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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87

Took in the Situation

Took in the Situation

and turned to his nurse and said, pointing to his father and mother, "There goes the two biggest liars in the state of Michigan!" When you go home fill the house with joy, so that the light of it will stream out the windows and the doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.

I want to tell you that you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil, and if you pretend to your children that you are the best man that ever lived—the bravest man that ever lived—they will find you out every time. They will not have the same opinion of father when they grow up that they used to have. They will have to be in mighty bad luck if they ever do meaner things than you have done.

When your child confesses to you that it has committed a fault, take that child in your arms and let it feel your heart beat against its heart, and raise your children in the sunlight of love, and they will be sunbeams to you along the pathWay of life.

Abolish the club and the whip from the house, because, if the civilised use a whip, the ignorant and the brutal will use a club, and they will use it because you use the whip.

Every little while some door is thrown open in some orphan asylum, and there we see the bleeding hack of a child whipped beneath the roof that was raised up by love. It is infamous, and the man that can't raise a child without the whip ought not to have a child. Some Christians act as though they really thought that when Christ said, "Suffer little children to come unto me," he had a