Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-22

There is more health in one good thunder
storm, than in three or four days of cole
drizzle.
Here is parent who says: II will no
err on the side that parent has erred, in be
ing too strict with his children. l will lie
mine do as they please. If they want Il
come in to prayers they can; if they wan
to playa cards they can; they can do any
thin. they please-there shall be no hin
drance. Go it! Here are tickets for th'
opera and theater, son. Take your friends
with YOU. DOwhat ever you desire" Ont
day a gentleman comes in from the banl
to his fathers office and says: They wan
to see you over ut the bank minute. =
Father goes into the bank. The cashier
says: as that your cheek?" Father loOk'
at it and says: mo; l never gave tha
check; | never cross t. in that way;
never make the curl tOa ~ in that way
1t is not my check; that's n forgery. SenC
for the police ''Ah," says the cashier
don't be so quick;
YOUR son DID THAT.
The fact was that the boy had been out II
dissipating circles, and ten and fifty dollar:
went in that direction, and he had beer
treated and he had to treat Others, and the
! boy felt he must have five hundred dollar,
! to keep himSelfin that circle. That night
the father sits up for the son to come home
1t is o'clock before he comes into the hall
| He comes in very much flushed, his eye
glaring and his breath offensive. Father
says: MY son, how can you do so? | have
given you everything yOu wanted and
everything to make you comfortable anu
happy, and now find, in my old age, that
you are Spendthritt, 4 libertine and
arunkard The son says: "Now, father
what's the Use of your talking that way:
You told me might have good time and
to 20 it, | have been acting on your sug'
gestiOn, that's all And so one parent errS
on one side, and another parent
on the other, and how to strike
Il happy medium between severity and toe
great leniency, and train our sons and
daughters for usefulness on earth and
bliss in heaven, is Il question which agl-
tateS every Christian household IN my
congregation. Where so many good men
and women have failed, it is strange that
we should sometimes doubt tho proprlety
of our theory and the accuracy OF our kind
of government.
Again, parental anxiety often arises from
an
EARLY EXHIBITION OF SINFULNESS
in the child. The morning -glOries bloom
fora little while under the sun, and then
they shut up as the heat comes on. But
there are flowers along the Amazon
that blaze their beauty for weeks at 4 time;
but the shOrt-lived morning-glOry tulillS
its mission as well as the Victoria ReSla.
There are some people who take forty,
fifty or sixty years to develop. Then there
are little children who fling their beauty
on the vision and vanish. They are morn
ing-glOries 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 i'll the eye;
they had a gentle foot and soft hand, and
something almost supernatural III their
behaviOr-ready to be waited away. You
had such one in your household. Gone
now. 1t was too delicate plant for this
rough world The heavenly gardener saw
it and took it in. We make splendid Sun
day school books out of such children, but
they almost always die. ! have noticed
that for the most part, the children that
live sometimes get cross, and pick up bad
words in the street, and quarrel with
brother and sister, and prove unmistaka-
bly that they-are wickcd-aS the Bible
saws, going aStray from the womb, speak
ing lies. See the little ones in the Sab
bath class, so sunShiny and beautiful, you
would think they were al
ways 80, but mother, scat
ed little way of, looks
over at these children and thinks of the
awful time she had to get them ready.
After the boy or girl comes little fur
ther on in life, the mark Of sin upon them
is still more evident. The son comes i'll
from the pugiIistic encounter in the streets,
bearing marks of defeat. The daughter
practices positive deception, and the parent
saws: What shall do! | can't always
be correcting and scolding, and yet these
things must be stopped" 1t is especially
sud if the parent sees his own faults copied
bv the child. 1t is very hard work to
pull up n ncttle that we ourselves plant
ed We remember that the greatest frauds
that ever shook the banking-hOuSeS of the
country, started from boys deception a
good many years ago; and the cleaning
blade of the murderer is only another blade
of the knife with which the boy struck at
hls cOmradc. The cedar OHLebanOn, that
wreStlcS with the blast, started from seed
lodged i'm the side of the mountain, and
the most tremendous dishOneSties Of the
world once toddlcd out from the cradle
All these things make parents anxious.
Anxiety on the part of parents also
arises from the consciousness that there
are
50 MANY TEMPTATIONS
thrown all around our young people. 1t
may I've almost impossible to take castle
by siege-Straightto siege-but sup
pose in the night there is a traitor within,
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