The Newtown bee., 1892-12-16
THE BEE BUZZ.

Children in the Homes-Duties of Parents s-Asso-
 ciatlon of Ideas.
 The hope of the world is the church !; the hope of the church is the family; the hope of the family is the children and the hope of the children is that they shall be taught of the Lord.' The church, the family and the children constitute the golden circle of every human interest.
 The life of the world centers always in the children. The richest blessings of heaven are reserved for the family. The Father of Heaven puts part of his own divine honor, with His benediction, upon parents. He formed the earth ito be in- habited." "MultiDly and replenish the earth' was the first divine command. ''Lo," cries the Psalmist, "children are a heritage of the Lord. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.''
 Parents live again in their children and in living for their children the fam fly is the chief factor in the progress and perfection of human society.
 THE PRIDE AND POWER
 of the nation is it's children. The state cannot prosper without the increase of the family. The strength of any people is recorded in it's vital statistics. The ac- tivity and power of the kingdom of heav- en on the earth are indicated by the en- tries made in the parish registers of mar riages, births, baptisms, etc
 It is the happy influence of childhood and youth that blesses every relation in life and keeps alive the better nature in us all. Not only does the parent educate the child, but it's child educates and helps to redeem the parent.
 The unsuspecting innocence and con- fiding trust of the helpless ones save us from moreevil and bitterness of life than all the hard sense and worldly wisdom of the ages. ''Of such is the Kingdom of heaven"
 Accordingly we live for our children. Every interest of life centres in them. For them we work and save and slave :; whether wisely or unwisely.
 It would be a wonder if we did not. Our hopes and all hopes are in them. We want them to be wiser and better and happier than we have been. And so they ought to be.
 wEHAvE NOT MADE GOOD USE of our inheritance in life, if we cannot transmit it to them enlarged, improved and promising of better things to come. The parents ought to lay up for the chil- dren, not only in things temporal, but in things spiritual and eternal, even more.
 And so the church takes our children with us into all it's sacred privileges and teaches us to live wisely and devoutly, with them and for them, in the joyful hope of the everlasting kingdom.
 Not only is the individual life redeem ed and improved, but by that means all the conditions of the life of the world are bettered.
 We use words and other symbols to ex- press our thoughts and emotions. And the signs we use to embody our mean ings, come to stand for certain ideas which serve in turn to awaken the same thoughts and emotions in others.
 To this end the signs we use must sig nifty the same things to both; the one who makes them and the one who reads them. Some symbols are natural and suggestive in themselves, while others are artificial and arbitrary.
 Moreover symbols come to have differ ent shades of meaning according to their use, and are variously significant in diff ferent relations to other things.
 THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS is subtle and powerful law of the mind by which one suggestion calls up others, ! smilar in character, or connected in some manner with some experience. Ideas call up other ideas which oc- cured at the same time, or in the same place, or which are similar in character. And, the association may be objective or subjective.
 It is-easy to see that the same sugges- ion may call mp different associations in different persons according to the princi- oles and states of mind and experience of | ;he individual affected.
 A cross or picture of cross, to any me who knows the history of the cross, must signify self-denal and the self-sac- .ifice of holy love for others, even to suf- E 'ering and death.
 Accordingly, every natural association if the idea of the cross should be with something sacred and ennoblng to our human life.
 On the same principle, the picture of a beautiful woman should suggest the im- lge of one's mother, or sister or lover or wife or daughter and should be associat- d with every idea of the sacred relations if home and family and of all pure af- ections.
 On the other hand the use of tobacco s confessedly filthy and wasteful hab- |, The best claim that is ever made for