The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26

theory, combined with grace and ex-
perience, can afford them, and then
but few of them know how to train
a child.
Speaking of training children,
sometimes use a railroad train as an
illustration: the engine and tender
Gather and mother) going ahead, and
the cars Che children following at
ter, running on the track right behind
father and mother, as the cars follow
the engine and tender. But the Louis
burg branch of the Seaboard Air
Line knocks my illustration all awry.
Instead of turning around at Louis
burg and Franklinton, the engine and
tender pull one way and push the
other. If you are coming from Louis
burg the engine and tender pull Cen
CINE foremosD, but going back to
Louisburg they back, the tender
ahead. / never ride over that road
but 1 think of families that are
run on the same plan-'puiling for
ward awhile then backing. AS
theory founded on Gods word, faith
erS should be patriarchs and mothers
should be help-meets; and always run
ahead of the train. keeping well on
the track-and never backing.
/ am sure that most fathers and
Mothers might say all-love their
children and desire to rear them up
to be useful and happy; and they
are therefore eager to gain any in
formation that will aid them in so
doing. L was confirmed in that opin
ion some years ago. [ announced at
LEANS chapel, one Sunday, that at
my next appointment there | would
preach on the training of children
| The month rolled around and on Sat
urday night before the first Sunday, |
I Il l. L.
where / heard that all the mothers.
far and near We're coming out the
next day to learn how to raise chill
dren. Sure enough, when | arrived
at the church they were there, babies
as we'll as mothers, and it was very
evident that there was somehow q
| misunderstanding that ought to be
corrected at once; SO, as soon as l
| could well do SO, i made the remark
| that the subject of the mornings dis
! course would be 1.-THE moral training
| of children" adding that anybody
| who could raise q pig could raise a
| child so far as the feeding was con-
| cerned; but training a child, in the
| Bible sense, was q different ana
much more difficult matter There
was Il look Of disa appointment, follow
! ing this remark, on very many faces
| for, as / afterWard learned, mothers
were there who expected me to tell
/ them how to cure Whooping- cough.
| chicken-poX, Group, measles, burns,
| stone bruises, SprainS and brier-
scratches, as we'll as to treat upon all
the other ills and accidents to which
| children are liable. l was sorry to
disappoint so many anxious mothers,
but duty and truth compelled me to
admit that l didn't know any better
way to raise children than to give
them plenty to eat and keep them
clean.
/ went out to Macedonia. a few
/ Sundays ago, to preach the funeral of
a lady who died several months ago.
Before arriving at the church 1 was
hailed by a gentleman at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Christopher Woodland,
and informed that his wife had died
the night before and it was Mr..
Woodlands desire that, on my return
/ would stop and preach her funeral
which 1 did.
Macedonia, when ! was a boy, was
very small affair, in the way of Q
church, a hundred yards or more
from the road, completely cut off
from view by a thick growth. My
father, a local Methodist preacher
was the pastor Of a flock that came
out of the surrounding woods, am
for many years he served them, re-
! ceiving but little. if anything, for his