Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-04-20

or the child shall rule. That il the
crucial hobr. II the child tri,lmphs in
that hour. then he will some day make
you crouch. II is Il horrible scene
Rave Witnessed it mother come to old
ngc. shi,rring with terror in the pres
cucr Of u son who cursed her gray hairs
and Knocked her wrinklcd face and be-
grudgcd her the crust she munchcd
with her tootnless gums,
How sharper than a serpsnt's tooth II IL
To have a thankless child,
But, on the other hand. too great
rigor must be avoided. II is sad thing
when domestic government becomes
cold military despotism. Trappcrs on
the prairie fight fire with fire, but you
cannot successfully fight your child's
bad temper with your own bad temper.
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 tn he too rough
when we discover that our children
have as many. II tradition be true.
little SamuelS, and our parents Mere
not fearful lest they could not raise us
because of our premat ure goodness. You
cannot scold or pound your children in
to nobility of character. The bloom Of
"a child'> heart can never he seen under
n cold drizzle. Above all. frctting and
and scotliny in the household. Better
than ten years of frctting 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 arithmctics 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 arc
filled with the groan of the sacrificed.
In this important matter. seek Divine
direction, o father. d mother.
Someone asked the mother of Lord
Chief Justice Mansfield if she was not
proud To have three such eminent sons,
and all of them so good NO" she
said: III is nothing to be proud of. but
something for which tn be very CRATE
full"
Again. there are many who arc sac
riiicing their children to spirit of
worldliness. Some one asked n mother
whose children had turned out very
well what was the secret by which she
prepared them for usefulness and for
the Christian life. and she said: This
WAS the secret: When in the morning
I washed my children. ! prayed that
they might he washed in the fountain
of a Saviours mercy. When | put on
their garments, prayed that they
might he arrayed in the robe of Saw
tours righteousness. When gave them
food. ! prayed that they might he fed
with mamma from Heaven. When !
started them on the road To school. I
prayed that their path might he as the
shining light, brighter and brighter Ia
the perfect day. When put them to
sleep, prayed that they might he en-
folded in the Saviour's arms" 'Oh,
YOU say. that was very old-fashioned.
II was quite old-fashioned. But do you
suppose that child under such nurture
as that ever turned out bad?
In our day most boys start out with
no idea higher than the all encompass
ing dollar. They start in an age which
boasts il can scratch the Lords Pr; yer
on a ten-cent piece and the Ten Cam
mandments on u ten-ccnt piece. Chill.
dren are taught to reduce morals ami
religion. time and eternity, to vulgar
fractions. Ii seems to be their cher at
tainment that ten cents make a dime
and ten dimes make a dollar. How tn
get money is only equaled by the other
art-how to keep it. Tell me, We who
know, what chance there is for those
who start out in life with such per-
verted sentiments! The money market
resounds again and again with the
downfall of such people. II had a
drop of blood on the tip of a pen, l
would tell you by what awful tragedy
many of the youth of this country are
ruined.
Further on. thousands and tens of
thousands of the dougbters of America
are sacrificed TO worldljness. They are
taught to he in sympathy with all the
artificiaIities 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 50 cent stories of adventurous
love are delicious. With copacitv that
might have riyaIed a Florence Night
ingale in heavenly ministries or made
the fathers house glad with fl;sl and
sisterly demeanor. their life is a waste
their beauty a curse, their eternity a
demolition.
In the siege of Charleston, during
our civil war. n lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state of south
Carolina. They were tak;no the VOWS
of marriage. 4 bombsbell struck the
roof. dropped into the groun- and min,
were wounded and slain AMONG IN.
xvoundad In death tho hr;J. MIL. a.,
bridegroom knelt ON the Garnet tryinp
to stauch the wounds the bride de-
manded that the ceremony be COM
pleted. that she MIGHT take the vo,vs
before her departure. and when the
minister said: .Vilt tbou he faithful
unto death" with her diving Inns sbr
said, Il will" and i'm two hours she had
departed. That was the slaughter and
the s,cr;f;.a of tho hodr Ian, n, IT,,