162 MORAL CONDITION OF THE CHILD 



dren turned into the street to be the easy victims 

 of its vice unavoidably visible ! How many homes 

 provide the instruction that we have noted as the 

 minimum of necessity? Certainly the percentage 

 of cases where these conditions are found is not 

 as large as the percentage of children who be- 

 come Christian. Many a child in a nominally 

 Christian home has never heard his father's or 

 his mother's voice in prayer. One of the most 

 precious memories and most potent influences on 

 life is thus lost. God is better to us than our 

 plans and work. Those homes which carefully 

 train their children with this daily and painstak- 

 ing instruction secure the Christian character of 

 their children ; but those which depend upon their 

 conversion through the agency of evangelistic 

 methods are losing them in large masses. 



