The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-18
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inmost Center the conscience-for
this is the source of all human
power. Honor is the voice of an
eternal principle calling to man "to
be true 70 himself and then he cam
not be false to any man." If the
honor principle were more firmly
adhered to the result would be
gloriously manifest IN the strong
characters of tie citizens of the
nations Of the world.
The process of discipline begins
at home, as has already been said, in
earliest childhood. The mother
sheuld possess the absolute conf
dence of her child and should not
expect the little "ndevelor i heart
to understand ali ~ once. Patience
must be- her wa'chworu anl she must
be content with moderate results. A
child's wj'i.lnwer shoul | uo, be
broken, bat should be bent into =
paralleliSm with the will of God
and with thoroughly noble ideal.
Lessons in politeness, unselfshuess,
honesty and temperance can all be
taught to children best by the exam
Piles of their parents. Literature,
music, art and nature can never be
stressed too much in the education
of the Young. One beautiful girl
who was left an orphan at an early
age says that in her room were
placed two pictures-one 1.-THE Sis
tine Madonna" and the other "The
Guardian Angel and that these
had most wonderful influence for
good upon her young life. The
purity and goodness with which the
gifted artists had endowed the coun-
tenances of the picture had I'M
planted themselves upon her life and
had inspired her to lead a pure and
good life.
The natural impulses of childhood
are beautiful. The grateful love
that depends upon those protecting
it, the pure mind reaching out after
truth, the desire to initiate the best,
the playful spirit that forgets pain,
the hope that gilds everything of
earth-these are a child's posses
sions; and if be can be taught never
to part with them for the vanity and
selfshness of the world, which soil
so many older boys and girls lives,
all its life it will be a witness to d
parents careful love.
But there is time in every child's
life when the little heart aud char
acter develops very rapidly. The child
at this period of awakening can be
compared to rose with all its
sweetest leaves unfolding. You have
often heard that flowers flourish
rightly in the gardens of those
sklngs and queens who love them,
a)ut is it not far greater thing that
Che king aud queen of a home can do
'eor the most precious flowers or roses
of earth-fowers that could bless
hem for having blessed them, and
frsill love them for having loved
that have eyes like
thoughts like theirs; and
cons like theirs &; which once saved
ers saved forever. Ruskin in Csc
in tie and Lilies" said that ";here is
mar0lemnlty so deep to rightly
M< king creature as that of dawn"
n,k, he meant it not only in that
~, tiful literal sense, but in the
A., of the formation of character.
met years of development should
bn+ cpe sad years, they should be
ltful-beautiful, but they
COW uld be solemn years. A girls
.cb'd is generally imaginative and
, ,;.tive-ever dreaming strange
c,ret dreams of ideals, while a boys
hold generally roams far and wide
,, ,'earch of heroes and adventure.
h. Is very important that the parents
-. rppotbi1a with thair ohildran in