The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-24

greatness or weakness in ma to
measure to the task of properly rear
ing a child. Because of the pressure
OF modern life with It's many urgent
demands upon the time of the father
the task OF fulfilling the high priestly
problem. Not only. is office and bust
ness demanding his day but the social
and business obligations are demand
ms each evening and night. The old
time family circle which was found
at the firestde each evening in our
fathers day is perilously broken into.
Life becomes professional. The ia
winner and merely a boarder in the
home. This should not be. The wife
is presumably fond of tho father
having married him: and the children
love h fatheriy presence and caress
as much AS he children of the olden
time and some method must be adopt
ed in each home so that the father
exception but as a regular rule
ldeal Father a Proyider.
The ideal father should be a pro-
ny. The father who will lot care for
the physical comfort and mainten-
c of his household is to be de-
nounced. But what shall VIC say of
the beastial s%elfishness Of the man
who will spend his meager wage for
poisonous liquor to satisfy his WI
appetite when the children which he
NJ me with nakedness and hunger.
Nor does charity relieve the situa-
ton when it feeds the family and the
father. and thereby gives him the
greater freedom in INDUCING his pro-
f,gacy.
Not An Animated Cash Register.
But we should not. 60 to the other
extreme and look upon the father. as
an animated cash register to whom
me wife and each of the children
iook as a sort of an automatum which
furnishes funds for the asking. TIE
men who faithfully toll at ihe desk
and shop to supply the heavy and
often foolish demands of tbs spend
thrift family is doing the iuob.e in
jury of wearing himself u for M
anworthy cause and teaching his chill
ing dependence.
After dwelling at length upon FAM
ily economics as controlled b. the
father Rev. Mccoy stated that the
ideal father should care for the minds
OF ny children and their souls. While
teachers taught the children yet every
iatner owed 1t to his child to give
NaS@hs AIcdsIIS IlIlO Oy Oeln2
clean and pure himself.
Character Teaching the Great Test.
The great test Of the father is tn:
example he is setting for his boy. For.
greater than the question what shall
l do with my time Is the question
what shall I do with myself The
father must be a good man. Multi
tudes Of children, insofar as their
fathers are concerned apparently, are
spiritual orphans in the world. The
boy may gt shopping with his mother
out the thing that appeals to tie nor
NAL boy is to be manly like his father
and do things that require strength
of manhood The father owes. it. to
his boy to go. with him to Sunday
school and church. The social in
huence that came from the family
sitting as a unit in the old meeting
house and worshipping together is I
blessed influence and a distinct and
great loss to our day when the IA
ther may be at hcme or II. the family
is at church 1t is scattered in tho
audience. II the father will love the
boy the wood shed conferences
which used to be so impressive, might
we'll be largely done away with. The
best legacy a father can leave his
boy is the legacy Of an upright exam
pie. -.