The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-03-15

enough to believe this, make her un-
derstand she has got to do it. Many
a man has been driven to bankruptcy
and gambling by the extravaganza Of
his wife. | feel sorry for any woman
with a husband who sits around and
does nothing while she runs a board
ing house or takes in sewing to sup
port her family. That is shame on
any man.
''(3). The third duty of father is
to command his children and his
household after him. (Gen. 1919.
Command, what does that mean? 1t
means that you are to wisely admon-
ish counsel, and order in the right
way your household. God had conf
dence in Abraham because He knew he
would command his household after
him. See to it that your children obey
and don't leave this duty all to your
wife. | remember an elder in the
Presbyterian church in South Carolina
who is the father of ten children and
on Sunday afternoon he gets his
Church papers and reads awhile and
then sleeps awhile and leaves the en-
tire care of those children to his wife.
That is an in ustice to his wife and to
the children and is wrong in the sight
of the Lord. Demand obedience in
your children and see that this de-
mand is met.
Zone great trouble of our country
is this idea to let Johnny have his
own way and you can't put an old
head on young shoulders. No. you
can't and the Bible does not intend
that you should.
Say what you will about lynch law
and the causes of it and talk as you
please about the entionable sin,
but the root of the whole matter lies
in the failure to rear children to have
the proper respect for home law and
the laws Of the country. They, and
especially boys, are allowed to run
loose until by the time they are IS
years old they are beyond control and
the first thing you know the young
scamps land in the jail, where they
ought to be. Fathers, keep the no ome
right. That's the place to teach boy
respect for authority.
''The worst thing that can happen
to child, and especially to boy, is
to let him have his own sweet will.
II hear some silly old man or wo-
man say: .Forfear he will learn some
where else l let my boy learn to play
cards at home Yes, and you mi ght
as we'll get lot of moccasins and
turn them loose in your front yard
for fear your boy will get snakebitten
somewhere else. There is just about
as much sense in the latter as the
former act.
''Let boy have his way and he will
60 to ruin. Suppose you let your
setter dog have his way. What good
will he be to hunt with? And if you
let your fine horse have his way.
what will he be fit for in few years:
1t makes me sad when | think of a
man paying So to have his dog trained
or 800 to have his colt broken, and
at the same time giving no care to his
boy.
"(D. The next duty of father is
to restrain his children. q Sam. 3:11-
IA.
80 the curse Eli brought upon his
own family and himself by not re-
straining his family. How can you
restrain your family9 QD BY your
example. Be a sober man, an homes
an upripht man in every way and q
godly man. Boys initiate ther fathers
For instance: A mother saw her lit
tie boy upon the lounge, prepared tc
sleep. Why, my boy said she, you
have not said your prayers Mems
don't pray was the answer. (2) BY
conversation and instruction.
'.Pardon q personal reference.
was reared in the country, where al
great men used to come from. And
when my father would take me to
town and | saw drunken man be
would explain the evil of drink to me
He would talk to me and instruct me
about this evil and about that of the
evil of houses Of impurity and Other
forms of evil, and he never had any
trouble keeping me from indulging
in such things. Fathers. make conf
dantes of your boys and instruct them
Alright.
If YOU set the right kind of exam
pie before YOUR boy and istruct him
in the right way vou.will overbalance
a great deal { f his evil tendency. But
on the other hand. if YOU turn hin
over to the worst boys in the town, i
YOU chew. drink and indulge in other
vices YOU can't expect your boy to dc
better than yourself.
And let me say word right here
about cigarettes. had almost as leav,
boy OF ten years of age Of mine
would drink As to smoke cigarettes
| never see a boy smoking a cigarette
on the street that l don't stop hin
and talk to him about the evil of th'
habit and | have never failed to ge
one to leave it off.
In the next place correct you
children. | believe there are boys il
hell tonight that if they had had {
few good whipp;ngs would have beer
saved. | have no patience with al
this sentimentalism which is oppose,
to corporal punishment. And l don
believe a word of the teaching that
child can be reared to be a good ma
without punishment sometimes.
The Bible justities corporal punish
ment and you can't improve upon i
and YOU have no more brains thai
solomon. who commands it. Do thi
yourself and don't leave it to you
wife.
Never whip child when you ar
mad. NY father never gave me bu
three whippings that remember, bn
I expect to thank him in Heaven 70
those. He would first pray, then in
struct and then whip me. And othe
boys who needed such punishmen
in my neighborhood, but did not ge