The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-11-12
The Duties Of Parents
in Training Children
in Citizenship.
PAPER BEAD BY PROF. HOPE AT THE
PARENT.TEAcHERs MEETING
LAST WEEK.

Citizenship in the American Re
kpublic land rhat includes Lee Coun'
1Wlcarries with it grave responsible
fitics. That children at maturity
hlay discharge them Alright anc
thus become of the greatest possible
use TO our state and nation, the
4 home must lock arms with the
school and correlate their worl;
Instead of pulling Oftimes in oppo-
aite directions. You cannot dO the
work OF the home at school and
any one who attempts it stares
!, failure in the face. would that
every mother and father and teacher
in Leesburg and elsewhere could
See this great truth and act upon it.
: Man looks for an ideal. This
i deal is wrought into the childs
7 Highest nature. Our children who
are the friction OF OR lives, will
4 rise up in the day of judgement to
approve or, condemn us 8not for
What they have learned from Us,
hnt for what we have made them
through our daily influence and
examples before them. Father,
what is your example before the
son If your flesh? Mothers, how
under God are you leading your
daughters by precept and by ex-
ample? What shall the harvest be?
No power on earth can destroy your
influence as parents. The American
home must make the American
citizen and we as parents must have
the correct ideal OF true citizenship.
In our home there must be no
sympathy with evil deed. Those
) low, cunning tricks in1traGe ano
politics must meet with no praise,
but with just disapproval. We are
not private citizens but belong to
the public and its just demands
anon us as honest men and true
citizenship. Shirk not the duty Of
true citizenship. The child out OF
the Christian home ought to be so
impressed with the moral worth Of
his father, with his business intre-
gritty. his sincerely, his love OF
truth, his spirit Of helpfulness as TO
resolve to be like his father-honest
truthful, sincere and helpful in all
his dealings with others worthy
son Of worthy sire." Is the Anne
rican home doing this for the
American child? Candidly | don't
believe that it is, I fear that the
standard of citizenship is not as
high as it was some quorter century
ago. This is in a great measure
doe 70 d decadence Of that home
spirit which once made "the paren-
tail hearth the rallying place OF the
affections''-our children are not
It home to that old home that our
(. mothers love to sing: Home Sweet
Home" for we don't often have
that, sacred shrine around which
the members gather in other DAYS
when His word was read to our
edifc&tioli' and prayer and praise
follows SS' listing oenediction to
those who heard. Moves the pity
but 'tis true: How will those in
duencee' affect our children when
they 60 out into the social, CONNER
cial and political world to take theil
place among men? Does to trair
a child in the way he should g
take to much Of our time away
from our business or pleasure? Thu
q heart.searcl1ing question which
we as parents under God canno
well afford to ignore. Then again
What is the terms of the converse
ton that the child often hears from
his parents? Is it evil or coarse o
vile or how? The old injunction
''Thou shall not speak evil Of tn
rulers of'thY people" has its impor
tant bearings upon the life of today
The future of this nation will no
be intrusted so much in the polite
as expressive in terms Of Democrat
or Republicanism, but in the higl
order Of civil service as patriots