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26 WHAT SHALL THE CHILDREN HEAD ?
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Sense "The Of Children , The ' Word !" *...
emblem of that golden chain whereby the Creator would bind for whom By ever , honouring at to the Himself first and , He loving the pronounced creatures an earthl " His very parent hand good . has " the made child , is and to
learn the reverence and affection due to y its Father , in heaven . these Implicit virtues obedience , confiding love , unquestioning trust , all
are to be cultivated spring from as the the relation fundamental of parent princi and ples child in , and the character of the " children of the kingdom . " How beautiful
is the natural trustfulness of a little child ! It knows not susp ives icion its — han its d to father one must who be smiles right ; in it guileless and will faith follow it
unresisting g ly wherever any it is led . Let upon us not , then , by such crush misrepresentations this tender flower of parental of unquestioning character as trust are . above Gur described Father ' s , _^
prevent kingdom its is withering its native in clime the , earl and y onl _spring y kindl . y watchfulness will
Once rob a child of this safeguard—implicit confidence in . his parents bye-path , and that in leads riper to years Doubting he will Castle easily ; turn dull aside the sense into the of
loving- veneration , and he will no longer reverence his God . the We hear youth much of the of present the conceit generation and disrespectful . Thhave demeanour no reverence of
it is said . They look upon their parents ey too much as companions , and consider themselves their equals , entitled to the
chimn to same which indul ey corner their gences is parents no and longer considerations are the strangers gross- — va . n ter ay The -stuM , expecting arm but -chair the luxuries in young the
man ' s lounge . And is not the substitution of _^ " governor" for Divinit that time- a honoured witness to hol the y title fact —hol that y , with because the appropri namethe ated ri b ht y
understanding y , of the relation , of father is disappearing , from g amongst us ? May not much of this inestimable loss be
dut attributed y , presented to the b low y a great standard proportion of parental of the character juvenile and literature of filial
of the present day ? Children are accustomed to find weakness and unnatural read of conduct associated with the name of father _;
Instead they of being sons guided and daug by hters them . giving What - law wonder to the then parents that , they lose the sense of filial reverenceand that the bond of
fatherhood is robbed of its sacred character , . * In this age of " many books , " we are learning rightly to value the power of
_° In justice to our British authors , many of whom are laying out their
number talents in of the stories cause written of the little ones this , it erroneous is but fair lan to remark are from , th the at the American greater press ; but so long as English upon parents allow their p perusalthe danger to our
children is in no way lessened . ,
26 What Shall The Children Head ?
26 WHAT SHALL THE CHILDREN HEAD ?
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/26/
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