Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-08-11
cir,s N xa.rs OF age studying algebra |!

Latin. French and German lessons! All the
vlyacity OF their nature beaten out OF them
by the heavy beetle OF a Greek lexicon! And
YOU doctor them for this, and you give
them little medicine for that, and you
wonder what Is the matter with them. l
will tell you what is the matter with them,
they are finishing their education.
In nv parish in Philadelphia child was
so pushed at school that she was thrown into
r fever and ia her dying delirium, all night
long, she was trying to recite the multiplied
ton table. In my boyhood l remember that
in our class at school there was one lad VINO
knew more than all Of us put together. III
We were fast in our arithmetic, he extricated
us. When we stood up for the spelling class,
he was almost always the head OF the class.
Visitors came to his fathers house, and he
was almost always brought in as prodigy.
At 10 years OF age he was an idiot. He lived
10 Years an idiot and died an idiot, not know
ing his right hand from his left, or day from
night. The parents and the teachers made
him an idiot.
You may hatter your pride by forcing your
children to know more than any other chill
dren. but you are making a sacrifice OF that
child if by the additions to its intelligence
you are making subtraction from Its iu-
ture The child will go away from sucn NAL
treatment with no exuoerance to fight the
very we'll while you take care OF them, but
when you are old and dead. alas for them
| II through the wrong system OF education
which YOU adopted, they have no swarthi.
ness or force OF character to take care OF
themselves. Be careful how you make tue
child's head ache or its heart futter.
hear great deal about black mems rights
and Chinamsn's rights and Indians rights
and women's rights. Would God that some.
BODY would rise to plead for children right
| The Carthaginians used to sacrlhce tnen
children by putting them into the arms OF an
idol which thrust forth its hand. inc cnilo
,vss nnt into the arms of the idol, and no
sooner touched the arms than 1t droppe1 INTO
the fire. But it was the art OF the mothers
TO keep the children smiling and Laughing
until the moment they died. There may De
a fascination and hilarity about the styles
of education Of which am speaking, put IL
is only laughter at the moment OF saorlnce
Would God there were only one Jepatnatns
daughter.
Again, there are many parents who arc
sacrificing their children With wrong syS
TENS of disclplins-too great rlgor or toa
great leniency. There are children IN lam
lilies who rule the household. They come TO
the aui hority. The high chair in which the
infant sits is the throne, and the rattle is the
scepter. and the other childen make up ths
parliament where father and mother have no
vote, Such children come up to be mis-
creants.
There is no chance in this world for child
that has never learned to mind. Such pso'
ple 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 author
ity Children will not respect parents whose
authority they do not respect VINO are tnose
Young men that swagger through the street.,
with their thumbs in their vest, talking
about their father as 'the old man,
'tha governor" ''the squire" the
old chap" or their mother as the
old woman2" They are those who in youth,
in childhood. never learned to respect au,
thorty. Eli having heard that his sons had
died in their wickedness, fell over backward
and broke his neck and died. well ne mignt.
What is life to q father whose sons are de-
bauched? The dust OF the valley ls pleasant
to his taste, and the driving rains thai
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 gov
eminent. The father will be tempted TO too
great vigor. The mother will be tempted 70
too great leniency. Her tenderness wip
overcome her. Her voice Is a little softer
and soothe pang. Children wanting any
thing from the mother cry for it. They nope
to dissolve her will with tears. But the motn'
er must not interfere, must not coax OH,
must not beg for the child when the
hour comes for the assertion OF parental
supremacy and the subjugatlon OF
child's temper. There comes IN the history
of every child an hour when it Is teSteo
whether the parents shall rule or the cniio
= I, ofal / the
child triumrhs in that hour, then he WI
eome dav make YOU crouch. 1t is horrlol'
scene. have witnessed it-a mother come
to old age. shivering with terror in the pres.
ence OF a son who cursed her gray hairs ano
mocked her wrinkled face and begrudged he'
the crust she munched with her toothles'
gums
How sharper than serpeass tooth IL
To have a thanklesS child!
1,ut. OH the other hand, too great rlgo'
must be avoided. 1t is d sad thing when do
nestle government becomes cold miiltar'
despotism. Trappers on the prairie flgnd mr.
with fire, but you cannot successfully hgn
vour child's bad temper with your own baf
fempet. We must not be too minute In on
inspection, We cannot expect our chlidreI
to be perfect. We must not see everything
Since we have two or three faults OF our OVID
we ought not to be too rough when we ols
cover that our children have as many. !
tradition be true when we were children W
were not all little Samuels, and our parent
were not fearful lest they could not raise u
because OF our premature goodness.
You cannot scold or pound your cnlidre
into nobility Of character. Inc doom ol
childs heart can never be seen under col
drizzle. Above all, avoid 1rettlnS an
scolding in the household. Better than
Years of frettinr at your children Is on
good. round, old fashioned application o
the slipper That minister of the Gospel o
whom we read in the newspapers that h
whipped his child to death because he woul'
not say his prayers will never come to can
onization. The arithmetics cannot ca
culate how many Thousands OF children
fave been ruined forever either through to-
great rigor or too great leniency. The heav
ems and the earth are filed with the groan o
the sacrificed. In this important matter seel
divine direction . father. o mother. Som
one asked the mother of Lord Chief Justic
Mansfield if she was not proud to have tnree
such eminent sons and all OF them so good
'No," she said. sit is nothing to be proud o.
but something for which to be very grateful.
Again. there are many who are sacrlfic'n.
their children TO spirit OF worldliness
Some one asked q mother whose children
had turned out very we'll what was the secre
by which she prepared them for usefulness
md for the Christian life and she said
"This was the secret. When in the morn,n'
washed nv children, l prayed that the.
might be washed in the fountain o.
Sayour's mercy. When put on their gar
ments. prayed that they might be arraye'
In the robe OF a Saviours righteousness
When I gave them food, | prayed tina
they might be fed with mama from heaven
Al h. No1 IN. oh