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ABSTRACT law advice affection allowed amusement awaken begin Bible brought called catechism cation CHAPTER character child's heart child's mind childhood Christian claim commands consciousness consider daughter definite desire difficulty disobedience duty earnestness enforced evil exaggerated fact faith falsehood fault feeling forgiveness friendship give God's governess habit HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY heart human idea indolence infancy influence insist instinct irritable Jews justice kind less lesson little child little children look mands means mistake moral mould Natural laws nature necessity ness never nursery obedience offence OLD TESTAMENT ourselves outward parents passion pathy perfect perhaps persons prayer principle probably punishment quire religion religious reproof respect result reverence rules selfish sense speak spirit suppose sympathy taught teach temper thing thought tion true truth vanity watch whilst wise wish words wrong young and foolish youth
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Page 44 - of astonishment, that the very first movement of repentance should be received, and the sin apparently overlooked, as if it had never been committed ? God's ways are not as our ways : His thoughts are not as our thoughts. We think that the time of confession and forgiveness is the time for warning and counsel. He knows that it is not so. He sees how sensitive the
Page 61 - HONOUR thy father and thy mother" is the first commandment with promise. What does honour mean ? Any child will reply,
Page 12 - Law, the Author and Observer whereof is one only God, to be blessed for ever".
Page 104 - But when romantic friendship puts itself forward as having a claim above those ties which God has formed by nature, it becomes the source of untold misery to all who are connected with it. "•And this is, of course, its tendency. Overpowering feeling of any kind naturally claims to be its own law, in opposition to the definite laws of God.
Page 130 - obedience and self-discipline be laid in early childhood, and freedom may be given in youth ; and so also, make a child exact and perfect in its lessons when instruction begins; and, as time goes on, the habit of exact repetition may be, in a great measure, laid aside. Yet
Page 130 - a small scale, and they will become accustomed to it insensibly. But if carried on too long, it will stunt them mentally, just as too rigid a restraint in conduct will stunt them morally. Let a foundation of obedience and self-discipline be laid in early childhood, and freedom may be given in youth ; and so
Page 119 - given orally, more in the form of conversation than as a lesson. Little children will listen with delight to stories told them out of the Bible. Those who are older will take great interest in explanations of the catechism, if they are given with illustrations, and brought home to their own experience.
Page 21 - OBEDIENCE. THE first object of a mother in educating her little child must, as it has been shown, be the enforcement of obedience.
Page 105 - The family, it must be remembered, is the training school for the world. The brother who is taught to be courteous to his little sister in the nursery, will be considerate to her when he is a man. The sister who habitually regards her sister's feelings in childhood, will not disregard them in later years.