National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-22
Scripture are plastered on the bedroom wal

scripture nre plastered on the bedroom wall.
nc looks for the day of the month in religi-
me house Is told to take the boy aside, and
y * 10 him, and tell him what great sinner
&c Is. Atter a while the boy comes to that
ment, and too young to know and feel the
Ioi &C OF moral principle. Father and mother
are sitting up for the boy to come home. IL is
o'clock-it is halfpast twelve, and they hear
the night key jingle in the door. They say he
Is coming. George goes very softly through
acc TRo Il F0s ays ' GEORGE EoS wR he
Y Yes' he gu has OeY been OUT P'en and 0ui he
has been down, and he is on the broad road 10
del!ruciion, ior this life and the life to come.
Father says "There is no use in the Ten Com
mandments; the Catechism seems to me to be
an utter failure" All, my friend, you make a
with religion until he could not digest It;
you made that which is JOY In many house
holds an adherence in yours. man In mid
In my fathers house ] got such prejudice
against religion, don't want any oft My
father was one of tue best men that ever
things, and he iammed religion down my
throat until don't want any of IL, sir"
There have been some who have erred in that
direction.
There are households where mother pulls
one way and father pulls the other. Father
says my son. told you the first time 1
caught you in falsehood would chastise
you, and now am going to do It," Mother
says : Don't, let him off this time" In some
families IL is all scolding and fretfulness with
the child from Monday morning to Saturday
night II ia that style of culture. The boy Is
picked at, and picked at and picked at Now
you might better give one sound chastisement
and have done with IL than to indulge in the
perpetual scolding and fretfulness. There Is
three or four days OF cold drizzle.
Here Is a parent who says II will not err on
the side that A. parent has erred, in being too
they please. If they want to come 10 to prayers,
they can; II they want to play at cards. they
can cam they can 40 ANYTHING they please0there
for the opera and theater, son. Take your
friends with you. Do whatever you desire"
One day gentleman comes in from the bank
to his fathers office and says: They want to
see YOU over at the bank n minute" Father
goes into the bank. The cashier says: as that
your check. Father looks at 1t and says: mo,
never gave that check; never cross Il ST. in
that way never make the curl to a "y" in
Send fOf the policel" '"Ah," says the cashier,
wS RSt tSi SS oy son had q BEEN
dissipating circles, and $40 and So
went in that direction, aud he had been
treated and he had TO treat others and the boy
circle. That night the father sits up for the
son to come home. II Is O'Clock before he
comes into the hall He comes in very much
| Father says; my SON. how can you do so! |
have given you everything you wanted and
everything TO make you comfortable and
| happy, and now lind In my old age, that you
are u spendthrilt, n llbertine, and drunkard -
| The son snys: "Now, father, what's the use of
your talking In that way2 YOu toldme might
have good time aud TO go il, | have been
| acting on your suggestion, that's ALL" Aud
| so one parent erIs on one side, and another
parent erTs on tho other, and how TO strike
| HAPPY medium between severity and too great
| lenienoy, and train our sons and daughters for
usefulness on earth and bliss in heaven, is a
question which agitales every Christian house.
men and women have failed, II Is not strange
| that we should sometimes doubt the propriety
| Of our theory and the accuracy of our kind OF
government.
Again, parental anxiety oiten arises frsm an
| carly exhibition of siniulnesS in the child.
| The morningglories bloom for n little while
under the sun and then they shut up as tho
heat comes on, but there are flowers along the
| Amazon that blaze their beauty for weeks at a
| time; lut the shortlived morningglOry fulhlls
| It's mission as well as the Victoria Regia. There
are some people who take forty, hily, or sixty
years TO develop Then there are little chill
dren who fling their beauty on the vision and
vanish. They are morningglories that cannot
| stand the glare of the hot noon sun of trial,
You have all known such little children. They
were pale: they were ethereal; there was some.
thing very wonderfully deep in the eye; they
had gentle foot and soft hand, and some
ready to be waited away. You had such a one
| In your household, Gone nOwl IL was too
delicate plant for this rough world. The
heavenly gardener saw 1t and took It In. We
make splendid Sunday school books out of
such children, but they almost always die.
have noticed that for the most part, tho chill
dren that live sometimes set cross and pick up
bad words in the street, and quarrel with
brother and sister, and prove Enthusiastically
that they are wicked-as the Bible says going
astray from the womb, speaking lies See the
little ones In the Sabbath class, SO sunshiny
and beautiful. You would think they were al