THE MOTHER AND THE WORLD.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 September 1912, Page 2

THE MOTHER AND THE WORLD.

When a mother says that she has not the heart to correct her child; that a child's care-free years are so few that she would rather overlook the little faults and let the child have a "free unhampered life," it sounds plausible and human. But one hard, unavoidable truth remains, that she cannot change. Some day that child will be punished for what the mother now chooses to overlook. It is one of the hard decrees of Nature, but it is nn-

avoidable. If the mother who might exact obedience and discipline lovingly and willingly, when the faults arc small, will not, but instead leaves her child to imagine or infer that there is no law for him, she leaves* the discipline to a cold and heartless world. But come it will without fail. And there will be no tenderness in it; no sympathy in it. It may come in the guise of failures and disappointments that will cause years of heartache or a ruined life. In all probability it will come too late to be of use to the child, but come it surely will. No man has ever gone through the world with any success whose early training has not taught him that his will is not supreme. must all obey the law of Nature if we will have health; the law of man if we will have liberty; the law of conscience if we will have peace. But obey something or somebody we must!