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10 PARENTAL BLUNDERS, tor. Talmage’s Sarmon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. THE SINOVER-INDi .GENCE DISCUSSED .vv. November ! Thcw(M«ki, pul>- Ib-nti )’ Dr. Tai: rm »n is beyond Jparali . E L-iglisL :poakiug ton . ' iing Aintu’] and Z'ah'id, |ho sa; uons a:C rc-piLith translated into i’<• jauu ■- of Germany. France. Italy. Den rn.nk. Norway, Bus-ia ami India. The tnn tiemen i.l ■ iiitf in <•> ;>• ■ tin; pvi> i- urion of tin's* s inform us ' Rat in this conn try, every thirteen million six hundred thou'nd copies of the entire aennon are printed, and about four million other lands, fnakojtg over seventeen million per week. V Similar arrangement is now being made !<>;• the publ; -a tion of Dr. Talmage’s Fridas (• .cu ing tall. . The h’ jject of the sermon today v. * •‘Parental Blunder and the text wa« I feniiii’.cl iv, 18: “He fell from oft the s<at backward by the side of the gate, and hi* th- k brake. cd h<» died; for he was an old man, ►nd heavy.” Dr. Talmage fid . This is the end of a long story of parental beglect. dudge Eli was a good man, hut ho |et hi- two boys, Hophi.i and Ph incl tc . do as they phased, and through over-indulgence they urut to ruin. Tlo* blind old judge, bine:y-eight years of age, is seated nt th«* gate waiting for the news of an important battle in which Lis two sons were at the front An <x |>ress ;■ 'Tuning with tidings from the Rattle, j his blind nonagenarian puts his hand behind hi* eai and listen*. and cries: “What xixean eth the noise of this tumult?” An vxritod m<"*s»'n ■ ?r, all out of breath with the speed. aid to him. “Our army is dfdean 1. The sm red chest, called t>o ark, is captured, and your sons are tfb ad on the field/’ No wonder the father faint ed ami expired. The domestic trige ly in V hich these two sons were the tragedians hid finished it * fifth mid last .»• t. “H<* fell from toss tin* catbmkward by the side of the gate, nnd Li neck brake, amt he died ■ for he was wn obi . an. and boa y." Eli bad made an awful mistake in regard to l;i- hd l n. The bible distinctly >y ’’His sons ma*’” themselves vd and he I m rained them not oh, the ten thousand mi't ilo mn J-arii.u hildn n. mi-t.‘k<s of parents, mistakes pt tea* in <lay ‘chool and Sabbat h < la .-•’•s, |nistak«- which we all mak •. Will it not bo li ul tn consider them ? Thi- conn try i.s going io be connucred by a F great army, compared with which that of 9‘.nl«l.wiii the First, ami Xerxev, and Alexnn tier, ami Grant, and Lop, all put together, r.pip’ii iuinbcr insignificant. They will caj»- luieaL our pulpits, storehouses, factories, and halls <•! legislation, all our shipping, all our wealth. ami all our honors. They will take jiossi ion of all authority, from the United pstatp' ;ac.iidency down to the humblest con tHabulary -of everything lietween the .At lantic and l‘;« iih o< * ans They are on the >narch nnw, and they halt neither day nor bight They will soon be here, and all the iiresunt active population of this country Hunt stuTcnder ami give way. I refer to he groat army of children. Whether they <halI take possession of everything for good or or bail, depends upon the style of preparation through which they p.. s on their way from cradle to throne. Cicero acknowledges ho kepi in hi- desk a collection of prefaces for Looks, whi< h prelaws he could at any time hbtach to anything ho wanted to publish ■or bin.- If or others; and all parents and leachci have all prepared the preface of every young life under their charge, ami not only the | brnfat e but the appendix, whether the volume boa poem or a ■ nice I amilics, and schools ami legislatures pie incur day busily engaged in .discussing Kvhat is t lu* best mode of educating children. {Before this ouestion almost every other |ftv\in(ll< into insignificance, while dependent mpon il proper solution is the welfare of gnv i rnmcns and ages eternal. Macaulay tells of the war which Frederick the Second mado ptpon Queen Maria Theresa. And onu day fho app nod before.the august Idiot, wearing ■mini tong for her’fathei .and held up in h< r arms before 1 Lem her child, the archduke. This so ! Vrought upon the otlhets and deputies of the jH-ople that with half drawn swords they broke forth to the war cry: “Let ns die tor ' our qiu n. Maria Theresa!” So. this morn- : tug, roa'i/.ng that Ihe boy of t<mlay is to bo the rub r of the future, the popular sovereign, ! 3 hold him b< fore the Amcrieun nr*»plc to j Dfou-o th -ir rnthusia m in his behalf, ami to ' f yoke Ih« ir oath for his defense, his educa ii hi. and his sublime destiny, If :i parent, you will icmemlicr wlu u you Vere aroused to these gieat rcspopsihibit ie mid W’ -a you found that you had not done all I qv iicii : Iter yon hud admin d the tiny hands, find tlu glossy hair, and the bright eyes that las m tin radio. \ <>u suddenly rcm<mibrr< <1 that li rami would yet !><• raised to file* the v orld with its benediction, or to smite it with, n chi >« In \ri,sto’s great poem there is a < barm •; < 3 led Ru > !•. who has a shield immdVorablo bplcmivr, but it is kept tiihd, on coiLi.n occasions, and Vhen uncovered it cu.led and ovvr ■vhtdmed its lieholder, who before had no p ’Spir oa of its brightness. My hone lod.is is Io um vver the destiny of your child or si ud<*nt. iiboitt which yon may l;a\e nocsp«-. ial uppre v.alien ami tlnxh upon v’u the >plcndoi of Jts imr -” ml nature. Behold the shield ami Mhr • d of its coming t on that! 1 prcimMi in this diMcomso to set forth what ff eomm'cr to be some of the errors fire valent in the training <>f children. I irst. I remark that main err in too great IRexvrity ortoogreat lenicmw of family gov ernment. B<-tween per <mal tyranny and ru inous laxativem ss of dis. inline there is u mt Jilium Sometimes the father errs on one i*le. find the mothei on the other side. Good lam lly eovei ament is all important, \narchy and joisri’.c n the domestic circle is the forerunner <»f him <hv und misrule in the state. Wi a; a >.'pu spe< nick is a home without order or i!is< ipl t”. diaolMidu'pee and imprudence, and |ing< 1 and fal - himd lift'?..; their horrid front in tl:r pkne which should be consecrated to all Jlhat is holy ami peavil'il, and beautiful, □ n tla attempt to U v..d all this, and ii’ing Iho children under proper laws and regulati* 11 -. parents hate f.om< lic carried then svlw>wi|h great vigor. «t”L’ H”v .nd, who wo- m reiail to the pr son ; •‘“•I ■ -tos, was im-i. in the treatment <>t h• :dr< n, John MIP n knew every th;u flnit ho. to train his tan.ilv Severe and un |i<».i-on ible was he in I. . cairiage toward them Bio them r. > 1 t.. ■ m in four m five l.ri ’gang. -, but would n >t allow them to learn an. jof tli*'m. for he said that one tongue w.t. jrnougb f’-r n worn.m. Tl :r reading wa . mi than i< al drudgery, when, if they Lad under load the languagi .s they read, the employment id r» id.i • might haw fi< on a luxury. Nou .1 Hot 'hi* children dospwt it him'and stealthily {bold his books, and hop» d for hi* death. In ♦ill az< s there has been need of a society for ]»revention of cruelty tb children. When Ba fiu*ra was put to death by her father because t»ho had countermanded his order, ami had ‘three windows put in a room instead of two, this cruel parcut was a typ< vs many who have acted the Nero and the □ioliespierio in the homo circle* The heart bickens at what you sometimes see, even tn gainilp"* that prcteml to be Christians pernvt* hial scolding, and haii-pul’.tng, and ear-boxing, jmd thumping, and stamping, and fau't-iind jug. an<l teusfng, until thi' children are xexed Beyond bounds and growl in the sleeve, and 3’out. am! rebel, and vow within thom>elves that in after days thov will retaliate for the < ruchi< practiced. >lauy a Lome has become ns full dispute a* was the home of John OGto*' who built l<s house at the most fjorth. . ) nomt in Gn-ct Butain. And tradi tion s i'. - that the house had eight window Ki.d < 1 dm>rs, and a ta.-.v of eight sides, be- cause I Lad eight children, and the only W’ay Jo k»' p ?-.cm out of bitter quarrel was to have n s< <• npiHiiutim i;t tor each one of them. TL..' ,hi Id's nati.re i. too drlieatc to be ■ar -rkv<; nbv fl lio -b.intmer. atul £ott '<• ftn.ii driver. Such tl. r.-e l»<hine in-iCvl li * metal tobll an.l tru- ... Will tn ' it .ln»h <■ 1 the more vn.ontt.. la' e Man. ... n, to think t1...t children are itax t ,| t , , ; , X( . |.. t , 1 ., the dl> i..- , . . u pyjltim to (hut «. ip, . 1.. Ur« inch He lelt 0 P .,, the THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15.1887. gate. I ft* h»K-ked t' r* LmjnMer*. . lie whittled sticks on tlrn carpet. And Gcmg'* shn'l be the sca?»c „■ ».t . all ■L)- » me&tic ruisundci.standings ami s' Ucions. li things got WTong in the culinar y dm.a: Um nt, lin coinr. the mother -ml ... .. angrily. “Where i 1 Ee »rgc‘.” Ifbr.-.im ■ niat'.eis a•* I perplexing at the dore, in » ■>; , the m’ er •: night and ay \ angrily : “Wii. r< c < In many a household there is n-.h a one /n --glod out for suspicion and r.nci .-a’ion. All the ; sweet flowers of his soul blast-<’ im-lpr iLi perpetual northeast serin, lu cur', the d \ in which he w.c born. Safer tie-cl/hl in an art. of bulrushes on the nile.ainoug cro • »diln \ than in an elegant mansion amid such dome-lie gorgon -. A motl er was p;».. ing along the street i>ne <!;•. . ami came up to her little child, w’ho did n<>t ce her approach, and her child wassiym n; her playmate: , A r <>u good-; r nothing little scamp, you come right into the house this minute or 1 will beat you till the skin conie<e;i." The mother broke i*i r,-y --iiiL, ‘'Why. Lizzie, I am surprised to hear von talk lik< that to any one!” “Oh.” Raid the child, I was (.nly playing, and he is my little bov. and I am v. olding him as you did me this morning.’ Children are apt to be echoes of tin <1 p.ocnts. i in a Bethlehem manger, among cattle and (.ame's, with gentle Mary to watch the little innocent, than the most extravagant nur sery ovci which God’s star of peace never -tood. The trapper extinguishes the flames on the piairic by fighting lire with fire, but you cannot, w ith the fire of your ow n disposition, put out the fir*’of a child’s disposition. Yet we may rush to the other extreme and rule < hildren by t< o groat leniency. 'Fhe sur geon is not unkind, because notwithstanding tlm resistance of Lis patient he goes straight 1 on, with firm hand and unfaltering heart, to ■ take off the gangrene. Nor is the pa- ; rent less affectionate and faithful i because, notwithstanding all violent rcmon- j •drama on the part of the child, he with the J firmest discipline advances to the cutting off of its evil inclinations. The Bible '-ays: ••(’has ten thy son while there is hope, and let not ■ thy soul spare for his crying.” Childish rage unchecked will, after a while, become a hurri- • cane. Childish petulance xvi 11 grow up into mi inthropy. childish rebellion will develop l intothelawl* ssnessof riot andsedition. If you would ruin the child dance to his every caprice and stuff him with confectionery. Be fore you are aware of it that boy of six years : will go down the street, a cigar in bis mouth and ready on any corner with his comrades to | compare pugilistic attainments. The parent i who allows the chibl to grow up without ever having learned the great duty of obedience and submission has prepared a cup of burning gall for his own lips and appalling destruction f<«r his descend.mt. lb member Eli and his 1 two sons, Hophni and Bhim-has. .A socon (i error prevalent to the Irainingof 1 i liiiilicn 1 a layin out of a theory and follow ing it without arranging it to varieties of dis- j position. In every family you will find strik ing differences of temperament. 'This child 1-too timid, and that too bold, and this too miserly, and that too wasteful, this too inac- ! the, and that too boisterous. Now’, the far- | mer who should plant corn and wheat and , turnips in just the same way, then put them I through om*. hopper, and grind them in the ' same mill, would not be so much of a fool as the parents I who should attempt to d: i ipline and ! educate all their children in the same manner. It needs a skillful hand to adjust these checks i and balances. The rigidity of government | which is necessary to hold in thi., impetuous i nature would utterly * rush that flexible dispo sition, while the gentle reproof that would ; suffice for the hitter, would, w hen used on the former, Le like attempting to hold a champing Bucephalus with reins of gossamer. God gives us in the disposition of each c hild a hint as to how wo ought to train him. and, as God in the mental .structure of our ( hildren indi cates what mode of training is the best, He also indicates in th© disposition their future occupation. Do not write dow n that child as dull because it may not now be as brilliant as your other chil dren or as those of your neighbor. Some of the mightiest men and women of the centuries had ft stupid childhood. Thomas Aquinas was called at school “the dumb ox,” nut afterwards demonstrated his sanctified genius and was called “the angel of the schools” and “tho (‘agio of Brittany.” Kindmss and patience with a child will conquer almost anything, and they arc virtues so Christianlike that they are inspiring to luuk at. John Wesley’s kiss of a. child on the pulpit stairs turned Mathias Jo\< <- from a profligato into a ilamingevangel. The third error prevalent in the training of j j ( hildren is tho one-sided development of cither tho physical, intellectual or moral nature at • tho expense of the others. Those, for in l stance, greatly mistake who, while they are faithful in the intellectual and moral culture 1 of children, forget the physical. Tho bright ' < \es half quenched by night study, the cramped chest that comes from too much bending over ' school d'sks, tho weak side resulting from sed entariness of habit, pale checks and the gaunt bodies of multitudi k of children attest that physical development does not always go along with intellectual and moral. How do you suppose all these treasures of knowledge the child got i will look in shattered < asket . And j how much will you give for the wealthiest cargo when it is put into a leaky ship? How j can that bright sharp blade of a child's attain- I ments I e wielded without any handle? What ! are bruins worth without shoulders to carry ! llii iii? What is a child with magniticent mind 1 but au exhausted body ? Better that a young man of twenty-one go forth into the world without knowing A from Z if he have health of body and energy to push his way through the world than al twenty-one to enter upon a'’l.i\e life, his bead stuffed w ith Socrates, and Herodotus, and Bacon, and La I‘lace, but no physical force to sustain him in the shock of earthly contliets. From this infinite blunder of parents how many have come out in life w ith a genius that could havt* piled Ossa upon I’elion and J mounted upon thorn to scale the heavens, and ; ba\e laid down punting with physical ' exhaustion before a mole-hill. i hey , who might have thrilled senates and • marshalled armies and startled the ' world w ith the shock of their scientific bat- I tciies, La\e passed their lives in picking up pres; i iption , for indi’estion. Tin \ ow ned all the thunderbolts of Jupiter, but could not get . out of their rocking chair to use them. ' Georgo Washington in early life was a poor ; sj oiler, and spelled hat h-a-d<mble-t, and a • ream of paper lie spelled “rheaiu/ but ho knew enough to.-.pell out the independence of i th’.s country from foreign oppress’on. The knowledge < f the schools is important, but th- ie are other things (juito as impoitant. .hi t its great is the wrong done when tho mind is culti\ated and the heart neglected. The youth of this day art' seldom denied any >'holarly attainments. Our schools and semi- j narfes are over growing in cftlviem y , and the audents are conducted through all the realms o! Philosophy, ami art, ami languages, and mathematics. The mom hereditary obtuse j\cs way b« lore thvjonslan Lt of adroit in -ti iictorF. But there is*a devi lopment of in finite importance which mathematics and the dead hmgmigts cannot affect. The more mental power the more capacity for evil unless coupled with religious restraints. 1 You disc< wr what terrible for evil unsanctlthul genius possesses when you see Scaliuger with his scathing denun< iatnuis assaulting tho best men of liis time, and iUount and Spino.’.i and Bolingbroko leading their hosts of followers intothe aU-con*uming tiro o£ Hkvi»licum and infidelity. Whether knowledge is a mighty good or unmitigated oxil iL'pends unthelv upon which course it tak<M. Fbc river rolling ou Im tween round banks makes all thi' \ alley laugu with go’den wheat mid rank griUß. and catching hold tho wheel of mill and factory, whirls it with groat indusitios. But, breaking away from restraints and dashing over hanks In red wrath, it washes away har vests from their moorlugß and makes the val ley shrink with the catastrophe Fire in the furnace heats tl.o house or driv es the steamer; but, uncontrolled, warehouse* go down in awful crash before it, and in a few hours bait a city will lie in black ruin, walls and towers end churches ami monument* You must .»<- company the education of tho intellect w ith the ('duration nf the heart, or you are r e *, ng up within your child an eneigy w hich w ill !»<• blasting au I terrific. Better a wick <i dunce than a w icke I philosopher. Tb.e fourth error often c »mn :te<l in tho traiuim; of» hildtvn is the >e.p’u >-i»»n of < hild ish sportfulm ss. Hiv most triumphant death of any child that I ever knew w •.» that of *> •». villv II aym 'lcColhim. A few day* UI ore ti e.. ho v .is at my house in Sy ta. ruse and lu ran like a do* r and Lis La’L»e made th*' wood* <a Lo. You could hear him c mun.? ai o \ , bo full was he of romp and laughter an I whis tle. Don’t put religion on your child a* ft straight jacket. I’arent* atur having for a good many yeaxs been jostled about 1:1 the ro:i ih world often lose their vivacity, and are a •?'»..;. L(ul to sei; Low their children <an it though ties ly of the (earnest wprLi ,/i about then*. That is a cruel parent w ;>(• .1: -m-he. any of the light in a child's soul. D. olarresiing its sporifulnes>. go forth L.’.p hii.i trumlh* the Loop, and fly the <1 1 th.* -n.r.v . , ;<•. Tip e .lOul b > Eh;.* to (.>rr> u burden : that brow c* •» ;• iz <> be Wiinkicd; tho.*>e feet arc too Dy to go ai< ji, n: a funeral pace. God L • ■ •':'•' •ng Ip-art.-/ Now is tne time for ; I- 1 •■■ ■ t> ‘ i’faL i.vt ti.em romp and sing p.m s !•;>■ ;h. and go with aru-h and a nurrah. In th; -• iy tl.cy L r ath’ ie>l up a surplus of energy for future lite. For the child that walks nronml w ith a 1, drain'ing his feet as tb'c: ;h tlo’y were weights and sitting down by the Lor.r in moping and grumbling, I prophesy ! a life (f utter hianimndnn and discontent. Sooner hush ti e robins in th * air till they are :-ibnt as a bat, and lecture the frisking latnbs : on the hillside until they' walk like old sheep, rather than put exhilarant childhood in tho stocks. The tilth error in the training offehlldhood is tho postponement of its moral culture until too j late. Multitudes of children because of their ‘ precocity have hern urged into depths of study where lliey ought not to go, and their intellects ' have been overburdened and overstrained and battered to pieces against Latin grammars and . algebras, and coming forth into practical life they will hardly rise to mediocrity, and there is now a stuffing and craming system of edii r ation in the schools of our country that is deathful to the teachers who have to enforce it, ami destructive to the children who j must submit to the process. You find children at nine and ten years of age, with school les -1 sons only appropriate for ( hildren of fifteen. If children are kept in school ami studying I from nine to three o'clock, no home study ex cept music ought to be required of them. Six hours of study is enough for any child. Tho , rest of the day ought to be devoted to recrea : tion and pure fun. But. you cannot begin too 1 early the moral culture of a child, or on too ' complete a scale. \ou can look back upon your own life and remember what mighty impressions were made upon you at five or six' years of age. Oh, that I child does not sit so silent during your conver ! sation to be influenced by it. You say he does not understand. Although much of your phraseology is beyond his grasp, he is gather : ing un from your talk influences which will affect his immortal destiny. From the ques > tion he asks you so long afterward you find he I understood all about what you were saying. You think the child does not appreciates that beautiful cloud but its most delicate lines are rejected into the very depths of the youthful nature, and a score of years from now' you will see the shadow of that cloud in the tastes and refinements developed The song w ith w hich you sing that child to sleep will i echo through all its life, and ring back from the very arch' sos heaven. 1 think that often the first seven years of a child’s life decides i w hether it shall be ira x ible, waspish, rude, false, hypocritical, or gentle, truthful, frank, : obedient, honest, and Christian. The pres ! <‘nt generations of men will pass off very much I as they arc now. Although the gospel is ofTer : r d tlrnm, the general rule is that drunkards die ' drunkards, thieves die thieves, libertines die libertines. Therefore to .the youth we turn. Before they sow wild oats get them to 1 sow wheat ami barley. Y'ou fill tho bushel measure with good corn, and there will be no I room for husks. Glorious Alfred Cookman j was converted at ten years of age. At Carlisle, j Pennsylvania, during the progress of a relig ious meeting in the Methodist- church, while I many were kneeling at the foot of the altar, , this boy km-lt in a corner of the church all by himself and said: “Precious Savior, thou art <ax ing others. O, w ilt thou not save me?” A Presbyterian older kn It beside him and led him into the light. Enthroned Alfred (.’ookman! Tell me from tho skies, were you converted too early? But I cannot hear bis answer. It is overpowered by the huzzas of the tens of thousands who were brought to God through his ministry. Jsaac Watts, the great Christian poet, was con verted at nine years of age. Robert Hall, the great Baptist evangelist, was converted at twelve years of age. Jonathan Edwards, the greatest of American logicians, was converted at seven years of age. Oh for one generation of holy men and wamien. Shall it be the next ? Fathers and mothers, you under God are to decide w hether from your families shall go forth cowards, in ebriates, counterfeiters, blasphemers, and wh •thcr there shall be those bearing your im age and carrying your name festering in the . low haunts of vice, and iloundering in dissipa tion, and making the midnight of their lives horrid with a long how l of ruin, or w hether from your family altars shall come the Christ ians, the reformers, the teachers, the minis ters of Christ, tho comforters of the troubled, the healers of the sick, the enacters of good law s, the founders of charitable institutions, and a great many who shall in tho humbler spheres of toil and usefulness serve God and tlie best interests of the human race. You cannot as parents shirk the responsi bility. God has charged you with amission,* and all the thrones of heaven are waiting to I see whether vou will do your duty. We must j not forget that it is not so much what we teach our children as what wo arc in their presence. I We wish them to be better than wo are, but I the probability is that they will only be re ‘ productions of our own character. German j literature has much to say of the “spectre of Brocken.” Among those mountains travelers in certain conditions of atmosphere see themselves copied on a gigantic scale in tho clouds. At first the trav elers do not realize that it is themselves on a larger scale. When they lift a. hand or move the head ibis monster spectre does the same, ai d with such enlargement of proportions that tb.e scene is most exciting, and thousands have gone to that place just to behold tho spectre of Brocken. The probabil ity is that some of our faults which w o con ; aider small and insignificant, if we do not put au end to them, w ill he copied on a larger | scale in the lives of our children, and perhaps I dilated and exaggerated into spectral propor tions. You need not go as far off Ins the Brocken to see that pro ; cess. Tho first thing in importance in the education of our children is to make our ! selves, by the grace of God, fit examples to be ; copied. The day will come when you must ’ confront that child, not in tho church pew on , a calm Sabbath, but amid the consternation of - tho rising dead, and the dying heavens, and«a burning world. From your side that son or ‘ daughter, bone of your bone, heart of your heart, the father's brow his brow, the mother’s eye h:s < ye. shall •;<» forth to an eternal desti ny. What will be x.-ur joy if at last you hear tlioir feet in the same golden highway and I hear their voices in the same rapturous song, illustrations, while the eternal ages lust, j of what a faithful parent could, under God. aecompli-h. I was reading of a mother who. dying, had all her ( hildren about her. and took each one of them by the hand and asked them to meet her in heaven, and w?ih teats ami s.»bs such ns these only know who have stood by the death-bed of a good old mother. Thov all promised. But there wa. a young num of nineteen who had been very w ild and re 'kless, an'l hard, and proud, and when she took his hand she said: “Now*, my b> y. 1 w ant jou to promise me before I die th.it you w ill become a Christian and meet me in heaven.” The young man made no answer, * for tfieri w »* so nntch for him to give up if ho 1 made nnd kept such a promise. But the aged mother persisted in saying: \ouw on t deny me this before 1 go, will you ? This parting must not bo forovci. Tell tnv now you w ill serve God and meet me in the 'and w here there is no parting.” (Quaking w ith emoti(*n he stood, making up Lis mind md halting and hesitating, but at last LG xtubbo’niies* yielded, and he threw his arras around his mother's neck and said “Yes. m t’a«r. I will ( will.’’ And as ho finished the last word of hi* promise her spirit u del I I’-auk >d the young man kept Ins rrmnEe. Ye*, he k- pt it M» v G<M u i v <. all mothers and fathers the ghuincs-of their I cbilurm s salvation. 1 or a’. who are trying to do their duty as I parent•» I quote the tremendous pa**age: “I: »’.n up a child in the wav in which ho s'iM ’.d g ». and when he L,. lu . t E• ’ f’oen it It th euJi di- ipline and I am. g'H.Jy « x ’\. 1 ire actin-.: up*»n ia.» <! . Iy< ; I.a- e ikt —iit to expect him t*> grow up vuiu.ms. And low man. of ;ov y.>u will *hed wLm. \ -a - ev 'ir'child hon or.ib'-r and ya>t and trut 1 and t i-. .nd succesaful-a holy man ami.. . <e d K - h c.esiv. a godly worl u, : . i w c>r’d of 1: >us pv dMHi.m When you tun.p’> (L„ ev will gAtii(H to L.v.ss v ir 1 hours. Th \ will push bac k the white \ ir t : fo’c- h. a iandviv ‘WI p :1 u q f.uher he dwavs was to nu' *’ Thoy w; . fold v..a: han Ep« ace fullv and *a\ • “Ih'ar 1 ’ s] • g gore IL r tn.-abloH are al’ ovex Dm. t >’m> look •E > ‘ ill - t ? ftp? S | The following word?, in praise of Dll. Piebcf/s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for those delicate diseases and weak- Qcsses peculiar to women, must be of interest to every sufferer from such maladies. Thov are fair samples of the spontaneous expressions with which thousands give utterance to their -sense of gratitude for the inestimable boon of health whii h has been restored to them by the use of ibis world-lamed medicine. Jonx E. Sega a, of Millenbeck, Va., writes: “ My wile hud bee n suffering for two or three years with female weakness, and had paid out one humlred dollars to physicians with out relief. She took Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and It did her more good than all the medicine given to her by the physi- SIOO Throwh £wav. clans during the three years they had been practicing upon her.” .111 11 ..hi Mrs. Georof. Heroer, of TTesG-thi. iV. K. lIUIM. V»£.,7KUr. ntiv 1 l.li, I 'l '((('I, J.., writes: “ I was a great sufferer from leucor rhea, bearing-down pains, and pain contin ually across my back. Three bottles of your ‘Favorite Prescription’ restored me to per fect hep.lth. I treat* ') with Dr. , for nine months, without receiving any benefit. The Greatest | Earthly Booh.| in..’? ...... oil J in .■> in. Tho ‘Favorite Prescription’ is the greatest earthly boon to us poor suffering women.” TREATS TOE »RO93a DISEASE. Many times women call on their family physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one from dvspepsia, another from heart disease, another Hom liver or kidney disease, another from nervous exhaustion or prostration, another with pain here or there, and in tins way they all present alike to themsedves and their easy-going and indifferent, or over-busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases, for which he prescribes Ins pills and potions, assuming them to be such, when, in reality, they are all oniv symptoms caused bv some womb disorder. Ihe physician, ignorant of the cause of suffering, encourages his practice until large bilfe are made. The suffering patient gets no better, but probably worse by reason of tho delay, wrong treatment and consequent complications. A proper medicine. I ko Dr. Heroes Favorite Prescription, riirectnl to the cause would have entirely removed the disease, thereby dispelling all those distressing symptoms, and instituting comfort instead of prolonged misery. Mrs. E. F. Morgan, of No. 71 Lexington St., Efist Boston, Mass., says: “Five years ago I was a dreadful sufferer from uterine troubles. Having exhausted the skill of three phy sicians. I was completely discouraged, and so n'tranmjdaoßiK 3 PHYSiGIAHS Failed. weak I could with difficulty cross the room alone. T began taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and using the local treatment recommended in his ‘Common Sense Medical Adviser.’ I commenced to improve at once. In three months I was perfectly and have had no trouble since. I wrote a letter to my family paper, briefly mentioning bow m.y health had been restored, and offering to send the full particulars to any one writing me for them, and enclosing a starnped-en vclope for reply, I have received over four hundred letters. In reply, I have described my ease and the treatment used, and have earnestly advised them to ‘do likewise.’ From a great many I have received second letters of thanks, stating that they had commenced the use of ‘ Favorite Prescription,’ had sent the $1.50 required for the ‘Medical Adviser,’ and had applied the 1 local treatment so fully and plainly laid down therein, and were much better already.” THE OOTGBOWTE O? A VAST EXFEBIEHCia. The treatment of many thousands of eases of those chronic weaknesses and distressing ailments peculiar to females, nt the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. V., has afforded a vast experience in nicely adapting and thoroughly testing remedies for tlie cure of woman’s peculiar maladies. Dr. Picree’s Favorite Prescription is tlie outgrowth, or result, of this great and valuable experience. Thousands of testimonials, received from patients and from physicians who have tested it in tlie more aggravated and obstinate cases which had baffled their skill, prove it to be the most wonderful remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of suffering Women. It is not recommended as a “cure-all,” but as a most perfect Specific for woman's peculiar ailments. Ah a powerful, invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system, and to the uterus, or womb and its ap pendages, in particular. For overworked, "worn-out," " run-down.” debilitated teach ers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, “Shop-girls,” housekeepers, nursing moth ers, and feeble women generally. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the great est earthly boon, being unequalled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. It promotes digestion and assimilation of food, Address, WORLD* BISPENSAKY IHEDICAS- ASSOCIATION, No. «S 3 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. TIIE original UTTLE LIVER PILLS. ——————— BEWARE OF IMITATIONS! O Q O'!® ask far Dr. Pierce’s PellaSs, or List?© Q O Q 'W %% nO Sugar-coated Granules or Pills. BEING ENTIRETY VEGETABLE, Dr. Pierce’s Pellets operate without disturbance to the system, diet, or occupation. Put up in glass vials, hermetically sealed. Always fresh and reliable. As a LAXATIVE, ALTEBATIVE, or PURGATIVE, these little Pellets give the most perfect satisfaction. (SI SICK HEBBACHE. Jtx. Bilious Headache, Dizziness, Con- J ' i® stlpatioii, Indigestion, Bilious & r£ Attacks, and all derangements of the AV (ELAJag I stomach and bowels, arc promptly relieved 'SstiZ ! anti permanently cured by’ the use of Dr. < JSfi vtSre | Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets. In ex planation of tlie remedial power of these Pellets over so great a variety of diseases, it mar truthfully be said that their action upon tho system is universal, not a gland or tissue escaping their sanative influence. Sold bv druggists, for 25 cents a vial. Manufactured at the Cliem ical Laboratory of wohlp’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo. N. Y. uuuuiu, m. i. . : —— I &wSßbmw FOR A CASE OF CATARRH WHICH THEY CAN NOT CURE. CtYMPTOMS OF fXATARfiH. Dull, heavv headache, obstruction of the nasal passages, dis charges falling from the head into the throat, sometimes pro- Clise watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, ruriileut. btxxlv and putrid; the eyes weak, watery, and Inflamed; there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking or coughing to clear the throat, expectoration of offensive matter, together with seal's from ulcers: the Voice s changed nnd has n nasal twang; the breath is offensive: smell and taste are im iniired: there is a sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, ii hacking eough and general debilitv. However, only a few of the aUne-uamed symptoms are likely to be present in any one < ix' Thousands ot cnees annually, without manifesting half of the above symptoms, result in consumption, and end in the Irravv No disease is so common, more deceptive and .lamrerous. ie-s mid 'vstood, or more unsmics.fully treated b> physicians. By its mild, soothing, an 1 healing properties, DR. RACE’S CATARRH REMEDY CURBS TRI WORST CASES OF Catarrh, “Cold in the Hsad," Coryza,and Catarrhal Headache. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS ErERTWHEBE. T»TITC3E. (SO- OENTS. Threw Away I Her Supporter. Ill’l.-M. Ul IUV lIIIIV , (ills 1 UUVC id 1(1 aside, and feel as well as I ever did.” nrsoEi WOKOERI 4.-OT -TrMiTQwrMwrJ? ~ • z , •’ ••v-uiu --viiuv 1 imij , iu IIIV ,13111111311 mont of myself and friends. I can now be 011 my feet all day, attending to the duties of my household. pEALOUsI i; Doctors. of money, but received no lasting benefit. At last my husband persuaded me to try your medicines, which I was loath to do, because I was prejudiced against (them, and the doctors said they would do me no good. I Anally told my husband that if he would get me some of your medicines, I would try them against the advice of my physician. He got me six bottles of the ravorite Prescription,' also six bottles of the • Discovery,’ for ten dollars. I took three bottles of ‘ Discovery ’ and four of Favorite Prescription,’ and I have been a sound woman for four years. 1 then ga\j> the balance of the medicine to my sister, who was troubled in the same way, and she cured liersclf in a short time. 1 have not bad to take any medicine now for almost tour years.” cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indi gestion, bloating and eructations of gas. As a soothing and strengthening nervine," Favorite Prescription” is un equalled and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, exhaustion, prostration? hysteria, spasms and other distressing, nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx iety nnd despondency. Dr. Bierce’s Favorite Prescription is a legitimate medicine, carefully compounded by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate organization. It is purely vegetable in its composition and perfectlj’ harmless in its effects in any condition of the system. “Favorite Prescvipiion” is a posi ' tive cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or "whites,” ! excessive flowing at monthly periods, puin ■ ful menstruation, unnatural suppressions, prolapsus or falling of the womb, weak back, “female weakness,” anteversion, re ' troversion, bearing-down sensations, chron -1 ic congestion, inflammation and ulceration ' of the womb, inflammation, pain and ten ; derness in ovaries, accompanied with “ in i ternal heat." I s* a^ William Ramich, Esq., of Minden, Kearney County, i; HHIIQ I Nebraska, writes: “1 was troubled with boils for a MUiLO 4 thirty years. Four years apo I was so afflicted with I flilQCn i them that I could not walk. I bought two bottles | KuHCM. g O f Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, and took iamaKSl one • peHet ’ after each meal, till all were gone. By that time I had no boils, and have had none since. I nave also been troubled with sick headache. When I feel it coining on, 1 take one or two * Pellets,’ and am relieved of the headache.! | umiiMiiir nmnag Mrs c BROWN, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, I IHF KFST Isays: “Your‘Pleasant Purgative Pellets'are M * ll£ “ I without question the best cathartic ever S RATUinTin I sold. They are also a most efficient remedy | UUinAilllU. 1 for torpor of the liver. We have used them Ek'fw, rr,r " ill for yearn In our family, and keep them in the house all the time.” ■’“?■■■“■■ Prof. W. Hausnbr, the famous mesmer liMTnin Acnwv Ist, of Jthaca, N. Y., Writes: “Some ten URIULU MUUni years ago I suffered Untold agony from rnnu PITIDOU chronic nasal catarrh. Sly family ptiysk rnUNI UalAnnn. cian gave me up as incurable, and said I must die. My case was such a bud one, that every day, towards sunset, my Voice would become so hoarse I could barely speak above A whisper. In the morning my cough ing and clearing of my throat would almost strangle me. By the use of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, in three months, I was a well man, and the cure has been permanent." *■■■■'"'w Thomas J. Rushing, Esq., JSflf Pine Street CONSTANTLY St. Louis. Mo., writes: "1 was a great suf , wunuiuntui fcrer from catarrh for three rears. *At r AWYINf! ANfl times 1 could hardly breathe, and was con •innainu nnu etantlr hawking and spitting, and for the xUITTIMQ hist eight mouths could not breathe through WrHllrto. the nostrils. I thought nothing could be done for me. Luckily, I was advised to try Dr. Sage's Catarrh iieiAedy, and J am now a will man. I he li- ve it to be the only e/.re remedy for catarrh now manufac tured. and one has only to give it a fair trial to experience astounding results and a permanent cure.” riv "“V" EtI Robbins. Runyan P. 0.. CrtumHa Go., I iiiSEt iIQT T !ES I 9 i i*.v dau,i-liter bad catarrh when I IfiOuL UUI ILLO I Kh „ wag fire y{ , ars „,J vfrv baJlv J Baw 4 filinr liiTJG'U a |,r - 'l* Catarrh Remedy adv, rtlsed. an} E Ullilt UAI Aliillf* I procured a bottle for her. ai d soou taw that it helped her; u third Utile effected a perman nt cure, Mrs. Sophia F. Boswell, White I writes: "1 took eleven bottles of your ‘Fa vorite Prescription ’ and one bottle of vour I ‘ Pellets.’ 1 am doing my work, and have been I ior some time. T have had to employ help for about sixteen years before I commenced tak ing your medicine. 1 have had to wear a 1 supporter most of the time: this I have laid I Mrs. May Gleason, of A’uitfai, Qitava Co. I Mich., writes: "Your ‘Favorite Prescription ‘ 9 has worked wonders in mj- case. I Again she writes: “ Having taken several bot | ties of the ‘Favorite Prescription ’ I have re -1 gained my health wonderfully, to tho astoniah- A Marvelous Cure.— Mrs. G. F. Sprague, of Crystal, Mich., writes: "I was troubled with female weakness, leucorrhea and failing of the womb for seven years, so I had to keep mj- bed for a good part of the time. I doctored with an I army of different physicians, and spent large sums - I In pregnancy, “Favorite Prescription” lis a ‘’mother’s cordial,” relieving nausea, 1 | weakness of stomach and other distressing - symptoms common to that condition. If 1 its use is kept up in the latter months of , gestation, it so prepares the system for de s livery as to greatly lessen, and many times s almost entirely do away with the sufferings I of that trying ordeal. s “Favorite Prescription,” when taken ■ in connection with the use of Dr. Pierce’S Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa- i five doses of Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pellets (Little Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney and I Bladder diseases. Their combined use also ■ removes blood taints, and (abolishes ean : cerous and scrofulous humors from the i I system. “Favorite Prescription” is the only ■ I medicine for women sold, by druggists, under a positive guarantee, from ths manufacturers, that it will give satisfac tion in every case, or money will be re funded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully car ried out for many years. Large bottles (too doses) SI.OO, or six bottles for $5.00. tvF Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce’s large, illustrated Treatise (I‘JO • pages) on Diseases of Women.