Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — Boys. [ARTICLE]

Boys.

Sunday School Timas. Get bold of the boy’s heart. Yonder locomotive comes like a whirl-wind down the track, and a regiment of armed men might seek to arrest it in vain, ft would crush them, aud plunge unheeding on. But there is a little lever in its meehanUm that at the pressure of a man's hand, will slacken its speed, and in a moment or two bring it panting and still, like a whip;>ed spaniel, at. your feet. By the same little lever the vast steamship is f;uided hither aud you, upon the sea, n spite of adverse wind or current. That sensatlve and responsive spot by which a boy’s life is controlled is his heart. With your grasp gently and firm on helm, you may pilot him whither you will., Never doubt that he has a heart. Bad and wilful boys very often have the tenderrat heart hidden away* somewhere beneath incrustations of sin or behind barricades of pride. Aud it is your busiuera to get at that heart, get bold of that heart, keep hold of it by sympa-? thy, confiding in him, manifestly working only for his good by little indirect Kindnesses to his mother or sister, or even his pet dog. See him at his home, or invite him to youre. Provide him some little pleasure, set him at somelittie service of trust for you;dove him ; love him practically. Any way and every way rule him through his heart.