========================================================================
  PERIL IN LIFE
  by J.R. Miller
========================================================================

------------------------------------------------------------------------
DESCRIPTION
------------------------------------------------------------------------


------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONTENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------

There is always peril in change. The more suddenly the change comes, and
the greater it is, the more is the danger that hurt will result. There
is danger in the ordinary changes of life, from infancy to childhood,
from childhood to youth, from youth to manhood and womanhood. Many do
not make the transition safely. There always are certain things that
must be left behind, as each period is abandoned for the one that
follows it. The mother does not like to see her boy lose his curls and
his boyish looks and ways. She wishes she could keep her baby always.
But it would be a sad thing if he kept his childish manners, his
immature development, his baby face and looks. This would be abnormal,
an arrested growth, becoming a lasting grief. The transition must be
made, and there is not meant to be any loss in it—but rather a gain.

As the blossom fades and falls off—but leaves its secret of life
behind for the beginning of the fruit, so the change from boyhood is not
intended to be the losing of anything—but an unfolding, a development.
The true avails of childish sweetness and beauty, stay in the heart and
life of youth, and become its strength. The change is safely passed,
when the new emerges from the old in healthful grace and vigor.

But there is always danger in the transition, and not always is it
safely passed. There is need of great wisdom in those who care for the
child, for its education, for its health, for the directing of the
influences which affect Its growth. Many careers are wrecked in the
early formative periods. It is the mission of the ideal home—to be in
every way a wholesome place for children to grow up in, a place of love,
of joy and of cheer, not of over-kindness or over-indulgence, not of
forcing processes or excessive stimulation, not of dullness, dreariness,
or lack of vitalizing and energizing influences. The true education in
this educational period is that which insures wholesome outcome,
developing into richer, stronger, more beautiful life.

There is peril also in the changes that come through life\

========================================================================
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jr-miller/peril-in-life/
========================================================================