Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-15
ELEVEN years old"

house of the Lord from earliest In
fancy; that you must bear witness TO
my best O. doctors
Yes indeed my gracious lady, he
responded, gravely Il remember
that You attributed the attack OF tue
Group which cost your twoyear-old
son .Iis life to a visit OF the child to
the cold church
Elizabeth looked in alarm at her
neighbor. The doctor had partici-
pated in the original conversation
only so far as to intersperse it oc-
casionally with biting sarcasms,
which were the<more entertaining to
| the young girl DecaTse the baroness
oarted snubbing look at MIN each
| time. When Elizabeth herself be-
gan to speak she paid no further at
/ tention % him more than the others
whose minds were concentrated upon
| the unfortunate heather child. So no
one observed that he was inwardly
convulsed with laughter at the yound
girls courageous words and their
effect upon those present. His ans
wer seemed to Elizabeth cruel. But
| he must have known the people with
whom he had to deal, for Frau Won
Lehr was quiet and unmoved, and
| said SIMULTANEOUSLY: Yes, the Lord
took the quiet little angel to himself;
he was too good for this world And
so the Kingdom of the Lord remained
closed to you until you were eleven
years old?" she said, turning to
Elizabeth.
Only his temple, gracious lady |
knew the history of Christianity when
was still little child, and learned
with my first thought to know and re-
we're the Supreme Being, for 1 cannot
remember a time when was without
a conception of God. 1t is a matter
hrs children enter the house of God
so early. He thinks such young souls
are incapable of understanding the
significance, grow weary of the SER
mons, which, with the best intentions
| they cannot understand, and so gain
false impressions from the first. My
little brother, who is seven years old,
has never Deen to church"
Happy father!' exclaimed tine
doctor, ito be able to carry this out"
Why, what prevents you from let
ting your children shoot up morally
| like mushrooms ?" inquired the bar
| OnoSG naliciously.
Il can answer that in a very few
words. l have six children and am
not rich enough TO employ a tutor
for them. Ny profession prevents
my educating them myself and l am
obliged to send them to the public
schools and submit, with them, to
the rules of the Institution, among
which is included attendance of the
little ones at church. And it is the
same thing with another conviction
! reading the Bible by the children
themselves. The Bible does not be-
long in the.r small hands. AS the
foundation of their later life and
activity, it should be surrounded tor
their childhood with an unapproach-
able halo. The child, with rare ex-
ceptions, seeks entertainment much
more than earnest instruction, and
has a propensity for burrowing after
precisely what is concealed from it,.
! So | know, and Observant teachers
know too, that the little folks sitting
with the book upon their knees aud
praised for it by their needless par
ents, by no means always hunt I'D
the text of the last sermon, but are
lar more apt to point out to one an
! other forbidden words which the re-
fined and moral mother at home
never permits to reach her ears,
the meaning of which is expounded,
however, clearly enough by children
| Who coming from coarse homes.
learn from rough parents or servants
more than is wholesome for them.
And even assuming that this last
calamity does not happen, and the
| child asks It's mother the meaning OF
| bhe strange word, a sensible womal
VIII know how to help herself, but
the child to use the word Do but
! think of the song of Solomon-and
SO arise the first doubts, and scruples
in the young mind spring up and
strike root all the more deeply be,
cause the uncultivated moral nature
and immature reason offer no count.
| erpoise."
At this point Baroness Lessen rose
with an impatient gesture. Two
bright red spots had appeared on her
full pale cheeks, and these were
| danger-signals of wrath to come for
all who anew her. Fraulein Won
Waldo therefore arose also, having
remained passive during the whole
conversation, offered her cousin her
arm, and conducted her to the win
dow, asking her whether it would be
agreeable to her to have Elizabeth
play
| This lightening-cOnducto recaivad