. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ECILITY In my parish in Philadelphia a little child was so pushed at school thatshe was thrown into a fever, and in her dying delirium, all night long, she wastrying to recite the multiplication-table. In my boyhood I remember that inour class at school there was one lad who knew more than all of us put we were fast in our arithmetic, he extricated us. When we stood up for thespelling-class, he was almost always at the head of the class. Visitors cameto his fathers house, and he was always brought in as a prodigy. At
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ECILITY In my parish in Philadelphia a little child was so pushed at school thatshe was thrown into a fever, and in her dying delirium, all night long, she wastrying to recite the multiplication-table. In my boyhood I remember that inour class at school there was one lad who knew more than all of us put we were fast in our arithmetic, he extricated us. When we stood up for thespelling-class, he was almost always at the head of the class. Visitors cameto his fathers house, and he was always brought in as a prodigy. At eighteen DR. TALMAGES PHILOSOPHY 107 years of age he was an idiot! He lived ten years an idiot, and died an parents and the teachers made him an idiot. You may flatter your pride by forcing your child to know more thanany other children, but you are making a sacrifice of that child, if by the addi-tions to its intelligence you are making a subtraction from its future. Thechild will go away from such maltreatment with no exuberance to fight the battle. WALL STREET, THE WORLDS FINANCIAL CENTRE 108 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK of life. Such children may get along very well while you take care of them,but when you are old or dead, alas! for them, if, through the long system ofeducation which you adopted, they have no swarthiness or force of characterto take care of themselves. The Carthaginians used to sacrifice their children by putting them intothe arms of an idol which thrust forth its The child was put into thearms of the idol, and no sooner touched the arms than it dropped into the it was the art of the mothers to keep the children smiling and laughing untilthe moment they died. There may be a fascination and a hilarity about the stylesof education of which I am speaking; but it also is only laughter at the moment of sacrifice. HOME DISCIPLINE There must be harmony between the fathers government and the mothersgovernment. The father will be
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