{"id":63,"date":"2020-03-09T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:49:14","slug":"6-the-spoiled-child-294","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-spoiled-child\/6-the-spoiled-child-294\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 294"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

6 THE SPOILED CHILD. [294<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sion: \u201cmy eyes are opened to the calamity that has\nbefallen us. But, oh! Sir,\u201d he added, as he grasped the Pas- tor\u2019s hand, \u201chow\ncan I retrace my steps? O my God have mercy, have mercy on my poor spoiled\nchild! God of my fathers, who didst in thy tender compassion bring me into thy\nfold, look in mercy on my poor son! Thou, O Lord, didst convert a Manasseh, and\ndidst arrest a persecuting Saul in his wicked course on the way to Damascus to\nmurder thy saints, and didst reclaim the sottish prodigal: O have mercy on my\nson! Let the riches of thy grace, Father in heaven, triumph one day in his\nreturn to thee and to his parents\u2019 heart! You may well ask me, dear Pastor, why\nI do not correct him. Could I succeed in detaching him from his companions,\nthen, perhaps, I might do it with some hope; but until that be done, correction\nmay only drive him to a more desperate resistance; or, more probably, to a\nfinal abandonment of my roof; and ultimately to the commission of some fearful\ncrime; and thence\u2014my soul is tortured at the bare possibility of it\u2014to a public\nand ignominious suffering ! But I have not yet revealed the secret cause of all\nthis mischief. There is a demon in him, which sets at defiance Christian\ndiscipline and the rod of correction: yes, in him, young as he is\u2014I mean THE\nLUST OF STRONG DRINK! This, with the influence of vicious companions, has, I am\ngrieved to say, seared, as with a hot iron, the sensibilities of his conscience\nand of natural affection. O! I look back on the past, and I see my fatal errors\nstaring me in the face!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDid\nyou not commit a great error,\u201d said the Pastor with tenderness, \u201cin not\nsustaining the discipline under which his teacher<\/em> sought judiciously and\nfaithfully to bring the daring and turbulent spirit of this youth? This I once\nre- collect to have witnessed, and ventured to predict the result.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWe did, dear Pastor, we did,\u201d was the answer,\nas he cast his eyes on his afflicted wife with more of sorrow than reproof, \u201cwe\ndid: and here is an exceedingly great evil under the sun, and an error committed\nby almost every parent. The teacher is one of the most useful officers in the\nrepublic; one of the most necessary and influential office-bearers among us;\none who walks forth over the land, bearing the future destinies of our country\nand the church, as <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 THE SPOILED CHILD. [294 sion: \u201cmy eyes are opened to the calamity that has befallen us. But, oh! Sir,\u201d he added, as he grasped the Pas- tor\u2019s hand, \u201chow can I retrace my steps? O my God have mercy, have mercy on my poor spoiled child! God of my fathers, who didst in thy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/809"}],"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=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}