The progress., 1891-03-07
WHAT THE "WA5P" SEES AND
HEARS.

boys and girls. Some weeks ago
WASP pointed out the way many pa
lrents were permitting their children
to go, but liz this communication ] de-
sire to say something as to the way
they should 90. 1t will be conceded
without argument that education is a
desirable qualification to be carried
i into life with one and that youth is
| the time in which to acquire said edu-
cation. Wisdom says, Train up
| child in the way it should go and
when it is old it will not depart from
it, The same writer says, "In all thy
getting get. understanding" An en-
! inent Catholic devine says, "Give me
the first ten yeaFs of a schild's life and
you may have the rest" That youth
is the golden seed time of life cannot
be successfully contradicted. The
early training of aachild then becomes
matter of the greatest importance
and responsibility.
How shall we teach and train our
children is the question | shall at
tempt to answer. 4
ANY education which does not rest
its foundation upon morality is a false
one and just as likely to be the cause
of future sorrow as the cause of flu
ture JOY. We should early strive to
incnlcate lessons of high moral
principle and have our children learn
to do right because it is, right and be-
cause right doing will make them hap,
pier and make their associates hap
pier. Teach them that virtue is its
3 own reward. There is now and there
never has been no school equal to the
Sunday School for the purpose of Civ
4 ing the education here spoken OF
a | have yet to hear of single case II
which such an education has ever in
jured its. recipient. The lessons
! ttaught are pure chasJe and highly ben
j eficial in after life. Our Sunda.
e Schools ought to be full to overflow
! ing every Sunday. Christian peopl'
! ought to cease talking of fields TO
o missionary work while our streets ar
$ filed with boys and girls who neve
: attend Sunday school. "Go ye int
] the highways and hedges sayeth tn
B Master. Go, and by your persona
swork, contact and influence, gathe
: Ethese .younng people from the path
r of sin and ruin. No person ha
reached such depths of depravity a
to be Indifferent to the welfare G
70 their offspring. Do not sit idly say
Il ing YOU have no work to do while tn
. field is ripe all around you. Do nc
I. be too afraid of the slums OF the cit.
- Christ said, II came to save the lost.
it If your lives are pure you can do vas
g good by going among the so-calle
= outcasts and pleading for the salv;
- ton of their children. Fill up til
le Sunday school and educate recruit
s. for the church. Next teach you
p children to respect those who are oldt
: than themselves. There was a tim
a. long ago when boy took off his hs
ne and pronounced the word, mother, 8
y though that that name was sacre'
~ In those days severance was taugh
ty To-day the average boy pulls his h;
in down over his face, draws his shoul'
ers up and, a-la-tuff, says when speal
~ ing of his mother, ''De ole woman
le and calls his father, .'His nibs"
ir "Joggs.'' We are growing far ava
ae from the uniform politeness which
= one time characterized us. Do NJ
{. allow your children to monopolize
v, the time you would use in convers
es ton with your guests. Be sure
speak upon something interesting ar
ng beneficial and let your children liste
w Nothing is more disgusting than
ne see a child jump in and correct its p
"" "" rents during conversation.
se Cultivate taste for good books al
see that your children have plenty
them. Make your houses attracti
:. ~ and see that night finds your childr'
is- around your fireside. Do not SEQ
an and growl at every little childish fal
y, and perpetnally threaten the lase, b
patiently guide the little ones Civ
you into paths Of happiness. Sor
rs day the angel Of death may kiss tho
= = little eyes into an eternal slumber a
d, YOU win remember then that y
th cansed them to fill with tears; t
y natter Of those, little feet that annoy
Won . much will be listened for
lei vain. and che childish prattle viii
- = hushed forever As the darling y
~ scolded sleeps clasped in the arms
les N endless etemity. If God has BILE
81 q your lie with children, deal tend
ne II win them, become part OF !
u !, worla u which they live and gul
y \ then Itf6 lives q usefulness.