CHAPTER II. 



ILLUSTRATED IN THE FAMILY. 



ND first: consider domestic government or 

 <f£f^ the f miction of law in the home circle. 

 Where a moral question is not involved, the au- 

 thority of a father or mother is considered abso- 

 lute. This authority is and must be maintained 

 by the most effective and rigorous discipline. 

 The power and function to coerce an obdurate 

 child are the prerogatives of the parents. ' "Train 

 up a child in the way he should go: and when he 

 is old, he will not depart from it/' (Prov. 22:0) is 

 a wholesome admonition, though lamentably dis- 

 regarded. 



"He that spareth his rod hateth his son, but he 

 that loveth him chasteneth him betimes, 

 (Prov. 13:24) seems corroborative of necessity for 

 stern methods in the correction of children. 

 ''Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh 

 which corrected us. and we gave them reverence," 

 is well calculated to banish the conception of ig- 

 nobility and harshness from paternal reproof, 

 and is also a stinging blow against the sentimen- 



