The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-27

Minnie Burt of Butte: treasurer, Fl. S.
Maxwell of South Butte; corresponding
secretary, l.. e. Armitage of the Mon
tana Wesleyan university. The eXecu-
tive committee shall be composed of the
presiding elder of the district, the pas
tor of the place where the sessions are
held, and the Epworth league president.
The report from the Junior league
chapters showed that their financial
conditions were good; that there were
five leagues in the district with a total
membership of 276 and an average at
tendance of 146.
One of the best papers read at yester-
days session was by Mrs. Lille Rule
of Anaconda. president of the Junior
league of that city, on the subject of
THE Ideal Junior League President
The paper is as follows:
Train up a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old he will
not depart from it But one asks,
When shall we begin this training?
Some one has answered that it should
begin 100 years before the child is born.
PsycholOgcally we must assuredly
agree with the answer, but let us come
to the real, everyday, practical time.
May 1 answer: Now--in infancy, before
the serpent of sin has had an oppor-
tunty to bury its poisonous fangs into
lto SoutIl III Soui, pS'lolC Tic llttle lllC
has come in close touch with the wicked
selfish world.
But many say, That is not always
sure; sometimes the effects are not
what they should be, for l have seen or
know of cases who were brought up by
religious parents, but who sank into
walks of sin and vice Yes, that, too.
has been true, but my dear friends, do
you think boy. for example, who has
11r,I
home by praying father and mother
can forget that? Do you believe this
boy, no matter how Maynard he may
get or how far from home and mother
he may roam, but sometime when the
curtains of night are silently and slow
ly falling he sits alone thinking of the
past, when softly the faint strains of
Jesus, Lover of My SOUL are waited on
the evening breezes to him? Does he
now think of the lighted saloon or ball
room with its gayety and sin? No:
childhood scenes mount up like visions
of light. In thought he goes back home,
to mothers room, where, at about this
time of the day. some years previous,
he knelt by his trundle bed with
mother close by his side debating Now
l lay me down to sleep after which
he was tucked snugly in bed by those
same dear hands that may now be
SlumDeflnS neatn the mould, and as she
sits by him singing in accents clear
and true. Hush, my dear: lie still and
slumber. Holy angels. guard thy bed
Can he forget those holy, inspiring mo-
ments? No; surely not. when Gods
presence was there and thus a lingering
hungering for the past comes to him.
In every life there are moments when
these thoughts come with such empha-
sis that we would give all if we We're
a child again just for tonight And
when we realize that the mind of the
child is as ready to receive any i'm
preston as a clean white piece of paper
is for its imprint, how very careful we
should be that. its first impressions
should, of all. be the purest.
The home circle is, of course, the
place where the child receives it's first
impressions, or light, as some, call, 1t.
But so many numberless homes are just
as far from rejecting right images as
day is from night. The little one gropes
along until old enough to go to school.
There the teacher is often burdened by
being too crowded and with the hun
dreds of other things that she is sup
posed to impress on the minds of these
little olive branches, and this all i'm
portant impression is daily dwarfed I'M
til it is nothing. Now comes the ripen