The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-21


been masons and doctors and their work
will need TO be done still, so far as we
can see You are in a position 10 teach
your son how TO work. He will bring
TO your own business an hereditary sptr
tude The apprenticeship OF affection
will teach him more In two Years thava
he can learn alone In ten. The tendency
OF the day is to leave learner employed
at one simple branch OF the business
Who but father Is willing TO give
Young man accurate and repeated In
struction in matters that pertain to the
winning points OF his professionf We are
passing into the French stage OF educa-
fion where the state II supposed 10 do II
all. But we ought TO take good heed that
the rise OF the manual training school is
the result of the failu re OF fathers.
THESE SCHOOLS ARE BENEFIcENT
PROVIDENCE
10 children without fathers or with
wort bless fathers. But IL remains true
that every boy from small childhood
ought 10 learn how to do something.
The attempt 10 educate after We reach
mans estate Is generally futile. More
aptness OF hand and eye can be given
child before twelve than after. The
strange notion OF education by which
boys are left sfioat and helpless at
eighteen both as TO religion and business
| is the most awful aspect OF oar age. AS
precautionary measure at least q boy
might be taught to do what his father
does. and il afterward the son goes into
another calling he will be the stronger
for IL. The schools profess to furnish
discipline. much mistake IL there is
not more discipline in service than in
books.
8. rhe large advantage of keeping with
a son Ia principally in the closer acquain-
tance that results from II. Ordinary
fathers leave home early, they hardly
swallow a meal, not TO speak OF table
fellowship There may be in the week,
few moments OF chat between them
and their sons. But these lucid inter
walls are 80 widely separated that the boy
and father are embarrassed. How many
sons find II easy to talk with their fathers
about matters OF conscience and wor-
ship? These subjects are introduced
with the greatest difficulty, whereas they
ought to come into daily conversation,
and IL an early beginning is made 1t Is
easy. Habit breeds capacity. A certain
class of subjects-the relations of young
men and women. marriage, prayer. con-
fessicn OF sin, love TO God and man-are
so inclusive that they ought to consti-
tute large part OF the family converse
tion. Instead OF these, business poiit,cs,
and sport usurp their places, aud the
homes are common where embarrassment
reigns when these most natural themes
are broached. The father particularly
Is COLD AND FORMAL,
| | eVOl0e tneSe important pTiNlieBcb No ho
breads malaria. j know this because nu-
merous fathers tell me- And the abysmal
ignorance Of many children on such
themes proves that they are never men,
toned at home.
4. 1 cannot resist the conclusion,
therefore, that a boy needs somebody to
talk with him and live righteously be-
, fore him. Let any father dare TO put of
the moral training of his son upon a
> school or even on the mother and he
shows imself either careless or unfit
for his position. We will say q father
. mother more capable OF fulfilling 1t than
, himself. Has the father considered the
, effect produced on the mind of his son,
. when he discovers that bis father feels
himself incapable o: imparting strong
. and tender words OF help and warningI
IL the fathers provinces 10 merely to come
. In with the stick where the mother's
love has been inadequate, then alas fol
, the boyi
: We are obliged to confess that a father''
: principal business 10 to make God loving
reality to his children.
! HOW Is THIS TO BE DoNEf
D 1t was only this last week, when
o asked q man II he attended church tha
he answered me; No; my parents spoiled
me, by making mo 60 when was
. child.'' This man lives under the fond de
!. lusion that the church has ruined him
. An excuse for anything! The owners o
: slaves did not think II right to teach th'
= slaves to read, lest they should become
: worthless." st. Jerome never took a bath
q because ne thought his condition nigh
serve as q penance. / suspect that IL thu
/, parents. mentioned had never taken theil
:. son to church he might have, before thi'
= time, become much worse than III
. children are not likely to contract dis
: like of the church from too con6tan
attendance upon II.
: All depends upon your attitude toward
1 Christianity. IL you regard 1t as an un
attractive thing, of course you will keel
. children from knowing anything aboui
IL II, to you, Christ Is altogether lovely
, as He 10 IL you show Him in the prope
: light; IL your heart IL In your worsh II
: you can make II ATTRACTIVE to the child
r Children must be tadght to read,to dress
= to be gentlemanly-everythin must b.
\ shown them. Is prayer an exception
!. Can child pray by nature any NOR,
. than he can say the multiple cation table
When he 10 told that two and three ar,
' FIVE he sees the reason OF 1t. 1t IL posi-
!. BILE be would discover Ii IL left untaught
. And when told that God made hin
q and loves him and that he ought L
r thank Him he sees the reason OF tha
also. 1t is just as simple as mathematics
Cast him out into the world and ther
Is a chance OF his discovering 1t; but VIII.
|
l. Many children sbominate arithmetic
n What do fathers do in such cases? Arith
n metic is true; II 10 useful. The chile
y must know Il, and II the Kindergarten
'e method is best he learns II thst way,
4. Christianity is true; 1t is useful; 1t /
d glorious; II is
10 NECESSITY TO THE COMPREHENSION o.
Of LIFE,
and when the child understands IL as ex
pounded by loving father he will no
10 hate IL.
ly The father then must prepare himsel
to be father. IL he desires A son teach
n able and lovely in spirit he himself mus
~ become teachable and lovable. The fathe
ID enters with God. unto creation. Goo
j. children have good parents PHILOSOPHY
o declares 1t |; investigation proves 1t; th
ot Righteousness of God demands il.
W father must be absolutely pure; his sou
is must be bathed in truth; In com
10 plete patience che must possess hi