The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-13
Subject: Children.

;SERnoN MA04M.TH EEAMoOS DfVINE
Subject: Children.
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mental, moral and spiritual capacities aaaf til than an all iba the hi influences ma4se aD Us aft at nt tie
CURSE ur children before we send them into the face Of the haSdsh lips and
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nsnt q Their fsssIh: $ r If we cannot ct have ns s, sS5 T SsRs Sie ed59ss1 ntt asin5
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5 53Tst That "a t By i sg tsD of f SG e sns 8f S If 1 ss'1 sfa'' little ones should 's de-
beings that SO many children have. Many a boy would be kept from the
path that tends toward vice, many a girl whose life is wrecked or is belne
cast upon the rocks of wckedness would be kept from the way that leaoetn
to perdnion, if a little careful, wholesome parental ADVICE "a Deen given
upon the sacred operations of our physical beings. 1t is o wonder maj SO
many 1e {hs Soz Us n 1%1 in than s'd deS HsyS r6sn s 'o1 many 80 4 fathers and me not hers $ \ many
S Ss5ts almost tn s&a So and e3n m1thSFs' n sas So o Fof ! saoT v he 81 I P spsaS HSs9 :
l say that what a boy or girl fails to learn in a decent and gody manner
from a father or mother is gathered in a wholly vicious N ungoaly man
ner or in the hard school Of unnecessary experience. ,.,
is entitled tx the finest results of tn. intellectual advances of the ages. II
is for Us to start the child where we have left off. All that precedes Is
simply of historic interest. 1t is explanatory. it is indicative 1t Is exem'
But it should be only that. The less the rerogresson our children
make a. practical laborers for the advancement Of the world, n raster
will be the progress of humanity toward the kingdom OF Almighty COO.
But much az our children need to be instructed physically ahd mtef
lectuaIy, still more do they require moral and spiritual guiding. = O. n
social order depends upon q clean manhood and womanhood. Ihe sou!
life OF the world is dependent upon the clarity of the spiritual vision n
the spiritual alertness of every human soul. Nothing Is more important
than that W e should inculcate into the minds and souls OF youth
proper conception of the moral and spiritual realities OF tn UNIVERSE w 9
shall be indeed childish if we think they ca mature properly. In tnese
fields without experienced and expert guidance. Inc moral framing Oh ue
formative years Of a childs development will persist; the SPIRITUAL u an.
ing that w afford our children in their canoWest youth is n framing tnas
will endure. Nothing can eradicate it, and with proper sat ia "a e o Inc
and spiritual development and cultufPhg of the child pays eternal u"'
dends.
1t is not sufficient that we shall instruct our children. 1t Is needful
that we shall tail are that they be not miaed or made to stumble. 1t is
idle to instruct, the while we propagate and foster and palhate temptations
that attack the very qualities we have been culturing. He is a poor cotton
raiser who tests the quality of his cotton and the resistance. OF the plant
with the boil worn. Not otherwise is he a silly preceptor OF the child M
tests the moral and spiritual vigor of the child with the factory, the dram
chon I'M h IF h unclean life.