The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-25
thunderstorm than IN three or four days Of

Thunderstorm than In three or four days Of
cold drizzle
! Here is a parent who says: II viii not CIR
on the side that parent has erred, I'm being too
strict with his children 1 viii let mine do
| as they please II they want to come In to
prayers, they can; if 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 theatre,
| son. Take your friends with you. Do what
ever 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
minute Father goes into the bank. The
cashier says: as that your checkr Father
looks at it and says sNo; I never gave that
check. never cross a 81 in that way;
never make the curl to a y in that way. It
is not my check; that's a forgery. Send for
the police" "Ah," says the cashier, "don't
be SO quick; your son did that" The fact
was thai the boy had been out in dissipating
circles and so and $50 went In that direc-
ton; and he had been treated and he had to
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. It is ! o'clock before he comes into
the hall He comes in very much flushed,
his ewes glaring and hts breath offensive.
| Father says: my son, how can you do sos I
! have given you everything you wanted and
everything to make you comfortable and
happy and now I find, in my old age, that
you are spendthrift o Hbertine and a
drunkard." The son says: "Eow, father,
what's the use of your talking in that waya
You told me I might have good time and
| to go it. have been acting on your sug
gestion, that's all" And parent
on one side, and another parent errs on the
other, and how to strike happy medium be
tween severity and too great leniency, and
train our sons and daughters for usefulness
on earth and bliss in heaven, Is a question
which agitates every Christian household In
my congregation. Where so many good men
and women have failed, it is strange that we
| should sometimes doubt the propriety OF our
theory and the accuracy OF our kind OF gov
eminent.
Again, parental anxiety often arises from
an early exhibition Of sinfulness in the child.
| The morning glories bloom for 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 time but the short lived morning glory
fulfils It's mission as well as the Victoria
Regia. 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 morning
| 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 something very wonder
fully deep in the eye; they had gentle foot
and soft hand, and something almost super
natural in their behavior-ready to be waited
away. You had such one in your house
hold Gone nowi It was too delicate plant
for this rough world. The heavenly gardener
saw it and took It in We make splendid
| Sunday school books out Of such children,
but they almost always die I 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 Enthusiastically that they are
wicked-as the Bible says, going astray from
| the womb, speaking lies. See the little ones
In the Sabbath class, 80 sunshiny and beauti-
full, you would think they were always so,
but mother, seated a little way off, looks
| over at these children and thinks OF the awful
time she had to get them ready.
After the boy or girl comes a kttle further
| on in life the mark Of sin upon them Is still
more evident The son comes In from
pugilistic encounter In the streets, bearing
the marks of defeat The daughter prac-
tices positive deception, and the parent says:
what shall dos I Cant always be cor
recting and scolding, and yet these things
must be stopped" It Is especially sad if the
parent sees his own faults copied by the
child. 1t Is very hard work to pull up a
nettle that we ourselves planted We re-
member that the greatest frauds that ever
shook the banking houses OF the country
started from boys deception good many
years ago; and the cleaning blade Of the
murderer is only another blade Of the knife
with which the boy struck at his comrade
The cedar of Lebanon, that wressles with the
blast, started from seed lodged In the side Of
the mountain, and the most tremendous dis
honesties of the world once toddled out from
\
anxious.
Anxiety on the part Of parents also arises
from the consciousness that there are SO
many temptations thrown all around our
young people. 10 may Be almost impossible
, to take a castle by siage-straightforw
siege-but suppose In the night there Is a
traitor within and he goes down and draws
the bolt and swings open the great door, and
, then the castle falls Immediately. That Is
the trouble with the hearts OF the young;
they have foes without and foes within
There are a great many who try to make our
young people believe that it Is sign Of weak
ness to be pure. The man VIII toss his head
and take dramatic attitudes and tell of his
own indiscretions, and ask the young man il
he would not like to do the same. And
} they call him verdant, and they say be Is
green and unsophisticated, and wonder how
he can bear the Puritanical straight Jacket.
They tell him he ought to break from his
mothers apron strings, and they soy: II VIII
} show you all about town. Come with me.
You ought to see the world It won't hurt
, you. Do as you please, it will be the making
{ of YOU After while the young man says:
S III don't want to be odd, nor can afford to
? sacrifice these friends and I'll go and see foa
myself From the gates OF hell there goes
a shout Of victory. Farewell to all limo
cence; farewell to all early restraints favor.
i able to that innocence which once gone never
comes back heard one Of the best men ]
j ever knew, rs years Of age, say: "Sir, GOD
e has forgiven me for all the sins Of my life
n time I know that: but there is one sin com
mitted at 20 years of age that I never will
. forgive myself for It sometimes comes ovel
i me overwhelmingly, and II absolutely blot