The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-26

no, iliS tEItiti!t Hi tilS iEt!IiS y tiiE:i
you received at the christening thai thai
| is injured by youl. pyo,iig&ljjtjy. You
! cannot hurt your name CT .j1a32 o.
{ George on Henry oG, Mary or .'2.anca:,
or Rachel, because there have De2n
thousands OF people, good AND b;s,;,
| having those names, and Hou c;;lnc,
! improve or depreciate the RESPECTS
bility Of those given names. But il
is your last name, yolr family n&!ne,
! that is at your mercy. Ali VINO Dear
that name are bound, before &C.; aud
man, not to damage It's happy >islli1i-
cance. You are charged, by I'll ;ae
generations of the past and IL the
generationsto come, to do yoCl share
! for the projections and the honor and
the integrity OF that name. You
have no right, my young friend. by .
bad life to blot the old family Bible
contai,4ng the story OF the marriages
and births and deaths OF the years
gone by. or to cast a blot upon the
| family Bibles whose records are ye:
20 be opened.
| There are in oul. America: city ii
directories names that always suSges
commercial dishonesty or hbertlnlSm
or cruelty or meanness, juse because
one man orwoman bearing that name
cursed itforever by miscreancy. Look
out how you stab the family name.
It is especially dear to your mother.
She was not born under that name.
She was born under another name,
but the years passed on and she came
to young womanhood, and she saw
some one with whom she could trust
her happiness. her life and l.el: in
mortal destiny: and she took his name
| took it while tie orange blossoms
were filing the ali. with fragrance.
took it with joined hands, took Ii
while the heavens witnessed. She
chose it out of all the family names
since the world stood. chose It for
! better or worse, through sickness and
| through health, by cradles and by
graves.
| Yes, she puto her oldfanlily name
to take the family name you nov
wear, and she has done her part to
make it an honorable name. How
heavy q trouble you put upon he:'
when, by misdeeds, You wrench that
name from It's high significance. 10
haul it down from your mother fore
/ shead and trampleit in the dust would
be criminal. Your fathers name may
not be s. distinguished name. but |
hope it stands for something good.
TT may not be famous, like that OF
Homer, the father OF epic poetry, OF
Izaak Walton, the father: OF angling.
! or Eschylus, the father Of tragedy,
| or Ethelwold, the father OF monks,
or Herodotus, the father Of history.
| or Thomas Aquinas, the father CT
moral philosophy, or Abraham, the
fsther of the faithful but your father
has q name in small circle as pre-
| cious to him as theirs in a larger
circle. Look out how you taI1lsh 1t.
; Further, the recklessness and dis
| sipation of a young man are q cause
of parental distress at time when
the parent is less able to bear It.
/ The vicissitudes of life have left Their
Impression upon those parents. The
| eye is not as clear as once, nor the
{hearing SIS acute,nor the nerves as
steady, nor the step as strong, and
with the tide of incoming years
comes the weight of umhlial behavior.
You take your parents at a great hs-
advantage, for they cannot stand as
much as they once could. They have
| not the elasticity of feeling with
which once they could throw off
trouble. That sheaesser-saews~some=
what bent, cannot bear as heavy a
burden as they once could. At the
time when the machinery is getting
| worn out you put upon it the most
terrible strain. Perhaps it IS good
| thing that cruel treatment by a chlld
| labbreviates parents life; for what IS
| there desirable in a fathers life or q
mothers life if its peace is gone! DO
YOU not think death is something
beneicent if it stops the mother 5
heart from aching and her eyes from
weeping, and says: ''7ou need not
bear the exc1uciation any longer. 20
and sleep. I will put the defense OF
a marble slab between you and that
boys outrages. Go now where the
wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest!" At The departure
of such mothers let the music be an
anthem instead of a dirge. While
YOU and I hear no sound. yet there
are at this moment tens of thou
sands of parental hearts breaking.
All care was taken with the boy $
schooling, all good counsels glven,and
| the equipment for a sober and ear
nest and useful life was provided,
but it has all gone, and the foolish
son has become the heavlness OF his
mother.
Much of the poignancy OF the pa
Irental grief arises from the lngratl-
tude of such behavior. What an un-
dertaking it is to conduct a family
| through the ailments and exposures Of
early life! Talk about the skill de
manded of sea captain command
ling ship across the ocean. That
requires less skill than to navigate
a young soul III safety across the III
fantile and boyhood years. The
sicLnesses that assault, the telnpta-
ton that entrap. the anxieties that
are excited Young man.you Will never
know what your mother has suffered
| for YOU. You will never know how
your father has toiled for you You
! have been in all their thoughts, ID all
their plans, in all their prayers, from
the time your first breath was drawn
| to this moments respiration What
/ they could do for your health, what
they could do for your happiness,
what they could do for your mind.