Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-03-05
HOME TRAINING.


The exceeding importance OF home
training and of rearing children upon
rules and principles drawn from God S
words, has It's foundation in the fact
that all government spiritual and
temporal, is based upon the family.
As are the families that constitute 1t,
90 is the church and its future as are
the families that constitute it, so Is the
state and its future. The stream will
rise no higher than its fountain head.
If in the home the training Of sons and
daughters is so neglected that instead
Of principles, true, beautiful and good,
all sorts of noxious and hurtfui ones
are permitted quietly to establish
themselves, the consequence IN after
years is shame to the home, harm 10
the church, and trouble in the COM
munitv OF which they become citizens.
What a tremendous responsibility,
therefore, rests upon the parents OF
children. What Il momentous slgnlt-
cation attaches to the name of Rather
or Mother. The fact is that the des-
tiny of children, for time and eternity,
is placed instrumentally IN the keep
ing of the parents. Read that oga'".
| This is true because the tenor OF a
whole life Is determined, as to It's gen
eral outline, by the character Of its
early training. Some good authorities
affirm that the general direction OF a
life is determined by the time the
child has reached its seventh year.
Observation would seem in many cases
to confirm such an opinion. The home
becomes under such considerations IN
exprsssibly sacred and the neglect Of
proper parental training therein more
than criminal Some parents lightly
and indolently affect to shift this
beo eoron.;mno..d resnonsibjity saving
that they will make no effort to choose
for The child the principles that are
!. I..o.,,, a.. o,,rso of ;+o life
hnt ro+bor nsrm;t tba child 10 make
;ts owr cbo;ce when if comes TO year.
IS d;soro,;,r S,t,n ! most surely
tbs antbor Of this delusion, inasmuch
&c tho child tbns left 70 shift for itself
,n+l = oo,oos 70 wars of maturity vii,
hr +bo+ t;,oo ;rayitabIv have imbibed
,iroojr nr;rc;,Jss that will have
slammed mon IFS character the genera,
ontIine Of ;ts life The child has ir
sncb case. been crueIlv and crjmipaIIy
loft without helm at tbe most critica
.o,;od of =. Tfa Tfovar tbara is neeC
af moId;ro hand Il is at this mos
,,Io.t;o 4;n,o e 1;fe from b;rtb 70 mo-
i,tor+Loo fan ,.e.rs Of aoa Princn o.
g loo,r1,. hoor+r md otorraI ,rortI
tbar ;rorr;ntod by the rarents upor
tba character. committed 70 their car,
m;II rora;r tbroncb life Like in
sor;n+;ons made rror soft CLAW that !
of,,,,,.,, ~ bo bordorod 70 rocl; tbes
;,,.;.. ro,,.;n - ho rood N oao
roa rs os tbo.e from R.bvIon and Mn
h p,t ;r.t ,,sta the f,et r.,
- I tLo n,r,.,,+ auoLas 70 Il,
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,.a, osn f,r bs.rao i .t,n boI1in.
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..,;a ~. locomotive rnor tho trocr
.I..,I,a, :. ,.ho- a,oo d.r,;,ol
G. .;.h .l, ,,,.,.,. homo nTr,;, -,
child in the vav he should 20 an.
whom bs i old ba will not depart fror
i saws God, our only reliable guid,
Modern society NAV have its so,calle
advanced opinions in regard to thes
n,a++er. br+ onr only reliable rnle
,bo+ which bo. God fo, IFS outLo, an.
never changes: Therefore shall '
Law no NV words in your hearts an
IN your soul-""u y' S"'',' 's''" '',-'
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