Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-11-04

70 be poet or musician. lie Is GO
ing TO be Il plain. practical business
man or u lawyer or % doctor or II min
lister. He mast have good. sound,
common SENSE na.ac that will not
make him a laughimgstock among his
ass1e!a;es and one that can easily be
remembered. Gail him Joseph or
IamcS or William or Edward or John"
.hc planning of the parents for the
child starts ~ the christening.
Then comes the question of school.
Perhaps the father has amasscd some
wealth The money question is not u
pressing one IN the home. Where shall
the boy get his ctlucationf The mother
may dcs.rc to have her son 70 to one
Of the arsi1cra,ic private schools Of
the city. where lac will have for com.
paniors the sons of wealthy families.
Again the hard headed common sense
Of Tie father comes To the rescue.
NO" hc says. mo private school for
my boy. Ny father sent me TO u pri-
waite school There dabblcd n little
IN dozen different studies and did
not master any one Of them. My boy
shall - TO common public school.
where the foundations and the rudi-
mcnt' Of mn education are pounded
into him. want him 10 master the
three RS reading. writing nnd nrith-
mctic. want him at fifteen years Of
age to know how to write a letter.
That i whit thousands of college bred
men do not know. | want him to learn
10 spell and punctuatc correctly. After
the rudimcn:s of nm education have
been soaked into him. then we can talk
about private schools or university
course"
learning Self Reliance.
After the school days are over what
happens: the common sense father
nancs the boy start out for himself.
II the lad enters business. lie makes
him work III another store where the
father Is not. II possible. lie sends the
son away for little while. 10 work in
another city among strangers. so that
the boy learns Ia think for himself and
stand upon his own feet. The wise
father doe all this not because he Is
hard hearted: not because he wants to
get rid of the boy. He puts the burden
of lie upon the boy because lie is II
true friend to the child. planning his
best Development He wants To make
the most ont of his son and bring him
10 the highest physical. mental. moral
and spiritual development. God is do
ing for lis in wide sense what the
earthly parent Is doing for his child in
limited scl.sc. lie Is placing his bur-
dcns upon W. TO develop us. He Is not
maHihg us struggle for the mere pleas
urc of seeing us sG.fcr. lie Is COM
polling us TO be carctakcrs that we
may grow III strength and climb the
HIGHER mountain peaks of inspiration
AMI power which hr has lifted for our
thron :. and yet today there are but
very few who have grace enough to
thank Cod for the divine hand which
has amittcn them as we'll rs for the
divine lip VIII Il Is ready 10 speak the
WORDS of comfort and good cheer.
Spiritual Growth.
Spiritual growth is not developed so
easily near the perfume of a flower
garden as among the thorns and the
luccrationS the agJnics and the suffer-
ings of a ravinc of thickcts. The stron-
gcst wing. the kccncst eye. the swift
est foot AMI the sharpcst intelligence
are not found In tie meadow lands. but
in the deserts. There the lizards must
run like the lightning or the strong
hcakpti road runner will snap them
in twain. yhcrc the biizzard. with his
great wings spread abroad as the sails
of n snip, must he able 10 course on
hour after hour in search of food and
with almost omniscicnt eye watch the
taching wings of other buzz;lrIs miles
away - see whether they have found
any meat. or else that bulzard must
soon starve and die There the coyote
must have the wisdom of the serpent.
nil the stcalihlness of the fox. all the
speed of the deer. the ofactory sensi-
tiycncss of the hound. or else the rab-
bit ana the ground squirrel can never
he his. 10 live in the desert the spring
must b. as swift ns the panthcrs; the
endurance must be 30 great that wa
tiers hundred miles away are not out
of reach to Iuench the parching thirst.
Every ear must hear the slightest whis-
per: every intelligence must he the
most far reaching. or else the beast. the
bird or the serpent will die. In the
deserts of life God best develops us.
not in the meadow lands. Not in the
easy places do we become the strong,
true. pure. good and noble men he In
tended us 10 he. In the desert places
we lind the highest development Of
moral and spiritual life. The strongest
flowers grow not as dollhouse plants,
but like The trailing arhuius ana the
crociis. sccnting the hillsldes near tim
Der lines. whose lullaby Is the wills
Ting wind of the early spring and
whose soft couch is not the green grass.
but white quilt of drifting SNOW.
Canst thou not realize that the harder
the wind blows the more easy Is II for
the sen captain to trim his sails and
the swiftcr the ships speed toward the
desired harbor:
nenclicent Troubles.
Troubles are bcnciiccnt when packed