Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1871 — Truthfulness at Home. [ARTICLE]

Truthfulness at Home.

Of all happy households- that Is the happiest -where falsehood is never thought of. All peace is brokai up when once it appears there is a liar in the house. All comfort has gone when suspicion has once entered—when there must be reservation in belief. Anxious parents, who are aware of the paius of suspicion, will placo general contidence in iheir children, ana receive what they say freuly, unless there is strong reason to distrust the truth of any one. If such an occasion should unhappily arise, they must keep the suspicion from spreading as long us possible, and avoid disgracing their, poor child while there is a chance of its cure by their confidential assistance. He should have their oand assiduous hejp, as if he were suflg under some bodily disorder. If he can be cured he will become duly grateful for the treatment. If the endeavor fail, rneags must of course be taken to prevent his example from doing harm; and then, as I said, the family peace is broken up because the family confidence is gone. I fear that, from some cause or another, there are but few large families where every member is altogether truthful. But where a ll are soprgauized and bo trained as to

be wholly reliable in act and word, they are a light to all eyes and a joy to all hearts. They aro public benefits, for they arc a point of general reliuncc; and they are privately blessed within and without. Without, their life is made easy by universal trust; and within their home and their hearts they have the security of rectitude and the gladness of innocence.— Harriet Martineau.