Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-22

~ - many hOUOTItnGC 1
In yours. A man Ia mid life said
TO me' "I can't become Chris |
uan. In my fathers house | /
got such a prejudice against !
religion, don't want any OF IL. NV |
father was one OF the best men that ever
lived, but he had such severe notions
about things, and he iammed religion /
down my throat, until | don't want any
OF II, SIR" There have been some who /
have erred IN that direction.
MUST PULL TOGETHER
There are households where mother
pulls one way and father pulls the other.
Father says, "My sou, told You the
first time caught you In falsehood / |
would chastise you, aud now am going |
to do IT," Mother says "Don't, let him |
of this time.n In some families Il is all |
scolding and fretfulness with the child; |
from Monday morning to Saturday night |
II Is 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 1t, than
to indulge IN the perpetual scolding and
fretiulness. here Is more health In one
good thunderstorm than In three or four
days OF cold dTi1zle.
Here Is parent who says; IL Will not
err on the side that parent has erred, IN
being too strict with his children, will
let mine do as they please. II they want
TO come in to prayers, they can; II they
want TO play at cards, they can; they can
do anything they please--there shall be no
hindrance. Go I'll Here are tickets for
The opera and theater, son. Take your
| friends with you. DO whatever you de-
SIRE" One day a gentleman comes in
! from the bank to his fathers Office aud
SAYS:
| "They want TO see you over at the bank
a minute" Father goes into the bank.
| The cashier says; els that your check2n
Father looks at It and says. "No,I never
gave that check never cross ~ in that
way; never make the curl TO a ~ In that
way, 1t is not my check; that's q for
gerry. Send for the policel" can" says
the cashier, "don't be so quick; your son
did thatl" The fact was that the boy had
been out in dissipating circles, and 81 and
500 went In that direction, and he had been
treated and he had - treat others, and
the boy felt he must have $500 TO keep
himself In that circle. That night the
father Sits up for the son TO come home.
1t Is O'Clock before ne comes into the
hall. He comes in very much flushed,
his eyes glarlng and his breath offensive.
Father says "My son, how can you do
SOP have given you everything you
wanted and everything TO make you com
Portable and happy and now | find, In my
old age, that you are a spendthriit, lib
ertine and drunkardn The soR says;
"Now, father, what's the use Of your
talking In that way2 You told me might
have Il good time and TO go It. | have
been acting on your suggestion, that's
all And SO one parent errs
on one side, and another parent errs
on the aotber, and how to strike
happy medium between severity and too
great leniency, and train our sons and
daughters for usefulness on earth and
bliss In heaven, Is a question which agi
tates every Christian household in my
: congregation. Where so many good mer
and women have failed, 1t is strange that
we should sometimes doubt the proprietJ
Of our theory and the accuracy OF oul
kind of government.
, Again, parental anxiety often arises
J from an early exhibition OF siniulness II
the child The mornipg-eloresbloo To-
/ little while under the sun, and thef
they shut up as the heat comes on; bu
there are flowers along the Amazon tina
blaze their beauty for weeks at time
but the short-lved morning-glory fulhlll
its mission as well as the Victoria Regia
II There are some people who take forty
: fifty or sixty years TO develop. Then there
are little children who ding thei
, beauty on the vision and van
lsh. They are mornng-glories tina
/ cannot stand the glare OF the hot noSr
, sun Of trial. You have all known sucf
7 little children. They We're pale, the.
were ethereal, there was something very
wonderfully deep In the eye, they had I
= gentle foot and soft hand, and something
almost supernatural in their behavior
ready to be waited away. You had suci
one in your household. Gone now
1t was
TOO DELICATE a PLANT
for this rough world. The heavenly
gardener saw 1t and took 1t in. W.
T make splendid Sunday school books ou
; of such children, but they almost always
die. ] have noticed that, for the mos
psrt, the children that live sometimes gel
cross, and pick up bad words In the
. street, and quarrel with brother and sis
ter and prove Enthusiastically that they are
+ wicked-as the Bible says, going estray
, from the womb, speaking lies. See the
, little ones in the Sabbath class, so sun
shiny and beautiful, you would think they
were always SO, but mother, seated lit
/ tie way OFF, looks over Az these children
and thinks of the awful time she had tc
! get them ready.
1 After the boy or girl comes little
i further on in life, the mark OF sin upor
them is still more evident. The sor
comes in from pugillstic encounter IN
, the streets, bearing the marks OF de
feat. The daughter practices positive de
I csption, and the parent says; "Wha'
: shall do? can't always be correcting