| Show WORDS OF WISDOM FROM BEECHER THE great preacher lecturer and writer whose decease was announced in our columns on tuesday commenced several weeks agos agh to write a series of letters on living topics which were published in the christian Ch union new york world and other papers that held the right to product produce them the last that he was permitted to write was dated fob feb and we copy the principal portions of it from the christian union of march 3rd ard as it contains food for thought suitable to parents in utah as well as in other portions portion of the civil iced world henry ward beecher had the faculty of expressing great t thoughts in the most simple language and hence his power over the illiterate as well as the most cu cultivated int minds rids As the last utterances through the press of one of the most celebrated men of the century ceu tury we commend the following to parents and guardians everywhere the practice of allowing children to go gfa out at night to find and their own down companions and their own places of amusement way may leave one in twenty unscathed and without danger hut but I 1 think that nineteen out gut of twenty fall down wounded or destroyed and if there ere Is is one th thing ng that t should be more imperative than another it is that your children shall be at home at night or that at it if they are abu shall be abroad with them baere may be things that it is best that you yon should do for your ch children ildron though you would pot not do them for yourselves but they ought not to go anywhere any inhere at night to see ace sights bights or to take pleasure urk unless you can go with wita them until they are grown tol toj mans estate and their babbits bar bits are formed and nothing is more certain than that to grant the child liberty to go outside of the parental root roof and its restraints in thi the barkness lar tar kness of night is bad and only bad nd that continually do not suppose that a child chaldis dis is hurt biart ly when he is broken down I 1 have lite bite a taste in china cups end and such tings I 1 like a beautiful cup and I 1 hire we noticed that when the ban handle e gets decked oft off from a cup of mine ml e that cuis spoiled for me when I 1 look at it t ter Ater wards I 1 never see pee the beauty bull ways see the broken handle it I 1 hav a beautiful mirror and it is aoker ed it may still answer all thel the purposes that I 1 want a mirror for I 1 reveal my beauty but never thelea it is spoil spoiled edlor jor my eye there is and when I 1 look into the glass adver see ate myself halt hall so much as I 1 bethe e the crack its perfection is gone A the matter of beauty a speck or a bluish is more than all besides and talk away the pleasure of all be bei i sides ud od it does not mot require that a child be broken down to be made by his exposures to temptation tati olk aver that there are many things wath no man can learn wi without thour being n aged by them ithem all chis his life long here are many thoughts though which bugl never to finda find a passage through a ans brain As an eel if he were to effi across your carpet would leave leava a slime which no HO brush could take 0 01 so there are many things which no can know and ever reco recover yer from aromie ie k knowledge now ledge of I 1 rebuke the lung aug who would turn monks I 1 do t believe in solitude I 1 do not net belle beben tin melancholy I 1 believe in gay etyne ud joyousness and I 1 believe that t closer a man keeps to we the laws of nure hure the happier he will be and to be b therefore being on the be liberty though not on the afie side of anse being on the side of whoreson wh oleson manly pleasures and freedom ine in e indulgence of thew I 1 have acuity to say when you pervert natured this way it is utterly wicked at utterly abominable there e iU cation lion which although to its is r grea tange and ana of supreme im addressing i itself to doctors to gt deans ind and to parents ch chiefly leflY I 1 lar er to the practice of allowing child chialdi to g go 0 out at night into the streets in cities or it if in the country agog children to find their companions away from parental inspection ai n I 1 j wanted to make the destruction a child sure I 1 would give him liberty after dark you cannot ct thing inma that will be so 90 nea nearly aly a cuitee of a childs damnation as to I 1 him have the liberty of the streets aag at lit believe in brin brinsc ik I 1 do not up p the 0 young to know life as it said gald I 1 should just as soon think or ingine u up a child achild by cutting some olg e cords of of its body and lacerating h nerves and scarring arring ac and tattooing n m and making an indian of hila ouirl as ag an shoula element of beauty as I 1 sho ink of developing his manhood b y him up to see life to see its abominable lusts to see its hideous incarnations of wit to see its internal infernal wickedness to see its extravagant and degrading scenes to see its miserable carnalities carnali ties to see its imaginations set on lire fire of at hell bell tot to see all trio those se temptations and delusions which lead to perdition nobody nets gets over the be sight of these things they who see them always carry wars scars they are burned and though they live they live as men that have been burned the scar bear remains remain and to let the young go out where the brazen courtesan appears to let them so go where the lustful frequenter of denhof dens of iniquity J can come within their reach to let them nowhere go where the young gather to get gether herto to cheer with bad wit to let anem go where they will be exposed to such temptations why a parent is insane that will do it to say A child must be hardened he be has got to get tough somehow I 1 and you may as well put him in the vat vac and let him tau tan is that family education Is that christian nurture Is that bringing up a child in the nurture and admonition of the lord I 1 0 to all husbands and wives whom written words may reach alsay if you yon have children bring them up opu purely rely bring them up with sensitive delicacy bring them up so that they shall not know the wickedness that is known know no unfortunately by the greater number of men and if there are children that are sometimes impatient of parental restraint let me say to them you do n not at know what temptation you are under and if held back by your mother if held back by your father you shall escape the knowledge of the wickedness that is in the world you will have occasion by and by to thank god for that more than i or lor silver or lor for gold or for houses or for lands keep your children at home at nights there is many maby a sod that lies over the child whole whose downfall began by vagrancy cy lit at nigh and there is many maby a chi child I 1 15 whose heartbreaking parents would give the world if the sod did lie over them what a state that is for children to come to in which the father and mother dread their life unspeakably more than their death what a horrible state of things that is where p parents ar feel a sense of rell relief ef in the dying of their children childre nl then I 1 say bay take care of your children at night |
