New-York tribune., 1904-10-10
THE OLD AND TIE NEW

THE OLD AND THE NEW
II IS well that high an earthly disntary as
the Lord Archbishop Of Canterbury has sounded
"a note OF alarlrn" concerning rhs way iu which
modern modes Of living are invading the sauctties
of the home, II IS also well that thinking people
should ponder his words and compare present home
life with the more primitive type when sanctity
and reverence wers insisted upon. pract-sed and aa-
hered TO.
The restrictions imposed upon the youth Of yes
terday are to-day pretty much ali condemned as too
severe and parents VIII now aver that there's no
use in trying TO put old heads on young shoulders.
and when particularly acts are committed IN
the ezuberance Of youth wind up by asking If
you were ever a child yourself" until the guiding
hand and the softening Christian Influences that
once restrained and directed the hiarities Of youth
into safe channels and toward higher ideals are no
longer felt tolerated BY the majority Of children
or parents. Thus the sanctIues Of home gradI-
ally dsintegrating and slipping away into go-and-
co-as-you- please methods.
This reaction from the Puritanic teachings OF our
forefathers has indeed been very great and with II
has gone much that once came under the head OF
good breeding-respect for age, obedience OF chill
1ren their parents and many other Of the Chris
taa graces which constitute the best and only code
OF good and proper behavior These have Ian
gushed been pronounced bad form and substituted
by slang impudence and 100 often vulgarfty. until
IL Is considered smart n some circles 70 ayow ina{
in IN some localities by grOwu-ups well bT
children whose fathers and mothers. having eaJen
delight in the achievements OF their progeny IN
that line All this Is II the line OF decadence, ana
Is far from typifytng the influences or the IDEAL
home. where once fathers and mothers aimed 10
live up 70 their responsibilities by striving 70 SCI
the example OF living sober and godly ives VIII
there ever again be n America a majority OF house
holds where the fathers viii preside with the dig-
nifty due their profession Christians, and the
mothers supplement them IN fun accordR such
families were once the rule rather than the eNceF-
ton, and from them came such children as ttehry
Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher stowe, who az
their maturity were agiow with the spirit OF the
age IN which they lived and well equipped rom
their earliest teachings as 10 be both ready and
willing out and 90 battle on their well defined
missions
Our strong men ard women came out OF nurseries
Of piety and were surrounded from their infancy
by gOdy influences The frivolues thar now NIL
the lives and minds OF the present generation ara
many and oftrimes foolish that one wonders
when and where they are ever 70 acquire any Of the
responsibilities OF living. Teaching the old fash
oned doctrine OF accounta bility az 10 the manner
Ia which ones time is spent, A time 10 work and
time TO play" seems 20 have become obsolete. and
10 conscientious scruples. they are being gradu-
ally done away with
Parents have much 70 answer tor In not main
tanning their rightful supremacy over their chill
their privilege. ana should be their province.
train these young ideas how and where 70 shoot.
and they wisely meet these responsibilities so
shall their reward be- and, having won the piaudit
OF We'll done" their homes shall indeed be called
blessed and their children shall rise and honor
them T. A c. q.
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