Year: 1865

First of all, it will not be permitted
practice to quit the child when crying or
in states of Irritation, or pacify it in fits of
Immature by dainties that please the taste.
What is this but schooling and drawing
out of sensation by making it the reward
of Just that which is most totally opposed
to the rules of self-government It must
be very dull child that viii not cry and
fret good deal when it is so pleasantly
rewarded. Trained in this manner to
play illnature, for sensation sake, it viii
soon go on rapidly in the course of double
attainment, and viii be very soon perfec-
ted in the double character of an lima
tured, morbid sensualist and feigning
cheat besides. By what method, or
means, can the great theme of God and re-
igion get hold of soul, that has learned
to be governed only by rewards of sensa-
ton, paid to affections of grief and delib-
crate actings of ill-nature.


Simplicity also, as opposed to luxuries
condiments and confections, is condi-
ton Of all right feeding for infancy and
and childhood, which ought to approve
itself to the most ordinary measures Of
parental discretion. Of course l do not
mean to say that the child is never to have
its holiday feast-that would be to cut
him off from another kind of benefit
only insist that is not to have perpetual
holiday, and be stimulated by continual
havors on bis organstill the beautiful sim
plicity Of his appetite is gone, and moth
ing pleases longer, but that which is in
tense enough to be rather poison than
food. Coffee, for example, what can be
worse for child's body or his future
character than to be dosed every morning
with his cup of coffee! No matter if he
cries for it, all the worse if he does; for it
shows that he has been taught to love it
and has so far been taken away prema-
turely from the natural simplicity of his
taste. And how is the child going to be
drawn by the beauty of God, and the sa-
cred pleasure of Gods friendship, when
thinking always of the dainties he has
had, or is again to have, and counting it
always the main blessing of existence to
have his body seasoned by the iavOrs of
sensation I. Instead of praying as possi-
bly, he may be taught in words. 1Feed
me with food convenient for rme," he prays
in fact from morning to night with all dis
eased longings and hankerings, to be fed
in the exact contrary with what will most
increase his already oyergrown sensuality.
In manner faithfully characteristic of
his low prudential morality. Paley ad-
vises that all children and young people,
should live simply because they are now
susceptible enough to relish simple
things; in order that, as their tastes grow
dulIer with advancing age, they may al
low themselves freer indulgence in the
stimulation of appetite, and so maintain
the feeding pleasure to the last. Counsel
not to be questioned, even if these pleas
ures were the chief end of life itself We
are only disappointed and vexed by the
lowness of it, when we recall what is the
real and true penalty Of youthful indul
gence, that it takes away the possible rel
ish of truth, duty and religion, and makes
the soul forever inaccessible to these no
Bile powers of character and blessedness.-
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