Possible Clues:

• Supposedly wise words
• Take counsel with Father back there over what's evil
• Opinion
• Counsel gets Father to turn to evil-doing
• Counsel Father to turn evil
• Counsel might give a pious hope that it would finish frozen
• Formal notice - as weakness of our era
• Counsel for the evil of the present age
• Father might turn and give what's bad
• A dunderhead in place of intelligence