The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-01-05
Training Children.

In Proverbs 20:6, Solomon says:
seTrain up child in the way he should
60 and when he is old he will not depart
from it. This is as true today as it
was in the days of Solomon. If a. child,
is properly trained there is not much
danger,of it going astray when it be-
comes man or woman. On the other
hand, the reason that so many boys and
girls 60 wrong when they leave home
is because of the poor training which
they received as children. They may
have received good education and be
proficient in music and all the arts, but
if they have not received the training
which has made them Christians. then
they have not been trained in the way
that they should go. Some will ask
how this training is to be accomplished.
In the first place, if we want to teach
anything it is necessary for us to know
it ourselves. If we want our children
to become Christians we must first be-
come Christians ourselves. We cannot
ask child to do something which we
do not do, and this is where a great
many people make mistake. They
think that by sending their children to
church and Sunday school they are do
ing all that is necessary for their proper
training, while they themselves stay at
home and read the newspaper, or per-
haps attend to their worldly duties.
You cannot do this, There are two
ways of training or teaching is by
precept, and one by example, and
these two go hand in hand. You can
not teach by the first and, leave out the
last Many of the young people of our
land are ruined by this very thing.
Parents are anxious that their children
should grow up to be good Christian men
and women but they very often do not
set the proper example. The father is
anxious that his boy should not smoke
or drink, yet be is not willing to give
up these things himself. He labors un-
der the idea that he can smoke his cigar
and drink his glass occasionally and his
boy meyer know it, but remember this,
"l3e snre your sin will 6nd you out"
Mothers are anxious to have their
daughters well trained, yet many times
thelexample set before them is anything
but what it should be. Some mothers
Will not allow their daughters to go to
ball or party where there is dancing
lket they themselves will 60 to question
liable places end think their children do
mot know it. This Is not as it should be.
"Be not deceived, whatsoever man
soweth, that shall he also reap" There
is another thing which is very harmful
to the training of boys and girls on the
farm. This is the long hours spent at
work and the little time left for amuse-
ment. While I believe in boys and
girls learning to work, yet it is not a
good thing to confne them to long hours
and no holidays. believe that the long
hours and hard work which many boys
and girls are compelled to do is doing
more to send them from the farms into
the towns than anything else. There
is no reason why the hours on the farm
should be any longer than those in the
shops, except perhaps few weeks in
harvest, and then there can be enough
holidays given to offset this. Young
| people donot like to be confined too
much, and if they see that the farm is
nothing but place of drudgery, they
are going to get off of it and 60 where
they will have more time to themselves.
There is no reason why the farm home
should not be the most pleasant one on
earth, if the parents will only take more
time with their families: and not leave
their training to Sunday school and dis
trict school teachers.-J. Allen.