[Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookHide and Seek PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION 12/26
There! that's my opinion, and I should like to hear what you've got to say against it ?" "Latitudinarianism," said Mr.Thorpe, looking and speaking straight at the portrait of the Reverend Aaron Yollop. "You can't fob me off with long words, which I don't understand, and which I don't believe you can find in Johnson's Dictionary," continued Mr.Goodworth doggedly.
"You would do much better to take my advice, and let Zack go to church, for the present, at his mother's knees.
Let his Morning Service be about ten minutes long; let your wife tell him, out of the New Testament, about Our Savior's goodness and gentleness to little children; and then let her teach him, from the Sermon on the Mount, to be loving and truthful and forbearing and forgiving, for Our Savior's sake.
If such precepts as those are enforced--as they may be in one way or another--by examples drawn from his own daily life; from people around him; from what he meets with and notices and asks about, out of doors and in--mark my words, he'll take kindly to his religious instruction.
I've seen that in other children: I've seen it in my own children, who were all brought up so.
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