The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-04

upon it's attendance at the public school
! and see that it does attend regularly,
! set the child against the public school?
On the contrary, will he not rise up
/ and call you blessed for giving him a
/ good education?
And much more will he rise up and
call you blessed for having instiled
into his mind and heart those firm
principles of loyalty to God and the
appointments of His house, which has
! led to the saving Of his own soul and
a deep and abiding interest in the sal
! walton of others.
Not only are we accountable to God
for the moral and religious care of our
own children. but the influence their
| actions have on other children is great.
! How often do consecrated superintend-
| ents and leaders have this discourage
! ing reply to meet when trying to in
| terest children in coming to Junior
| Endeavor, Why. the Gayheart chill
dren don't go and their folks are
church members
And again, the earnest pastor, when
exhorting against worldiiness, its sins
and follies, is met with "Oh, we'll Dea-
con Lightmind's girls were at the
dance too"
Thus. where you should be holding
up your pastors hands, you are tying
them down.
We need, then, not only Christian
| parents. but earnest Christian parents.
who realize their God-given RESPONSE
bility and are willing to do their whole
duty by their boys and girls.
Mothers, we do not devote time
| enough to our children?
/ think | hear some mother saying
But l devote practically all my time
! to my children" Do you devote it to
them or to their clothes?
True, we must KEEP our little ones neat
| and clean--and to the mother who does
| all. that means no small amount of
time But instead of spending time on
| the extra and unnecessary trimmings
! and furbelows for their clothing, let
us spend that time in loving compan-
| ionship with the children themselves.
Study your child. Endeavor to enter,
| alphabetically, into its innermOst life
| and thought
Obtain its utmost confidence in baby
| hood and at any cost to yourself of
time or patience or inclination; retain
that loving, confidential relationship TO
| man or Womanhood.
l tell you the mother who sits up
| until midnight in order to put the
many extra touches on her child s
wardrobe and thus impairing her own
| health and thereby increasing her ten
! dency TO irritabilty with the child in
| its faults; while neglecting, in any way,
! its moral and spiritual training and the
many, many quiet, earnest, contiden-
| tial talks" she should have with it, is
not fulfilling her Christian duty toward
! her child.
/ read short time ago an article on
"A Mothers influence" by Rev. J. NJ.
| Matthews, from which l wish to quote
| a few lines here. After quoting the old
axiom, Just as the twig is bent the
trees inclined" he asks, but who
! bends the twig? Who has the mind
and character in hand while it is yet
so flexible and ductile that it can be
turned in any direction or formed in
any shape?" 1t is the mother. From
her own nature and the nature of her
child, it results that its first impress
! sions must be taken from her. And
she has every advantage for discharg-
! ing the duty. She is always with her
child-if she is where mothers ought to
! be-sees continually the working of its
faculties: where they need to be re-
strained and whera led and attracted.
Mind, from the first moment of its
! existence is ever acting; and soon
may a mother see that, carefully as she
may study her child, quite as care
fully is her child studying her Let her
watch the varying expression of its
speaking face, as its eyes follow her