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THE SPOILED CHILD. 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

often too\nhas he been obliged to flee to escape the fury of his father. On two occasions\nhe leaped from the chamber window to avoid the death which was threatened. He\nmarried a lovely woman, and became the father of two lovely sons.  But his house, like his father\u2019s, was the\nabode of a drunkard and a fury. His wife was at length obliged to leave him,\nand of his little boys, one lies in the grave, slain by his father’s\nhand\u2014beat to death in<\/em> a manner so revolting as to cause every one who hears\nthe tale to shudder. The father is now suffering the penalty of the law in a\nstate prison. And if that wife could speak, she could tell of scenes. of\nsuffering which would harrow up the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfourth son, O. was a miser, and a drunkard. He went down into a drunkard\u2019s\ngrave about two years since, and no one wept over him; for all rejoiced that\ndeath had wiped out so foul a stain upon mankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfifth son, L. excelled all that went before him in wickedness. He, too, was a\nmost abandoned drunkard, and died at the early age of about twenty-two years.\nAnd to close the scene, a few months since, M. the father died and went to\njudgment to meet his sons; and he died as he lived, hardened in sin and\nunyielding in iniquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe above simple narrative of fads<\/em> we may see the influence of\npaternal example, and the effects of paternal neglect.<\/em> In the history of M.\nand his family, we see one half of that family descending to early and\nunhonored graves, or filling out a life of infamy in a prison-house, purely by\nthe evil example and the neglect of a father. That father was violent and\nungoverned in his passions; profane, debauched and vulgar in his habits; a\nscoffer and a reviler of serious things: and his five sons were like him\u2014they\nexcelled him in depravity. The father had far gone down in the scale of morals,\nbut the sons each of them went still lower; and what is worthy of notice, there\nwas a regular descent. The eldest was worse than his father; the second worse\nthan the   first, the third than the\nsecond, and thus on till the fifth, who drank the very dregs of sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again,\nhow much injury one drunkard may do to society and to individuals!<\/em> Were\nall the misery of which M. has been the cause to his own family to the families\nof his sons, and to all connected with them, placed in one view before the\nmind, the amount would be perfectly astounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.\n28.
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THE SPOILED CHILD. 3 often too has he been obliged to flee to escape the fury of his father. On two occasions he leaped from the chamber window to avoid the death which was threatened. He married a lovely woman, and became the father of two lovely sons.  But his house, like his father\u2019s, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/828"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}