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Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio
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An editorial from the Christian Herald exhorts parents, especially farmers, to use winter evenings for moral and useful education of their children at home, emphasizing family-based instruction over idleness or poor schooling, and extending benefits to all youth to prevent vice.
Merged-components note: Continuation of the moral essay on domestic felicity and parental education from 'The Monitor', text flows directly despite OCR errors.
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THE MONITOR. 5.
If there be any thing that can give us exalted ideas of domestic felicity,
certainly it is the contemplation
of a well regulated family society affords more delight to the generous
mind, than imparting instructions to
others-if this be true in a general
sense, think what sensations a fond father
must feel, when surrounded by the
dears of his tenderest affection-clothed,
while he is instilling those principles
on which their future happiness more
depend, should he discover in them
an increasing anxiety for improvement.
or even to see so rare
with delight, such as the measures of science. for ever made
rational he dies, after one-
Should be read in all contention.
The imaginative some checkered by
an affectionate reverence-Obedient.
Let him ponder well the dignities
the probable situation in which
Kind Providence has placed him
What parent needs treasure to
influence as he highest of all considerations-Here - the tender. is
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that such treasures here parents as
thee. form the character of children
generation. whose virtues stand new-
balm their relatives -Reader.
whoever thou art. turn thy eyes to
the dwellings, within the sphere of
thy observation. and tell me what
thou seest!-Is this the way in which.
the morality of the parental board is
generally administered?-How are
these winter evenings generally spent
among our
enlightened farmers.
whose envied privilege it is to enjoy
so many hours of leisure, at this sea-
son of the year?--Or rather how are
they enjoyed ?--How are the even-
ings spent?-Not surely in the man-
ner above alluded to; Such scenes
indeed might be valued by many. but.
delight ye don have exist except
in the imagination : Oh! that
these hours of leisure were prized as
they ought to be-in the present
state of learning many
parents is true in minds
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winter croaking of these season, with
such opportunity, as they would
if sent to school all the rest of the season,
under the care of the best of teachers--
Think not that I would discourage
sending children to school,
to teachers who are moral and literate
qualified. Moreover do not
deposit ignorant charge fat to moral.
consists wisdom do at and ee
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drcisiots of justice. to whi h alone
these children must look for the pro-
tection of their rights: Oh! do not
condemn them to an education, scan-
dalous and neglected : let them share
with your children the advantages of
education, Convince them of your interest in their welfare, of the importance of useful learning: Suffer them not to spend their youthful time in straggling about the country on sabbath, their shoes, and frolics, times, and other pernicious plays.
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Parental Moral Education Of Children During Winter Leisure
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Exhortative Promotion Of Family Based Moral Instruction
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