es
Exposed. Dr. Johnson. Edmund Burke. Miss Sedgwick. Everett. Robert Hall.
Fruits of a Neglected Education. Law of the Icelanders. Parents are
Responsible. Crates. Pleasure of Teaching the Young. Thompson. Abuse of it.
Fashionable Boarding-Schools. A Hopeful Young Lady. How to Ruin a Son.
Duty of Parents inferred. Books. Bartholin. Home-Training not isolated from
Church-Training. Must be Churchly.

CHAPTER XVII.

FAMILY HABITS.--Their Importance. Their Idea. Different Kinds. Their
Formation. Tobacco and Liquor. Evil and Good Habits. Family Prayer.
Omission of Duty. Their Influence. Rev. C.C. Colton. A Criminal in India.
Habit as the Interpreter of Character. Its Reproductive Power. We are
Responsible for our Habits. Christian Habits. Habit of Industry.
Rutherford. Habits of Perseverance and Contentment.

CHAPTER XVIII.

HOME-GOVERNMENT.--Home is a Little Commonwealth. Includes the Legal
Principle. Relation of Parents to Children. Principle of Home-Government.
Parental Authority Threefold. Schlegel. Old Roman Law. A Divine,
Inalienable Right. Extent of Parental Authority. False View of it.
Correlative Relation between Filial Obedience and Parental Authority.
Character and Extent of Filial Obedience. Neglect and Abuse of
Home-Government. Parental Indulgence and Despotism. The True Medium.
Address to Parents.

CHAPTER XIX.

HOME-DISCIPLINE.--Its Idea. Its Necessity. False Systems. Discipline from
the standpoint of Law without Love. Its Fruits. A Quaint Anecdote. The
Europeans. The Arabs. Discipline from the standpoint of Love without Law.
Examples. Eli. David. Its Fruits. True Christian Discipline. Chastisement.
A Model System. Abraham. His Children. When Discipline should be
Introduced. When it should be Administered. Importance of Parental
Co-operation. Favoritism. Relation of Command to Chastisement. The Kind of
Rein and Whip. When Corporeal Punishment should be Used. Dr. South. Dr.
Bell. Its Adaptation to the Real Wants of the Child. Fidelity to Threats
and Promises. Examination of Offenses. Never Chastise in Anger. Let your
Child know the Object of Discipline.

CHAPTER XX.

HOME-EXAMPLE.--Its Idea and Influence. The Child is the Moral Reproduction
of the Parent. Solomon. Paul. Shakspeare. Dr. Young. Its Necessity proven
from its Relation to Precept--William Jay; from its Adaptation to the
Capacity and Imitative Disposition of the Child. Duty of Parents to show a
Model Example to the Child. Archbish