The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21

slIlOr, E0C OUT the hre OF chiId OlSpOSlClOn.
Yet we may rush to the other extreme,
and use toward our children too great leni'
ency, The surgeon Is not unkind because,
notwithstanding the resistance Of his patient,
be goes straight on, with frm hand and un-
faltering heart, totake OF the gangrene. Nor
is the parent less affectionate and faithful
because, notwithstanding all violent
child, he with the frmest discipline
advances to the cutting of of It's
evil inclinations. The Bible says: "Caasten
thy son while there is hope. and let not thy
soul spare for his crying" Childish rage
unchecked will, after awhile. become hurri-
cane. Childish petnlanae will grow up into
misanthropy. Childish rebellion will develop
into the lawlessneSs CT riot and seiition. II
you would ruin tie child. dance tc his
every caprice and stuff him with con-
fectionery. Before you are aware of it
that boy of ten Years will go down
the street, cigar in bis mouth and ready on
any corner with his comrades to compare
pugiliStic attachments. The parent who al
lows the child to grow up without ever hav-
ing learned the great duty OF obedience and
submission has prepared cup of burning
gall for hi: own lips and appalling destIuc-
mis- two sons, Hophni AMI Phinchas
A second error prevalent in the training OF
children IS the laying out Of theory an so!
lowing it without arranging to varieties Of
disposition In every family you will find
striking differences OF temperament This
child n tro tinid. and that too boil; this
too miserly, and that too waSteful: this too
inactive. and that too boisserous. Now, the
farmer who should plant corn and wheat and
turnips in Just the same way, then
put them through one hopper and grind them
-, ,ot bac Nf
fool as the parents who should attempt to
discipline and educate a!ltheir children in the
same manner. 1t needs a skillful hand to ad-
Just these checks and balances The rigidity
OF government which is necessary 70 hold IN
this impetuous nature would utterly crush
that flexible disposition, while the gentle
reproof that would suffice for the latter would,
when used on the former be like attempting to
hold chamDing Bucephalus with reins OF gos-
samer. GodgiveS US in the disposition of each
child hint as to how we ought to train him,
and. as God in the mental structures Of our
children indicates what mole of training is
the best, He indicates in their dispos tion
ther future occupation. Do noo write down
that child as dull because it may not be as
brilliant as your other children. or as thoso
OF your neiGhbor. Some of the mightieSt
men and women ofthe centuries had stupid
childhood. Thomas AluinaS was called at
school The dumb OK" but afterward demon
strated his sancti6ei genius and was called
''thc angel Of the schools" and ''the eagle of
Brittany" Kindness and patience with a
child will conquer almost anything, and they
are virtues so Chr:stianlike that they are in
spring to look at John Wesley's kiss of a
child on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias
Jovce from p-oaigate into flaming evan
gel.
The third error prevalent in the training
of children is TIE oac-s:dc,l development Of
either the ph:Sical, intellectual 0: moral ma
ture at the eSpanSe Of the others. Those, for
instance. greatly mistake who, while they are
faithful IN the intellectual and moral culture
of children, forget the physical. The bright
eyes half quenched by night study, the
cramped chest that comes from too much
bending over schoo, desks. the weak side result
ing from sedentarineSs OF habit. pale cheeks
and the gaant bodies OF nlultitudes OF chill
dre:i attest that physical development does
no. awavs go along with Intellectual and
moral How 60 YOU suco2se ali those treas
ureS OF knowledge the child ge..S. will look
IN 4 shattered caSket? And how much will You
give for the weaithicst cargo when it is put
into lcaky ship! How can that bright,
sharp blade OF child's atta;nments be
welded without any hands: What are
brains worth without shoulders to carry
them! What is q child with magnificent
mind but an exhausted body? Better that
Young man Of twenty-one 20 forth into the
world without knowing \ from If ne have
health Of body and energy to push his way
through the world. than at tweutv-one to
enter u2on active life, his head stuffed with
Socrates and HGrcyiotuS. and Bacon, and La
Place, but no physical force to sustain him
in the shock OF earthly conflicts From this
infinite blurder OF parents how many have
come out n lie with q genius that could
have piled OsSa upon Pelioa ard
mounted upon them to scale the
heavens, and yet have laid down
fore a mole-hill. They who might have
thrilled senates and marshaled armies and
startled the world with the shock OF their
scientific batteries, have passed their lives in
picking up prescriptions for indigestion.
They owned ali the t!lunierbolts of Jupiter,
hut could not get OF of their rocking chair
touse them. George Washington in early life
was poor speler, and spelled hat h-a -double-t
and ream Of paper be spelled '.rheam," but
he knew enough to spell out the independence
of this country from foreign oppression. The
there are other things quite as important
Just as great is the wrong done when the
mind is cultivated and the heart neglected.
The youth Of this day are seldom denied any
scholarly attainu,ents. Our schools and
seminarieS are ever growing in efficiency,
and the students are conducted through all
the realms of philosophy, and art, and
language, and mathematics. The most
hereditary obsuseness gives way before
tho onslaught OF adro;t instructors.
But there is development Of
infinite importance which mathematics and
the dead languages cannot affect. The more
mental power the more capacity for evil un-
less coupled with religious restraint. Iou
discover what terrible power for evil unSaac-
titled genius possesses when you see Scaiiser
with his scathing danunciations aS2ultlng the
best men Of his time, and Blount
ing their hosts of followers into
the al!-consuming fires Of skapticism and IN
fidelity. Whether knowledge IS a mlsnIy
good or an unmitigated evil depends entirely
upon which course it takes. The rlver roll
ing on Between round hanks makes all the
valley laugh with golden wheat and rank
grass, and catching hold the wheel OF mill
and factory. wnirls it with great industries.
But, breaking away from restraints
and dashing over banks in red wrath,
it washes away larvests from their
moorings and makes the valleys Shrek with
the catsstro1he. Fire ir the furnace heats
the house or drives the steamer; but, uncon-
trolled, warehouses go down IN awful crasn
before it. and in a few hours half city VIII
lie in black ruin, walls and towers and
churches and monuments You must accom-
panv the education Of the intellect with the
education Of the heart, or you are rouSing
up within your child an energy which WAL Do
blasting and terrific. Better wicked Ounce
than wicked philosopher.
The fourth error often committed IN the
training CT children is the suppression OF chile
ish sportfuness The most triumphant death
of anv child that ever saw was that OF SEQ
vile HAYNES McCollum. A few days before
that he was at NV house in Syracuse, and he