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Show A PLAIN CASE OF DUTY. Don't neglect the children. They may not exert any great influence upon the community life of today, but In a few short y.ears they will be (directing the affairs of the community com-munity while we will be looking on or will have passed on. As we train them today, so will they be then. And as they are then, so will we of today be judged. We can escape our duty. It is plain and squarely before us. We may shirk it, and squirm out of it, but in the end we musi pay, even in person or in memory. The child does not come into this world of its own volition, and it should not be left to its own devices. That which we create we should j .protect and foster and bring as near to a state of perfection as is humanly human-ly possible. Nothing else will suffice suf-fice in the eyes of Him who created mankind. The home without children is not without a duty to the children of! other home. They form an integral j part of the community, and as such titled to the co-operation and en-j couragement of the remainder of the community. The child may not say much iu the presence of its elders, but it sees much and remembers much ol what it sees and hears. Thus are its impressions formed, and these are the beacon lights thar beckon it on to a life of honor or of ignomy. "Remember the days of thy youth." Though an adult today, you were a child once yourself. There are other children around you. |