The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-03-31

one OF US today who would like 20 hau
our children COPY all our example. And
that Is the cause OF sohcitude GU The
part Of all Of us We have So many
faults we do not van them copied aud
Stereoiyped in the lives and characters
Of those who come after Us
Then soicirude arises from our con;
scious insufhcieney and unwisdcm Of
discipline Out o. - parents there
may be Que parent who understands
how thoroughly aud skiltulE TO dis
ciplins; perhaps not nor than one GU,
o. 20, We. nearly all o. Us err on one
side or on the other Here is father
who says - am going 10 bring Up
my children right. Ny sons shall know
nothing bat religion. shah see nothing
but religion, and hear nothing but re-
iigion. They arc routed u at six
O'Clock in the morning to reeite the
Ten Commandments. They are wax
ened up from the sofa on Sunday night
10 recite the Westminster catechism.
Their bedroom walls are covered with
religious pictures and quotations of
Scripture. and when the boy looks for
the day Of the month he looks for II In
a religious almanac. II a minister
comes To the house. he is requested to
take the boy aside and tell him what a
great sinner he is. II Is religion morn.
ing, noon and night.
Tine anA Wka awan 80
waiting for the return of the son at
night. II IS nine O'Clock, 1t is ten
o'clock, It is II o'clock, it is 70 o'clock.
1t is half-past Il o'clock. Then they
hear a rattllng Of the night key. and
George comes in and hastens upstairs
lest he be aecosted. His father saws:
George, where have you BEEN He
says: Il have been out" Yes, he has
been out, and be has been down, and he
has started on the broad road 10 ruin
for this life and ruin for the life TO
come, and the father says 10 his wife;
Mother. the Ten Commandments are
q failure. No use Of Westminster cate
.hlsm, / have done my very best for
that boy. Just see how he has turned
out" All my friend, you stuffed that
boy with religion. You had no SYM
pathy withinnocenth ilarities. Youhad
no common sense. \ man at midlife
said to me: 81 haven't much desire for
religion. NY father was as good a nan
as ever lived. but he jammed religion
l..au v.r sI-aa. .whaa 4 no - mill
I got disgnsted with Il. and | haven't
wanted any OF il since" That father
erred on one side.
Then the discipline is an entire fall
ure in many households because the
father pulls one way and the mother
pulls the other way. The father says:
MY son, I told you il | ever found you
guilty OF falsehood again | would chas-
tise you. and | am going to keep my
promise" The mother says: Don't.
Let him on this time"
Now the father and mother are wait
ing for the son to come home at night.
II is u O'Clock, 4, is half-past IL o'clock,
it is one O'Clock. The son comes through
the hallway. The father says: MY
son. what does all this mean? ! gave
you every opportunity. | gave you all
the money you wanted. and here in my
old days ! find that you have become
a spendthrift, a libertine and a sot."
The son says Now, father, what is
the use of your talking that way? You
told me TO go it, and | just took your
suggestion" And so TO strike the me-
dunn between severity and too great
lenieney, to strike the happy medium
between the two and to train our chill
dren for God and for Heaven is the
anxiety Of every intelligent parent.
Some 60 to work and try to correct
all this, and the boy is picked at and
picked at and picked at. That always
is ruinous. There is more help in one
good thunderstorm than in FIVE days Of
cold drizzle. Better the old fashioned
style OF chastisement IL that be neces-
sary than the fretting and the scolding
which have destroyed so many.
There IS ais cause OF grea, solicit