The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-10-05

Ou6SOoIiOHS do d I0u0uy, ana L re-
specially submit, that in my judge
ment, ninety per cent of the calami-
ties to the young girls of such de-
pforable misfortune, as you write,
are traceable to the parental roof of
about equal ratio, to the neglect of
the son in the one home, and the
daughter in the other.
am the happy father of five
daughters and one son, all grown
When | was a young father, I was
profoundly impressed by a story told
by the famous Evangelist, Sam
Jones; Of mothers meeting, where
was being discussed the question of
lat what age should we begin with
the training of a child?" and after
many speeches, how one old lady
stood up and with great earnestness
said: Tn my opinion the time to
begin with the training of child is
twenty years before it is BORN
The only son referred TO above, is
now upward of thirty years of age,
and is the father of a bright son
and daughter; the husband of a de-
voted wife all told. It's happy
home; and should that~boy be asked,
on what leading sins did his father
dwell, and give most emphasis, it is
my cherished joy that he would an
swer: 'The infamy of young man
with mothers daughter" l lost
no time in teaching him the hideOus-
ness and irreparability of wrecked
virtue, and now in my declining
years, l would reaffirm and declare
to the world Of young men, that in
my judgement, for man to
SO far forget himself as to mislead
and accomplish the downfall of a
girl is the supreme crime Of man;
and the most difficult to atone for,
this side Of eternity. Contemplate
the tasll-there is the bleeding heart
of a mother who once knelt over her
innocent babe and in dedice ting it
to life of purity, baptises it with
tears Of hopeful joy; next behold the
gray-haired father, being rushed,
with lower head, to a premature
grave; then the wounded lives and
sadeneG hearts of brothers and Sis
tiers; and then, o, then, for young
man to look back upon the slaughter
ed victim of his vice, and remember
when he could have been brother
instead of brute with all these hide
GUS sins riviteG to conscience, re-
fecting his fiendish, handy work to
society He may appeal to God and
obtain mercy but | doubt it; for will
not restitution be required? And if
so, who could make it? Many will dub
this the flying debris from storm
swept brain; but will you let me
point to all history, both sacred and
profane, as authority for the asser-
ton, what lost virtue done for Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., is but to say what
has been known to wreck empires
and threaten the life of Kingdoms,
and further that those who cannot
see the clouds gathering over this
hemisphere of ours, and hear. the
roaring thunder, are blind and deaf
to danger. These special efforts,
backed up by the prayers and admon-
ition Of a devoted mother, rid of
home of even a probability of this
sin. and we hope for deep planting
productive results through succeed
ing generations.
Ou<~ hearts go up to God in graft
tude for what our daughters are to
their husbands and homes and in
sympathy to the poor girls and boys,
whose parents failed to see the
danger in delay.
Our daughters were early and in
cessantly taught that the discourte--