The teaching and preaching by fathers and mothers in the
seclusion of the home circle are doing much more to determine
the fate of souls than the eloquent sermons and elaborate
lessons in pulpit and Sunday-school. Parents are touching
life at its beginnings, making impressions that can never be
obliterated. The family is the natural and divinely appointed
school of religion because it has the first opportunity. The
smallest thing at the beginning of life affects all the future.
A child but a year old slipt and fell on a wet floor, and tho
that was seventy years ago, the man is lame yet. And the moral
nature is as easily crippled as the body. The moral lameness
we see in the old or middle-aged is often caused by some
mistaught or neglected lesson in infancy.--_The Cumberland
Presbyterian._
(2306)
=Parents, Example of=--See FAMILY RELIGION.