Southern Christian Advocate

The Best of Training.

Every child cannot have the best of training in the kindergarten and be schooled in the latest fads in society; but every mother can give training, without which all other accomplishments will be useless. This priceless gift is a love for the good and beautiful and a good feeling towards our fellow-men, which can only be attained by overcoming envy and jealousy.

Teach the child to observe the perfect and beautiful, though, like the rose, it be among thorns which are to be avoided. Teach him to commend the good and look away from the evil, both in persons and objects. This will do much towards gaining for him the love and respect of others, while the habit of so doing will keep him pure at heart and free from envy and jealousy—the two great enemies of happiness and success.

Let a child have an envious, covetous mother, and the chances are that she will impart it to him through his early training. When this is inculcated into the child's character it destroys that youthful hope which is the rainbow of childhood, drawing one on through enchanted years. Notice a child with a kindly feeling for everybody and everything, and you will see that, however poor he may be, he observes and admires the world and is happy—as if he owned it. Everybody is ready to receive him, be he dressed in velvet or tow linen, for it is not his clothes but his soul they love to greet. This will keep him from many a temptation and will impart an energy, ambition and hope which, like the star in the mariner's heaven, will guide him through the voyage of life.—New York Ledger.