The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-14


s!av. barh Ioarse ha he spoke :...h
his eye, tall too well tie tale III !aoT
lut few hours 1.forc. he had been
threading da,k.eyc;i nigl.," .frem
The house OF resviry ani .-!,e, home OF
'sicsaaiaess.
And Is2s'.sl myself if years be-
fore he had not been that young
;naa wio preferred 20 remain III
aons AMI snio< e4-as and seek pleas
are wii!. bis fathers mon ey viii ch
lie .aa'o lsav@ n'sd in acquiring an
s.,'uc., ton which xo ii. have, ell
zEs&', vaiHS Sal,hat1, given hi.l1 the
hes. seat III :hs house ol God a-aonp
human Ssc,4bility a..i heaven
aon=resation of the rig.taoas 81
EARTH
k!e:c eaeoan of respectable. par
entaGe and capacity enough for Il
life ia:meastsEat!y i!is'.er, living il
:,!reama cf darkueSr.' With tha
e0,ioatiell which 1t was once possi~
lie for him 10 obtain. be mi g:it have
disciplined himself to ever remember
t!i2 aamoniio ions OF his Gother to
Loci. not upon vine when it is
red" That edmonton has been
fsergottel and now. althongi1 ',is
Isye for the gassall in the hou.e o
revclry will rot 1t hiin realize it,
there Is a certainty s3s5
"I.;o Danger ass been led.
', .i.e i 'ila uos question the fact
that this vcti n-of iii t,.ssi,e mus:
himself hear :siI the c s.iseq4ael;:ea Of
l,:s kIessHe>s, ye. wen tere:1 If
all the responsibility o' tbs causes
sf his course :estc,, Wit .h.ifl
= Do not parents aGd guardian.
som 5si-nas see the boys ss.ioaa they
could have fcrccs1 OF Influenced into
he way of Il l,is ser life CROWN. into
Fall age cf manhood and into iiEe's
decline shadowed hy a gloc N that
will perhaps become deassr to lie
close fi,f.$. An a.'s,lI aos some as
tusa boys have been educated; 20 y
higher life il the ps,p"r authority had
a.uu exercised over them relative
10 the education wlIis:| coxsd have
ta@a hai for the seeISins!'
Do parents and guardians who
!ea> s:ais matter Of o:,5ain;n. Al ed
lcatIDn entirely to the cho:ce .f
their boys, realize liow zach they
are !aazarlliu9 by SD doing?
Does not sometimes in these eases
tie Voice OF blood cry from the
.roaAd?'
stool near the prison house.
Through pity for the is.in.aes, was
irresis;;hIy drssn nsarer. There
stood one ea the outside rea.l;,:s
from the Bible, and the care worr
prisoner within was p4~fing out
shroug'l The bars with anxious, sad
;lened look, seeming to say in bis
very resignation "Oh, If l cosid
have learned OF higher things in the
days OF my youth y As ! watched
ani listenad, the question came 10
me whether OF MT these into whose
care his early traai2g was ca;arnit
ted had done ali tiiey could towards
developing G h!ta TIE higher ani
better part OF his nature,
Perhaps sos may find themselves
IN the prison house through neglect
oE ;be part Of tlosc who ought tc
have gnijea tLem basfer.
But many a. young man finds
himself far behind III the race, wio
If lis parent CT qnar;'iaa had forced
him s., do What ne did not wish to
30 Or had given him : little eHccnr
agemen, when tie great aecisinn O;
life gss about TO be made, would
have heea g peer anon. the lealers
of thought and enterprise OF his
community.
Sometimes g.here the hoy shows
unmistskably tha. he desires to he
educated, the aspiration is checked
out hy the percussion that the sac
rice is too great.
8 boy thus treated ought to riae
Up in rebellion in his o1n mind
when he becomes man, lie ought to
over ride such peTsuasiOhs bV dint
Of his own perseverance sad energy
in Using to that station among men
OF knowledge which it is possible
for him TO reach ifhe will try. And
It is to be feared that far too many
parents excuse theznsalyes far not
doing what aev might for tiieir hoys
and say tl.aC ii there is much snri'