The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-09-21
THAT OUR DAUGHTERS NAY
Be AS CORNERSTONES. :

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blade of workman's knife broken
off and left in the compass box. Only
little thing you say but enough tcs
defect the needle that guided the
great loss of property and life. Are
there not many ship-wrecked lives in
our land, where the light of Gods
truth does shine, caused BY little
things that have clogged the minds
and reason and changed the course
OF Life to the eternal undoing of these
immortal souls.
Every child should be impressed
that God has plan and place in life
for him. As God spoke to Samuel
when small boy, and revealed his
will to him, so God stands ready to
reveal himself to the young boy or
girl who will seek after this truth.
God chose David as King over Israel
when he was only youth, overlook
ed by his brethren, and not overlook
/ ed by God. No child is too small to
be overlooked by God. To joseph
when he was only boy, God gave
visions of coming greatness. Likewise
| even today, God makes use of young
people to carry out his plans and
purposes for the upbuilding of his
kingdom on earth. His spirit Is
, ready to them.
First of all God wishes to claim
the 1Sfe Of young man or woman as
lis c.Ba, lie says, My Son, give me
| thine heart" here lies the secret of
| success, in the beginning of every
life, and no, one has ever yet found
his true place in life, or fitted his
plan of life into the plan and purpose
Of God. wfthc.ut first yielding his
heart and love to God. This is
! through a simple act of faith, for by
| faith alone mans place in life is
found. To the child that learns
| obedience at his mothers knee, it is
but short step to learn obedience
TO the Word c.f God The faith of
child in his father as man of right
eousness, is but the easier led on to
be placed in the great Heavenly
Father. Every child first of all,
should learn of obedience in the
| hc.mes then we will find obedience in
| the school; obedience to the laws of
our land, and above all obedience to,
the laws of God. The will of child
/ is not to be broken, but taught to
yield to proper authority. and when
this lesson is learned, one of the
/ greatest victories has been won
! In the next place, let me say that if
faith finds the place Of life self-con-
troll keeps it. Self-contrc3 is twin
sister of obedience, and the two
/ should go hand in hand. No man has
ever yet kept his place in life, who
has not kept his grip on himself, on
| his feelings, and passions contro4ing
his own spirit. Self-contfol can
never be taught too early in life, the
uncontrolled youth surely makes the
/ uncontrolled grown person, and cen
| trariwise the youth who learns self
| government, can as grown person
control not only himself but others.
The child should be impressed with
the Importance of his place. He is to
| be something worth, he is te' be some
body, he is to be power in real life,
he is to be live wire, through which
| some great current of life may pass
through him some great blessing may
pass on to human race. He should
| be taught to make use of every pow
er in him and reach out after the
power of God, that this is his bless
ed privilege and duty; this should
! inspire and nerve him to press for
| ward to the noblest and best things
| that God has prepared.
| Our SONS and daughters should be
taught to look up, and ever keep
their faces toward the source of true
life; as the tree grows by reaching
out after the sunlight so child
! grows in character by reaching out
after the Light of the world. Some
one has said, if a tree grows prop
i erly. there must be nothing between
it and the sun, so likewise there must
be. nothing between the face of the
child and Gods light. If he is to
look up and grow into the image of
/ Christ. Ever keep before your child
or pupil, the highest ideals of life,
! ever teach your child to homer the
noblest and best men of earth. The
/ great heros of our country and other
/ lands and he will be the easier led
to look upon an dhonor Him, viii is
the Hero of all heroes who is the
Highest of the highest, that he may
by keep in his gaze upon Christ, be
transformed; and with an omen face,
beholds as in a glass the glory
OF the Lord. will be changed in that
same image from glory to glory.
Again the growth of a plant is not
only upward but outward, so like
wise must be the growth of child life,
/ there must not only be the upward
/ look but the child must be taught
to lock abroad knowing that all things
are his, for his use as loan from God,
to use for himself and for the glory
of God, and thus he can e3taught to
1 live not merely for himself, but for
others, and as he so lives, he, win
catch broad conception of life. and
grow in the desire to win the world
| for Jesus. Let a child be inspired
with patriotic feelings for he3 who is
taught the patriotism, can but the
easier understand the .noblest Of all
patriotism, that beats in the bosem
of the citizen of the Kingdom OF
Heaven. 1t was Ben Hill who said: