A FATHER'S DUTY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 27 February 1908, Page 37

A FATHER'S DUTY

A man who will neglect to care for .the bodily susy nance of his children will fail also to pro\ide for tneir education. Even the- most commen laborer, if he have ;true lo,ve for his children, tries to give them a proper education. Of all the treasures, that parents may furnish their children, a good education is the most precious. It enables, them to fulfil intelligently and efficaciously the duties which thoir temporal and eternal vocation lays upon them. Yet the slothful man who as Jar as in Mm lies,, .lets his children starve ' still less appreciates the n^eds an I th? benefits of education » 'f mental 'afl/rt moral training-. He does nothing in tact font should entitle him to the affections and era- «?£ x his childr e n - It is his fault if they lack eveiytnino- that gives premise of a useful life, and," afterWards, fa/1 to attain t*e purposes of .their existence If later on, they copy the, example which he has set. them' tney will be miserable drones in society like himself' A good and intelligent mother" may perhaps in some measure, make up for the neilect of the father," but the latter'.s name will not be held in benediction andhis g<-rt is not diminished by the greater solicitude of