Sunday, August 08, 2010

Sunday School

http://enchanted-tails.com/ACatsPrayer.htm
Religious Training:
Every good habit, pure sentiment and noble aspiration has its origin and support in religion. It is the duty of parents to be religious.  Your example will not be worth much unless you constantly impress upon your family their responsibility to God.  After all, there is nothing half so cultivating as to gather your family daily around the altar and give thanks to a kind Father who has given you all the blessings you enjoy.  The Spirit of Jesus Christ will save your home and your children when nothing else will.  How many young men have been made strong in the hour of temptation by the remembrance of a mother's prayers!

Do not be content to be religious yourself. Bring your children up "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."  Show them by your example that religion is something real -- that it is a constant source of joy and solace.  Be religious in your family as well as at church.  If you, as a father or mother, have  a real and consistent life, your children will be likely to imitate you.

From: Polite Life and Etiquette, 1891

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