The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-10-08
RELIGIOUS TRAINING IN YOUTH.

life. OF course too much OF anythinR
Is logically more than Is good TO have.
but assuming the thought to be that
young children may be allenated from
, the practice OF religion by having II
made an irksome and continuous task.
we want TO give IL our fun faith. when
one gets at the truth in the old saw
about the worldlness OF minister's sons
and Geacon's jaughters-truth which
takes note of all the exceptions that
prove the rule-he comes to the point
made in the essay. The late Robert j.
Ingcrsoll always said that 1t was the
everlasting religious drill in the home
OF his father, clergyman, which reused
his hostility to the body OF doctrine and
set him thinking on critical lines. There
is, to be sure. another view OF this
phenomenon. THE Spectator" he Of
The outlook, suggests. in his essay on
| Heredity, that the qualities most de-
veloped by the parents are used up or
so weakened by use that they cannot be
! transmitted and that the youngsters
only inherit the qualities which the
parents have neglected or repressed
Thus the offspring Of very religious per-
sons derives no religious instincts: and
instead succeeds to the worldly inclna-
lions which the father and mother. I'm
their lifelong efforts to be good. have
avoided, held in check or concealed.
But all this raises psychological query
that need not be pursued into the miss;
the question is whether, irrespective Of
parentage and heredity, it may not be
possible to SO disgust n child with
church and Sunday School and religious
admonition and discipline at home as TO
make him religious person in aft
CT life. ... ....
A vision rises out of the distant past.
Ten boys in village OF nine hundred
people and six churches. boys of New
England ancestry and uncommonly re-
liEious parents, were early "dedicat-
ed to God" on Sundays they were
washed as clean as hot water and cas-
tile soap could make them: dressed in
their decorous best and taken to church.
For,each one there had been a meaGer
fbfarkfast, n table grace and family
prayers beforehand; at the church there
was an interminable sermon, not a line
Iof which the poor lad understood. ana
some droning music that added to his
uneasiness. After church he was
sOlemnly escorted home, his tight shoes
Icreak!ng under his furtive footsteps and
given "A piece OF something cold for
lunch. soon he went back to sunday
school which lasted an hour and half
ana which involved, among other items
Of unhappiness, the deposit of a valued
penny IN wooden box FOR the sup
port OF the missions in the Sandwich
Islands. The afternoon seemed ever
lasting but an evening praise service
WIN sermon Attachment was TO come,
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