The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-24
c. w. Duke, of Tampa, Delivered
Interesting Address On
"AmericanS In The Making

man clay capable Of being drawn out
to infnity. 1t is bundle OF posi-
bilities. OF course every life is the
product of the will by the environ
ment. Must have stock, but must
have environment. Cannot say
either is alone sufficient. Much de-
rends upon the stock. Holmes wei!
said that if you are to make gen
tleman you must begin with the
grandfather. 1t takes hundred
years to grow a gentleman. Give US
good human timber.
wish today tc speak especially OF
what society owes the child. This Is
the great question for the Christian.
Used to be thought that child was
an asset. Now it is liability, the
greatest OF them all. 1t must be
said that Jesus was really the dis
coverer of the child-its place and
value.
What are the rights of the child?
What does society owe the child.
1t has a right to be well-born Ele-
nent of necessity in every life. Con-
ditions Ct birth are matters over
which we have no control. Many
children are cursed. rather than
born, into the world The child has
right to know its own parents II
has a right to be brought UP in a
home; due two parents. Gods way
Duties that the father owes Man
that stays here Sundays Divorce
Fugenic marriages d not say that
Christianity las nothing to do with
these matters. 1t has all to do with
them Lepers in Jerusalem Look
at our asylums' Il is a well-known
fact that nearly all idiocy is in
herited To say nothing of the cost
to society, think of the curse to the
child
2. The child has a right to nor
NAL nourishment and wholesome en-
lyironment. food and fresh air Pic
ture child in tenement: no light of
sun, no light of love Child we saw
in negro home In China they hate
female child In Rome no thought
was given to the child We are af
ter all doing little better. Children
are often not wanted now. Almost
every week a child is found in our
sewers in Tampa Child in a tene-
ment home; then on the streets to
play which is no place to play. God
made them for play, Play in the
street-made criminals by 1t, He
comes to feel that law is his nemy.
and he hates it Do not say these
are not matter for the concern of
the church If not then what is our
missions. All this business of
spending our time on getting chill
! dren to heaven If more pagan than
, Christian in spite of all that some of
us preachers are saying Slaughter
iof the innocents
8. Child has a right to an educa-
tion. This ought TO be adapted to
the needs of the child. Bring I'D
child in the way he should go. Edu-
cate means TO draw out, importation
of knowledge and the training of
the powers. II you give the child
the wrong kind of food and make it
sick, everyone condemns you. Why
give it the wrong kind of mental
food? Child is a three-story build
ing. Education regards all these. To
fail to develop the mind and heart
is as criminal as to fail to develop
the body; far mere so. for it is the
mind and heart that make the diff
ferences among men-why one NAV
be worth a thousand other men?
The ancient world did not appre-
ciate the child Do we vet
Greatest thing in the world t, be :
mother. Vow and then a women