Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-04-09

IN his hand, and in tones of thunder
want to know "whO broke that
platc?" There isn't one of us, not
excepting myself, that wouldn't
swear that we hadn't seen that plate
in our lives, or that it was cracked
when we got it.
Another good way to make children
tell the truth is to tell it yourself.
Keep your word with your child the
same As you would with your banker.
If you tell your child you will do
anything, either do it or give the
child the reason why. Truth is born
OF confidence. 1t comes from the
lips of love and liberty. | was over
In Michigan the other day. There
was boy over there in Grand Rapids
about five or six years old, nice,
smart hoy, as you will see from the
remark he made-what you call a
nineteenth century boy. His father
and mother had promised to take
him out riding. They had promised
to take him out riding for three
weeks, and they would slip off and
90 without him. Well, after 8
while, that got kind Of played out
with the little boy, and the day be-
fore | was there they played the
trick on him again. They went out
and got the carriage, and went away
and as they rode away from tn,
front of the house, he happened tC
be standing there with his nurse, anC
saw them. The whole thing FLASHED
on him in a moment. He took ir
the situation, and turned to his nurse
and said, pointing to his father and
mother There goes the two
d-t liars in the State of Michigan!'
When you go home fill the house
with joy, so that the light of it will
stream out the windows and doors,
and illuminate even the darkness
1t is just as easy that way as any in
the world.
l want to tell you tonight that
you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy
on you so thick that the sharp eve of
will not see through every
veil, and if you pretend to your
children that you are the best man
that ever lived-the bravest man
that ever livcd-they will find you
out every time. They will have the
same opinion Of father when thew
grow up they used to have. They
will have to be in mighty bad luck
If they ever do meaner things than
you have done. When your child
confesses to you that it has commit
ed fault, take that child in your
arms, and let it feel your heart beat
against its heart, and raise your chill
iren in the sunlight of love, and
hey will be sunbcams to you along
he pathway of life. Abolish the
'lub and whip from the house, be- |
'ause, if the civilized use a whip, the |
gnorant and brutal use club, and |
hey will use 1t because you use the
whip.
Every little while some door is |
brown open in some orphan asylum
nd there we see the bleeding back
# child whipped beneath the roof
hat was raised by love. 1t is infa-
nous, and the man that can't raise
child without whip ought not to
ave child. If there is one of you |
Iere that ever expect to whip your
hid again, let me ask you some
hing. Have your photograph taken
t the time and let ii show your face
ed with vulgar anger, and the face
E the little one, with his eyes filled
With tears, and the little chin dim
lied with fear, looking like a piece
# water struck by a sudden cold |
Wind. If that little child should die |
cannot think of Il sweeter way to |
pend an Autumn afternoon than to |
AXE that photo graph and go to the |
emetery, when the naples are clad |
n tender gold, and when little scar
ct runners are coming from the sad
leart of the earth, and sit down |
lpon that mound, and look upon |
hat photograph, and think of the
leSh, now dust, that you beat. Just |
hink of it. could not bear to die |
n the arms Of child that | had
whipped. | could not bear to feel
lpon my lips, when they were with
red beneath the touch of death, the
Kiss of one that l had struck. Some
Christians act as though they really
hou2ht that when Christ said,
Suffer little children to come unto
ne," He had a rawhide under His
'oat. They act as though they
eally thought that He mad that re-
mark simply to get the children
within striking distance.
L have known Christians to turn
heir children from. their doors, es-
,ecially a daughter, and then get
ioWn on ther knees and pray to God
o watch over them and help them.
will never ask God to help my
unless | am doing my level
pest in thai same wretched line. /
will tell you what l say to my girls
8 Go where you will do what crime
you may; fall to what depth of deg
radiation you may i'm all the storms
md winds and earthquakes of life
no matter what you do, you can
never commit any crime that will
shut my door, my arms or my heart
10 you. AS long IA l live you shall
have one sincere friend"
EASTER is one of the movable
feasts. The prayer book gives the
following rule: 4" Easter day is al
ways the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next
after the 2lst day of March, and if
the full moon happens upon a Sun
day, Easter day is the Sunday after"
Consequently March 22nd is the ear
liest date upon which Easter can fall
and April 25th the latest, this year
the date being April 9TH. This rule
was adopted at the council of Nice,
a. ID. 325.
GUEST Ito waiter)-I can't eat this
soup!
Waiter takes it away and brings
another kind pf conn