The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-09-06

1t is very common for parents to
save all they can IN this worlds goods
and give it to their children. This
within itself is right, provided we neg
lect no other duty to them. Surely
boys and girls starting out in HE need
help, but how shall we help them
Generally speaking there are two ways
with property and with training
Now, which is best? There is DANCE.
Of inherited wealth doing the child
more harm than good.
Nearly two years ago knew young
man who inherited $4,000 life insur-
ance money upon the death of bis
widowed mother. He had a farm
when he inherited this. To-day his
money is all gone and his farm under
mortgage and he is known in his town
and community as reckless, dissipated
young man. His vices are much
stronger than before, while his physical
and mental powers are weakened. He
had very little Intellectual or moral
training, hence the result.
Again it may be unexpectedly swept
away In few minutes. In the little
village where I was going to school a
few years ago, the alarm of fire was
given one night, and hurrying to the
scene I found q block of four stores
burning. 1t was impossible to stop
the fire until they were burned. One
man owned all of the buildings and a
large stock OF goods in one of the build
ings, and can never forget how sadly
he walked away a short distance and
sat down and cried like a child. His
wealth was gone.
So we see wealth may cause dissipa-
ton and not only leave the person
without money, but ruined for life and
his soul doomed in eternity, alas i. may
be swept away in few hours.
But how about the mental training
Did you ever see boy Or girl whose
mental and moral nature was trained
who was injured by it? You may say
educated men make the meanest men
in the world. Some of them do, hence
the necessityso of beirtg suse your chill
dren are trained under Christian In
fuences aud by Christian teachers
those who realize thai every child will
make the world better or worse, and
above all that every sane child has an
immortal soul to be saved OF doomed
to destruction, and that the teacher is
largely responsible for the kind of life
the child is to live.
1t is true that training gives power,
and of course a child's power ia in
creased and what might have been a
common thief Gas in case of negroes)
may become a highway robber Or
burglar, but when the spiritual is not
neglected training is free from any
danger. Then it is that the evil ten
dencies are checked and men and
women are raised up who will uplift
their fellow creatures and whose lives
Will stand for something.
I have heard many people say they
regretted having neglected their oppor-
tunities to secure an education while
young, but nave never heard any one
express regret at having secured good
education. Did you?
Now, there are three special places to
train them, home, day school and Sun.
day-school, each very important, but I
will not discuss these now.
It is often true that an uneducated
man has more property than his edu-
Gated neighbor, but trained mind
is capable of making living and real
ly doesn't need so much amassed, and
then comes the additional pleasure oi
understanding so many of natures
problems as we'll az helping others. A
trained mind does not mean one learn.
ed only in books. His mind may be
trained at the work bench or in the
machine shop, but if possible 1t should
always be trained in books first so that
it is better fitted for the profession. :
Then, if an investment in the mind
Is always safe and profitable and prop
erty is not, why don't parents always
invest that way?
You take the pictures OF the poor
starving inhabitants of India and chow
them to the people and they RESPOND
literally, and am truly glad they do
lake the poor crippled child and our
sympathy is touched, so naturally a
parent seeing the need OF food and
clothing for the physical needs of the
child makes sacrifices to furnish these
temporal necessities, but not being able
to see the mind and see its poor, ema.
ciated, starving condition we are never
moved to supply the mental food
Poor child! The talent which he has
has not even been put out at usury, sc
it is taken away ani given to the one
who is using his talents.
What are you going to do about it
Mothers, don't you want your daugh
ters to rise above neighborhood gossip
ers and ''news-toters"? Fathers, don'1
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