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