Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1877 — The Responsibility of Parents. [ARTICLE]

The Responsibility of Parents.

I read, the other day, a notice in one of the religious papers of a father who, one beautiful Sabbath morning, took his little child out into the fields for a walk; the little child ran ahead, while the father lay down to rest. Every now and then the little thing would run up to the father, with flowers in its tiny hand, crying, “Papa! papa! see, pretty!” The man fell asleep, and when he awoke the child had disappeared; he called, but got no response, and, becoming very much frigntened, went to a hill near by and called again; he then went to the edge of a precipice, a short distance off, and; looking down, saw the mangled retpains of his little child lying on the rocks beneath. He ran and found the life 'had left its little body. Oh, how he pressed the little form to his heart, and accused himself of being its murderer, for the child was killed while he was slumbering; that child fell over the precipice while he was unconscious. NW, my friends, there are hundreds and thousands of parents sound asleep, while their sons and daughters are wandering down to deatn and ruin.— D. L. Moody.