The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-26
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12 TGLMACE breaches On THE C5.
LEGATIONS Cr CHILDREN.

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L;cAT;oNS cF CHILDREN.
Goe sa-ye>s oae ssee ta.. oid to sae
SaarS ;I>:-. o.. N-a.Grrsi by the kever-
encs of.a-. yo..ng For ,hc Odd.
On Sunday, Dr.. Talnage announc-
eSl as his text The words, a foolish
son Is tne leavmess Of his mother. y
Pro.. X, i. He said:
All parents want THEN children to
aZrn out well. However poorly faith
er and mother may have done them
selves, they want their sons and
daughters to do splendidly. Up to
Forty years of age parents may have
ambitions for themselves, after that
their chief ambitions are for their
Children. Som. OF The old time names
iiy<Gi;c&te lis. The name OF Abner
p>e,sns his fathers lamp" The name
Abigail means her fathers Joy. And
what a parental delight was Solomon
10 David, and Samuel to Hannah,
and Joseph to Jacob, And the best
earthlr staff that a father has to lean
on is. q good one, and the strongest
am q mothe1 has to help her down
She steep Of years IS that of q grateful
child. But Il is not q rare thing to
ind people unilial. and often the
,aarerts rs themselves to blame.
AgeSi parsons sometimes become quer-
uious and snappy. end the children
have their hands full with the OLD
folks.
Because people are old they have
no night to be either ungentlemaniyy
or uncanny. There are old people so
d;sasreeable that they have nearly
broker. up some homes. The young
married man with whom the aged one
ives stands It because he has been
used 20 il al his life, but the young
wife. coming from another household
can hardly endure it, and sometimes
almost cries her eyes out. And when
Etttle children gather in the house
they are afraid Of the venerable pa
triareh. who has forgotten that ne
ever was q child himself and cannot
understand why children should ever
want tc play hide and seek, OF roll
shoop. OF fly kite, and he becomes I'M
patient al the sound from the nursery.
and shouts with an expenditure OF
voice that keeps him coughing fifteen
ninutes afterwards. Boys! stop
that racket" as though any boy that
~ amounted to anything in the
wor8G did not begin by making a
racket
Indeed, there are children who owe
Rotkiag 10 their parents, for those
parents have been prodigates. My
Isnented friend, good and Christian
"a lovely Henry Wilson, vice-presl-
Seas o. the United States. IN essly
kss changed his name. Henry VII
son vas not his original name. He
dropped his fathers name because
that father was drunkard anda DIS
grace. and the son did not feel called
upon TO carry such carcass all his
Lie. While children must always be
GuEtfui, I synpathize with all young
people who have disagreeable Or un-
p4incipled old folks around the house.
Some Of us, drawing out OF our mem
olies, know that it is possible. after
sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety
years Of age, for the old to be kind
and genial; and the grandest adorr-
ment of home is an aged father and
and an aged mother, if the process OF
years has mellowed them.
Besides that, if your old parents
are hard to get along with now, you
must remember thefe,Tas a time
when they had hard work to get along
with you. When you were about five
or seven OF ten OF twelve years OF
age what time they had with you.
IF they had kept written account Of
your early pranks and misdoings, it
would make whole volume. That
time when you gave your little sister
a clip; that time when you explored
the depth Of a jar of sweet things for
which you had no permission; that
havoc YOU one day made with your
Jack knife: that plucking from the
orchard OF unripe fruit; that day
when, instead of being at school, as
your parents supposed, you went a
fishing: and many time did you I'M
perl your young life in places where
YOU had no business to climb or
swim or venture. To get you through
your first fifteen years with your
life and your good morals was fear
sfl draft upon parental fidelity and
endurance.
Indeed, it may be that much OF this
present physical and mental weakness
m your parents may have been a re-
suit of your early .waywardness: You
made such large and sudden drafts
upon the bank of their patience that
you broke the bank. They were IN
itued in being thrown while trying to
break the colt. It is matter OF onl ly
common honesty that YOU pay back
10 them some Of the long suffering
which they paid to you. A father
said to his son: Surely no father
ever had as bad a boy as | have.
Syes, said the son, my grandfather
had" It is about the same from
generation to generation, and par
ents need to be patient with children,
snd children dutiful to their parents.
Taking it for granted that those who
hear me to-day have had good par
eal5age, I want to urge upon all the
young the fact that the happiness
and longevity Of parents much de
--.aead upon the right behavior OF their
children, and I can do this no more
e1fectually than by demonstrating the
txush Of my text, a foolish son is the
aeaviuess Of bis mother"
Perhaps some young man sstay
,,,o,- bo b,.o,,cht bacE- nv g. thO11oht