Connecticut western news., 1910-06-23
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTING? ?


 blood boil with indignation. An old father and mother turned out of house and home by their son, to whom in a moment of generosity, finding the chill of old age creeping upon them, they had made over their little property, with an understanding that they should have shelter and support during the fsw remaining years of their life, and in the sere and yellow leaf, to be turned out of doors because the sons wife didn't want to be bothered with old people, was, to say the least, shame ful. Distant relatives took the old people in and suit for recovery of prop srty, on the ground of violation of agree ment, may later be brought.
 How that old father and mother toiled for the little home in which they SO fondley hoped to spend the remaining days of their lives. Up in the morning early, for there were cows to milk and chores to be done. and after these the long days work, and late to bed, tired y6b IlOD01ul Ol Gll0 Iu6uIC' 4hCJ HOAO younger then,-much younger than now, and life stretched before them, a rosy -hued dream of happiness, when they should have accumulated sufficient to remove the last dollar of the farm mortgage.
 Children were born to them, and for these the fond parents toiled with an added incentive. With what loving comfort they guided the tottering foot steps, and how proud mother was when first the little one came toddling to her arms.
 How she pressed him to her heart and with happy tears in her eyes rejoiced that the Heavenly Father had sent into her life this wealth of happiness And the baby, growing with glee, put it's tiny arms around mothers neck and in his baby way tried to kiss her.
 That was proud and happy moment in mother's life. And father looked on and smiled, for he too was happy. Would that God could have taken that babe. dear mother in its Hour of innocence, when your hearts were so firmly knit together, rather than have permitted him to grow into the ungrateful, selfish carl cature of manhood he seems aftsrward to have proved. It's long distance, between that child in mothers arms, trying to smother her with kisses, and the man who turning his back upon father and mother in their old age. sending them from his door, matter of 25 years, and diversified must have been the clements entering into and forming such complex nature. '
 Turning father and mother from the door! God in heaven look upon such a man, and. in the nagnanimity of Thy mercy minister to him; for if ever man stood in need of ministration that man will yet stand in need of it.. Heart -calloused, soul graping, insid- uouS nature, that could turn deaf ear to all kindly sympathy and forget the duty and the affection due to those who bore him.
 What punishment is too great for a nature so sordid The common pun ishments of life upon such a nature make but slight impress, but have no doubt that in the hands of Him who stands for righteousness and justice, as we'll as for mercy and love, there will some way be found whereby this man may not go unwhipped of justice.
 Little do fathers and mothers realize when they bring their children into the world, what the future years have in store. They plan for the future of their children with that unselfshness that fill father and mother hearts, and the years roll by, and, alas! too often, the very ones they have loved most, and for whom they have endured most, and planned most, prove heartless ingrates.
 Thank God it is not always thus. There are many bright and worthy ex- captions, but scarcely day goes by but we see realizations of the baseness of children's ingratidute. The daily press teens with it. Why is it? Is it because home teachings have lost their force and become obsolete or possibly been aban- doned all together ?,
 Is it because in our home-life the element of worldliness has entered and things are weighed and measured on the standard of dollars and cents? Is it because the family altar has been re- placed by indifference to right living, bordering on the verge of atheism? Is it because the world is offering such a multiplicity of attractions that the boys and girls, instead of spending their nights at home with father and mother, as in former days, are nightly treading the glittering outside circles of worldly attractions, where too often the sacred