The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-20
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4 Mover Mako Good Men and
Women.
TAtlanta Constitution.

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T write letter about how to raise a
family Of children SO that they will
all behave, tho boys make good oiti-
zens. good husbands, good fathers and
the girls make good wives and good
mothers. SIS it possible to do this f'
no asks. ] ..
When the lawyers determine that
a thing cannot be legally done they
say it is "ultra vires," which means
beyond strength. In the first place,
it is not possible to devise any plan
or methodtby which all children can
be raised or trained to do right and
behave. 1t is "ultra vires" and even
if it were possible, il Is "ultra vires"
with me to MAKO it known. Ever
since the fail,llre of Adam to raise
Cain, thisst'thing of raising all the
children to be good has been an un-
solVed problem. Whether the differ
- -enS in children Of the same family
ia due to the laws of heredity or the
doctrine of election or to different
environments and associations or to
the devil himself we cannot tell, but
one or more of these causes have been
at work. My wife and I were dis
coursing about this last night and In
all our acquaintance of half con-
tury we could not name single
family of six or moro children OF
whom all were good. Anxiety and
grief and trouble because Of children
il the common lot. It began with
Adam and came on down to Moan
and Jacob and David and Solomon,
and yet these mon had the special
favor of God and were blessed by
Him in every way except in the con-
duct of some of their children. Poor
old Eli, the high priest and Judge OF
Israel for forty years, was cursed
with two bad boys and God at the
last cursed him for not restraining
them. "There shall not be an old
man in thy house forever, and all the
increase of thy house shall die in the
flower of their age. Because his
sons made themselves vile and he re-
strained them not" What On awful
curse was that. These sons of
Belial! This word means worthless
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and fits many a
bad boy incur day. It is fact that
reflects orlonr sex that the sons of
BeliaI are mentioned more than
a dozen times in the scriptures, but
there is no daughter of Belial. "He
restrained them not" Well, the
good old man did talk to them and
reprove them most earnestly. "Why
do ye such things: 1t is no good re-
port that I hear. Ye make the Lo1d's
people to trangress. If one man sin
against another the judge shall judge
him, but if man sin against the
Lord WHO shall entreat for him?''
I wonder what kind of restraint
the Lord expected or required of
Eli. 1t was not talking or pleading
with them, of course, for he did that.
1 wonder if the old man dident ex-
pertinent on the d 1ern Atlanta plan
of raising the boy, his love and
their honor, for fear of breaking their
spirits. It makes IN old man very
tired to read the wise utterances of
tho Rddern Solons against corporal
punishment of bad boys in the public
schools. I had rather 90 and ask the
cc::o'Icts in the changing for an
opir on. Nine-tenths of them would
say began in disobedience and was
not restrained. The lamentable fact
is that at least one fourth Of the boys
at these schools have no restraint at
home and if they are not punished at
school they get it nowhere, and 80
these sons of Belial go to the bad
very early and become victims to the
rigor of the law and the courts. There
is many a boy in these schools who is
right now on his way to the chain
gang. These Solons say that corpo-
poral punishment is brutal and bar
barous and must give away to the
progress and refinement of the age.
About what time did the youths of
this generation become better than
those Of half century ago2 Read