Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FEMALE INFLLTENCE. 59 being particularly careful to court the society only of such females as may be possessed of an amiable disposition, and, if possible, of a refined and cultivated mind. The results will to him prove highly beneficial, and female foresight and prudence becomes an admirable antidote to the too often indiscreet impetuosity of man in matters of the heart. THE PATERNAL HEADSHIP. ESSAY IV. BY THOMAS GAMMAGE, BOOT-CLOSER. I Have often thought on the relation of parent to child with various and conflicting emotions, but never shall I forget the gush of tenderness, pride, hope, anxiety, nay, almost alarm, with which I viewed our first little pledge of wedded love; but. amid all these conflicting emotions, I felt as though God had been pleased to shower down all the blessings allotted to a life in one short moment of my existence.
I am a father! I involuntarily exclaimed, and several times repeated, and as I dwelt upon the fact, I resolved to begin life anew. A fresh set of responsibilities, pleasing, though grave, opened up before me. To point out those responsibilities as far as may be, is the purpose of the present essay. The whole duty of a father may be summed up in a few words: ?Educate your child in accordance with the known principles of right, as revealed by God directly, and ascertained by man, directly or indirectly; educate so as to bring out the whole of the faculties, physical, mental, moral, and spiritual. There is no need to multiply terms; to educate is to draw out, to unfold, to direct, to entice, it may be to compel?though, if all the former be well attended to, the latter will rarely be needed. The great question is, how to set about the work. There can be none as to your duty. Your right and duty to educate your child are …
