Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-13

mothers lips fall words of faith and
christian admonition. Can't you in
memory hear flush, my dear, lie
| still and slumber, Holy angels guard
thy bed?"" or "Jesus loves me, this
know, for the Bible tells me So"
Or do I hear some rag-time, popular
song, which, which has nothing to
commend it, Well, you say, what
are you so fussy about? What does
1t matter to babe in arms? Do you
believe In parental culture? Then
you surely believe in postnatal cul-
ture. Who will dare to say how early
a child receives lasting Impressions?
Time can never efface the blessed
memory of bed time, with father and
mather tucking you into your crib
hearing you say your faltering prayer
and praying with you. And then the
sweet, low song Of love and faith.
wonder why so many fathers allow
mother" to have all the Joy of put
! ting the children to bed. It is the
hour when parent and child can yet
nearest together. The dear, sleepy
little fellow will fight off the sleep
| to hear again and again Of Joseph or
! Moses or Ruth.
It is a very precious privilege to tell
the dear old Bible stories to Sun
day school class. I dearly love it,
and can hold a child's attention more
easily with Biblical than secular stor-
les, but I am sorry for the parents
who do not know the Joy of telling
to their children the dear old stories
that they love SO we'll.
Is your child afraid of the dark l?
Whose fault is it? Fear is not nat
ural, but acquired, in the mind of a
child. Yes, you tell him that when
it gets dark something will get him
If he don't watch out. 1.-THE COLLINS
will get you" Oh, the agony of mind
of the sensitive child, caused by
some such thoughtless word. Talk
with him reasonably and tell him that
'The day is the Lords, the night al.
SO is his" Tell him also that He has
said that HE will give His angels
charge over thee to keep thee in all
thy ways" In some such way, set
his mind at ease and he will drop of
to sleep into a world of peace and
rest
How fast these little ones grow
away from US, and how little time we
really have to teach them of the
spiritual things, for life is so full, and
it is not all we say, dear friends,
that counts. It is the every day liv-
ing. How often someone says, I'VE
must be careful what we say now, for
baby is getting old enough to under.
stand" 1t behooves us to be equal
ly careful how we act. Did you ever
see boy who was a second edition
of his father, or girl who was q
m1niture copy of her mother? Every
day we see the evidences of the trait
of imitation in children.
Father has an Office down town. He
leaves in the morning early, lights
his cigar and hurries to get a car.
Later in the day, little Jr., hurries
for his hat, says goodby, lights a
make believe cigar, and he is doing
just like papa. Little Mary dresses
her doll and cares for it just as ma
ma does for the baby. If mama is
impatient and slaps and scolds, so
does the make believe mamma.
On Sunday mother and the child
rem 60 to church. Father stays at
home, reads the Sunday paper, goes
to the Office and is ready for big
Sunday dinner. All goes we'll until
son reaches the age of adolescence,
and then he says, Church and Sun
day school are for women and child
rem. Men don't go. My papa don't
and I know he would go If it was for
men," The die is SET Mother and
the Sunday school teacher alone can.
not do it. To secure best results re-
Quires both parents and the Sunday
school teacher. When q child nears
the age Of adolescence there are count
less forces at work to draw him
away from the right, and then tho
parent realizes as never before that !
a dutiful child is the result of "eter- |
nal vigilance" We find then that i'm
itation is the unconscious effort of |
the child to understand life by doing
as the people about him do. For q J
time the parent is his ideal, but when |
the third birthday comes he starts !
to Sunday school and then the parent |
must share with the teacher in the |
esteem Of the child. feel that it is
very important that there be a bond
of sympathy between the parent and
the teacher. Did it ever occur to
you, teacher, that the child's concep-
ton Of Christ may be what he sees
in you?
A mother came to the teacher of
her little boy one day and said, John
was playing on the floor the other
day and all at once he stopped and
said, Mamma, wish you were as
much like Jesus as my teacher isl"
Oh, mother, what rebuke. Oh, teach
er, what responsibility. Is the ST.
lent message Of the Sunday school
to the imaginative, initiative
child to be BE We imitators of me,
as am of Christ"
What, parent, does the child see in
your house? What is there to uplift
him and make him noble and manly?
Or gracious and womanly? For ex-
ample. What kind Of pictures are