Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-03

ents shall rule or the child shall rule.
That is the crucial hour. If the child tri-
uinphs in that hour, then he will some day
make you crouch. 1t is II horrible scene.
| have witnessed tia mother come to old
age, shivering with terror in tho presence
Of a son who cursed her gray hairs and
Knocked her wrinkled face and begrudged
her the crust she munched with her tooth
less gums!
How sharper than serpeut's tooth It Is
To have Il thankless child!
PARENTAL TYRANNY REnUKED.
But, on the other hand, too great rgor
must be avoided. 1t ia u sad thing when
domestic government becomes cold mill
tary despotism. Trappers on the prairie
| fight fire with fire but you cannot success
fully fight your childs bad temper with
your own bad temper We must not be too
minute in our inspection We cannot ex-
pect our children to be perfect We must
not see everything. Since we have two or
| three faults of our own, we ought not to DO
too rough when we discover that our chill
dren have ms many. If tradition be true
when we were children we were not all lit
tie Samuels, and our parents were not fear
| full lest they could not raise us because Of
our premature goodness
You cannot sCold or pound your children
into nobility of character The bloom of
chld's heart can never be seen uLdpr II cold
driZzle. Above all, avoid frctting and scold-
ing in the household. Better than 10 years
of fretting at your children is one good,
round, old fashioned application of the
slipper That minister of the gospel of
whom we read in the newspapers that he
whipped his child to death because he
would not say his prayers will never come
to concentrations The arithmetics cannot
calculate how many thousands Of children
have been ruined forever either through
too great rigor or too great lenency. The
heavens and the earth are filled with the
groan of the sacrificed. In this important
matter, seek divine direction, O father, q
mother. Some one asked the mother of
Lord Chief Justice Mansfield if she was not
proud to have three such eminent sons and
Nil Of them so good "No,n she said. lit is
nothing to he proud Of, but something for
which to he very grateful"
Again there are many who are sacrfic-
ing their children to Il spirit of worldliness.
Some one asked a mother whose children
had turned out very well what was the Sc
cret by which she prepared them for use
fulness and for the Christian life, and she
said: This was the secret: When in the
morning ! washed my children, prayed
that they might be washed in the fountain
of Saviours mercy. When put on their
garments, prayed that they might be ar
rayed in the robe of a Saviour's righteous
ness. When | gave them food | prayed
that they might be fed with mama from
heaven. When | started them on the road
to school, prayed that their path might
be as the shining light, brighter and
brighter to the perfect day. When put
them to sleep, prayed that they might be
infOlded in the Saviours arms" "Oh,"
you say, that was very old fashioned" 1t
was quite old fashioned. But do you sup
pose that II child under such nurture as
that ever turned out bad?
In our day most boys start out with no
idea higher than the all encompassng dol
lar. They start in an age which BOASTS it
can scratch the Lords Prayer on 10 cent
piece and the Ten Commandments on IA 10
cent piece. Children are taught to reduce
morals and religion, time and eternity to
vulgar fractions. 1t seems to be their chief
attainment that 10 cents make dime and 10
dimes make II dollar. How to make money
is only equaled by the other art-how to
keep it. Tell me, We who know, what
chance there is for those who start out in
life with such perverted sentiments? The
money market resounds again and again
with the downfall of such people. If had
drop of blood on the tip of a pen, | would
tell you by what awful tragedy many Of
the youth of this country are ruined.
RUINED By WoRLDLINEss.
Further on thousands and tens of thou
sands Of the daughters of America are sac
rliccd to worldliness. They are taught to
he in sympathy with all the artlicilties
of society, They are inducted into all the
hollowness of what is called fashionable
life. They are taught to believe that his
tory is dry, but that 50 cent stories of adj
venturous love are delicious With ca
pacity that might have rivaled Florence
Nightingale in heavenly ministries or made
the fathers house glad with filal and sis
terly demeanor, their life is a waste, their
beauty Il curse, their eternity a demolition
In the siege of Charleston during the
civil war lieutenant of the army stood
on the floor beside the daughter of the cx-
governor Of the state Of South Carolina.
They We're taking the vows of marriage.
\ bombshell struck he roof, dropped into
the group, and nine were wounded and
slain; among the wounded to death, the
bride. While the bridegroom knelt on the
carpet trying to stanch the wounds the
bride demanded that the ceremony be COM
plcted that she might take the vows be
fore her departure, and when the minister
said, "Nilt chou be faithful unto DEATH"
with her dying lips she said, II will, and
in two hours she had departed That was
the accidental slaughter and the sacrifice
of the body, but at thousands of marriage
affairs there are daughters slain for time
and slain tor eternity. 1t is not a mar
riage it is II massacre,
NtlanCed to some one who is only wait
ing until his father dies so he can get he
property; then little while they swing
around in the circles, brilliant circles; then
the property Is gone, and having no power
to earn livelihood the twain sink into
some corner Of society, the husband an idlcr
and Il sot, the wife drudge, slave and "A
sacrifice. All, spare your denunciations
from Jephthah's head and eXpend them all
on this wholesale modern martyrdom
lift up my voice today against the sac
rifce OF children. / look out of my window
on sabbath, and | see group Of children,
unwashed, uncombed, -Christianized
Who cares for them? Who prays for them?