The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-11
PARENTS SHOULD
TRAIN CHILDREN
DIR. Mcdaniel Talks Plainly to
Mothers and Fathers About
Character Building.
HONE Is SANCTUARY


Taking as his text TIE tuenty-sec-
ond chapter and the sixth Nerse OF
the Book OF Proverbs, Train up a
child in the way he should go, and
when he is old he viii not depart
from it, DIT MCDANIEL preached sun
day night on the responsibility OF the
home \ large c0nEFe Satlan. lnclud-
ing many parents and several 4.lcers
81 the law, was present.
Or Mcdaniel said IN part.
"Ti1a genera laws IT education
physically. intellectually, morally and
spiritually. are the same, bat they
should te applied according 60 the
capacity ana the character ot the in
diYidual child. The golden rppor-
tunity for this training is the home.
God has made just threo great
institutions--Jhe nation. the church
and the home. And the greatest Of
these Is tire home Ii antidatos the
fail of man. The nation and the
church were the outErawths Of comb
tfons after sin entered The world. Eden
was mans first home. and though
man lost that he did not lose his Wife,
and she made him another home.
Moses, the greatest n1ere man who
ever lived, committed the preserya-
ton and the propagation Of his the
osogy and religion to the family. He
charged that the statutes and ordi-
names of the Lord should be taught
diligently to the children and discuss-
ed naturally in the home He insisted
that religion shonlA dominate the en-
tire life. Jesus. one time in his minis
istry, broke his rule of announcing
only general principles and gave a
specific law concerning marriage, the
bond which makes the home. Pau
gave wise Instruction TO parents, tc
children TO husbands and TO wives
Thinkers to-day agree that the home
Is fundamental to the success OF the
church and the welfare OF the ma.
ton.
Crimes of Parents.
Il. The science Of eugeuics, ! have
become ii firm believer I'm Eugenics
which Is the science OF race culture
Parents can control the hercdty a.
well as the environment. of their chill
dren. Every Chiia has a right 10 en-
this world with uutHtHtcd btuU5
and q healthful body An appalling
per cent of the diseases among emil
dren is due TO the sins of parents
Eighty per cent. OF those blind iron
birth and twenty FIVE per cent OF al
blindness is attributed tn parents. !
child cannot inherit tuberculosis, hu
he may have transmitted In all of 1t
N1TN1EHGE- -I.-l-ffttttt~ fTfftt
Here lies the danger Of real rae
suicide. The effort on the part o
women to escape what God declare
is honorable and the faiiures to re
gard the laws Of Eugenics, lead I
the decay Of races and the downfa
OF nations, / cannot speak fully {
this audience upon so delicate a sui
jeet, bur IL is Of sufficient import
ance for me TO commend that 70
a /
Dock and "Eugenics' by Saleeby, Tn
first is a book which should he rea
by every physician, trained nurse an
young man in this city, The secon
should be read by ali who are inter
ested in the race.
Z The transfer OF responaibilit.
There is a tendency, easily discern
BILE, to transfer parental respohsibillt
TO the law. We may expect too niue
of the government. Laws are mad
for bad people They are neede
when the parent has failed, Then.
is the duty of the parent to co-opera'
with the officers and the law IN n
straining and correcting their chi
dren But you can never make Peep
good by force. You can't be!
morality into them Goodness is n
something which can be given.
medicine, by prescription.
q
duty Neglected by the home. Paren
have been known TO send had be.
To college with the eXpecta ton thi
bad habits would he corrected. This
will be as bad and probably Wori
than they were at home. 1t requir
settled principles and fixed charact'
10 withstand the temptations of co
iege life. The public schools al
raising the average Of intelligence al
al h. 1f rho rIeaIkl
hut they cannot teach fully the BIB
nor can they, because of the Lara
numbers OF pupils give that person
touch which Is SO necessary in II
moulding OF character.
Again. the responsibility Of II
home is transferred IN the cnurc
You say. ! send my childrn to SUI
day-school,' Yes, and you ought
go with them. Bur the Sunda
school is not 81 substitute. but "a SUI
pIement to the home. The teach
there lis unable To repeat impression
with sufficient frequency 10 mai
them deepest and most abiding.
Is surprising how long children go
Sunday school and how little tbs
know about Gods word when tn,
sF--aDne out. If the statistics Of Il
maynard who We're once pupils
Sabbath schools were at hand tn,
would be alarming. poor girl
the street startled me when she sal
Sir. | used to attend your Sunda
school
Practical Duties.
II. The creation OF devout q
Z mosphere. Physical health is como
toned upon pure invigorating atmo
phere. Every parent should read J.
w w. Moore's admirable tract, ri
iigion inr the Home" wherein he sc
forth the teaching that the home
sanctuary wherein should stand
altar, Who that ever read The Pc
fection Of Beauty can forget y
Hoge's sermon on little Sanctuarie
An Intelligent Frenehsnan teclar
that the peace and greatness
America was due 10 the purity of t
women and the sanctty Of the HON,
But alas, a missionary who had be
away from his native land for yea
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