{"id":81,"date":"2020-03-09T21:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:49:58","slug":"12-the-spoiled-child-300","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-spoiled-child\/12-the-spoiled-child-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 300"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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12 THE SPOILED CHILD. [300<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iety\non her parents; and, saluting the kind pastor, with the frank and blushing\nsimplicity of innocence, as she presented her hand to receive his cordial\nwelcome, she sat down by her mother\u2019s side. The pastor went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\nhave learned, from painful experience,\u201d said he, \u201cthat many parents, and even\nsome of them the most pious, are apt to prove defective in two<\/em> grand\npoints; in their domestic discipline; and the early training of their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\nare defective in the matter<\/em> employed to train them, and in the manner<\/em>\nof applying the proper matter. Some parents I have found defective in both of\nthese: some in the former: others in the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHave\nthe goodness to explain yourself more fully,\u201d said the father. The Pastor went\non.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo understand how a parent may be defective in the matter<\/em>\nwhich he is to employ in the training of his children, you need only to\nrecollect that vital godliness, as Mrs. C\u20141 has just now hinted, is the only\ntrue basis of all genuine morality; and therefore of all pure moral order, such\nas is pleasing in the eyes of God, in families, as well as in the community. I\ndo not deny that there may be morals, even lovely morals, and virtuous\ndeportment, in a person destitute of true religion. And I also admit that these\nare good and valuable in their place, and so far as they go. Our blessed Savior\nlooked on the young man spoken of in the Gospel, who had, in the exterior, kept\nthe commandments, \u2018and loved him\u2019<\/em> though his heart was as yet a stranger\nto vital piety. We instinctively love such a character, while we are disgusted\nwith vice and profligacy. But all those lovely and beautiful traits are,\nnevertheless, radically defective: they can no more be compared with the\nvirtues and morality of the Gospel, I mean \u2018the beauties of holiness\u2019<\/em>\nthan the apples said to grow on the margin of the Dead Sea, to these golden\napples of a skilful hand\u2019s engrafting, which you see richly clustering on that\nmagnificent tree before us. The former were fair, very fair, to human view; but\nthey were light and deceptive; the interior was filled up with black dust,\nemblematical of the depraved and unconverted heart of the mere moralist. But\nthe latter, these rich apples on that grafted tree, are solid, sound to the\ncore, and de-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12 THE SPOILED CHILD. [300 iety on her parents; and, saluting the kind pastor, with the frank and blushing simplicity of innocence, as she presented her hand to receive his cordial welcome, she sat down by her mother\u2019s side. The pastor went on. \u201cI have learned, from painful experience,\u201d said he, \u201cthat many parents, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/815"}],"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=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}