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Show CORRECTION. (AVritten for the Intermountain Catholic.) Catho-lic.) AVithhold not correction from your child. There are many parents who, under pretense of love for their children, chil-dren, violate the duty God commands of them. The urgent exhortation of the Church is, "Chasten thy son while there is hope." The lack of obedience on the part of parents to the Church admonitions undoubtedly accounts for the waywardness and disobedience of many of the children of Catholic parents. par-ents. Thousands of pious Catholic parents par-ents are weeping out their declining days with broken hearts over their own neglect. After it is too late some wake up to the fact. The writer knows of a cafe of an aged lady who said to a young mother who was trying to pacify a spoiled child: "Why don't you make that child mind and stop his crying?" The young mother replied: "I can't bear to whip him: he is not strong, and if he should die I could never forgive mjself." "I once had a bright boy and now he is dead," said the elderly lady, "and I can never forgive myself for not punishing and making him mind. He was mv only child and was not strong and I luved him, so I indulged and netted htm. AA'hen he grew older I ran after and waited on my willful, rebellious boy until I fiw him in prison. My tears and cries to God made no amends for my indulgence. Time passed on. My darling, my own heart's blood, swung on the gallows. This thought rings in my ears day and night." Parents, you by your indulgence indul-gence light the fires that shall burn your children eternally! Parents, your children will rise up and call you blessed if you do your duty by them. How many persons did you ever hear say, "My parents were too strict with me, and I could not make as good a man or woman as I otherwise would have been"? Oh. parents, you who ' may be living with your children and I allowing them to do and go after the inclinations of their own hearts, per-I per-I haps being seldom found at mass, or I at Sunday school; or. if there, showing i no reverence and taking no part in the study of their catechism. AA'hat kind of an account will you render to your judge of the responsibility as a parent par-ent upon you? Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is! old he will not rtapart from it. |
