T_T yi rm TINT DR. TALMAGE'S Parental Blunders. off the seat backward by the and his neek brake, and he 1 old man, and heavy," —1 irom gute wa is the end of neglect Judge El man, but he let his two boys, ni and Phinehas, do as they pleas- through over-indulgence, they ruin. The a long story went ninetv-eight the gate, waiting for the news of an mportant battle, in which his two sons | were at the froni, An express is com- | ing, with tidings from the battle, THIS BL t¢ WO i | ND ; A § NONAGENARIAN behind his ear, and list- “What meaneth the tumult?’ An excited ger, all out of breath with the | said to him: “Our army is de- | , the sacred chest, called the ark, | is captured; and your sons are dead on the tield!”” No wonder the father faint- | il expired. The domestic tragedy hich these two sons were the trage- s, had finished its fifth and last act, | ie fell from off the scat backward, | the side of the gate, and his neck | uke, and he died: for he was an old | , and heavy.’ i had made an awful mistake in re- | { to his children. The Bible dis- inctly says: ‘‘His made them- | dves vile, and he restrained them Oh, the ten thousand mistakes rearing children—mistakes of par- m.stakes of teachers in day school I Sabbath classes, mistakes which we Will it not be useful to con- § hand cries { this puts hi ens, and noise © messen speed, feated 1 t t § 4) mm sons make, them? AMERICA'S FUTURE or Fo ¢ CONQUERORS, his country isgo a great army, f Baldwin the Alexander, ill put together, significant, pulpits, storehouses, factories, and halls f legislation; all our shipping, all our wealth and all our honors, They will | ta of all authority, from ited States Presidency down to | constabulary-—of every- | ween the Atlantic and Pacific ins, They are on the march now, halt neither day nor night, ill soon be here, and gli the pre- tive population of surrender and give army of ing t mpared with which First, and Xerxes, Grant, and Lee, were in numbers in- or 5 ¥ 0 and ory » KE POSIession i } mblest r Baal he iy y { thi . 11 "1 LHS COWL gi Way. children, Whe rl reve oe ov Yer } ICA DOWISGIes if t ero a collection of preface 1 prefaces he could at any y anythin mself or r he teachers have all i every young asd 4 ana not g only appendix 1 or a far egislatures gaged i whether ce, discussi hat is the ‘hildren, Be other fore dwin- Archduke, ficers and deputies of the people tha with half-drawn rds, tl rth in the war-cry: *‘Let us ir Queen, Maria Theresa!” norning, realizing that the boy of to- i3 to be the ruler of the future, the wpular sovereign, I hold bh before he American people to arouse their en- husiasm behalf, and to heir oath for his defence, his nn, and his dest! If a parent, you will aroused to his so wrought uj BWI fay im in his evoke ed MCA ny. remember when these great re- sponsibilities, and when you found that done all required, aft he tiny hands, and bright radle, you sudde were . 3 you had not had admired 3¥ hai 3) n the ©1 : ana lay nly re- pnembered that that band wonld yet ised to bless the world with its bene liction, or to smite it with a curse. Ariosto’s great poem there is a char er called Ruggiero, who has : nsufferable splendor, but save on certain occasion { uncovered, it startled and its beholder, who before of its is to uncover the destiny o or student, about which you nay bave no especial appreciation, and 1 upon you the splendors of its im- Behold, the shield and sword of the coming conflict ! i propose in this discourse to set forth iat 1 consider to be some of THE ERRORS b $ ich it il elled, ighiness, on brig Tia portal nature, PREVALENT is the training of children, i First, 1 remark that many err in too | cal severily or too great leniency of amily government, Between parental | tyranny and ruinous laxativeness of | liscipline there is a medium. Some- | times the father errs on the one side | and the mother on the other side, | rood family government is all-import- ant, Anarchy and misrule in the domestic circle is the forerunner of anarchy and misrule in the state, In the attempt to avoid all this, and bring | the children under proper laws and re- gulations, parents have sometimes car- | riad themselves with great rigor. John Howard, who was merciful to the pri- sons and lazarettos, was merciless in the treatment of his children, John Wilton knew everything but how to train his family, Severe and unreason- able was he in his carriage toward them. Ile made them read to him in four or five languages, but would not allow them fo learn any of them; for, he said, that one tongne was enough for + woman, Their reading was mechani- ‘al drudgery, when, if they Lad under- stood the languages they read, the em- ployment of reading might have been a luxury, No wonder his children de- spised him, and stealthily sold his booksand hoped for his death, In all agus there is meed of a society for pre. ventionof CRUELTY TO CRULDREN, When Barbara was put to death by her his order, and had the home circle. | til the children are vexed taliate, That child’s nature licate to be worked upon hammer, and by GOUGE AND I'ILE-DRIVER, and more the high mettle to bit will make it dash off the trollable, children are flax—not they have béen hetchete fit for use and swingled. hild said: “I wonder what makes that tree out there The child replied: *I d . In some families all the disci- upon young." pling is concentrated head, supposition is that George did it. He He left open the gate, fle O16 He hacked the bannisters, shall be the scapegoat for all mis standings and suspicions, 1 mar h h a 8i1 out for suspicion and castigation, flowers of his soul blasted un- perpetual north-east storm, 10 curses the day in wi 16 was born, along the A mother was passin ousehold there is sud one lor thia ler this ier hy I ‘ho did not child was say mate: “You scamp, you come right wmmto minute or I will her approach, " 3 * ng to her play- for-nothing little the house th 1 thé he mother broke in say- zie, 1 a to skin comes oil.’ m il ing. surprised 3) any nel’ h,”’ said th hil : Wik only pl : and I am scol this morning.’ ildren are apt echoes of their parents, Bethlehem mang camels with ge little innoce nursery ove 118 TR vy u nt t! ie 1 dll r wi + b parent less because, remao natrar AE A y lawlessness o yiald ruin the chi 3 every caprice and stuff hin t Before SiX ionery. r of aver 1 ile we OW rod * BTEAL ¢ first ow iuty { obex | a cup of burn- id nd appalling it Re- Hoptmi ar al Phinehas, mid error prevalent of children is a layin following it with & i ’ { i find striking YAY i HOPpPer and 11 111 ¥ y mill, would not 1} ’ 1 £ rents i iIscipiine an children in Ff esl a vic . FN {ful hand to ad lances, i tl 85K 3 The rigidi which is necessary impetuous nature, would flexile ntle reproof latter, would former, be champing gOoSsamer. gives us In i that disposition that would when tin Win ioe sSuthoce Lhe hold reins of (rod or he I Lil . used attemp g to 2 sprshialiy 1 3 Bue ephal 18 with xi on 35.44 a the disposition of hint as to how we ought to rain him, and, ' in the men- tal structure of our children indicates what mode of training is the best, Ile also indicates in the disposition their future occupation, that child as dull, because it may not as Cron dren or as those of your neighbor, Some of the mightiest men and women called at but afterward was ’ Thomas Aquinas school “the dumb ox,’ was called “the angel of the schools” Kindness and patience with a child will conquer almost anything, and they are virtues to look at, John child on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias Joyce from a profligate into an evangel. ing of children is the ONE<SIDED DEVELOPMENT, of either the or moral nature at the expense of the others, Those, for instance, greatly mistake who, while they are faithful in the intellectual and moral eulture of children, forget the physical, The bright eyes, half quenched by night study, the cramped chest that comes from too much bending over school desks, the weak side resulting from se- dentariness of habit, pale cheeks and the gaunt bodies of multitudes of chil- dren attest that physical development . tual and moral, all leaky ship? From this infinite blunder of the mg maole-hifl, They thrilled senates and their their for indigestion. They thunderbolts of Jupiter, but of their rocking-chai heavens, and have laid down pant who might and marshalled scientific batteries, have all could Lo owned not get out them. was a poor speller, and spelled hat h double-t and a ream of paper he spell “rheam,’” but he knew enough to out the independence of this country foreign The knowl- of important, but are other things quite as important, Just as great wrong done wher the mind is enltivated and HEART El, this dav are seldom Our growing i " 1 SMe M from oppression, | loge the schools is { I 4 i Lhe i { is thi NEOLE( 3s Are ever tudents are conducted realms of ph » and obluseness wily losophy mathematics gives slang hit Here is LANCE ng of children, SION OF CHILI FPULNES N Is . You sav wlerstand, Although mu Y 18 bevond his gr ing. up from your talk will affect his immortal destiny, the question he askew ou long a | vou find he understood all about | you were saying, The song with which sing the child to p will through all its life, and ring back from the very arches of heaven, {of a child's life decide whether it shall | be irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypo- | critical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obesd- ient, honest and Christian, The pres ent generations of men will pass off | very much as they are now, Although | the Gospel is offered them, the general rule is that drunkards die drunkards, thieves die thieves, Isbertines die liber- | tines, Therefore to the youth we turn, jefore they sow wild oats get them to | sow wheat and barley. You fill the | bushel measure with good corn, and | theve will be NO ROOM Glorious Alfred Cookman was con- | verted at ten years of age. At Carlisle, | Pennsylvania, during the progress of a religious meeting in the Methodist | Church, while many were kneeling at | the foot of the altar, this boy knelt in a | corner of the church by himself and | said : “Precious Saviour, thou art sav- ing others, O, wilt thou not save me?" A Presbyterian elder knelt beside him and led him into the igh. Enthroned Alfred Cookman! Tell me from the skies, were you converted too early? But I cannot hear his answer. Ibis overpowered by the huzzas of the thou. sands who were brought to God through i ¥ ! ol Asp, | ol Yiril Kime ™ ho FOR HUSKS, Watts, the converted at Hall, the Was his ministry, Isage Christian poet, was vears of age, Hobert Baptist evangelist, twelve years of wards, the greate was great nine great converted at ¢. Jonathan FEd- of American logi- converted at seven years of ag st age, Oh one generation of and women, shall it be Fathers and mothers, you, under God, are to decide whether from your fami- lies shall go forth cowards, inebriates, counterfeiters, blasphemers, and whether for holy men wil § and carrying vour names festering in the i low haunts of vice, and dissipation, and making the midnight lives horrid with a long howl of shall come the Christians, the reformers, the teachers, the of Christ, roubled, ministers comforters of the t the healers of the sick, the enacters of good founders of charitable in humbler WIrye of toil and he best SDHeTres plier Crod and t inter Y ou cannot gihiility ESIRNAALY, as parent Spot Grol has i } on, and all the t} are waiting to see wh We mu SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON, BuspAy, Dec, 4, 1887, The Parable of the Sower. LESSON TEXT. (Matt. 13: 1-0. Memory vorses, +3) LESSON PLAN, Toric o¥ THE QUAR King tn Zion. GOLDEN TEXT FoR THE QUARTER: Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the | power, and the victory, { and the majesty: the TER Jesus the UA glory, and the for all that is | heaven and in the earth 1s thine; thine is the Magdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.~] Chron, 2 ; 11. in | Lesson Toric: The King's Decla- | rations Concerning His Word, (1. The Wond Bown, va. 1.3 A Word Misimproved, va, ¢9 Word Improved, ve 8 0, The is Lenson Ki Outlipe : ek {4 The GOLDEN the TEX] seed Lake Yudlie i 1 A Id go, and (SLORY) wi t depart from it.” oh OQ A AIA —————— Afghan Love Songs. Love songs are plentiful with the Af- though whether they are ac- with the Afghans, a pur- ¢ commodity; she is not wooed 18 3 she The average about 300 to 500 rupees, To reform the ideas of an Afghan upon that matter would be a desperate task, When Seid Ahmed, the great Wahabi the Yusufzai Afghans, tried to abolish the marriage by sale, his power fell at once, he had to flee for his life, and There is no song in so sad and dismal as that sung to the bride by her friends, They come to congratulate no, to console her, like Jephtha's daughter: they go to her, sitting in a corner, and sing: “You remain sitting in a corner and ory to us, BW hat can we do for you? Your father has received the money.” All of love that the Afghan knows is jealousy. All crimes are said to bave their cause in one of the three zs—zar, zamin or zon, money, earth or woman wethi® third # is in fact the most fre. quent of the three causes. which is . Soorched When tl Persecution 4 Ww uick to respond ; Valueless | produce, “Others fell V1 the the Thoms 1} Their base nature ; (2) Their rapid growth ; (3) Their dead- ly i IL, THE WORD IMPROVED, Good Ground Others fell upon the good ground (8B). nr HS, fluence, IL cand understandeth (Matt, 15:23), as hear the word, and accept it | (Mark 4 : 20), { In an honest and good heart, hold it | fast Luke 8 : 15). Receive with meekness the implanted | word (Jas, 1: 21). ! If. Suitable Fruit: i And yielded fruit (8). By their fruits ye shall Matt, 7: 20). Who verily beareth fruit (Matt, 1 And bring forth fruit (Luke 8: 15). I chose you,....that ye should go and bear fruit (John 15 : 16), IHL Abundant Result: Some a hundred fold (8), And bringeth forth, some a hundredfold % ¥ Such know them 2 a : 23). with patience | (Matt, 13: 28), | | | i i | § i i He that abideth in me,....the beareth much fruit (John 15: 51° Herein is my Father glorified, that bear much fruit (Joho 15 5). Bearing fruit in every good work : 10). 1. “Good Groun RITE Wdition : {2 ame ye {( ol d (1) Receptive it sufficient in depth : evil ; Of “- mtaminated with netiveness fruit, tia Its sources: (2) It utility ; (4) 1 $ 110 8, let him hea; capacity hear portunity wo hear ws 1.0 ion to hear, LE READING FIVE OF I'l, RELIGIOL a————— ———— Monte Carlo Deserted. ay be said to be deserts by the English ys present during the ty appearance, and tl tables are put out of no supporters, In dinner, some of gayvety is still evident; but even this is in matked contrast to the month of Curiously enough, this isthe time really heavy players delight to fre- quent the casino, inasmuch as they can carry on their game with more ease and freedom. Seldom has the max- imum stake 12.00 frances—Ieen so often seen on the rouge or noir as dur. ing the fortnight. A Spaniard lost a few nights ago 200,000 francs at one He recovered 1568 000 fran speaking speaking GAY ee or mnliasy pias the eve- the old $ or ing Piay aller 8 Shells. - ———— A Window of Its windows were a curiosity, the first 1 had ever seen in India where the panes were of the pearl oyster shell, cut thin, and about an inch and a halt This was the Portuguese win. The labor of making great win. dows of such small pieces of shell neat cut and smoothed must have been immense, even for one building, At by the shell strata, and when one adds to this the wooden framing for the shells, there must have been a consid. erable addition to the semi~opaqueness, But then this is India, and it ds alway: a duty to keep out the glare of the sun
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