Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-31

TO father whose SOnS are ueOduCHou'
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 mother ;
government. The father will be tempted
to too great vgor. The mother Will De
tempted to too great leniency. Her ten
derness will overcome her. Her voice IS
a little softer, her hand seems better III
10 mil out q thorn and sooth pang'
Children wanting any thing from the
mother, CRY for it. They hope 10 dissolve
her will with tears. But the mother
must not interfere, must not coax on
must not beg for the child when the
| hour comes for the assertion or parental
supremacy and the subjugatlon OF
cbjld's temper. There comes in the
history of every child an hour when IL
is tested whether the parents snail RUE
or the child shall rule. That IS the
cruical hour. II the child trlumphs IN
that hour, then he will some day make
YOU crouch. 1t is horrible scene. l
| have witnessed it: a mother come TO old
age. shiyering with terror in the pre-
seuce OF a son who cursed her gray
hairs and Knocked her wrinkled face,
and begrudged her the crust she
munched with her toothless gums!
How sharper than a serpent's tootn IL Is
To have a thanklsss child
But. on the other hand, too great
rigor must be avoided. 1t is sad thing
when domestic government becomes
cold military depotism. Trappers on
the prairie fight fire with fire, but you
cannot successfully fight your child's
bad temper with your own bad temper.
We must not be too minute In our In
spection. We cannot expect out child
rem 10 be perfect. We must not see
everything. Since we have two or
three faults Of our own, we ought not
to be too rough when we discover that
our children have as many. If tradl-
ton be true, when we were children we
were dot all little Samuels, and our
Darents were not fearful lest they
could not raise US because Of onr prema-
ture goodness.
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your children into nobility Of char
acter. The bloom OF a child's heart
can never be seen under a cold drizzIe.
Above all, avoid fretting and scolding
in the household. Better than ten
years at your children is one good,
round, old-fashioDed application Of the
slipperl The 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 canoniZation. The arlth-
metics cannot calculate how many
thousands OF children have been rnlned
forever either through too great rlgor
or too great leniency. The heavens
and the earth are filed with the groan
of the sacrificed. In this Important
matter, seek divine direction, 0 father,
0 mother. Some one asked the mother
of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield If she
was not proud TO have three such emil
ent SOILS, 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-
icing their children to spirit OF world
illness. Some one asked mother whose
children had turned out very well what
was the secret by whichkhe prepared
them for usefulness and for the Chris
tian life, and she said: "ThiS was the
secret: When, in the morning, washed
nv children, l prayed that they might
be washed in the fountain OF Savlour's
mercy. When put on their garments
l prayed that they might be arrayed In
the robe OF a Saviour's righteousness.
When gave them food l prayed that
they might be fed with mama from
heaven. When / started them on the
road to school, l prayed that their path
might be as the shining light, brighter
aud brighter to the perfect day. When
l put them to sleep prayed that they
might be EMBODIED in the Saviour's
arms" ooh" you say, that was very
old-fashioned."
IT WAS QUITE OLD-FAsHIoNED.
But do you suppose that a child under
such nurture as that ever turned out
bad?
In our day most boys start out with
no idea higher than the all-encompass-
ing dollar. They start in an age which
boasts IL can scratch the Lords Prayer
on ten cent piece, and the Ten Com
mandments on ten cent piece. Chill
dren are taught to reduce morals and
religion, time and eternity, to vulgar
fractions. Ii seems to be their chief at
tainment that ten cents make dime,
and ten dimes make dollar. How to
get money is only eQualled by the other
art, how to keep IT, Tell me, ye who
know, what chance there is for those
who start out in life with such pervert-
ed sentiments? The money market re-
sounds again and again with the down
fall of such people. If had drop of
blood on the tip OF pen, would tell
you by what awful tragedy many Of the
youth of this country are ruined.
Further on, thousands and tens OF
thousands Of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artiiicialitieS OF society. They are in
Quoted into all the hollowneSs of what
is called fashionable life. They are
taught 10 believe that history is dry,
but that ffty-cent stories Of adventur-
Gus love are delicious. With capacity
that migth have rivalled a Florence
Nightingale in heavenly ministries, or
made the fathers house glad with filial
and sisterly demeanor, their life is
waste, their beauty curse, their eter-
nifty a demolition.
Ia 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
Carolina. They were taking the vows
Of marriage.
A BoMBSHELL STRUCK