Year: 1868

tirsly reeoyers from the wound which
pareutai betrayal iuficts under such
circumstances.


When the difficulty has been prop.
ely adjusted, and The fitting moment
comes, the parent can call the child to
8 settlement Nth him and the parent
having, by his e-hearted loyalty,
won the gratitude and devotion Of the
child, finds its heart like wax in his
hands, on which be can indelibly stamp
any lesson he may choose to impaFt.
Let the father or mother who doubt
this doctrine test it on the first oppor-
tunity which shall offer, and it win be
found to be as immutable as truth, for
it is truth.


The same loyalty should be exhibit
ed BY husband towards his wife.
There is probably nothing 80 dear to q
wife's heart as the uDquestiouing deVo-
ton aud sympathy of her husband
whenever she gets in trouble Of any
kind. The consciousness that, what
ever betide, she can always find haven
Of refuge in her hasband's heart, and
that he viii stand by her in any contest
or troaJIe with the outside world, is the
one thing which, Of all things on earth,
is most precious to a "ite's soul; and
the lack Of this has been the rain Of
many a wife, and destroyed the happi-
ness of many a household, and sent
many children TO the devil.


Daughters. fifteen years old and
upwards, especially need the most
tender and ;catchfut parental sympathy
If they do not have their hearts fed at
home they will seek the needed sus-
tentation abroad. 4 daughter thus +.
situated is always exposed to peril.
Some vicious stranger may discover his
opportunity in her hungering heart,and
by degrees win her confidence, and in
sidiously lead her TO destruction. There
are girls now walking the streets Of
New York at night, whose ruin can be
directly traced to this cause.


In discussing this matter once with
venerable and yenerated friend, full
of years, and wisdom, and righteous
ness, and whose name is familiar in
many households throughout the land,
he surprised US by saying,


Il have had painful exemplihcation
of the trulhfulness of your views in my
own case. When my son was
quite a lad he came home one day
fl ON school, with his books, at an ear
lier hour than usual asked him the
reason. He said that be had had a
difficulty with the teacher, and was not
going to school to him any more


THAT was many years ago, and my
ideas of duty and obedience on the part
Of children were very strict aud stern
in those days. | at once told my son
that lie had done wrong, and that he
must 90 back and apologize to the
teacher But, father, said he, Let me
tell you how it was, and you will see
| that have done nothing wrong Ilet
him tell his story, which was substan-
TALLY this:


"Thc teacher had accused him of
violating a rule of the school, and called
/ him up for punishment. My son de-
MED having done the thing Of which
he was accused, and protested against
being punished. But the teacher in
sisted that he was right, and told my
son to hold out his hand, which he re-
fused to do. The teacher then attempted
to punish him; my son, though but a
chi d, resisted and a conflict eusued;
my sons hand was badly bruised, and
so were his head and shoulders, but he
succeeded at last iu wrenching the
ruler from the teacher, aud had then
taken his books and come home.


81 was shocked that son Of mine
should have been guilty of what seemed
to me an act of gross disobedience, and
| chided him severely for it. He
pleaded earnestly and pathetically that
he was right in what he had done. I
turned deaf ear to his remonstrances,
and peremptorily insisted that he should
90 back TO the school and make an
apology to the teacher. Accordingly,
the next morning | compelled him to
take his books and go with me to the
school house, he all the way remon-
strating against the course which ]
forced him to adopt. On entering the
yestibule of the school house be stopped
short and said


"'Father, l cannot enter that school
room. l l0oaid die first"


II turned and looked at him, and
seeing something in his face which
warned me that l must not crowd him
too far, paused to think. This gave
my son an opportunity to say that
there were several boys in the school
(uaming them) who saw the whole mat
ter from beginning to end, and that if
would go in and tell the teacher to
ask those boys to tell about it / could
learn the exact truth.


II acted upon this suggestion, and
went in aud spoke to the teacher about
it. He called up the boys named, and
questioned them in my presence. Their
testimony satisfied me, and the teacher
also, that he had been wholly in the
wrong, and that my son was in the
right. The teacher at once went out
to my son, brought him in, aud in .
frank and manly way set him and the
Rwhole matter right before the school
He did il so handsomely thaq my son
never afterwards felt any bitterness to-
wards him, but 7 have been conscious
tbot from thet day 70 the present hour