chanical and empirical. Home training involves the development of all
their faculties as a unit and in their living relation, causing the body to
move right, the mind to think right, the heart to feel right, and the soul
to love right; changing your children from creatures of mere impulse,
prejudice and passion, to thinking, loving and reasoning beings. To educate
them is to bring out their hidden powers, to form their character, and
prepare them for their station in life. Thus home-education means a drawing
out and also a bringing up,--a training for man, and a bringing up for God;
a training and nurture for the family, the state, and the church,--for
time and for eternity. These must be done together; they involve but one
process, and are conditioned by each other. We cannot separate a secular
from a religious education, neither can we separate a training from a
bringing up. While those faculties of the child which exist in a state of
mere involution, are being developed, its nature must be supplied with
appropriate food; and every element of its education must possess the
plastic power of evolving and giving specific form to its future character
and destiny. Thus the parent, in teaching, must have a forming influence
over the child; and his instructions must correspond in character, kind and
extent, with the nature, wants, and destiny of the child.

What are now the different kinds or parts of home-education?

It must be physical. The child has a physical nature, physical wants, and
is related to the material world; and should, therefore, receive a physical
education. The object of this is to ensure that sound, vigorous frame of
body which is not only a great blessing in itself, but an essential
concomitant of a sound state and vigorous development of mind. It refers to
the proper management of the health of the child, its diet, habits of
exercise and recreation. Parents should teach their children the nature of
the body, its dangers, and bearing upon their future happiness. They should
teach them to govern their appetite, and train them up to habits of
exercise and early rising. This part of home-education begins in the
nursery,--in the cradle, and is not complete till the body is brought to
maturity in all its functions. Neglect of it will result in physical
imbecility, and often in mental derangement. The object secured by it is,
the preservation of the health and constitution of the child. In this we
see its impor