Hints to Young Married People With Children.
By Christian Advocate
ACCEPT a friendly suggestion. Carefully store your minds with personal, town, and city important events, all changes and great events in your own church, and all such discoveries as are made in your time, particularly what goes on in your own beloved country and in the great nations of the world. Pay little attention to gossip in newspapers. It makes no difference to you what the man's name is that killed his wife a thousand miles from where you live. As Emerson says in substance, what difference does it make to you what the names of people are that are doing what has been done from the beginning of the world? Why do we give you this hint? Because you will be able to interest your children when they are little, and in every stage you can make home pleasant to them by telling them in your own language the important things that you have learned or heard. Then your boys and girls will pass out of the childish state, and before you and they know it, you and they will be companions. But there is something more. You will have so many things to think of that your minds will not grow weak in advancing years so soon as otherwise they might. There is no more beautiful spectacle than grandparents interesting their grandchildren by their reminiscences and the light they can show upon many things that interest young folks; and there is not a much more melancholy spectacle than that of persons who have never treasured up anything. Too often they are peevish and prematurely dull. The exceptions are when the disposition was extremely good, or when—tho they do not store up15anything in memory—they have a sure hold on God and a bright hope of everlasting life. That is the only thing that can make happy those whose lack of ideas and facts is small when they are thru with business and practically confined to the house or its vicinity.—Christian Advocate.