Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-12-05

daughter is supposed to be Of such u
low order of creation that some Mo
hammedan priests assert that women
have no souls and no hereafter. And
so one day when this little girl was
trv.u. 70 describe Gods love for her
sex she said. why, it is the small
est love in the world, if it is a lovc!
Flow small is thatE' asked the lady .
missionary. "Oh, very, very small" .
"Bur how sman?" Why" answered
the young Indian maiden, "the love of
God for us women is as small-it is as
small as the love my father felt for me
on the day that I was born" May
God never allow you, father and
mother to instill such distorted
idea OF parental affection into any
child's mind and heart on account Of
favoritism for some IS your children
at the expense of the others. May God
inspire every one Of you to teach your
boys and girls that each one of them
has a full measure of your love! May
God inspire all parents to treat all
their children alike, with the exception
that they should be little gentler and
more thoughtful of the child who is
sick. or is crippled, ike Mephibosheth.
who was lame in both his feet!
Trusting to Servants.
Allowing the servant girl to take the
place of maternal and paternal COM
panionship can truly be classed among
parental sins. l would not for an in
slant either say or write one word
which would wound the feelings of
thousands and tens Of thousands of
young women who have consecrated
their lives to the noble calling of nurse
girls work. Some of the mightiest
men of the ages have testified that
they would never have been what they
were but for the self sacrificing love of
their nurses. who not only rocked them
to sleep when they were tired, but also
started their little feet in the paths Of
rectitude and piety. The Earl Of
Shaftesbury declared that the greatest
inspiration for true religious life was
instilled into him by the faithfulness
of his Christian nurse. The mighty
potentate, the late Alexander Ill. the
car Of all the Russias. hOnOred the
faithfulness and the devoted love of
his nurse. Surrounded by the grand
dukes of Russia for three long miles
he followed afoot after the hearse
which carried the mortal remains Of
that dear friend through q binding
snowstorm out to the Royal mauso-
leum of st. Petersburg. And as the
dying French soldier. writing under
the surgeons knife cried out, doctor,
cut little deeper, and you will see
pictured upon my heart the face of the
mighty emperor" so, many of us, if
/, we cut down into the hearts of the
. faithful servants who have watched
over us In our childhood. could there
find our own faces, because the hearts
of these faithful servitOrs beat will
: love for us.
: But though many of our household
: servants may be to US and to our chill
dren as the Earl of Shaftesburyi
Christian nurse was to him, yet no tru
q father or mother can afford to delegate
a the physical moral and religious train
i ing Of their children to servants, n,
9 matter how faithful and true thOs
: servants may be. No woman can tax
/ the place Of a true mother by the sid
q of the crib. No man can do for til
a boys what a consecrated father is abb
9 to do when he is faithful to the trus
e which God has given to him.
a Oh. man, studying the debit an
a credit sides of your ledgers. countin
Is up your hundreds of thousands of do
lars and carefully watching the man
fold details of a vast mercantile ente
ii prise. which taxes your physical an
~ mental energies to the utmost. 70
% may think you have no time to e.
20 anime into the details of how vol
n thirtecn-year-olds son spends his week.
no allowance. But you ought to take tn;
no time. On account of that parental ne
n lcct you may live to regret the da
or that you were born and also the dG
o. that your son was born. Oh. woma
nc you may think this is the age for Il
at emancipation of your sisters. In prit
at you may listen to weekday lectures {
70 womans rights and Shakespeare al
M sculpture and art. You may consid
oh it a great social opportunity to be al
an to join card party one afternoon al
IA go TO tea the next afternoon and
AZ the equal and the associate of the
or- cal queens of our most promine
oh cities. But no social nor worldly he
ill or ought to be great enough or impt
10 tant enough to entice you away fro
ia your nursery, so that you must de
,sa gate the care of your children to
I've hired servant. Parental neglect is I
OIL in Gods sight a simple misdemean
,,o it is sin-a burning sin-which m
nd not only destroy the spiritual life
70. the child, but impair also the eterr
tbe happiness of the father and moth
nm. 1t is sharp two edged sword viii
no. with one stroke down and anotl
osv stroke up, can destroy not only I
nov rose. but the bush which gave it bir
the Lack of Discipline.
the Lack Of nursery discipline can sol
fu- times be classed among parental 81
at or. ruther, mistakes. We would
ave like to call the actions Of too
by dulgcnt parent by such a harsh W
too as sin. Yet Solomon. who wrote
was words Of my text. gave the parer
low mistakes of Overindulgence even
par harder definition than that of sin.
hid said. He that spareth his rod hat
IS q his son, but he that loveth him. cl