Identifier: cheerfultodaystr01sang (find matches)
Title: Cheerful to-days and trustful to-morrows
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson, 1838-1912
Subjects: Christian life
Publisher: New York, Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a great delight then how muchgreater is a full nursery. When the brood is allunder the mothers eye and hand at once thecare may be incessant yet there is no end to thesatisfaction. To see them all started for theday clean and well and dressed and wholesomeand happj^, to see them all tucked safe and cozyinto their beds at nighty each bairn with itsprayers said and its story of the day told, whatcan be more thoroughly filled with the essenceof homely content! I am often very sorry for the first and for the only child, both being apt to receive an over share of discipline. Not invariably is it the good of the child which the mother seeks when she hedges its pathway with a bristling border of prickly ^^donts^ and finds herself at her wits end to devise original punishments. We are strangely complex, and even a loving mother may occasionally be vain and may reprove and rebuke her child rather because its mistakes wound her vanity than because she is honestly seeking the childs benefit. 20
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Teustpul To-morhows In child nurture perfect candor and confi-dence between mother and children are to besought beyond every other thing. Spontaneityin a child is dwarfed by the entrance of fear intohis hearty and whatever he does or says heshould not be afraid to let mother see and hearit. Truth exercised toward a child, the keep-ing of ones word absolutely, the observance ofones promises, and truth maintained in thecharacter, in the childs world there never beingadmitted a lie—that evil growth—will go far inpreventing a child from falsity. Kever oughtwe to doubt our little ones word. Howeverextraordinary the statement made, however im-probable, I prefer to accept it without hesita-tion if my child make it, remembering, as I do,that a child lives in a wonder world of fancy andthat his vocabulary and mine are aften different.To doubt a child when others are present is asgreat an offense as to give the lie to one who isgrown up; greater, indeed, because the child isdefenseless and

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