Lack of nursery discipline cnn some?
times be classed among parental sins,
or, rather, mistakes. We would not
like to cnll the actions of a too
dulgeut pareut by such n harsh word
as sin. Yet Solomon, who wrote the
words of my text, gave the parental
mistakes of overindulgence even
harder definition than that of sin. He
said, "He that sparotb his rod hatetb
his son, but he that loveth him, chas
teneth him betimes." In other words,
we hnve a right to make by this
quotation the simple deduction that if
a father will not make a child learn
to obey him, then he ls very apt to let
a child learn to despise him.
I used to be very harsh In my con?
demnation of parents who were over?
indulgent and would not compel obedi?
ence upon the part of their children.
