Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-16

snake tl66 10 the IOot. 4imC uas oOou
when tempest could not" In other
words, your children are very impressi-
bic lust now They are alert; they are
gathering Impressions you have no idea
Of Have YOU not been surprised some
times, months or years after some con-
versstion, which you supposed was too
profound or intricate for them TO I'M
derstand-some question Of the child
demonstrated the fact that be knew all
about il?
Your children are SPIT TO think that
what YOU do is right They have no
ideal OF truth or righteousness but your
SELF. Things which you do knowing at
the time 20 be wrong, they take 70 De
right. They reason this way: Father
always does right. Father did this.
Therefore this is right" That is good
logic, but bad premises. No one ever
gets over having bad a bad example set
MIN. Your conduct more than your
teaching makes impression. Your
laugh, your irOwn, your dress, your
walk, your greetings, your good-byes,
your cOmingS, your goings, your habits
AZ the table, the tones Of your voice, are
ma6ing an impression which
WILL LAST A MILLION YEARS
after you are dead, and the sun will be
extingu shed, and the mountains will
crumOle, and tbs world will die, and
eternity will roll on in perpetual
cycles, but there will be no dimunitiOn
Of the force OF your conduct upon the
Young eyes thar saw 1t, or the young
ears that heard it.
Now 1 would not have by this the
idea given 10 you that you must be in
cold reserve in the presence OF your
children. Iou are not Emperor; you
are companion with them. As far as
YOU can, you must walk with them,
skate with them, fly kite with them,
play ball with them, show them you
are interested in all that interests them.
SpeusippuS, the nephew and successor
Of Plato 10 the academy. had pictures
Of joy and gladness hung all around
the school room, You must not give
your children the impression that when
they come 20 you they are playful rip
Piles striking against a rock. You must
have them understand that you were
boy once yOerself that you know a
boys hilaritieS, q boys temptations,
a boys ambitiOn-yea, THAI you are
boy yet. You may deceive them and
try 70 give them the idea that you are
some distant supernatural efulgence,
and you may shove them of by your
rigorous behavior, but the time will
come when they will find out the de-
ception, and they will have for you
utter contempt.
Aristotle said that boy should begin
20 study 40 seventeen years Of age; be-
fore that his time should be given to
recreation. I cannot adopt that theory.
But this suggests truth in the right !
direction. Childhood is too brief, and
we have not enough sympathy with its
SpOrtfulness. We cannot divine grace
10 help us in the adjustment OF all these !
matters.
Besides that, how are your children
ever 60 become Christians
IF YOU ARR NOT A CHRISTIAN?
I have noticed that, however, worldly
and sinful parents may be, they want
their children good. When young peO-
pie have presented themselves for ad-
mission into our membership, | have
said 10 them, "Are your father and
mother willing you shall Gomez" and
they have said, "Oh! yes; they are de-
lighted to have as come; they have not
been in church for ten or fifteen years,
but they will be here next Sabbath to
see me baptized" l have noticed that
parent, however worldly, want their
children good.
So 10 was demonstrated in q police
court ia Canada, where a mother, her
little child ia her arms-sat by table
on which her own handouts lay, and
the little babe took up the handouts
and played With them. and had great
glee. She knew not the sorrow OF the
hour. Aud then when the mother was
sent TO prison, the mother cried out,
"Oh. God, let not this babe 60 into the
Jail. is there not some mother here
who will take this child? IL is good
enough for heaven. IL is pure. ] am
bad. ! am wicked. Is there not some
one who will take this child? l cannot
have il tainted with the prison." Then
brazen creature rushed up and said,
Eyes, I'll take the child" "NO, no."
said the mother, mot you, not you. Is
there not some good mother here who
the officer of the law In mercy and pity
took the child to carry it away to find
q home for il. the mother kissed it low
ingly good-by, and said, "Good-by, my
darling; 10 is better you should never
see me again"
However worldly and sinful people
are, they want their children good.
How are Won going TO have them good?
Buy them a few good bOoksP Teach
them few excellent catechisms? Bring
them to church? That is all very well,
but OF little final result unless you do IL
with the grace Of God In your heart.
Again remark, we want religion 10 all
our home sorrows. There are ten thou
sand oustions that come up in the best
regulated households that must be
settled. But then there will be SORROWS
that will come to the household. There
are bur few families that escape the
stroke of misfortune.
But misiortude comes to the Chris
tian household. II religion has full
sway in thai home they stoop grace
fully.
Sore troubles come-sickness and
death. Loved ones sleep the last sleep.
A child is buried out OF sight. You
saw, ALAS. for this bitter day. God has
dealt severely with me, / can never look
up. O, God. cannot bear It," Hush.
o, troubled soul; it is well with the
child. will strengthen thee in all thy
troubles, Ny grace is sufficient When
thou passest through the waters, will
be with thee"
DO NOT RETIRE FROM THIS HOUSE
this morning until you have resolved
upon this matter. You will be gone. /