{"id":78,"date":"2020-03-09T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:49:52","slug":"299-the-spoiled-child-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-spoiled-child\/299-the-spoiled-child-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 299"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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299] THE SPOILED CHILD. 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the\nfear of the great God, Creator, Preserver, Redeemer, and Judge, to distil, as\nit were, drop by drop, on his mind and heart; and by teaching him to pray to\nGod as soon as reason dawned, and as soon as he could lisp a word. The first\nword I should have taught him, the first sentence I should have made him\nbreathe out, should have been \u2018THOU GOD SEEST ME!\u2019 And then, again, I fear I\ndid not take sufficient care to sooth his spirit when ruffled, and subdue by\nreason and kindness his little fits of violence and brawlings, and woo him over\nby love, and firmness. I have known a mother do this by singing softly a\nmelting hymn on the ear of her little child; and by teaching it also to sing a\nsweet and plaintive hymn, as well as to pray with infant lisp, to him the\ngreat God who always sees us!<\/em> Awe and Submission to God, I am fully\npersuaded, is the only true basis of genuine and unaffected submission and\nreverence to parents. It must be so, if it be a moral virtue, and not mere\ninstinct. And there are no genuine morals without a principle of religion.\nHence the pagan is described as \u2018without natural affection:\u2019 the parent\nsacrifices his child, and the child his parent; and we have painful evidence,\nthat a profligate child is likewise without natural affection! O! it was here I\nfailed: I see my error: I should never have given up: I should have daily\nrenewed my efforts: I should have labored and wrestled in prayer; until, by the\ngrace of God, I saw the fruits of my exertions showing themselves in filial\nreverence and submission, based on the fear and the love of God.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She paused, and wiped her flowing tears. \u201cThese are\nnot tears of sorrow and despair, dear Pastor,\u201d she added, after she had\ncomposed herself, \u201cneither are these the conjectures of a theorist. I saw my\nerror with my boy; God, I trust, was my guide in training that dear child, my\ndaughter, who is advancing to us: she is not only a sweet child to comfort us\nin our sorrows\u2014I have reason to believe that God has changed her heart; and I\nknow not that she has ever needed a reproof from her dear father these three\nyears past. But I am interrupting you: you were about to say something\u201d\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\nthis moment the daughter came up; a beautiful girl of fourteen or fifteen\nyears; who cast a look of tender anx-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

299] THE SPOILED CHILD. 11 the fear of the great God, Creator, Preserver, Redeemer, and Judge, to distil, as it were, drop by drop, on his mind and heart; and by teaching him to pray to God as soon as reason dawned, and as soon as he could lisp a word. The first word I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/814"}],"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=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}