The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-05-03
CATEECHEE LETTER.
"B" Stands for COInpul-
sorry Education.
HIS POINTS WE'LL TAKEN.
General News Notes About
People and Things.

like preacher trying to preach
without text, it is hard work and
then nothing said at last. How
ever, We have kind of "hanker-
ing" for newspaper work and We
can't help "skinning our lgnor-
ance" evory now and then.
Speaking of ignorance brings
to our mind something of great
Importance. How many parente
are dwarfng the usefulness Of their
children by neglecting TO educate
them, and by SO doing arc causing
the jails to 10 filled with cIimi
nails and hell with sinners? Pa
rents, do you know or do you care
anything about the responsibility
that rests upon you in regard as
to how you raise your children?
We are taught that the parents
conduct will put the children's
teeth on edge, and that anything
of q disreputable nature will visit
to the fourth and fifth generation.
Then how important it is for pa
rents to be very discreet as to how
and in what manner they raise
their children. AT that great day
there will be many a poor soul
that will have TO go down to a
DEVILS hell, and the parents to
certain extent will be accountable
for 1T. We will admit that there
are q few exceptions to this. We
have known Of lew cases of bad
boys and men, too, where they had
been pretty we'll educated and
raised up by religious parents, but
in most cases it is just the reverse. l..
Every child born of sound
cognitlon has been given a talent,
and except that child is given an
opportunity to develop that talent,
how is it ever to make anything?
Remember the man that was
afraid and went and hid his talent;
what did the Lord say to him?
The President of the United
States was once without an educa-
tion, but the Lord had given him
talent. Now if that talent had
never been cultivated, had he nev-
er been educated, he would no
doubt have been working today
for ten dollars a month, whereas
he is getting something over four
thousand dollars a month. What
caused it? Education.
If children are not educated
how are they to read and keep
posted, to know when they are VIC.
lating tho laws of the land? How
many promu]gators Of the Gospel
are abroad lMthe land? If we are
not 80 we can read for ourselves
how are we to know when the
truth is preached to us? Wei,
then, what is to be done whom 6
man won't send his children t.
school, but keep them in oottor
mill and work them nearly tc
death while he loafs and goes tc
tho dispensary overy pay day and
spends tho most Of what they
make. BY SO doing he is not only
dwariing the talent Of that chllt
and making a slave of it the resi-
il 8 days, but he is shortening
its life. Perhaps this father was
raised mp in ignorance, hence he
don't know anything about thu
Importance Of an education. Thu
casual pleasures Of this earth art
oil he is seeking. With this star
ing us in the face every day @
our lives doesn't it hehoove us to dt
methlng2 What is the romedy
A compulsory education law.
Some ono will say that WON
do. Show us and convince III
where it won't do and we will &C
knowledge. .....
They say We can't do withou
our children to send them to school
Of course the above class couldn'
and still have the same good time
bnt that is what we want to breal
mp, that good Tune Of father
drinking and ! afing off of tho la
Dor OF theirpoor Little children whel