THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.

THURSDAY MORNING, FEB 5, 1916.

REsTRAINT-Too LATE.
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When certain gentleman OF our acquain-
tance brought home his second wife, he was
much mortified that son of his former com
panion, young man, came into the room IN
a state Of beasly intoxication, and thus ad-
dressed the disspated youth " Is it not as
tonishing, sir, that you should be drunk at this
most critical period of my hislory2"


This anecdote is not only amusing, but. al
SO, when rightly viewed, quite instructive. 1t
teaches that parents who would not be dis
graced by their own children, should keep
them in early life under proper restraints, as
they are required by Gods word TO DO, ana
as their own experience teaches them is best
1t is indeed, true, that no parent can fully
know what his children, when grown TO men
and women, may do; but one thing seems 70
us quite correct, (and the truth IS very pleas
ing one,) sTrain up child in the way ne
should 60, and when he is old he will not de-
part from it, Children that are never re-
strained rarely rise above the evils that are IN
the world and we know of few subjects in
which this principle holds with more force
than in relation to that Of Temperance. 1t
in early life that most drunkards laid the foun-
dation OF their after ruin. Then let us take 1t
10 heart; and, as those who have charge OF
the rising generation, let Us press upon them
the vast importance of the cause we advocate !;
SO shall we be blessed in the deed, and render
happy act Of benefit 10 I" nations yet un-
born"