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Show ASHAMED OF THEIR PARENTS. Ungrateful children have always been a heavy, cross to parents and have caused more tears to flow in this world than all other avoidable occasions for grief. - '- One of the most biting forms of this heartlessness occurs when the parents make sacrifices for long years to give their sons and daughters a gentle education, edu-cation, so as to fit. them for refined surroundings and then have their boys and jjirls become ashamed of them. This cuts them to the heart. For oh, they think, that if their hands are rough, and their clothing coarse, and their occupation humble,, an they manners unpolished, at least they ha a portion of the .divine love that prompt to self-denial. They remember,, remem-ber,, too, that . but for their 'industry and their saving,, "and their planning, their children Vould be . just like them, exteriorly, .that is, for they are not like them in nobility of soul and-sincerity and-sincerity of affection. ' If they; were urc ttieiii an . .nie . w ay i.urougn mey would not be - ashamed of them. If they were like them they would t,ty to give-them love, for love, privately and before all the world. If .they .were like them, they would try ,to pay. back to the old folk by-ttokens of gratitude, the sacrifices-that, gave, them their refinement refine-ment and raccomplishments. . . - . j No, they are-; unworthy of - such devoted de-voted parents, -and smart and cultured as they think themselves, in the' sight of the angels they are unfit to associate with the "old man" and the "old woman" wo-man" of whom ihey-are ashamed. |