Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-03-31
PREFACE

In offering these articles from time
to time through the columns of the
Courier, we are actuated by a desire
to assist, lift up, encourage all who
may read this and try to help them
in attaining to higher and holier lives.
It has ever been the greatest ambi-
ton CT my life to paint the picture
Of life, according to one ideal, just as
it ought to appear in the. varied
phases and relationship from infancy
to old age.
We should make this model life the
very best as we pass through its diff
ferent stages and then we shall have
accomplished our purpose and .com-
passed cur most ardent desire.
AS we purpose talking from baby
hood to old age we will start by say
ing that babies are the sweetest living
things on earth. They are angels in
disguise. Babyhood is life's sunshine,
beaming beautiful and bright upon the
world. 1t is the opening hours of an
endless life. 1t may be a life great in
its possibilities, grand in its achieve
ments, and glorious in its destiny; or
it may be an existence blighted in the
bud, blasted in the bloom, and piano.
piled with the darkness of endless
death TO those of US who are parents
the air above our heads is not purer,
/ the flowers at our feet are not sweet
er, and the lambs playing sportively
upon the lawn, are not more innocent
than these darling babes of ours.
| There can't be anything more beauti-
/ full, lovely or attractive than sweet,
innocent little baby.
The baby is ever recognized by the
entire family circle as the tenderest
I ,1lo he domestic T1a1~adiSo If
| this is true, it should be handled and
cultured with the greatest possible
care. It's little mind is susceptible to
| the most delicate impressions, either
for good or evil. 1t is of the highest
! Importance then that these impress
sions be of the purest and hottest
character.
At this period OF the chiId's life the
work of teaching the baby begins
either for veal or woe. All mothers
want to realize the great Importance
of this work which is committed to
their hands to be used and nurtured
fer God. And good mothers would be
/ far from transferring these sacred
trusts to unskilled hands, empty heads
and unholy hearts. A mother can do
nothing nobler than to nurse and nur-
/ ture her own offspring. The impress
!
stamped early upon its little soul. In
their young and tender lives lie hidden
/ infinite possibilities. They simply de-
mand proper development to make
! them great powers for good in this
world; and to qualify them for happi-
4 ness here and heaven afterward.
/ The apparently trivial influences
which contribute to the formation of
human character and painting the fore
ground of coming years. They will
/ endure through time and bear fruit in
/ eternity.
We would give much tc life the mis-
| ty curtains which mantle the coming
years and trace the unopened leaves
of its future history. But merciful
Providence has thrown an impenetra-
BILE veil over the future of this bud of
promises, and hidden openings and de-
velopments in sealed volume. This
desire to wrest from the sealed book
CT heaven its untold secrets and read
the chronology of time in advance of
its happenings is wrong and tends to
discomfort and unhappiness.
+. A. TRAWICK.