Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-05-26

l1clOOD,
There must be harmony between the
fathers government and the mothers
government. The father will be Tempt
ed to too great rigor. The mother win
be tempted TO too great leniency. Her
tenderness will overcome her. Her voice
is little softer; her hand seems better
fitted to pull out thorn and soothe
pang. Children wanting anything from
the mother cry for it. They hope to
dissolve her with tears. But the mother
must not interfere, must not coax OF,
must not beg for the child when the
hour comes for the assertion of parental
supremacy and the subiugation of
a cMid's temper. There comes in the
history of every child an hour when it
is tested whether the parents shall rule
or the child shall rule. That is the
crucial hour. If the child triumphs i'll
that hour, then he will some day make
YOU crouch. 1t is Il horrible scene-l
have witnessed it-a mother come to old
age, shiyering with terror in the pres
ence of son who cursed her gray hairs
and Knocked her wrinliled face and be.
grudged her the crust she munched
with her toothless gums.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth 1t is
To have thankless child!
But, on the other hand, too great
rigor must be avoided. 1t is sad thing
when domestic government becomes
cold military despotism. Trappers on
the prairie fight fire with fire, but you
cannot successfully fight your child's
bad temper with your own bad temper.
We must not be too minute in our in.
spection. We cannot expect our children
to be perfect. We must not see every
thing. Since we have two or three faults
of our own, we ought not to be too rough
when we discover that our children
have as many. If tradition be true,
when we were children we were not all
little Samuels, and our parents were
not fearful lest they could not raise us
because four premature goodness. You
cannot scold or pound your children in
to nobility of character. The bloom OF
child's heart can never be seen under
a cold drizzle. Above all, fretting and
and scolding in the household. Better
than ten years of fretting at your chill
dren is one good, round, old-fashioned
application of the slipper! That minis
ter of the gospel of whom we read in
the newspapers that he whipped his
child TO death because he would not say
his prayers will never come TO canon
ization. The arithmetics cannot calcu-
late how many thousands of children
have been ruined forever either
through too great rigor or too great len
iency The heavens and the earth are
filled with the groan of the sacrificed
in this important matter, seek Divine
direction, o father, o mother
Further on, thousands and tens of
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artifcialities of society. They are in
Quoted into all the hollowness of what
is called fashionable life. They are
taught to believe that history is dry,
but that 80 cent stories of adventurous
love are delicious. With capacity that
might have rivaled Florence Night.
ingale in heavenly ministries or made
the fathers house glad with filiol and
sisterly demeanor, their life is waste
their beauty a curse, their eternity a
demolition.
In the siege of Charleston, during
our civil war, lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state of South
Carolina. They were taking the vows
of marriage. A bombshell struck the
roof, dropped into the group, and min,
were wounded and slain, among the
wounded TO death the bride. While the
bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying
to stanch the wounds the bride de
manded that the ceremony be com
pleted, that she might take the vows
before her departure, and when the
minister said: "Wilt thou be faithful
unto death?" with her dying lips she
said, 81 will" and in two hours she hat
departed. That was the slaughter anG
the sacrifice of the body, but at thou
sands of marriage affairs there arc
daughters slain for time and slain fol
eternity. 1t is not a marriage. 1t is {
massacre. Aiiianccd to some one who il
only waiting until his father dies so HI
can get the property; then little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles; then the property is gone
and, having no power to earn a livcli
hood, the twain sink into some cornel
of society, the husband an idlcr and {
sot, the wife a drudge, slave and {
sacrife. All, spare your denunciation
from Jephthah's head and eXpend then
all on this wholesale modern martyr
dom!
lift up my voice against the sacri
flee of children. | look out of my win
dow on Sabbath, and see group o
children unwashed uncombed, un
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Who prays for them? VINO utters t.
them one kind word? When the cit.
missionary, passing along the park il
New York, saw ragged lad and hear'
him swearing, he said to him: IN,
son, stop swearing! You ought to go #
the house of God to-day. You ought t
be good. You ought to be Christian.
The lad looked in his face and said
"Ah! 1t is easy for you to talk, wei
clothed as you are and we'll fed. Bn
we chaps han't got no chance" VIII
lifts them to the altar for baptism
Who goes forth TO snatch then. up iron
crime and death and woe? Who to-da.
will go forth and bring them int
schools and churches? No; heap then
up, great piles of rags and wretchednes
and filth. Put underneath them tn
fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, pu
on more fagots, and, while we sit il
the churches with folded arms and in
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