done. This is n very great
hindrance, because the minutes and hours OF
each day pass away from us so quickly and
we can never go back and pick them up
again. Putting of the duty of the hour to
another hour later in the day, crowds the
work Of one portion of the day into that Of
another. II stirs up everybody, puts every
body out, and leads to great many unpleas-
ant words and sometimes much unhappi-
ness. Pronptness is one of the most impor-
tant characteristics, and we should he deter
mined to cultivate it. There are many men
and women in the world who are never on
time. 1t is because they were always put
ting off everything until the last moment
when they were children. 0ftentimes there
are some very serious consequences which
grow out OF this habit of not being punetu-
al
If the procrastinated only hindered his
OWL progress in life it would be bad enough
but when he binders others by his late COM
ipgs and goings it really becomes very ser
ious matter.
This leads me 70 the third hindrance, I'M
reliability. These three hndrances / have
spoken of take hold of hands and stay to-
gether. A reliable child will make reliable
II an or woman. 81 can always depend on
that boy, never knew him to FAIL" gem
tleman said Of a boy in his employ. ~ am
just as certain of his doing his work as il
did it myself l feel confidence in him,
and if 90 away, when come back | find
things just as they would have been had
been there" Such boy is invaluable.
But boy or girl who is interested with some
imports matter. but who forgets it or
neglects it because it requires self-sacritce,
ime, and labor, loses one of the most neces-
sarv characteristics of manhood and woman
hood. People soon learn to pass unreliable
persons by when they have important trusts
to give. and hand them over to those who
will prove worthy OF the trusts reposed in
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