{"id":72,"date":"2020-03-09T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:49:38","slug":"297-the-spoiled-child-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-spoiled-child\/297-the-spoiled-child-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 297"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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297] THE SPOILED CHILD. 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and\npermission to stay at home, he would then, to get rid of our importunity and\ncommand, beg permission to go to the church in the next village, which happened\nto be nearer. And in order to induce him to go somewhere<\/em> to the house of\nGod, we thus left him, or rather abandoned him to himself. That which we ought\nto have anticipated and feared, did take place. His vicious companions took the\ncharge of him; and they led him, riot into the house of God, but into the\nvillage taverns! Whole Sabbaths had he thus spent before we made the appalling\ndiscovery!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd\nthen,\u201d said the Pastor, \u201cdid not your too fond and compliant hearts place funds\ntoo profusely<\/em> at his disposal even from the first?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAh!\nSir,\u201d cried the father, \u201cthat was my next error, which, perhaps, gave pungency\nand fatality to the rest. I gave him money, first, because \u2018I loved the dear\nchild:\u2019 <\/em>then I gave him money, because I saw other parents giving liberally\nto their children : and then, I gave him money, because my pride said, my\nonly son shall not be behind his comrades in any thing:<\/em> and, finally, I\nconfess that latterly I gave many sums purely out of self-defence, or an indolent\naversion to resistance, simply to get rid of his importunate duns! And now I\ncan say, from experience, that these ill timed donations to children fail not\nto beget new wants,<\/em> and new appetites,<\/em> and new desires.<\/em>\nThis evil is like the dropsy in the natural body, it increases by its own means\nof indulgence: the more water the dropsical man drinks the more thirsty he\nbecomes, and the more inveterate is his disease rendered by every fresh\ndraught; That parent who lavishes ‘pocket money\u2019 on his child, before he has acquired\nsound principles and prudence to control his passions, and a spirit of\nenlightened charity and good taste to make a wise use of it, exerts his\ninfluence directly to initiate him into habits of gambling, intemperance,\ngluttony, and their attendant revolting vices. He furnishes the means of gratification;\nhe lays, the train, and puts into the hands of his child the lighted torch and\nthe match ready to be applied! All this, alas! to my sorrow, have I done. And\nwhen, at length, I did awaken to the frightful consequences, now too evident in\nthe confirmed habits of vice in my poor ruined boy, I found myself adding\nanother error to the former, and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

297] THE SPOILED CHILD. 9 and permission to stay at home, he would then, to get rid of our importunity and command, beg permission to go to the church in the next village, which happened to be nearer. And in order to induce him to go somewhere to the house of God, we thus left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/812"}],"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=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}