Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-01


ltism for her younger boy. And many
and many home is broken up today
because fathers and mothers will per-
sist in showing preference for one child
at the expense of the affection they
ought to show for their other children.
| Parental favoritism has caused
many boy or girl to be skeptical
! of a fathers or mothers love-the
saIse kind of skepticism which, in
India, q little girl had who few years
! ago made a significant comparison to
/ an American missionary. In India a
daughter is supposed to be of such a
| 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
trying to describe Gods love for her
sex she said, "Why, it is the small
est love in the world, if it is lover
"How small is that?' asked the lady
missionary "Oh, very, very small"
"But how small?" why answered
the young Indian maiden, 1.-THE love of
God for us women is as small-it is as
small as the love my father felt for me
God never allow you, o father and
mother, to instill such a distorted
idea of parental affection into any
child's mind and heart on account of
favoritism for some of 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 Il full measure of your love! May
God inspire all parents to treat all
their children alike, with the exception
that they should be a little gentler and
more thoughtful of the child who is
sick, or is crippled, like Mephibosheth,
who was lame in both his feet!
Trusting to Servants.
Allowing the servant girl to take the
place of maternal and paternal COM
partnership can truly be classed among
parental sins. | would not for an i'll
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 a 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, writhing under
the surgeons knife cried out, doctor,
cut a 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 with
love for us.
But though many of our household
servants may be to us and to our chill
dren as the Earl of Shaftesbury' s
Christian nurse was to him, yet no true
father or mother can afford to delegate
the physical moral and religious train
ing of their children to servants, no
matter how faithful and true those
servants may be. No woman can take
the place of a true mother by the side
, of the crib. No man can do for the
boys what a consecrated father is able
, to do when he is faithful to the trust
which God has given to him.
Oh man. studying the debit and
, credit sides of your ledgers counting
up your hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars and carefully watching the mani
, fold details of a vast mercantile enter
prise. which taxes your physical and
= mental energies to the utmost, you
may think you have no time to eX-
. anime into the details of how your
thirteen-year-old son spends his weekly
: allowance. But you ought to take that
time. On account of that parental neg
. lect you may live to regret the day
that you were born and also the day
that your son was born. Oh, woman
? you may think this is the age for the
= emancipation of your sisters. In pride
: you may listen to weekday lectures Oh
!" woman's rights and Shakespeare and
. sculpture and art. You may consider
: it a great social opportunity to be able
= to join a card party one afternoon and
: go to a tea the next afternoon and be
the equal and the associate of the Sc
- cial queens of our most prominent
= cities. But no social nor worldly hon
or ought to be great enough or impor
:, tant enough to entice you away from
your nursery, so that you must dele