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Show TlRAIN UR A CHILD &C. "Train up a child in the way he should go"." Proverbs. j 2-r6. This brtof ...wisdom "depends agraat (ideal on the -child, and a great deal on the train. fro be sure. if. vou? train ur a child i,to believe that war, is glorious and moral .and GacHike the child will 3j.flaw up with a bucningidesire in --his' 'hip pocket to rush off to glorious glori-ous JSaba ; and get his bowel ; torn ut 'andlhis-'Sunday diaphragm ripped rip-ped up both hind legs, in order that his admiring country-men may have a chance to weep over him and scatter scat-ter flowers on his grave. fin.yu ram up a child" to believe 'that T-he:can,"keep in touch with God," and still loan money at twenty percent a year, and steal a ride.on -the railroad, and -die .-.about the 'productiveness of his farm to a wouldbe,. buyer, and pay his hired girl seventyfivet cents a week for about eighteen hou'n's iclrudgery daily, and vote for saloon license' arid-corporation attorneys, that boy will grow up with the skinflint side of his anatomy turned i towards a suffering world, and -a saint f likfc stubble-errdoipietpointdheaven- watfd, so to-speak. But you train up a child to believe that the only way to be in touch.with the Creator.iatoube'intouch- with God's miserable poor, and he will grow up to be a man of honor and sympathy and charity, and a blessing to the world, no odds if he never sets a a 1. foot inside of a church,dOQr,; nor pra5'Sf..for ithe' fartfff herttherr with the trained-up child will have upward tendencies, and not become a leech; and parasite on the. toiling public. ;Too many "fchildren are trained down' instead of. up ward, arid they iiiive by ' : pulling down their neighbors. Denver Field and Farm. |