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293] THE SPOILED CHILD. 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ingathering\nof souls: and there were now some cheering evidences of another outpouring of\nthe Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While they were thus engaged, the son of Mr. C\u2014l, a lad\nabout seventeen years of age, approached to mock: he groaned, and made singular\ngrimaces, or laughed aloud, as he walked immediately behind his father: and at\nthe end of the ridge next to the house, having caught up a young animal, he\ncontrived, by tormenting it, to make it utter one continued yell: this he aid\nin defiance of the solemn rebukes of the Pastor, and the entreaties and threats\nof his too indulgent parent. An end had been thus put to all regular\nconversation; and at this last outrage the aged father wept in silence, and\nsought to conceal his tears as he hurriedly sowed his field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nebullition of youthful fury had been caused, it was afterward discovered, by\nthe father\u2019s peremptory refusal of the usual supply of money. Like too many\nparents, foolishly indulgent, he had yielded to the dominion which his only son\npossessed on his heart, and had given liberally and often: this only created an\nappetite for more: he soon found himself compelled to give liberally, simply to\nget rid of his importunate duns. And having made the discovery which, as a wise\nman, he ought to have anticipated as naturally as any common effect from a\ncommon cause, that this free indulgence with money had led him into habits of\ndissipation, and that the present solicitation was made to enable him to take\nthe lead at a \u201cfrolic\u201d in the tavern of the adjacent village, he had positively\nrefused him. The young man now left his father\u2019s presence with a threat that \u201che\nwould have money, and just that sum which he needed; if not one way, at least\nby another, which he (his father) might conjecture.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nwas too much for a tender parent\u2019s heart to endure. He took hold of the\nPastor\u2019s arm and led him to the shade of an aged apple-tree; and placing him\nbeside his wife, who had joined him by this time, he sat down and wept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy\npoor ruined boy!\u201d was all he could now utter in his grief. His wife and the\nPastor also burst into tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI now see my error,\u201d said the afflicted parent, after\na short pause, as if awakened from the sleep of long delu- <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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293] THE SPOILED CHILD. 5 ingathering of souls: and there were now some cheering evidences of another outpouring of the Spirit. While they were thus engaged, the son of Mr. C\u2014l, a lad about seventeen years of age, approached to mock: he groaned, and made singular grimaces, or laughed aloud, as he walked immediately behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/808"}],"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=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}