{"id":119,"date":"2020-03-09T21:49:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:51:32","slug":"24-the-spoiled-child-312","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-spoiled-child\/24-the-spoiled-child-312\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 312"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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24 THE SPOILED CHILD. [312<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in his deliriums: at intervals he recovered his senses, and for a season was somewhat composed in his mind, but expressed deep compunctions and sorrow for his evil ways and doings. When he felt himself dying, he became awfully alarmed: he seemed actually frantic: the very bed shook under him; as if with supernatural strength, he tried to raise himself up; and shrieked out for some moments, \u201cO Lord Jesus, have mercy on met God of my father, have mercy on me ! O Christ, have mercy on me!\u2014O curses, curses on the head of General \u2014 who seduced me from the ways of my father\u2019s God into his infidel<\/a> ways!\u2014Curses on my vicious companions, who taught me to break the Sabbath, and to dishonor and disobey my father and mother! And led me into taverns, instead of the church of my fathers! O mercy, mercy, Lord, on me, a poor miserable outcast!\u201d\u2014Thus he continued wailing, sometimes crying for mercy, and frequently uttering fearful imprecations. In a few hours, during which there was nothing but horror and distraction in the family, his strength, though the strength of a giant, became utterly exhausted; and his spirit, with an agonizing struggle, took its everlasting flight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, as reported to me, was the end of the SPOILED\nCHILD.\u2014In these solemn facts we\nset up a beacon, to give an awful warning to Parents, of the fatal rock on\nwhich they also may strike. \u201cAvoid it; pass not by it; turn from it, and pass\naway!\u201d \u201cO let us hear and fear, and do no presumptuous sin!\u201d Let us labor for\nthe conversion of our dear children, like those who feel that they are laboring\nto \u201cpluck brands from the devouring fire!\u201d We pronounce not on the final\ndestiny of poor John C\u2014\u2014; but who of us, I beseech you, would wish our children\nto follow his course of life, or to die his appalling death?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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