Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-03-29

gear to move? Are your children NOR
ally drifting upon the sea Of life?
Arc your children growing up with.
out any moral character to be Stunned
by mankind as runaway engine is
feared by tho railroad men? Up and up
this engine climbs the mountain side.
Then it reaches the top. Then, when
tho engineer tries to put on the brakes
for the down grade horror para yves
his nerves because he finds the brakes
will not work Then. like fend OF
death, the engine starts on It's terrible
journey. On and on 1t goes, until it
dashes by the little station Needless
of the signals. Then the telegraph ma
chimes begin 10 work. CLEAR the
track" is the message sent ahead.
Clear the track. There Is a runaway
engine" Like the hurricane wind, it
rushes along shrieking out its warn
ings. It's wheel just escapes the IsAs-
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 outrun
t. Then the mangled forms Of its en-
gincer and fireman are to be found
amid the piled up ruins, where iron
bars are bent like reeds and crulnpled
blades OF grass. IL that the way your
children are growing up. to be feared
by mankind? Arc they growing up like
so many children we soc about us, who
are never taught to obey and who new
or do right unless they care 10 do
right? How are your boys and girls in
| reference to the moral law? BY the
moral law I 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?
! II you ara true parents you know
! that it is no easy task TO make your
| children obedicnt to moral law. 1t is
! only by the most rigid kind of dscl-
| plinc that they are taught 10 govern
! themselves, So that some day they
may he able 70 govern others, Dr.
/ William NJ. Taylor. late pastor Of the
! Broadway tabernacle. once gave a
! powerful illustration of this thought.
, He said that many years ago distin-
guished botaniSt was eNiled from his
uauve land. and he obtained employ
ment as an undrrgardener in the SerV
! ice Of a nohlcmAn. While lie was en-
! ploycd iu this inconSpicuous position
! his master received a rare plant rs Il
gift. The gardener, thinking it tropic
Ill plant. put il in the dollhouse, where
it began to withcr and to die. One
day this undcrCardencr saw it, and he
went TO the head gardener and said
Sir. YOU have made a mistake. This
IS not Il tropical plant. but one that is
used 10 the cutting blasts of the arc
tie winds" Then the amNZement OF
this nOhl"man vas unlimited when he
saw his uudcrgardener not only take
the plant out of the dollhouse and place
il in the open air but place ice arount
the stems OF tie plant. Then the plant
which was dying under the heat OF
the tropics. began to grow strong un
der the cold of the northern icebergs
Thus with character. II is not by
yielding to the wishes of our children
that we make them morally what the!
ought to be. II is not 10y making eX
cuses for them when they do wrons
that We teach them how to do right
But it is only by stern. firm, incXora bl,
teachings OF right and wrong that w
develop their moral character as !
ought TO bc developed. DO not lowe
the moral standard for your children
one inch Make them Toe the line o
the moral code. DO not make the mis-
take of old Eli, who had two sons. an,
they both turned out to he bad boy
because The restrained them not" |
it well with your children in n mora
sense?
Need Discipline.
Then how is it with your chldrel
spiritually? We will suppose that yo
have cared for them physically, mental
ly and morally, but have YOU tide
them in their spiritual lives? llav
you ever Interested yourself in thei
sunday school lessons: When the ever
: ing hours come have You ever take
them upon your lap to show them IN
Eihlr bfrtlIrps@ Have Won over fol