{"id":66,"date":"2020-03-09T21:29:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:49:24","slug":"295-the-spoiled-child-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-spoiled-child\/295-the-spoiled-child-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 295"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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295] THE SPOILED CHILD. 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it\nwere, in his hand: he has the training of the rising generation, the hope of\nour country and of the church of God! What an important, what a responsible\noffice! Yet, how often, and how much is it despised! and it is miserably ill\npaid moreover, and still worse treated! When the schoolmaster would bring the\nwayward spirits of our spoiled children under a wholesome discipline, both\nparents are, in too many instances, in arms against him. And their ill-timed\nand foolish pity fails not to sustain the boy in open and darling rebellion\nagainst his teacher, and in the repetition of fresh crimes. This parental\ninterference, by paralyzing the arm of salutary discipline, has helped to\nconsummate the ruin of many a hapless youth!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis has been a fatal error,\u201d said the almost heartbroken wife; \u201c but this is not all: frivolous excuses, I remember to my sorrow, would be sustained by us, for neglecting his evening tasks; the slightest indisposition, and (I am mortified to think how easily we were deceived) that, too, very often pretended, and our excessive anxiety about the \u201cdear child’s” health,<\/em> would be reason enough for allowing him to absent himself whole days from school. And then, from our foolish fondness, he would gain permission from us to rove about from house to house, and, what was worse, to absent himself whole nights from his parental roof. It is thus that a young mind acquires, at too early an age, a taste for company: its inexperience lays it open to cruel temptations, while it is too young to derive, without a parent or a teacher\u2019s guidance, any real benefit from it. This early taste, or I should rather say, this passion for company, together with a plentiful supply of money from indulgent parents, has laid the foundation of utter ruin to many thousands and tens of thousands of youth. And I know it to my sorrow, dear Pastor, that in the young and inexperienced mind, where we are not busy in sowing the good seed of God\u2019s word, the evil one is very busy and successful in sowing tares.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow easy it is to see errors,\u201d said the father, \u201cwhen the bandage of our delusions is thus torn from our eyes. Ah! Sir, experience is the mother of wisdom. One of our principal errors was that of allowing our child to associate with vicious boys,<\/em> until they had so entwined themselves <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

295] THE SPOILED CHILD. 7 it were, in his hand: he has the training of the rising generation, the hope of our country and of the church of God! What an important, what a responsible office! Yet, how often, and how much is it despised! and it is miserably ill paid moreover, and still worse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/810"}],"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=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}