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WHO WAS TO BLAME?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 17, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 16.

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WHO WAS TO BLAME?

By Mrs. McVean Adams

A YOUNG mother, holding up her first baby for papa's kisses: "Now, see him shake his fist at his old father! Isn't that cunning? Did you ever see anything so cute and sweet?" The soft, rosy, dimpled fist is covered with kisses. Baby learns what will bring the applause of his little world.
Time rolls on—a way time has—the same three persons five years older. Papa speaks, "Come out here into the woodhouse with me, sir! I'll teach you to shake your fist at me, young man! Off with that jacket now!" Mother lies on her bed, vainly trying to shut out the sound of blows and shrieks for mercy. Ah! the time to have shown mercy was years ago. Father may say, "I'll teach you, young man!" but the wee baby was taught, and he has only learned what was taught him.
Forum of Pompeii, exhumed from the ashes of Vesuvius, which buried it in A.D. 79. The volcano, Vesuvius, in the distance. These calamities—volcanic and seismic—are increasing in frequency as the centuries roll by. They are indications that the sin-laden earth is waxing old. See article on page 14.
Forum of Pompeii, exhumed from the ashes of Vesuvius, which buried it in A.D. 79. The volcano, Vesuvius, in the distance. These calamities—volcanic and seismic—are increasing in frequency as the centuries roll by. They are indications that the sin-laden earth is waxing old. See article on page 14.
O for justice, wisdom, and common sense in Christian homes!—Mrs. McVean Adams.