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ate man can support and take care of his children but imperfectly. Every glass he drinks diminishes his ability to support them, secure them education, and give them proper care. He becomes a drunk- ard, and his ability to care for his wife and children is absolutely destroyed. But for the men who sell he might have been sober. He resolves, he prom- ises, he is tempted, and falls. If the tempter did not meet him on every corner he might stand. Has there been no trespass upon the rights of that wife and mother and of those children? Have they no right to protection? Suppose a man breaks into the yard and leads away the cow upon which these children depend v for their daily subsistence. Infor- mation is given to the officers, and they go forth and hunt him down, and spend large money in doing it. Why such trouble and cost? Ah, there has been a 186 A Busy Life. trespass upon the rights of that mother and children. And they talk about the little ones starving at home. But has there been no trespass when that man was tempted and fell, and their resources utterly dried up? In the third place, it is the duty of parents to train up their children in tne nurture and admonition of the Lord: so to train them that they may be sober, upright, honest men and women, and good citizens.

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