Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-11

Short Story: Azilee Salter.
ouartette: Ruth Coursey, Kath-
llene Jackson, Lucille Franklin Martha
Derrick.
Narration: Evelyn Salter.
Jokes: Alison Carpenter.
Narration: Elise Franklin.
Song by school.
Story: Homer Randall.
Duet: Lucille Frankline and Kath-
lene Jackson.
Spice: Lucy Holmes.
School News: Bobbie Merchant.
The following paper on the Fifth
Commandment was written by a
seventh grade pupil:
"Honor thy father and thy moth
er that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God CIV
eth thee"
There is not more lovely sight on
earth than the unwearied care and at
tention of children to their parents.
No young man or woman will turn
out unfit for anything who loves and
honors their parents. A child affec-
tionate and dutiful will never bring
the gray hairs of its parents to the
grave. Love for parents will keep men
from sin and crime. There never will
come a time while your parents live
when you will not be under obliga-
tion to them. The older they grow the
more need will they have for our
care and attention for their wants.
The venerable brow and frosty hair
speaks loud to the love of the child.
Parental love will never,ge unreward-
ed. 6 !
mer are thoughtful of their mothers.
Napoleon, Washington and Garfield
were loving and obedient to their
mothers. Our blessed Lord himself,
in the hour Of his great agony, cared
tenderly for his sorrowing mother
who had so gently guided his ways.
Why do not children honor and
obey their parents more? Surely if
they would, they would change this
chill world into heaven.
Home love is the best love. The
love that you are born in is the sweet
est you will ever have on earth. You
who have escaped from the home
nest, pause moment and think, new
er again after strangers have broken
the beautiful bond will there be any
thing as sweet as the little circle of
father, mother and children where
you are cherished, protected, prais-
ed and kept from harm. You may
not know it now, but you will know
it some day. Honor for father and
mother is the corner stone for good
morals. The very name, father, is it
self law of justice.
How often is the JOY and comfort
of home blighted by the unkind and
disobedient acts of children. But
there are those children who by their
kind and obedient acts are the cen
ter of JOY to their parents, crowning
their brows with honor and making
their own hearts happier and better.
We may not all have equal oppor-
tunity Of honoring our parents, but
if we are honoring them to the best
of our ability, we are meeting all
that is required of us. Home is no
home where children do not honor
and obey their parents, but happy are
the children who are happy with their
parents.
In keeping the fifth commandment
we not only honor our earthly pa
rents, but in honoring them we honor
our Heavenly Father. Learning to
respect and obey his earthly parents
is child's first and most important
lesson in learning to honor, respect
and obey God, his Heavenly parent.
Benjamin Franklin we'll said "Let a
child's first lesson be obedience, and
the second may be what thou wilt"
"Hearken unto thy father and de-
spise not thy mother when she is DID,"
Proverbs 1922. AS long as parents
live they should be honored and re-
spected by their children. The duty
enjoined in the fifth commandment
does not cease at maturity, nor when
the child leaves the parental roof.
The fulness of the promise given