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Thus should it be with us. If we wish our 

 children to excel in the accomplishments of civilized 

 life — if we wish them to be modest, humble, virtuous 

 in the most extended sense, — a solace to our gray 

 hairs, we must exercise and cultivate in them the 

 virtues we wish them to possess. We must make 



THIS EXERCISE A PART OF THEIR DAILY LIFE. We 



must educate the conscience; — we must educate all 

 the feelings, in order that they may become the 

 sources of happiness here, and of hope hereafter. 

 We will then learn how much easier it is to practise 

 virtue than vice; — how much easier it will be to 

 make the world a better place. 



Man does not come from the hand of his Creator 

 necessarily vicious, he is made so by *an erroneous 

 education; and if we would remedy this error, we 

 must search for its source, and we will find that it is 

 in the ignorance of the fact, that the virtues must be 

 cultivated as well as the physical organs, in order 

 that they should be vigorous. 



How erroneous then is that course of education 

 which excludes religious training; — which appeals 

 to the intellect only, and not to the ' moral and 

 religious sentiments and affections! Many, it is 

 true, both schools and parents, profess to give their 

 pupils and children religious instructions; but it is 

 by moral precepts which appeal to the intellect only, 

 and which are uttered only to be forgotten; may be 

 are contradicted by the practise which alone can 

 make them permanent. 



