Connecticut western news., 1894-04-19

profound or intricate for them to under stand-some question of the child dem- onstrated the fact that he knew all about it2
 Your children are apt to think that what you do is right. They have no idea of truth or righteousness but yourself. Things which you do knowing at the time to be wrong they take to be 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 had bad example set him. Your conduct more than your teaching makes impression. Your laugh, your frown, your dress, your walk, your greetings, your goodbys, your comings, your go- inSs, your habits at the table, the tones of your voice, are making an impression which will last million years after you are dead, and the suu will be extin- guished, and the mountains will crum- ble, and the world will die, and eternity will roll on in perpetual cycles, but there win be no diminution of the force of your conduct upon the young eyes that saw it or the young ears that heard it.
 The Age For Study.
 Now Iwould not have by this the idea given to you that you must be in cold reserve in the presence of your children. You 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. Spensippus, the nephew and successor of Plato in the academy, had pictures of joy and gladness hung all around the schoolroom- You must not give your children the impression that when they come to you they are playful nipples striking against rock. You must have them understand that you were boy once yourself, that you know a boys hilarities, boys tempta- tions, a boys ambition-yea, that you are boy yet You may deceive them and try to give them the idea that you are some distant supernatural effulgence, and you may shove them off by your rig orous behavior, but the time will come when they will find out the deception, and they will have for you utter con- tempt.
 Aristotle said that boy should begin to study at IT years of age. Before that his time should be given to recreation Icannot adopt that theory. But this sug gests truth in the right direction. Childhood is too brief, and we have not enough sympathy with its sportfulness. We want divine grace to help us in the adjustment of all these matters.
 Besides that, how are your children ever to become Christians if you your self are not Christian? have noticed that however worldly and sinful parents may be they want their children good When young people have presented themselves for admission into our mem bership, I have said to them, "Are your father and mother willing you shall And they have said, 'Oh, yes; they are delighted to have us come. They have not been in church for 10 or 15 years, but they will be here next Sab bath to see me baptized. Ihave noticed that parents, however. worldly, want their children good.
 A Good Mother Sought.
 So it was demonstrated in 8 police court in Canada, where a mother, her little child in her arms, sat by table on which her own handcuffs lay, and the little babe took up the handcuffs and played with them and had great glee. She knew not the sorrow of the hour. And then when the mother was sent to prison the mother cried out: 70 God, let not this babe go into the jaill Is there not some mother here who will take this child? It is good enough for heaven It is pure. l am bad am wicked. Is there not some one who will take this child? I cannot have it tainted with the prison. Then a brazen crea- ture rushed up and said, "Yes, I'll take the child. ''No, no, said the mother, not you, not you Is there not some good mother here who will take this And then when the officer of the law in mercy and pity took the child to carry it away to find home for it the mother kissed it lovingly goodby and said: ''Goodby, my darling. It is better you should never see me again.
 However worldly and sinful people are, they want their children good. How are you going to have them good? Buy them few good books? Teach them few excellent catechisms? Bring them to church? That is all very well, but of little final result unless you do it with the grace of God in your heart. Do you not realize that your children are started for eternity? Are they on the right road? Those little forms that are now so bright and beautiful-when they have scat tered in the dust, there will be an inn mortal spirit living on in mighty thea ter of action, and your faithfulness or your neglect now is deciding that des- tiny.
 There is contention already among spirits of salvation and fallen angels as to who shall have the of that immortal spirit. Your children are soon going out in the world. The temptations of life will rush upon them. The most rigid resolution will bend in the blast of evil What will be the result? It will require all the re- straints of the gospel, all the strength of a fathers prayer, all the influence of a Christian mothers example to keep them
 You say it is too early to bring them. Too early to bring them to God? Do you know how early children werS' taken to the ancient passover? The rule was just as soon as they could take hold of the fathers hand and walk up Mount Mori- ah they should be taken to the passover Your children are not too young to come to God. While you sit here and think of them perhaps their forms now so bright and beautiful vanish from you, and their disembodied spirit rises, and you see it after the life of virtue or crime is past, and the judgment is gone, and eternity is here.
 Prayer In the Home.
 A Christian minister said that in the first year of his pastorate he tried to per suade young mechanic of the impor-