The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-04

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then he will some day make you crouch.
1t is u horrible scene. have witnessed |
tia mother come to old age, shivering
with terror in the presence of son who
cursed her gray hairs and Knocked her
wrinkled face and begrudged her the
crust she munched with her toothless
gumsl
How sharper than serpent's tooth 1t Is
To have u thankless child
CONTROL YOUR TEMPER.
But, on the other hand, too great rig
or must be avoided. 1t Is sad thing
when domestic government becomes cold
military despotism. Trappers on the
prairie fight fire with fire, but you can
not successfully fight your child's bad
temper with your own bad temper. We
must not be too minute in our inspec-
ton. We cannot expect our children to
be perfect. We must not see every
thing. Since we have two or three faults
of our own, we ought not to be too
rough when we discover that our chill |
dren have as many. If tradition be
true, when we were children we were
not all little Samuels, and our parents
were not fearful lest they could not raise
us because of our premature goodness.
You cannot scold or pound your chill
dren into nobility of character. The
bloom of child's heart can never be
seen under a cold drizzle. Above all,
avoid fretting and scolding in the house
hold. 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 can
onization. The arithmetics cannot cal
culate how many thousands of children
have been ruined forever either through
too great rigor or too great leniency.
The heavens and the earth are filled
with the groan of the sacrificed. In this
important matter seek divine direction,
o father, 0 mother. Some one asked
the mother of Lord Chief Justice Mans
field if she was not proud to have three
such eminent sons and all of them So
good. mo" she said, sit is nothing to be
proud of, but something for which to be
very grateful"
Again, there are many who are sacri
ticing their children to spirit of world
illness. Some one asked q mother whose
children had turned ont very well what
was the secret by which she prepared
them for usefulness and for the Chris
han life, and she said: "This was the
lecret. When in the. morning washed
my children, prayed that they might
be washed in the fountain of Saviour's
mercy. When put on their garments,
prayed that they might be arrayed in
the robe of Saviour's Righteousness.
When l gave thenf food, prayed that
heaven. When l 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, l prayed that they
might be embodied in the Saviour's arms.
"Oh," you say, "that was very old fash
ioned," 1t was quite old fashioned. But
do you suppose that child under such
nurture as that ever turned out bad?
TOO MUCH WORLDLINESS.
In our day most boys start out with no
idea higher than the all encompassing
dollar. They start in an age which
boasts it can scratch the Lords Prayer
on 10 cent piece, and the Ten Com
mandments on a 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 dollar. How to get 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
nn-,i-=s or----.,
tragedy many Of the youth of this coun-
try are ruined.
Further on thousands and tens Of thou
sands of the daughters of America are
sacrificed to worldliness. They are taught
| to be in sympathy with all the artificial
ties Of society. They are indicted into
all the hollowness of what is called fash
ionable life. They are taught to believe
that history is dry, but that so cent sto-
ries of adventurous love are delicious.
With capacity that might have rivaled
a Florence Nightingale in heavenly min
istries, or made the fathers house glad
with filial and sisterly demeanor, their
life is waste, their beauty a curse, their
eternity demolition.
SLAIN AT THE ALTAR.
In the siege of Charleston, during the
civil war, a lieutenant Of the army stood
on the floor beside the daughter of the
ex-governor of the state of South Caro-.
lima. They were taking the VOWS Of
marriage. A bombshell struck the roof
dropped into the group, and nine were
wounded and slain; among the wounded
to death, the bride. While the bride
groom knelt on the carpet trying tc
stanch the wounds the bride demanded
that the ceremony be completed, thai
she might take the vows before her de
parture, and when the minister said
wilt thou be faithful unto DEATH" witt
her dying lips she said, 81 WILL" and il
two hours she had departed That was
the accidental slaughter and the sac
rifice of the body, but at thousands Of
marriage affairs there are daughters slair
for time and slain for eternity. 1t is mo-
a marriage; it is a massacre.
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies so he car
get the property. Then little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles. Then the property is gone
and having no power to earn liveli
hood the twain sink into some corner O.
society-the husband an idler and a sot
the wife drudge a slave and asacrifce
All, spare your denunciations from Jeph
thah's head and expend them all on thi
wholesale modern martyrdoml
l lift up my voice today against tn,
sacrifice of children. / look out of IN,
window on Sabbath and I see groul
of children-unwashed, uncombed, un
Christianized. Who cares for them