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iiient ot the Vounjf.
'"Ho Ml from off the seat back
ward by the snlo of the gate, and In*-
neck brake, and he died ; for Ue was
an old man and heavy.' 1 1 Samuel
iv : 18.
This is the end of a long story of
parental neglect -Judge Eli was a
good man, but he let his two be»js?
j Hophni and l'hinehas, do as the
1 1 .
| [(leased, and through over in
| diligence they went to ruin. The
■ blind old judge, US years of age. is
I seated at the gate waiting for the
j news (A an important battle in which
i his two sons were at the front. An
| express is coming with tidings trom
j the battle. This blind nonogenai ian
! puts his hand behind his ear and
I listens and cries: "What meaneth
i the noise of thi« tumult? An
| excited messenger, all out of breath
i with thu speed, taid to him: Our
[ army is elefeated. The sacred chest,
| called the ark, and your
sons are on the; field. " No
j wonder tho father fainted and ex
pired. The domestic tragedy in
j which these two sons were the
' tragedians had finished its fifth and
last act. "Ho fell from ofT the seat
j backward by the side of the gate and
' his neck brake, and he died: for he
1 was an old man and heavy.
Eli had made an awful mistake in
' gard to his children The Bible
{distinctly says: "His sons made
I themselves vile and he restrained
J them not Oh, the ten thousand
j mistakes in rearing chihlsen, mis
; takes which wo all make. Will it
| not be useful to consider them ?
I his country is going to be con
ijuered by a great army, compared
1 with which that of Baldwin the Fi t,
i and Xervos, and Alexander, and
(iraut, and Lee, all put togeth r.
i w ere in numbers insignificant. Tho\
will capture all our pulpits, store
honeys, factories and halls of legi-la
tion, ail our shipping, ail our wealth
and all our honors. Thev will take
J possession of all authority, from the
I nited States presidency down to
the humbie.-t constabulary — of ever\
j thing between the Atlantic and
J I'acitic oceans. They are *l the
| march now. and they halt neither
I day nor night. They will soon be
here and all the present active
population of this country must
surrender and give way. 1 refer to
tho great army of children. Whether
they shall take possession of everv
thing for good or for bad depends
upon tho style of preparation
through which they pass on their
way from cradle to throne. Cicero
acknowledges he kept 111 his desk a
collection of prefaces for iooks, which
prefaces ho could at any time attach
to anything he wanted to publish for
himself or other ; and parents and
teachers have all prepared the pre
face of every young life under their
charge, ami not only the preface, but
the appendix, whether the volume
be a poem or a farce. Families, and
schools, and legislatures are in out
day busily engaged in discussing
what is the best mode of educating
j children. Before this question al-
I most every other dw indles into insig
j niticance, while dependent upon its
proper solution is the welfare of
governments and ages eternal.
Macaulay tells of the war which
Frederick the Second made against
Queen Maria Theresa. And one day
she appeared before the augu»t diet,
wearing mourning for the father, and
held up in her arms before them her
, child, the arcliducke. This so
wrought upon the oilicers and de
puties of the people that with half
drawn swords they broke forth 111
the war cry, ''Let us die for our
queen, Maria Theresa !" So, this
morning, realizing that tht« boy of
> today is to bo the ruler of the future,
the popular sovereign, I hold him be
fore the American pet>pie to arouse
tlicit enthusiasm in his behalf and to
evoke their oath for his defe use, lus
education and his sublime destinv.
If a parent, you will remember
when you were aroused to tiiese
great responsibilities, and when you
I found that you had not done all
required after you had admired the
j tiny hands, and the glossy hair, and
the L>right e*yes that lay 111 thecradle,
you suddenly remembered that that
hand would |y«t be -raised to bless
the world with its benediction, or to
I smite it with a curse. Iu Ariosto's
j great poem there is a character called
Ruggiero, who has a shield of
insufferable splendor, but it is kept
veiled save on certain occasions, and
when uncovered it startled and
overwhelmed, itn beholder, who be
fmf' had no suspicion of its bright
ness. My hope today is to uncorer
I the destiny of your child or student,
! about which you may have no special
appreciation, and llash upon you the
splendors of its immortal nature
: Behold the shield and the sword of
its coming conflict!
I propose 111 this discourse to set
! forth what I consider to Le some of
j the errors prevalent in the training
: of children.
First: I remark that many •rr in
too great severity or too great
leniency of family government.
Between parental tyranny and '
ruinous laxntivtmess of discipline
there is imediutn. Sometimes the
father errs on one side, and the
mother 011 the other side. Good
_
family government is all important. |
Anarchy and misrule in the domestic j
circle is the forerunner of anarchy j
and misrule in the stata. What a I
repulsive spectacle is a home without !
order or discipline, disobedience and I
impudence, and anger and falsehood '
lifting their horrid front in the place
which should be consecrated to all
that is holy and peaceful and ;
i beautiful. In the. attempt to avoid j
; all this, and bring the children under j
proper laws and regulations, parents j
have sometimes carried themselves '
j with great rigor. John Howard, j
I who was merciful to the prisons ami j
I lazarettcs, was merciless in the,
! treatment of his children. John '
| Milton knew everything but how to '
! tram Ins family. Severe and un
' reasonable was ho in his carriage
toward them. He made them read
I to him in four or liro languages, but
would not allow them to learn anr j
; of them, for he said that one tongue |
was enough for a woman. Then j
readiii l ' was mechanical drud-'erv. i
O O « |
i when if they had understood tho j
j languages they read, the employment
of reading have been a luxury, i
N" wonder his children despised 1
| him, and stealthily sold his books, I
; and hoped tor 11 is death. In all ages ■
: tiiQie lia.s been need of a societv for j
the prevention of cruelty to children. !
When Barliaia was put to death by
; her lather Lernuse she had counter-
I maiided his or ier, and had three
| windows put in a room instead of two,
j this cruel parent was a type of many
; who have acted the Nero and the j
j Robespieire in the home circle, j
| The heart sickens at what you some
| times see, even in families that pre- :
tend to be Christian—perpetual;
1 scolding, and hair pulling, and ear
boxing, and humping, and stamping, !
and fault finding, and teasing, until i
the children are vexed beyond bounds j
and growl in the sleeve, and pout. |
and rebel, and vow within themselves |
1 that in after dajs they will retaliate 1
j for the cruelties practiced. Many a
| home has become as full of dispute
j as was the home of John O Groat,
|w ho built his house at the most
J northerly point 'in Great Britain.
An 1 tradition savs that the house
had eight windows, ami eight doors, \
i and a table of eight sides, because
he had eight children and the only
way to keep them out of bitter
quarrel was to have a separate j
appointment for each one*of them.
That child's nature is too delicate ;
to be worked upon by sledge !
hammer, and gouge, and pile driver. :
Such fierce lashing, instead of
breaking the high aiettle to bit and
trace, will make it dash off the more
uncontrollable. Many seem to think
that children are flax—not tit for use
till thev have been hetcheled and
swindled. Some one talking to a
r» o
child said : " I wonder what makes
•that tree out there so crooked.
The child replied: "I suppose it
was trod upon while it was young. r
In some families all the discipline is '
concenetred upon one child's head.
If anything is done wrong, the
supposition is that George did it.
He broke the latch. He left open
the gate. He hacked the banisters,
lie whittled sticks em the carpets.
And George shall be the scapegoat
for all domestic misunderstandings
. and suspicious. If things get wrong
, in the culinary department, in comes
the mother and says, angrily:
••W.here is George?" If business
matters are perplexing at the store,
in comes the father at night and says,
angrily : "Where is George? In
many a household there is such a one
singled out for suspicion and
caft igation. All the sweet flowers
: of ihis soul blasted undef this
p,ipetual northeast storm, he curses
tl » day in which he was born.
in an ark of bulrushes
crocodiles, than
flMchon>, IRortb Carolina, "December 8, ISS7.
in an elegant mansion, amid such
domestic gorgona. A mother was
parsing along the street one day. arid
came up to her little child, who did
iM>t see her approach, and her child
was SUN ing to her playmate: "You
good for nothing little scamp, von
come right into the house this minute
or I will beat you till the skin comes
off.'' The mother broke in. saying :
" Why. Lizzie, I am surprised to
hear you talk like that to any one!
"Oh, " said the child, 14 1 was only
playing, and he is my little boy, and
I am scolding him, as you did me
this morning." Children are apt to
be echoes of their parents.
Safer in a Bethlehem manger
among cattle and camels with gentle
Mary to watch the little innocent
than the most extravagant nursery,
oyer which God's star of peace never
stood. The trapper extinguishes
the flames on the prairie by lighting
tire with lire, but you cannot, with
the tire of .your own disposition, put
out the tire of a child's disposition.
Yet we may rush to the other
extreme and rule children by too
great leniency, The surgeon is not
unkind because, notwithstanding the
resistance of his patient, he goes
straight on with firm hand and
unfaltering heart to take off the gan
grene. Nor is the parent less
affectionate and faithful because, not
withstanding all violent remon
strances on the part of the child, he
with the firmest discipline advances
to the cutting off of its evil inclina
tions. The Bible gays: "Chasten
thy sou while there is hopo, and l«t
not thy soul spare for his crying."
Childish rage unchecked will, after a
while, become a hurricane. Childish
petulance will grow up into mis
anthropy. Childish rebellio will
develop into the lawlessness of riot j
and sedition. If you would ruin the
child, dance to his every caprice and
stuff him with confectionery. Be
fore you are aware of it that boy of (i
years will go down the street, a cigar
in his mouth aud ready on any
corner with his comrades to compare
pugilistic attainments. The parent
who allows the child to gfOw up
without ever having learned the
great duty of obedience and submis
sion Ims prepared a cup of burning
gall for his own lips and appalling
destruction for his descendant.
Remember Eli and his two sons
liophni and Phinehas.
A second error prevalent in the
training of children is a laying out
of a theory and following it without
arranging it to varieties of disposi
tion. In every family you will find
striking differences of temperament.
This child is too timid, ami that too
bold, and this too miserly, and
that too wasteful; this too inactive,
and that too boisterous. J?ow, the
farmer who should plant corn and
wheat and turnips in just the same
way, then put them through one
hopper and grind tl.ein in the same
mill, would not be so much of a fool
a* the parents who should attempt
to discipline and educate all their
children in the same manner. It
needs a skillful hand to adjust these
check* and balances. The rigidity
of government which is necessary to j
hold in this impetuous nature would |
utterly crush that flexile disposition j
while the gentle repreof that would ;
suffice for the latter would, when j
used on the former, be like attempt- ;
ing to hold a champing Bucephalus
with reins of gossamer. God gives
us in the disposition of each child a
hint as to how we ought to train
him, and, as God in the mental
structure of our children indicates
what mode of training is the best,
he also indicates in the disposition
their future occupation. Dg nor*
write down that ehild as dull be
cause it may not now be as brilliant
as vour other children or as those of
vour neighbor. Some of the migh
tiest men and women of the centu
ries had a stupid childhood. Thom
as Aquinas was called at school "the
dumb ox," but afterward demonstra
ted his sanctified genius and was
called "the angel of the schools "
and "the eagle of Brittany.' Kind
ness. and patience with a child will
1 conquer almost anything, and tney
are virtues so Christianlike that they
are inspiring to leok at. John Wes
ley's kiss of a child on the pulpit
I stairs turned Matthias Joyce from a
profligate into a flaming evangel.
The third error prevalent in the
training of children is the one sided
development of eithtr the physical,
intellectual or at the
expense of the otherL Those, for
instance, greatly mistsA who, while
j they are faithful in » intellectuaj
and moral culture of children, forget
the physical. The bright eyes half
quenched by r.ight »tu ly, the cramp
ed chest that comes from too much
j bending ovt r school desks, the weak
j side resulting from sedentaries of
| habit, pale cheeks and the gaunt j
bodies of multitudes of chdelren at- !
test that physical development does j
not always go along with intellectu- I
al and moral. How do you suppose j
all thos« treasures of knowledge the j
child gets will look in shattered cas
ket? And how much will you give
for the wealthiest cargo w hen it is
put into a leaky ship? How can
that blight, sharp blade of a child s I
attainments be wielded without any i
handle? What are brains worth
without shoulders to carry them?
What is a child with magnificent
mind but an exhausted body? Bet
ter that a young man of "21 ro forth
•/ o r>
into the world without knowing A
from Z, if he have health of body
and energy to push his wax through
the world, than at 21 to enter upon
active life, his head stuffed with Se>-
crates, and Herodotus, and Bacon,
and La Place, but no physical force
to sustain him in the shock of earth
ly conflicts. From this infinite
blunder of parents how many have
come out iu life with a genius that
could have piled Ossa upon Pelion,
and mounted upon them to scale the
heavens, "tid have laid down panting
with physical exhaustion before a
mole hill. They W!K> might have
thrilled senates and marshaled ar
mies and startled the world with the
shock of their scientific batteries,
have passed their lives in picking up
prescriptions for indigestion. They 1
owned all the thunderbolts of Jupi
ter, but could not get out of their
rocking chair to use them. George :
Washington in early life was a poor 1
speller, ami spelled hat h-a-double-t,
and a ream of paper he spelled
"rheam, 7 but he knew enough to '
spell out the independence of this
country from foreign oppression.
The knowledge of the schools is im
portant. but there are other things
quite as important.
Just as great is the wrong done j
when the mind is cultivated and the t
I
heart neglected. The youth ot this j
day are seldom denied any scholar!} j
attainments. Our shools and semi |
naries are evergrowing in efficiency,
and the students are conducted
through all the realms of philoso- 1
pliy, and art, aud language, and
6* gives way before *
onslaught of adroit instructors. Bifcjf
there is a development of infinite |
importance which mathematics and
the dead languages cannot efiecb j
The more mental power the more
capacity for evil ualess coupled with
religious restraint. You discover j
what terrible power for evil unsanc- ;
tified genius possesses when you see |
Scaliger with his scathing denunci- j
ations assaulting the best men of his |
time, and Blount and Spinoza and
Bolingbroke leading their hosts ef
followers into the.dl consuming fires ;
of skepticism and infidelity. Wheth- I
er knowledge is a mighty good or an
unmitigated evil depends entirely j
upon which course it takes. The
river rolling on between round banks
makes all the valley laugh with gol- '
den wheat and rank grass, and catch,
ing hold the wheel of mill and faeto- :
rv, whirls it with great industries. '
But, breaking away from restraints
and dashingjover banks in red wrath
it wa.-hes away harvests from their
moorings and makes the valleys
shrink with the catastrophe. Fire
in tho furnace heats the house or
drives the steamer • uucontrull-yf
ed, warehouses go down in awful
"Crasti before it. aud in a few hours
half a city will lie in black ruin, walls
and towers aud churches and monu
ment. You must accompany the
education of the heart, or you are
rousing up within your child an en
ergy which will be blasting and ter I
ritic. Better a wicked dunce than a
wicked philosopher.
The fourth error often committed
in the training of children is the
suppression of childish sportfulness.
The most triumphant death of any
child that I ever knew was that of
| Scoville Haynes McCollum. A few
days before that, he was at mv house
in Syracuse, and he ran like a deer
and his halloo made the woods echo.
You could hear him coming a block
off, so full was he of romp and
laughter and whistle. Don't put
religion on your child as a straight
jacket. Parents after having for a
good many jea/Tbeen jostled about
in the rough their
vivacity, and e^^^^^^^^^ee
i how their children can act so
thougtlessly of the earnest world all
about them. That is a cruel parent .
who quenches any of the lijjht in a
* " O
child s soul. Instead of arresting its
sportfulness, go forth and help him
trundle the hoop, and fly the kite,
and build the snow castle. Those
shoulders are too little to carry a
burden, that brow is too young to
be wrinkled, those feet are too
sprightly to go along at a funeral
pace, (rod bless their young hearts!
Now is the time for them to be sport
ful. Let them romp and sing and
laugh, and go with a rush and a hur
rah. In this way they gather up a
surplus of energy for future life.
For the child that walks around with
u scowl, dragging his feet as though
they were weights and sitting down
by the hour in moping and grumb
ling, I prophesy a life of utter inani
tion and discontent. Soontr hush
the robins in the air till they are *i
ient as a bat, and lecture the frisking
lambs on the hillside until tbev walk 1
like old sheep, than put exhilerant 1
childhood in the stocks. i
Ihe lifth error in the training of
childhood is the postpoiument of its
moral culture until too late. Multi- '
tudes of children because of their
precocity have been urged into i
depths of study where they ©light
not to go, and their intellects have I
been overburdened and overstrain- .
ed and battered to pieces against
Latin grammars and algebras, and ■
coming forth into ] t>• i
will hardly rise to mediocrity/ 'am
there is now a stuffing and cramming i
system of education in the schools of '
our country that is deathful to the 1
teachers who have to enforce it, and '
destructive to the children who must j ]
I
submit to the process. You find
children at 9 and 10 years of age 1
with school lessons only appropriate
for children of 15. If children are f
kept in school ami studying from 9 f
to 3 o'clock, no home study except ]
music ought to be required of them.
Six hours of study is enough for any
child. The rest of the day ought to *
be devoted to recreation and pure
fun. But you cannot begin too early >
the moral culture of a child, or on l
too complete a scale. You can look (
back upon your own life and remem- '
ber what mighty impressions were '
made upon you at sor 6 years of 1
age. Oh, that child does not sit so 1
silent during your conversation to 1
TbT^ A "-'' , '® ct ' d by it. You say he 1
an instruct.:- J AjUjough '
L-Jt?, c i "i Wan
- u of your phraseology is Devond
liis grasp, he is gathering up from 1
your talk influences which will affect
his immortal destiny. From the
question he asks you long afterward '
you timl he Understood all about j
what you were saying. You think I
the child does not appreciate that ; 1
beautitul cloud, but its most delicate j
lines are reflected into the very I
depths of the youthful nature, and a j
score of years from now you will see
the shadow of that cloud in the
taates and refinements developed.
The song with which you sang that
child to sleep will echo through nil
its life, and ring back'from the very
aches of heaven. I think that'o/ten
the first seven years of a child's life
decides whether it shall be irascible,
waspish, rude, false, hypocritical, or
gentle, truthful, frank, obeofient, hon
est and Christian. The present gen
erations of men will pass off very
much as they are now. Although
th» Gospel is offered them, the gen
eral rule is that drunkards die drun
kards, thieves die thieves, libertines
die liberties
turn. Before they sow ;
wild oats get'therato sow wheat and
barley. You fill the bushel measure j
with good corn, and there will be no .
room for husks, Glorious Alfred j
l '•okmap was converted at ten years
of age. At Carlisle, Pa., during the ;
progress of a religious meeting in j
the MelhodUt church, while many j
were kneeling at the foot of the altar, j
j
; this boy knelt in a corner of the ;
, church all bv himself and said : j
*
j '"Precious Savior, thou art saving j
others, O, wilt thou not save rne?" j
A Presbyterian elder knelt beside
him and led him iuto the light. En
| throned Alfred Cookman ! Tell me
from the skies, were you converted
too early ? But I cannot hear his
answer. It is overpowered by the
buz/-as of tens of thousands who
were brought to God through his
ministry. Isaac Watts, the great
Christian poet, was converted at nine
years of age. Robert Hall, the gTeat
Baptist evangelist, was converted at
twelve y>f age. Jonathan Ed
wards the
ci&ns. was conve^^^^MMr^^^
Dumber 49.
Oh for one generation of holy men
and women. Sbjtsl it__be the next ?
Fathers and raothtfav, yoiTuintTT
are to decide whether froui your
families shall go forth cowards, ine
briates counterfeiters, blasphemers,
and whether there shall be thoi-e
bearing your image and carrying
Your name festering in the low
haunts of vice, and floundering in
dissipation, ftnd making the midnight
of their lives horrid with a long
howl of ruin, or whether from your
family altars shall come the Chris
tians, the reformers, the teachers,
the ministers of Christ, the compil
ers of the troubled, the healer ji, of
the sirk; the enacters.' if
the founders of charitable institu
tions. and a great many who shall in
the humbler spheres of toil at.d use
fulness serve God and the best inter
ests of human race. (
You cannot as parents shirk the/
responsibility. God has charged yow
with a mission, and all the thron«
of heaven are waiting to see whet*-
er you will do your duty. We mulT"""
not forget that it is not so mufh
what we teach our children as what
we are in their presence. We wish
them to do better than we arp but
he probability is that they will v
y be productions of our own char
acter. Germau literature has much
say of the "specter of Brocken."
imong those mountains travelers in
certain conditions of the atmosphere,
see themselves copied on a
in > the clouds. At first tijfl
ravelers uo
:hemselves on a larger scale. \Vlien
hfty lift a hand or move the head
his monster specter does the same,
md with such enlargement of pro
portions that the sceuce is most ex
iting, and thousands have gone to
that place just to behold the specter
>f Brocken. The probability is that
?ome of our faults which we consider
ituall and insignificant, if we do not
nit an end to them, will .be copiod
jn a larger scale in the lives of our
children, and perhaj)s dilated andex
iggerated into spectral proportions.
Jfou need not go as far -off as the
Brocken to see that process.
first thing in importance in the
•ation'of our children is to make
ourselves, by the grace of God,ffit
examples to be copied. The day
(sill come when you must confront
Lhat child, not in the church
pew on a calm Sabbath, bnt amid
the consternation of the rising dead,
and the flying heavens, and a burn
ingl . your side that son
or daughter, bon
lieart of your heart, the father's
brow his brow, the mother's eye his
eye, ahall go forth to an eternal des
tiny. What will be your joy if at
last you hear their feet in the same
golden highway and hear their
voices in the same rapturous song,
illustrations, while the eternal ages
last, of what a faithful parent ceuld,
under God, accomplish. I was read
ing of a mother who, dying, had all
her children about her, and took
each one of them by the hand and
asked thein to meet her in heaven,
and with, tears and sobs, such as
those only know who have stood by
the deathbed of a good old mother,
they all promised. But there was a
man of 10, who had been very wild
and reekless, and hard, and proud,
and when she took his hand she said :
"Now, my boy, I want you to prom
ise me before I die that you will be-
come a Christian and
heaven. _
f&ere was so much for
TiTlfi to give up if he made and kept
audi a promise. But the aged
mother persisted in saying:
"You won't deny me that before I
go, will you ? This parting must
not be forever. Tell me now you will
serve God and meet me in the land
where there is no parting." Quak
ing with emotion he stood, making
up his mind and haulting and hesi
tating, but at last his stubbornness
yielded and ue threw his arms
around his mother's neck and said:
"Yes, mother; I will, I will." And
as he finished the last word of hi*
4t
promise her spirit ascended. I thj* &
God the young man kept his
ise. Yes, he kept it May
give all mothers and fathers * '
ness of their children's M
For all who are trying tg.- Jfl
duty as parents I quote £
ous passage: "Train up
the way in which he should go, and
when he is old he will not depart
from it." If thougrh good
' ant prayer and
| are acting