Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-03-31

the great obellsks Of the future, the
great pyramids, the great arches OF tne
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 Domenico
Fontana. but they must be Ike DO
menico Fontana plus the intelligence
Of the sailor boy who suggested wet
ling the ropes. How is your boy get
tino along in school and in his mental
deyelopment? Is 1t well with the
child?
Are They Driftingf
Rut | have another home greeting
How are your boys and girls morallyt
What is the character Of your childrenE
Are they like great, magnificent ship
which Las been launched and is htted
ND with superb machinery, with us
furnaces full of coal, with its provl- ,
sions i'm the storeroom, with passengers
crowdng the cabins, with sailors at
their posts and with captain upon the
ouarter deck and with wheelman a-hoiu
of the Wheel with compass ana chart'
and vet with no rudder for the steering
gear TO move? Are your children NOR
ally drifting upon the sea Of liteE
Are vour children growing up With
ont any moral character to be summed
bv mankind as a runaway engine Is
feared by the railroad men? Up and up
tbs engine climbs the mountain slue'
Then If 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 hend OF
death the engine starts on its terrible
Journey. On and on it goes, untll II
dashes by the little station needless
oP the signals. Then the telegraph ma
chimes begin to work. clear Tue
trackp is the message sent aheau'
"Clear the track There is a runaway
enoine." Like the hurricane wind, II
rushes along shrieking out its warn
inps. Its wheel just escapes the pas
eenoer train which has pulled into the
eide track On and on it goes, until III
its mad race it leaps through the draw
bridge or tumbles down the emDahK-
mont or crashes into the freight tram
which has not speed enough to outruh
If Then the mangled forms OF lts Ell.
gjneer and fireman are TO De Iounu
amid the piled up ruins, where irol
bars are bent like reeds ana crulnpIeu
blades Of grass. Is that the way your
: children are growing up, to be feared
Z by mankind Are they growing up llh'
, so many children we see about us, VINO
are never taught to obey and VINO heV
: or do right unless they care 10 d'
: right? How are your boys ana girls II
? reference to the moral lawf by th'
t moral law mean all those laws ina
r teoch honesty and purity and uprighl
t ness DO they respect other people
e rights as they demand that other
+ should respect their rightsf
n If YOU are true parents you know
q that iris no easy task to. make you
t. children obedient to moral law. 1t
g only by the most rigid kind OF DISC
It ,,,s, t,of thev as.o tatisrlat - -'se'l'ar
:. themselves so that some. DAY Tue
NAV be able to govern others. ~
It william NJ. Taylor, late pastor OF ID
&c broadway tabernacle, once gave
II nowerful Illustration Of this though
10 He said that many years ago distil
,e o,riehad botanist was eXiled from ii
ID native land. and he obtained emplo'
IN mont ms an undergardener in the ser
IL ice of a nobleman. While he was en
" Moved in this incOnspicuous posilic
6 his master received rare plant as
n Gift The gardener, thinking 1t tropi
r. ol nlant put it in the hOthouse, wneI
10 - horon to vither and to die. VI
ie- doy this undergardener saw II, anu
n wont TO the head gardener ana sal
OF "Sir Won have made mistake. III
ng IS not a tropical plant, but one that
sy used TO the cutting blasts OF the al
re- tic winds" Then the amaZemehI
ITO this nobeman was unlimited Wnen
saw his undergardener not only I'd
vo the plant out of the dollhouse ana pia
toI II In the open air, but place ice arou
,ro the stems of the plant. Then the pia
'ch which was dying under the neat
or the tropics, began to grow strong
~ dar the cold of the northern iceDer
H. Thus with character. 1t Is not
-, Welding TO the wishes Of our chlldl
a. that we make them morally what u
- orcht to be. 1t is not by making
10 cuses for them when they 90 VIC
that we teach them how to do re
W. Rut If is only by stern, firm, ineXora
,ro teachings of right and wrong tnat
80 develop their moral character as
;no ought to be developed. DO not lo'
4, ine the moral standard for your chlld
wv one inch. Make them toe the line
d! the moral code. DO not make the L
nu' fake of old Eli, who had two sons,
'n' they both turned out to be Dad D
an an because 'he restrained them not
'Sv ,o,. it well with your children in liz
tho sense?
the Need Discipline.
lesh Then how is it with your chllo
/! spiritually? We will suppose that
and l. sp.i s',' 'nnd Coz. tbem nhysically mel
| have careQ lOI lllSill pi'3 1'~NN-'''
hllu " asd morally, but have you a
un- them in their spiritual lives! l.
ne YOU ever interested yourself IN
tn"t Sunday school lessons? When the e
was ing hours come have you ever u
rlSN them upon your lap to show them
was Bible pictures? Have you ever
u ~ Them about the great sacred chara'
nou, Of the Old Testament and the
= ~ VI Have you tried to teach them 10
areu ,r' Jesus Christ and lead them TO
1ne hand in hand with their Saviour!
'rTae ,r,,o know, by the law of pedagoglcs
4ne 1ne are two ways of teaching. The III
,,n 'n' TO bring out or develop what Is II
Us child. The second way Is 10 co
Al Al ually have before you an ideal G
n and then try to pattern all your
.uial' m dren after the ideal child. In
IL "n religious life have you continually
w. w. TO hold before your little ones ana