Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29

and says to the father of the house. hold of which I am speaking, "The of ficers of the bank would like to have you step over a minute" The father steps over, and bank officer says, "Is that your check?" Mo- he says; that Is not my check. 1 never make an IF in that way; l never put curl to the " in that way That is not my writing. That Is not my signature. That Is counterfeit Send for the po- lice" ''Stopr' says the bank officer. Your son wrote that"
 Now the father and mother are wait It Is 12 o'clock, it is half past P o'clock, it is 1 o'clock. The son comes through the hallway. The father says My son, what does all this mean? l gave you every opportunity. l gave you all the money you wanted, and here In my old days l find that you have become a spendthrift, a libertinc and sot." The son says: Now, ia ther, what Is the use of your talking that way? You told me to go it, and I just took your suggestion And so to strike the medium between severity and too great leniency, to strike the happy medium between the two and to train our children for God and for heaven, is the anxiety of every intelli gent parent.
 Childish Sinfulness.
 Another great solicitude is in the fact that so early is developed childish sin fitness. Morning glories put out their bloom in the early part of the day, but as the hot sun comes on they close up. While there are other flowers that blaze their beauty along the Amazon for week at a time without closing, yet the morning glory does its work as certainly as Victoria regia. So there are some children that just put forth their bloom, and they close and they are gone. There is something super natural about them while they tarry, and there is an ethereal appearance about them. There is wonderful depth to their eye, and they are gone. They are too delicate plant for this world. The Heavenly Gardener sees them, and he takes them in.
 Dut iol tiC hioct pthI thN Vi that live sometimes get cross and pick up bad words in the street or are dis posed to quarrel with brother or sister and show that they are wicked. You see them in the Sabbath school class. They are so sunshiny and bright you would think they were always so, but the mother looking over at them re- members what an awful time she had to get them ready. Time passes on. They get considerably older, and the son comes in from the street from pugilistic encounter bearing on his ap- pearance the marks of defeat, or the daughter practices some little decep- ton in the household. The mother says, Il can't always be scolding and fretting and finding fault, but this must be stopped" So in many a house hold there is the sign of sin, the sign of the truthfulness of what the Bible says when it declares, "They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies"
 Some go 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 mere help in one good thunderstorm than in five days of cold drizzle. Better the old fashioned style of chastisement, if that be neces- sary, than the fretting and the scold- ing which have destroyed so many.
 There is also cause of great solici- tude sometimes because our young peo- pie are surrounded by so many tempta- tions. A castle may not be taken by a siege, but suppose there be inside the castle an enemy, and in the night he shoves back the bolt and swings open the door. Our young folks have foes without, and they have foes within, Who does not understand it? Who is the man here who Is not aware of the fact that the young people of this day have tremen- dous temptations?
 Some man will come to the young people and try to persuade them that purity and honesty and uprightness are sign of weakness. Some man will take dramatic attitude, and he will talk to the young man, and he will say: You must break away from your mothers apron strings; you must get out of that Puritanical straitjacket It is time you were your own master. You are verdant; you are green; you are unsophisticated. Come with me. l will show you the world. I'll show you life. Come with me. You need to see the world. It won't hurt you" After awhile the young man says: ''Well, I can't afford to be odd; can't afford to be peculiar; I can't afford to sacrifice all my friends. I'll just go and see for myself" Farewell to in- nocence, which, once gone, never fully comes back Do not be under the de- fusion that because you repent of sin you get rid forever of it's consequences. 1 say farewell to innocence, which, once gone, never fully comes back!
 Traps For the Young
 Oh, how many traps set for the young! Styles of temptation just suit ed to them. Do you suppose that man who went clear to the depths of dissipation went down in one great plunge? Oh, no! At first it was a fashionable hotel Marble floor. No unclean pictures behind the counter. No drunken hiccough while they drink, but the click of cut glass to the elegant sentiment. You ask that young man now to go into some low restaurant and get a drink, and he would say, Do you mean to insult meP' But the fashionable and the elegant hotel is not always close by, and now the young man is on the down grade. Far ther and farther down until he has about struck the bottom of the depths of ruin. Now he is in the low restau- rant. The cards so greasy you can hardly tell who has the best hand. Gambling for drinks. Shuttle away, shuffie away. The landlord stands in his shirt sleeves, with his hands on his hips, waiting for an order to fill up the glasses.