The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-07-18
"a Chapter For Boys.
They Are AdmOnished Against Vice
and to Aspire to Noble Lives.
By ". NJ. d

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down through many past genera
tions; aud from the days of Adam
to the present. boys have been pref
ty much the same.
All boys are not alike. any more
than all men are alike. Some boys
are bad boys, but all boys are, not.
Although some .boys have ad
vantage of others in parentage and
environments. there is not SO much
difference at the etart as there will
be when older. 58
A boy may inherit bad dispo-
sition. but his environments and
education will have more to do
with forming his character in after
years than his inheritance. A
good boy may develop bad man;
but it will be an exception to the
rule. It will be either because
some suppressed evil had been
lurking within HE breast in child.
hood which had only been waiting
the throwing off of the parental
restraint; or else he had allowed
himself to be placed under the in
fiuence of bad companionship after
being freed from parental infuen.
ces.
The disposition of the chlld will
manifest itself very early in life,
and here is where some children
get ahead of others in trying them
selves to overcome the evil tend
ENJOY. whatever it may be.
The child naturally wants to be
induIged in every desire. and some
parents will indulge the child in
all it asks or wishes This is a
great mistake. An over indulgent
parent to a self willed child, ie
Sowing the wind" to give them
"Whirlwind for harvest.
Our fret parents raised only two
boys, and one of them came to the
bad. We have nothing that tells
us what kind of discipline Adam
had over his boys. or whether they
were good. or bad boys; but it is
safe to say the man Gain had an
ugly temper in boyhood that had
not been subdued; or maybe he
had been for years waiting the op.
portunity of showing the bad tenn
per that led him to murder his
brother.
He fell ont with his brother be
cause his own offering was not so
acceptable to the Lord as YVES
Abel's. We are not told the reason
why, but I am inclined to think it
was because of the difference in
the spirit in which the offerings
were made. Abel-no doubt
willingly offered the "firstlings of
his fock." feeling it was his duty
to do 30; while Gain with envy in
his heart, tffered of the fruits of
the ground. because he feared the
Lord would favor his brother more
than himself if he did not, hence
the development of the envy into
hatred which terminated in muir
der. @
I am very much interested in the
boys just now. Do you want to
know whyP 1t is not any more
for my concern for the boys them
selves. than it is for the concern I
feel for the future destiny of our
country, which must in a very short
time rest upon the shoulders of the
boys of today-just suoh boys as ]
am trying to address now.
There are now in the world
right In our midst, and among you
boys, two powerful influences at
work; each is viewing the other in
trying to mould your character
The one is trying to hold you up
and lead you in a way that will
make you an honorable and useful
man.
The other influence comes from
the evil one. and is trying to lead
you astray and blast all your hopes
of happiness in this life, or in
eternity. And strange to say.
s1me who should feel keen inter
set in your welfare are assisting in
bringing about your destruction
they will encourage you to roam
simleesly about on Sundays, rather
than attend Sunday school; OF
worse. will tell you it is no harm to
attend the Sunday ball games;
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