ing themselves piously and holily,[1] and by enjoining the same on their families and all their domestics.[2] Christ declares in the case of such as act otherwise, “Woe to him that offends one of these very little ones”; and Juvenal, although a heathen, has left it upon record: “The greatest reverence is due to a child. Whatever base things you design to do, despise not the years of your child.”
COLLATERAL READING.
Adler’s Moral Instruction of Children, Chap. IX.; Fénelon’s Education of Girls, Chaps. VII. and VIII.; Herford’s Students’ Fröbel, Chap. IV.; Laurie’s Primary Instruction in Relation to Education, Chap. VIII.; Malleson’s Early Training of Children, Chap. V.; Necker de Saussure’s Progressive Education, Book III., Chaps. VII., VIII., and IX.; Pestalozzi’s Leonard and Gertrude; Richter’s Levana, Second Fragment, Chap. IV.
- ↑ Carlyle says: “To teach religion, the first thing needful and also the last and only thing is the finding of a man who has religion.”
- ↑ Perhaps no modern writer has expressed the ideal of religious instruction in better form than Dr. William T. Harris. He says: “The highest religion, that of pure Christianity, sees in the world infinite meditations, all for the purpose of deyeloping independent individuality; the perfection of human souls not only in one kind of piety,—namely, that of the heart,—but in the piety of the intellect, that beholds truth, the piety of the will, that does good deeds wisely, the piety of the senses, that sees the beautiful and realizes it in works of art.”
