The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-30
DUTIES OF PARENTS.
DR.. Talmage's Advice on the Bring
ing Up of Children.
The Dangers and Temptations which
Surround the YounE-Necessity
of Wise Training-Reapon-
sibiIity of Mothers.
copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.1
Washington, March rs.

who are trying to bring up their chill
dren Alright; text, Proverbs, 10, /: "a
wise son maleth glad father; but a
foolish son is the heaviuess of his
mother"
In this graphic way Solomon sets
forth the idea that the good or evil be-
havior of children besses or blights
the parental heart. | know there are
persons who seem TO have no especial
interest in the welfare of their chill
dren. The father says: "My boy must
take the risks took in life. If he turns
out well, all right; if he turns out i'll,
he will have to bear the consequences.
He has the same chance that had. lie
must take care of himself" a shep-
herd might just as well thrust lamb
into n den of lions and say: Little
lamb, take care of yourself"
Nearly all the brute creation are
kind enough to look after their young.
1 was going through a woods, and
heard shrill cry in a nest. l climbed
up to the birds nest, and found that
the old bird had left the brood to
starve. But that is very rare occur
renee. Generally bird will pick your
eyes out rather than surrender her
young to your keeping or your touch.
A lion will rend you if you come too
near the whelps; even the barnyard
fowl, with its clumsy foot and heavy
wing will come at you il you approach
its young too nearly, and God certain
ly intended to have fathers and moth
ers as kind as the brutes.
Christ comes through all our house
holds to-day, and He says: you take
care of the bodies of your children and
the minds OF your children. What are
you doing for their immortal souls?"
read of a ship that foundercd. A life
boat was launched. Many of the pas
sengers were i'm the water. A mother,
with one hand beating the waves and
the other hand holding her little child
out toward the lifeboat, cried out:
"Save my child" And that impas-
stoned cry is the one that finds an echo
in every parental heart in this land to-
day. "Save my child" That man out
there says: 81 have fought my own
way through life. | have got along
tolerably well. The world has buff
feted me, and have had many hard
struggle. 1t doesn't make much differ
ence what hapepns to me, but save my
child" You see, / have Il subject OF
stupendous import, and am going, as
God may help me, to show the cause of
parental solicit ude and then the allevi-
atoms of that solcitude.
The first cause of parental solicitude,
i think, arises from the imperfection
of parents on their own part. We all
somehow want our children to avoid
our faults We hope that if we have
any excellcncies they will copy them,
but the probability is they viii copy
our faults and omit our eNccllencics.
Children are very apt to be echoes of
the parental life. Some one meets a
lad in the back street. finds him smok-
ing, and says: "Why, | am astounded
at you. What would your father say
if he knew this? Where did you get
that cigar" "Oh, picked il up on the
street What would your father say
and your mother say if they knew
tAis?" oh" he replies, that's moth
ing. My father smokes" There g. not
one of us to-day who would like to have
our children copy all our example. And
that is the cause Of solicitudc on the
part of all Of us. We have so many
faults we do not want them copied and
stcrcotypcd i'm he lives aud characters
of those who come alter us.
Then soicitude arises from our con
scious msunciyncy and WWisdom on
discipline. Out OF 20 parents there
may be one parent who understands
how thoroughly and shiIlruIly to dis
cipline; perhaps not more than one out
of 20. We, nearly all Of MS, err on on,
side or on the other. Here is a father
who says: 81 am going to bring NJ
my children right. My sons shall know
nothing but religion, shall see nothing
but religion, and hear nothing but re
ligion." They are routed out at sis
o'clock in the morning to recitc the
Ten Commandments. They are wax
ened up from the sofa on Sunday nigh
to fecite the Westminster catechism
Their bedroom walls are covered will
religious pictures and quotations o
Scripture, and when the boy looks 70
Int huN VI lllt lllOlllll III lObh0 lbl ~ ~
religious almanac. If ministc
comes to the house, he is requested {,
take the boy aside and tel him what
great sinner he is. 1t is religion morn
ing, noon and night.
Time passes on, and the parents ar
waiting for the return OF the son n
night. It is nine o'clock it is te
o'clock, il is II o'clock, it is ~ o'clocl
il is half-past 10 o'clock. Then the
hear IA rafting of the night key, AM
George comes in and hastens upstair
lest he be accosted His father says
"George, where have you bccn?' II
says: 81 have been out" Yes, he ha
been out, and he has been down and h
has started on the broad road TO rui
for this life and ruin for the life (
come. and the father says to his wife
"Mother, the Ten Commandments mr.
failure. No use of Westminster cate
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