Do not suppose there is no harm in uttering an untruth in order to make peace at the moment, to quiet the child. It is doing evil that good may come, and then good never does come, but evil comes. Always look beyond the present moment, and beware of getting rid of a present inconvenience by any means which may incur future evil; for this will always follow when the means used are wrong. You often hear servants and others say to an unruly child, "Hush! here comes mamma," when mamma is so far out of the way that she cannot come. Or they endeavour to coax the child with, "Come; be a good child; and I'll give you something so pretty to-morrow." Here is a double error; for first, promises so thoughtlessly made are seldom performed, and if this practice is indulged in, the child, discovering the falseness, loses its confidence and respect; to be false ourselves to children, or even in their presence, is the way to make them false. And, secondly, no child should be taught to be good for what it can get. We ought not to promise to give when children become good, but their naughtiness should be the reason for not giving.

We may trace a great part of the misery that is in the world to the indulgence of the selfish feelings, and therefore it is a grand object of moral training to combat and conquer them. Whenever gluttony, cruelty, cowardice, pride, insolence, vanity, or any other mode of selfishness shows itself, one and all must be repressed with watchful solicitude, and the most skilful treatment. Great firmness, united with evident displeasure, and yet a kindly feeling, will often succeed. You must reason with the delinquents, show them the meanness, baseness, and sin of their conduct, at the same time pitying their weakness, and exhorting them to a nobler course. Sometimes repression will at first fail to be accomplished, unless by severities; but the enlightened parent or teacher will, at the earliest opening, drop the coercive system,-will cease to attempt to govern by harsh and absolute authority, and appeal powerfully to the higher faculties of conscience and benevolence, and to the powers of reflection. This done with kindness, that is, with a marked manifestation of benevolence on the part of the instructor, will operate with immense power, the extent of which is little known. In the exercise of the superior faculties the inferior are indirectly acquiring a habit of restraint and regulation. Frequently read, or impressively relate, to them the deeds of exalted characters. I do not mean those of men who have lifted themselves up to reputation by the sword, in butchering their species, or by fine speeches in parliament, or great literary ability; but of those celebrated for acts of unquestionable disinterestedness and godlike generosity,-of those who have performed noble acts of justice or benevolence in spite of the most powerful temptations to the contrary,-of those who have suffered torture and death for virtue's sake, and endured all willingly. Reflection on such noble deeds possesses considerable influence over youth in training them

up to be generous and magnanimous, both in sentiment and

action.

In teaching your children to be cheerful, benevolent, and happy, and to be ever endeavouring to make others happy, you must cherish their smiles and benevolence by assiduously cultivating cheerfulness, benignity, and benevolence yourselves. "A cheerful look makes the dish a feast." Childhood is the season of joyousness, and this must be encouraged by sweet tones, a smiling countenance, and a gracious deportment. These are never-failing adjuncts of happiness, when associated with doing justly, loving mercy, and "walking humbly with our God;" and "the little child opens the door of its heart to the kind tone, the smiling brow, the eye looking above this world to a brighter sun."

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It is the plastic period of their existence, when the rules you give them will never fail to make a deep impression, if they regulate your own conduct. Put yourself then at their head and lead the way. How can you require benevolence and the government of temper from your children, and yet set them no example? man," says Sir Walter Raleigh, "must first govern himself, ere he be fit to govern a family." The silent ministry of example always tells; it is a genial atmosphere which they cannot breathe but to their life, refreshment, and vigour. The responsibility of parents is immense, and the influences of a happy home constitute a machinery employed with wondrous effect to render children amiable, benevolent, and happy.-T. J. GRAHAM, M.D.

THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

N the life of the Rev. Thomas Scott, there is an interesting and instructive document containing the sentiments of this eminent commentator on the Early Training of Children. His son, the Rev. John Scott, states in reference to this document, that, "It is a memorial of a part of what passed at Aston, at our family meeting there, in the year 1818, as preserved in a letter to an absent

brother. One object then proposed was, that our revered head might deliver to us, perhaps for the last time, such hints, especially on the management of our families, as should occur to him, and as might tend, under the blessing of God, to make us in some degree such blessings to our children, as, we trusted, he had been to us. My memorandum is as follows:

My father then took up the subject which had been proposed to him, and the text named as an introduction to it, Genesis xviii. 19, expressing his sense of its vast importance, and that particularly as applied to us in our situations and with our families. I can give you but brief hints of what he said, but they may recall

Do not suppose there is no harm in uttering an untruth in order to make peace at the moment, to quiet the child. It is doing evil that good may come, and then good never does come, but evil comes. Always look beyond the present moment, and beware of getting rid of a present inconvenience by any means which may incur future evil; for this will always follow when the means used are wrong. You often hear servants and others say to an unruly child, "Hush! here comes mamma," when mamma is so far out of the way that she cannot come. Or they endeavour to coax the child with, "Come; be a good child; and I'll give you something so pretty to-morrow." Here is a double error; for first, promises so thoughtlessly made are seldom performed, and if this practice is indulged in, the child, discovering the falseness, loses its confidence and respect; to be false ourselves to children, or even in their presence, is the way to make them false. And, secondly, no child should be taught to be good for what it can get. We ought not to promise to give when children become good, but their naughtiness should be the reason for not giving.

We may trace a great part of the misery that is in the world to the indulgence of the selfish feelings, and therefore it is a grand object of moral training to combat and conquer them. Whenever gluttony, cruelty, cowardice, pride, insolence, vanity, or any other mode of selfishness shows itself, one and all must be repressed with watchful solicitude, and the most skilful treatment. Great firmness, united with evident displeasure, and yet a kindly feeling, will often succeed. You must reason with the delinquents, show them the meanness, baseness, and sin of their conduct, at the same time pitying their weakness, and exhorting them to a nobler course. Sometimes repression will at first fail to be accomplished, unless by severities; but the enlightened parent or teacher will, at the earliest opening, drop the coercive system, will cease to attempt to govern by harsh and absolute authority, and appeal powerfully to the higher faculties of conscience and benevolence, and to the powers of reflection. This done with kindness, that is, with a marked manifestation of benevolence on the part of the instructor, will operate with immense power, the extent of which is little known. In the exercise of the superior faculties the inferior are indirectly acquiring a habit of restraint and regulation. Frequently read, or impressively relate, to them the deeds of exalted characters. I do not mean those of men who have lifted themselves up to reputation by the sword, in butchering their species, or by fine speeches in parliament, or great literary ability; but of those celebrated for acts of unquestionable disinterestedness and godlike generosity,-of those who have performed noble acts of justice or benevolence in spite of the most powerful temptations to the contrary, of those who have suffered torture and death for virtue's sake, and endured all willingly. Reflection on such noble deeds possesses considerable influence over youth in training them

up to be generous and magnanimous, both in sentiment and action.

In teaching your children to be cheerful, benevolent, and happy, and to be ever endeavouring to make others happy, you must cherish their smiles and benevolence by assiduously cultivating cheerfulness, benignity, and benevolence yourselves. "A cheerful look makes the dish a feast." Childhood is the season of joyousness, and this must be encouraged by sweet tones, a smiling countenance, and a gracious deportment. These are never-failing adjuncts of happiness, when associated with doing justly, loving mercy, and "walking humbly with our God;" and "the little child opens the door of its heart to the kind tone, the smiling brow, the eye looking above this world to a brighter sun.'

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It is the plastic period of their existence, when the rules you give them will never fail to make a deep impression, if they regulate your own conduct. Put yourself then at their head and lead the way. How can you require benevolence and the government of temper from your children, and yet set them no example? man," says Sir Walter Raleigh, "must first govern himself, ere he be fit to govern a family." The silent ministry of example always tells; it is a genial atmosphere which they cannot breathe but to their life, refreshment, and vigour. The responsibility of parents is immense, and the influences of a happy home constitute a machinery employed with wondrous effect to render children amiable, benevolent, and happy.-T. J. GRAHAM, M.D.

THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

N the life of the Rev. Thomas Scott, there is an interesting and instructive document containing the sentiments of this eminent commentator on the Early Training of Children. His son, the Rev. John Scott, states in reference to this document, that, "It is a memorial of a part of what passed at Aston, at our family meeting there, in the year 1818, as preserved in a letter to an absent

brother. One object then proposed was, that our revered head might deliver to us, perhaps for the last time, such hints, especially on the management of our families, as should occur to him, and as might tend, under the blessing of God, to make us in some degree such blessings to our children, as, we trusted, he had been to us. My memorandum is as follows:

My father then took up the subject which had been proposed to him, and the text named as an introduction to it, Genesis xviii. 19, expressing his sense of its vast importance, and that particularly as applied to us in our situations and with our families. I can give you but brief hints of what he said, but they may recall

to your recollection his strain of thinking and speaking on such points.

He first used the most humble expressions concerning his sense of the insufficiency and imperfection of what he had done himself; that people asked him what were the rules and schemes and plans which he adopted and pursued; but that really he had been always too much involved in his many engagements to pursue any very regular scheme or system in the education of his children; and he ascribed the success, which he hoped had attended him, to God's blessing on steady upright aims and intentions, rather than to the wisdom of his plans and the competency of his rules.

One thing that he could look back upon with satisfaction, and which he would earnestly inculcate, was, that he had ever decidedly sought FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness for us, as well as for himself; and this not merely in his prayers, but in his instructions and in disposing of us in life. He had been, he observed, most of his time poor; and in London he could have found many opportunities of getting his children off his hands, and even of putting them forward in the world; but he determined not to avail himself of them, but rather to keep his children under his own roof as long as he could. For his sons his heart had been set upon the ministry,-perhaps too fondly; though, as we knew, it had always been his maxim that, while he would rather see us faithful ministers of Christ than princes, yet he would rather we were shoeblacks than clergymen in office and not in heart: and he had been unwilling to relinquish the hope that we should answer his desires for the sake of any more lucrative prospect that was presented.

He would enjoin, Whatever else you teach or omit to teach your children, fail not to teach them subjection; and that to the mother as well as to the father. This, he said, is as essential to their own welfare, temporal and eternal, as to that of the family, the Church, and the State. Establishing authority (which is perfectly consistent with kindness and affection) so that, from childhood, they shall not think of deliberately opposing a parent's will, -of having or doing what he disapproves: this is the greatest safeguard that can be placed about young persons. Subjection to authority is God's ordinance-essential, in addition to all other considerations, to the belief and practice of religion. If it were true that there were more pious women than men, he would ascribe it very much to this circumstance, that they are more habituated to restraint and subjection.

Here I took the liberty of bearing to the juvenile party of thecompany my testimony to the great value and advantage of the discipline under which, particularly in this respect, we were brought up; while I see among pupils, and in many religious families, the prevalence and the sad consequences of an opposite practice. There was no want of affection on the one part, or of confidence on the other, in