8Elu Jtmenitks of Dome. 



DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY, 



II K first tiling which should be taught a child is obedience, 

 and after that should come reverence. 



It is very hard to teach a child ivverence. His paivnts 

 must be people of remarkable force of character if thev 

 succeed in doing so, for the tendency of free institutions 

 on this continent is against him. 



The newly arrived immigrant defeats the idea; for he 

 soon learns, as the beginning of his political career, that 

 his vote is as good as his master's perhaps better. Thus 

 the good old relation between master and servant, of respect on the one 

 hand and help on the other the best relation for the benefit of h 

 is uprooted at once. 



Almost the first impression on a young child's mind is, perhaps, of the 

 rudeness of a servant to his mother. He sees that her orders are not 

 obeyed, that she is powerless to enforce them. No child likes to ol 

 He may love his mother of course he does better than anything, but 

 u a conflict of opinion comes, he prefers his own will. A strong and 

 con- is mother will compel her child to obey; a weak and < 



tious mother will not be able to do so. He sees that Sarah does not ol 

 why should lu-i The child goes to school. There h.' is taught routine, but 

 not reverence. He is not r>p-rially ivxeivntial to his teachers; nor is he 

 that obedience to superior rank or Mation which is a part of the 



reigner, 



refold he has no inherited nor early inculcated re, He has 



I instincN, },,. h ;i > l.-arm-d to tell the truth, he is energetic and iiulus- 



l>iit a |-Yrn<-h boy would he shorke 1 at t lie m-i )i nm of 



Dg American or Canadian son to his mot! boy all 



the Nvhieh he iv.;,ect8. Nothing in this imperf 



..n to his Diothei ||, 



one in the house adores. 



