Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-04

respect authority. Eli having heard
that his sons had died in their wicked
ness. fell over backward, and broke
his neck, and died. Well he might.
" hat IS life to a father whose sous are
debauch d? The dust of the valley is
pleasant to his taste, and the driving
rains that drip through the roof of the
sepulehre are sweeter than the vines
of lIelbon.
There must lie harmony between the
fathers go eminent and The mot err S
government. The father VIII be
tempted To too great rigor. The
mother W II be tempted To too great
lemency. Her tenderness will over
come her. Her voice is a Ii tie sof er,
her hand seems better tit TO pull out II
thorn and sootue pang. Oh ldren
wanting anything from the mo her,
cry or it. They no c To dissolve her
Will with tears. Tut t mother must
not coax oil, must not beg for the
chi w en- the hour comes for the as
sertion of parental su rem cy and the
subjugation OF a cnili ) temper.
But, on the 9th r II mi, too great
rigor must be avoided. II is IA sad
thing when domestic government be-
comes cold military drspotiHm. Trap
pers on the prairie fight fire with hire,
but YOU canrot successfully tight your
child bad temper with your own bad
temper. We must not be too minute
in our inspection. We cannot expect
our hildren to be perfect We must
not see everything. Since we have
two or thr, e fau Is of our own, we
ought not TO be to- rough whed we
discover that our children have as
m, N tradition ha trna yybnu wa
were children we were not all lit lie
samuel. and our p rents were not
fearful lest they could not rass us be-
cause of our p emature goodness.
on cannot scold or pound your
children into no ,iity OF character,
I be bloom of child's h art can never
he seen under cold dri2zle. Above
all avo d fretting an | S gliding in the
houSeho d. Better than ten years OF
frcttiug at voar chi ,dren is one good,
sound, o.d-iashiunod application of
the slipper. That minister of the
gospel o whom we read in the news
papers that he whipped his ch Id TO
death because n won d not say his
prayers, will never come t. canOni>a-
tlon The arithmetlcS cannot calcu-
late how many thOuS IN IS of chi dren
have he IN ned forever either
through to- or AT rigor or too great
leniency. The heavens and the ear n
are titled with the gruan OF the sacri-
feed. this important matter seek
divine DIRE tion, - father, . mother.
ONE one asked the other OF Lord
Chief ia tice Mansfield ii : was not
proud to have three such EN- inrnt
sons, and all OF them so good. No
She sa d, 1t is nothing To be prou OF,
lut something for which T. be very
CRATE ul.'
Again there arr many who are sar-
rrclng their children t. spirit of
worldlinrSs. ; me one asked a mothe'
who e children had turned out very
well, what was thc secret by VIII ch
SIC epared them for uscfu ne, S aud
for the Christian life, and S &c said,
This ~ as the sc ret " hen, in the
IN rning, / washed my children, /
prayed that they mig / be washed in
the fountain of Savior's mercy.
When | pu on their garments,
prayed that they mi int be arrayed in
the robe of n saw or's righteousness.
When gave hem TOOL prayed that
they might be fed with m lnna from
heaven. When | started them on the
road TO school, | prayed tina their
path might be as the Sh uIny light,
brightc and brighter to the perfect
dry. When ] put them to sleep, |
prayed that they might he embodied in
the savio,'s arms con" you say,
that was very Old-fashioned 1t was
quite old fds non 81. Blu do you sup
pose that Il child und r such nurture
as that ever tur ell cut bad
In our da IN t boys start ont W tn
no iGea higher than the all-encOmpass-
ing dollar. Tn sta:t in an age
which BOASTS il can ,rdtcl the Lord $
prayer on u cent PIE c, the
Ten Commandments on l0-Oent
yi ce. Chiidre are taught to
reduce morals and ligion, time
and CT 'rnitv, 10 vulgar fractions. 1t
seems TO be their ch EFF IL, Ia nmeut that
ten cent, make a dime, and n dim IS
make "A dollar How To get money is
only iual t ny the other art, how 10
keep it Tell me, We who know, what
/ chan, e there is for those who start Mt
in fe with such per erted sentiments?
The money market re- ounds again and
/ again with tie iownfal of su n pro-
pie. If had drop of blood on the
tip of pen, | would tell you by what
awful tragedy many of the youth of
this coun nv are ruined.
! In the siege of Charleston during
the civil war "A lieutenant of he army
stood on he iloOr beside the daughter
OF the ex-governor of the state of
Sout CAROL ma. They We're taking
the vows of MARI age. A bombshell
struck the roof, dropp~d into the
group and nine were woun led and
slain: among the wounded to death,
the bride While the Irdegr ON
knelt on the carpet, trying to stanch
/ the wounds, tie bri c demanded that
the ceremony he co npleted, that sue
might take the vows be fore her de-
part re: and when the minister said,
"Wit thou be faithful unto death. p"
with he d, ing lips she said, IL will"
and il two hours she had departed
That was the accidental slaughter and
the sacr fee OF the body; but at thou
sanus of marriage altars there are
daughters SLAIN for time and slain for
eternity. 1t is not a marriage; it is
q massacre.
Further on, thousands and tens of
thousands of he daughters of America
are sacrificed 10 worldlin, IS. They
are taught To be in sympathy with all
the artitcialities of society They are
! indu rted into all the n llown SIS of