Milford chronicle., 1906-03-30

wertIng OF the ropes did it, And when
/ rne great obelisks of the future, the
I great pyramids, the great arches OF the
/ bridges. are to be built our children
must know exactly how to do the work.
else they will be pushed aside as use
less and others will take their places.
They must not only be like Domenleo
Bontana, but they must be like DO
nenico Fontana plus the intelligence
of the sailor boy who suggested wet
ting the ropes. How is your boy get
ting along in school and in his mental
deveIoDment? Is it we'll with the
child?
Are They Driftingf
Rut I have another home greeting.
How are your boys and girls morally!
What is the character Of your childrenF
Are they like great, magnificent snip
which has been launched and is htteu
M with superb machinery. with It's
/ furnaces full Of coal, with its provl-
sions in the storeroom. with passengers
,rowding the cabins. with sailors at
their posts and with captain upon the
quarter deck and with wheelman a-hold
Of the wheel, with compass and chart
and yet with no ruddes for the steering
gear TO move? Are your children NOR
ally drifting upon the sea Of life!
Are your children growing up WIN
out any moral character to be stunned
bv mankind as a runaway engine IS
feared by the railroad men? Up and up
this engine climbs the mountain side
Then it reaches the top. Then, when
the engineer tries to put on the brakes
for the down grade horror paralyzes
his nerves because he finds the brakes
will not work. Then, like a tiend OF
death. the engine starts on its terrible
Journey. On and on it goes. until II
dashes by the lits,e station needless
of the signals. Then the telegraph ma
chimes begin to work. Clear the
trackP' is the message sent ahead.
"Clear the track! There is a runaway
engine" Like the hurricane Wind II
rushes along shrieking out its warn
ings. Its wheel Just escapes the pas
senger train which has pulled into the
side track. On and on it goes, until IN
its mad race it leaps through the draw
bridge or tumbles down the embank-
ment or crashes into the freight train
which has not speed enough to Outruh
If Then the mang,ed forms of its en-
qineer and fireman are to be found
amid the piled up ruins, where iron
bars are bent like reeds and crumpleu
blades Of grass. Is that the way your
children are growing up. to be feared
nv mankind? Are they growing up ike
60 MANY children we see about us, who
are never taught to obey and who new
or do right unless they care to do
right? How are your boys and girls III
reference to the moral law2 By the
moral law l mean all those laws that
teach honesty and purity and upright
ness. Do they respect other peoples
rights as they demand that others
should respect their rights?
If YOU are true parents you know
that it is no easy task to make your
children obedient to moral law. 1t is
only bv the most rigid kind of disci-
, Mine that they are taught to govern
/ themselves. so that some day they
may be able to govern others. DE-
William NJ. Taylor, late pastor of the
Rroodway tabernacle, once gave a
noverful Illustration of this thought.
. He said that many years ago distin-
guished botanist was exiled from MS
native land. and he obtained employ
,, ment as an undergardener in the serV-
ice of a nobleman. While he was EN-
Moved in this inconspicuous position
his master received a rare plant as a
Gift. The gardener, thinking it a troplc-
, al plant put it in the dollhouse, where
= If beran to wither and to die. one
dav this undergardener saw 1t, and he
< went to the head gardener and SAID
"Sir YOU have made a mistake. This
is not tropical plant, but one that Is
II used to the cutting blasts of the arc
< tic winds" Then the amazement ol
J tbis nobleman was unlimited when ht
saw his undergardener not only take
y the plant out of the hothouse ana place
it in the open air, but place ice aroun'
e the stems of the plant Then the plant
u which was dying under the heat o
e the tropics, began to grow strong un
n der the cold of the northern icebergs
II Thus with character. 1t is not b.
II yielding to the wishes Of our chlldrel
10 that we make them morally what the
j. ought to be. 1t is not by making eS
IS cuses for them when they do wron
ze that we teach them how to do righl
is But it is only by stern, firm, ineXorabl
n teachings of right and wrong that W
W develop their moral character as
re ought to be developed. Do not lowe
Of the moral standard for your childre
Is one inch. Make them toe the line
ne the moral code. Do not make the mi
ly take of old Eli, who had two sons, an
us they both turned out TO be bad boy
ly because 'he restrained them not"
n it well with your children in a mori
Sc sense?
lis Children of the sIums.
he You know how hard it is to develo
sh children Alright even under the veI
best conditions. And if there is a ba