Milford chronicle., 1906-12-14
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But the evil physical effects Of i'm
pure associates do not end with youth.
They inevitably find their elimination
in an unholy marital alliance. When
the young daughter makes the wrong
kind of friends at school there viii
come a time when she will begin to
associate with young men whose repu-
tatiOns are not what they ought to be.
The influence of the one class on the
other is just as sure in its results as
that the midnight darkness follows the
twilight glow Then when the call Of
love comes into the young maiden's
heart, instead of going and telling her
best friend. her mother, all about it,
she viii keep the secret concealed in
her own heart, or perhaps she will con-
dde in her school friend, who is herself
a girl Of whose friendship with their
daughter the parents do not approve.
Cannot you hear the two young girls
talking about this love in their hours of |
friendly intercourse? Then comes the
marriage. Perhaps it is an elopement |
Then what follows? Inevitably an IN
happy and an unhOly home. Cannot I
you see the worried look in the face /
of the young wife? Cannot you count
there many wrinkles? Cannot you see /
the hair prematurely whiten? Cannot /
you hear the church bell toll the fu-
neral dirge as the poor wife's body is
carried to its early grave? What is
the matter? Why did she die? "Oh,"
you answer. 'she died Of a broken
heart. She had a good for nothing,
husband. He abused her
He killed her" All, my friend, that
is not the direct cause of that young
wife's death. She prematurely died
because in her young school days she
made friends with young girls whose
associates her father and mother did
not sanction. Her premature death
was the direct result Of not then Civ
ing her parents her confidence. No
laughter, no son, should make friends
Of the parental sanction.
And why should you young people
lot introduce your friends to your par
.nts? Are your fathers and mothers
'OOlishly Jealous? Like a miser, do
hey wish to keep you from loving
my one else or assOciating with any
Ither people but themselves? II you
make the right kind OF friends, are
hey not glad? Is their home a prison
f solitary confinement? When you,
s a loving son. would bring home a
esirable friend does not your mother
lways have a place for him at the
able? Does she not always gladly
7elcome your boyhOod assoclates7
Why should a honeybee live with
'asps and serpents when she can have
be cOmpanionship of other bees in
be maternal hive? Can dove have her
'ings covered with silver and her
gathers with yellow gold when in the
efouled company Of buzzards she is
FASTING upon carrion7 Neither can a
hid lead a pure life and grow spir-
ually strong and come to an honOred
d age when her associates are the
astial and the impure and the bad.
o the right kind Of friends thy Chris
an parents are always ready to ex-
nd a glad a loving home greeting.
eware, o young man, when thy as
ciates cannot be the friends Of thy
Their and thy mother.
But our young people should not
op here in yielding their wills to the
lrental guidance. They should be
Hing to press toward the prizes Of
e high callings Of life which their
rents are continually holding up be-
re their eyes. They should be will
g to do as young William Pitt did
hen his father, the great Earl OF
came to him and said: "Wll-
m. you should not be satisfied with
ing through life as an ordinary man.
u should say: am going to nt my