San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-18
MIND YOUR BUSINESS NO 2.

According to promise this mornings
sermon was to be directed to those
parents and guardians and teachers
and so-called friends and no end of
relatives and busybodies, who in their
ignorance think the children have few
or no rights hat the older ones are
bound to respect. This
ment leaves no option or otherwise the
BOLD Soldier Boys" now in the city
should nave had a special Light sermon
for their benefit. Perhaps 1t will not
be too late one wee hence, in which
case the Light preacher will devote a
Sunday to the drill business, it's lessons
and its real bearing upon the brains
and Drawn and business life of those
interested, no less than upon their
moral qualities.
But to the kids, not in any kid GLOW
ed fashion, for that is not in the line
of these discourses. If that which is
of the first Importance should come
hrst, then the children stand first in
the order of their Importance. First
In the life of the family, first in the
consideration of the state, first in the
eyes OF the wise men of the nation.
First, because there is more outcome
to them h to any other class of peo-
pie. The old men and women have
been. The middle aged, are and are
going. The young men n women
are, but the way of their going is
largely determined. The children are
to be. Their life lies before them and
its direction is in some considerable
measure to be determined.
There is more possibility for good.
also for evil, in the child thar in the
older person. More, because there is
more time for development. More. be-
cause the world grows and a. it grows
the appliances for good or evil are in
creased and a larger harvest of tares
or wheat may be reaped. There is
more devil n more deity, more saint
n more sinners in the individual of
the present than in tina of the past.
The world is swinging with moral and
fin de seicle age comes TO his
intellectual momentum now than
ever before. The child of This
NE work with more power behind
MN than n of his predecessors. Ev-
cry year sees this f~orcefulness for good
CooSus anu therefore IL he
comes increasingly necessary thai the
world go slow in monkeying with it's
future directors.
A child's business is its own business
JUST as much as h business of the
auult is adult business. The child has
more right, infinitely more, to inter-
fogate the parent than the parent the
child. The child is the only inquisitor
IN the world who can show papers for
his inquisitorialness. The child is the
creation of the parents, and all that
Les behind h door by which he en-
tered into being. Deny responsibility
as may, this is certain, the parent
opened the door into being by which
the child came. The child finds Itself
In a strange world, saddled with dis.
POSITIONS, tempers, wants, will, desires
tendencies to go contrary to directions
given by the parents. Who has a bet
ter right than he to ask how he came
to be?
The child is always mora right thar
the parent in all that relates to nature.
This is a natural consequence of his
hving nearer the natural condition thar
the parent. 1t is in changing this
natural disposition of the child thai
the mischief is lone. Direction is ed
ucative. Change is destructive. II
universal intelligence and wisdom I'M
derlle the plan, then it is to be trust
ed and 1t is only direction that counts
All that has preceded the child is a
part of it, and the immediate paren-
tage may be the least of all the form
ing causes that produce that child
1t Is. How many wise children we see
born of very foolish parents. The pa
rents do not always count. Who III
derstands this?
Not to understand it, and to study II
profoundly, argues ignorance too pro.
found to either understand or direct
the child. In this ignorance to attempt
to direct the child, to NEEDLE with it
TO attempt to revolutionize its nature
to mind it's W business, is one of the
most injurious things that could hap,
pen to the child. Nine times out Of
ten it is pure downright will, brute
force and cussedness that cuts into tn,
business of the child and NEEDLES will
it. The children are in our way an
we NEEDLE with their rights to shove
them aside. They bother US will
questions and we mind their business
n not our W and shut them up
They attempt to follow natural direc
tions of nature, and we cross then