Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-04-19

bauched? TIE dust of the valley is
pleasant TO his taste. and the driving
rains that drip through the roof of the
sepHlcher are sweeter than The wines of
Helbon.
There must be harmony between the
fathers government and the mothers
government. The father will be tempt
ed to too great rigor. The mother will
be tempted to too great leniency. Her
tenderness will overcome her. Her voice
IN a little softer; her hand seems better
fitted To pull out "A thorn and soothe a
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 oil.
must not beg for the child when the
hour comes for the assertion of parental
supremacy and the subiugation of
clHid'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 in
that hour, then he will some day make
You crouch. II is a horrible scene-I
nave witnessed it--a mother come to old
age, shivering with terror in the pres.
cncc of a son who cursed her gray hairs
and Knocked her wrinkled face and be-
grudgcd her the crust she munched
with her toothless gumsl
How sharper than a serpent's tooth II is
To have thankless child!
But, on the other hand, too great
rigor must he avoided. 1t is a sad thing
when domestic government becomes
cold military despotism. Trappers on
the prairie fight fire with ire. but YOU
cannot successfully fight your child's
bad temper with your own bad temper.
We must not be too minute in our in
spectlon We cannot expect our children
to bc perfect. We must not see every
thing. Since we have two or three faults
of our own.we ought not TO he too rough
when we discover that our children
have as many. IL 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 of our 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
Il cold dri|Ile. 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 i'm
the newspapers that he whipped his
child 10 death because he would not saw
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
hlIed with the groan of the sacrificed
In TINS important matter, seek Divine
direction, q father, q mother!
Further ON, thousands and tens of
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught TO he in sympathy with all the
artiliciaIitics of society. They are in
Quoted into all the hullowness of what
is called fashionable life They are
taught To believe that history is dry.
but that 30 cent stories of adyeuturou,
love are delicious. With capacity tina,
might have rivaled a Florence Night
ingalc i'm heavenly ministries or made
the fathers house glad with flial and
Sisterly dcmeanor, their life is waste.
theIr beauty curse, their eternity n
dcmolition
In the siege of Charleston, during
our civil war, a 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. \ bombshen struck ths
roof dropped into the group. and nine
were wounded and slain. AMONG the