Insist upon the boys being down in time for the worship of God, and do not allow them to get into the habit indulged in by so many young men of "sloping" down with slippered feet long after breakfast is done and prayers are over.
Only let the springs of reverence well up in your child's soul, and then, and then only, will you be able to give your boy what, after all, must always be the greatest safeguard from shipwreck in this perilous world--religious faith, that stops him at the very threshold of temptation with the words: "How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God ?" Your very attitude as you kneel by his side with bowed head and folded hands while he says his little evening and morning prayer will breathe into his soul a sense of a Divine Presence about our bed and about our path.

Your love--so strong to love, and yet so weak to save--can lead his faltering childish feet to that Love which is deeper than our deepest fall, "which knows all, but loves us better than it knows." You can press your child against the very heart of God, and lay him in the Everlasting Arms, that faint not, neither are weary; and, with the mother of St.Augustine, you may know that the child of such prayers and such tears will never perish.
"Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 8: This is the case with our recognized medical manuals; I do not know whether it is equally true of American manuals.] [Footnote 9: Vol.ii.See chapter on "The Position of Women."] [Footnote 10: _Sartor Resartus_, by Thomas Carlyle, Book II., chap, ii., p.68.Chapman and Hall, 1831.].