Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-07-31

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am speaking, but u is only laughter at /
the moment Of sacrifice Would uod /
there were only one Jephthah's daughter. !
OnEDiENCg 70 W. TAUGHT.
Again. there ore many parents who
are sacrificing their children with wrong
systems Of discipline greaa rigor or
too great leniency. There are children
In families who rule the household. They
come 10 tho authority. The high chair
In which the infant sits Ia the throne,
and the rattle is the scepter. and the
other children make mp the parliament
where father aud mother have no votei
Such children come up to be miscreants.
There is no chance in this world for a
child that has never learned TO mind.
Such people become the bOtheratiOn OF
the church Of God and the pest Of the
world. Children that do not learn TO
obey human authority are unwilling TO
learn to obey divine authority. Children
will not respect parents whose authority
they do not respect. Who are these
young men that swsgger through the
street, with their thumbs in their vest,
talking about their father as "the old
man." "the governor" 1.-The squire"
''the old chap" OF their mother as "the
old womanY' They are those who in
youth, in childhood, never learned to re-
spect authority. Eli, having heard that
his sons had died in their wickedness,
fell over backward and broke his neck
and died. Well he might. What Is life
to a father whose sons are debauchedp
The dust of the valley is pleasant to his
taste, and the driving rains that drip
through the roof of the sepulcher are
sweeter than the wines of Helbon.
There must be harmony between the
fathers government and the mothers
government. The father will be tempt
ed to too great rigor. The mother will be
tempted to too great leniency. Her ten
derness will overcome her. Her voice is
little softer; her hand seems better fit
to pull out a thorn and soothe pang.
Children wanting any thing from the
mother cry for it. They hope to dissolve
her will with tears. But the mother
must not interfere, must not coax OFF,
must not beg for the child when the
hour comes for the assertion of parental
supremacy and the subjugation of a
child's temper. There comes in the his
tory of every child an hour when 1t IL
tested whether the parents shall rule OF
the child shall rule. That is the crucial
hour. If the child triumphs in that hour,
then he will some day make you crouch
It is horrible scene. have witnessed
it-a mother come to old age, shiverine
with terror in the presence OF son who
cursed her gray hairs and Knocked hel
wrinkled face and begrudged her the
crust she munched with her toothlesi
gums!
How sharper than a serpent's tooth II is
To have a thankless child
CONTROL YOUR TEMPER.
But. on the other hand, too great rig
or must be avoided. 1t Is a sad thing
when domestic government becomes COLI
military despotism. Trappers on tn
prairie fight fire with fire. but you can
not successfully fight your child's ba'
temper with your own bad temper. w
must not be too minute in our inspeC
ton. We cannot expect our children t
: be perfect. We must not see every
thing. Since we have two or three fault
} of our own, we ought not to be TO
rough when we discover that our Chi
: dren have as many. IL tradition
true, when we were children we wen
not all little Samuels, and our parent
were not fearful lest they could not rails
us because of our premature goodness.
You cannot scold or pound your chi
> dren into nobility of character. Th
3 bloom of child's heart can never
) seen under cold drizzle. Above al
! avoid fretting and scolding in the hous
hold. Better than 10 years Of frettip
! at your children is one good, round, ol
8 fashioned application of the slippe
That minister of the gospel of whom v
: read in the newspapers that he whippe
! his child to death because he would NJ
1 say his prayers will never come TO cal
, onization. The arithmetics cannot ca
a culate how many thousands Of childrt
: have been ruined forever either throug
8 too great rigor or too great leniene
a The heavens and the earth are hlle
o with the groan of the sacrificed. In tn
important matter seek divine directio
" LdL06Ig " ulObucAsf h9SAAo OAAO o0A'
s the mother Of Lord Chief Justice Man
9 field if she was not proud to have thr'
6 such eminent sons and all Of them
n good. ''No," she said, sit is nothing TO
r proud of, but something for which toll
o very grateful"
:. Again, there are many who are saci
% ficing their children TO spirit Of worl
II illness. Some one asked mother who
g children had turned out very well VIII
% was the secret by which she prepare
st them for usefulness and for the Chr
g tian life, and she said: "This was q
d secret. When In the morning wash
IT my children, prayed that they mig
,r be washed in the fountain of a Saviour
10 mercy. When put on their garment
prayed that they might be arrayed
the robe of a Saviour's Righteousness
Ig When gave them food, ! prayed tn
~ they might be fed with mamma fro
a heaven. When / started them on {
as road to school, prayed that their pa
b. might be as the shining light, bright
III and brighter to the perfect day. VIII
th 7 mt them TO sleep, / prayed that tn