le children, we can best show our love by having them brought up as
Christian children; by having them taught to love the Church of their
Baptism, and to know and reverence the Bible. The question of the day
is education with God or without God, a creedless School where the
young may believe anything, or nothing, or a Church School where they
are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and grounded
in the faith of their fathers. Perhaps there was never a time when
England was in so critical a state as now, and its future depends on
our children. Outside enemies are clamouring at the doors of the
Church, crying, "down with it, down with it, even to the ground." The
Franchise will be practically in the hands of everyone; and what will
the future of the Church and the State be, when this new power is
placed in the hands of those who have been brought up without any
definite religious faith? The policy of the day is to shut God out of
our Schools, as we have tried to shut Him out of our legislature and
our commerce. We find our boys at the Public Schools, and our young
men at the Universities, frequently taught by men who openly profess
unbelief, and talk of the Incarnation and kindred doctrines as
"beautiful myths." We find the children of our parishes brought up in
creedless Schools, where all dogmatic teaching is excluded, and we may
well fear lest England should drift into the utter unbelief of France.

My brethren, you may take care of your children's intellects, you may
give them what is called a "good education," but I tell you no
education can be _good_ which is not based upon the Gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. You may educate a child to pass one of the endless
examinations of the day, but we must remember that there is a great and
final examination to be passed, when all earthly competitions are
ended. Remember your child's soul, and educate him for Heaven.

SERMON LXIV.

MUTUAL HELP.

(Female Friendly Society.)

S. MARK iii. 35.

"Whosoever shall do the Will of God, the same is My brother, and My
sister, and My mother."

There are just two points which I want to put before you to-day.
First, what you as Christian women ought to be. Secondly, how you can
help each other to be so. On the first point I would ask you to
remember the glory and dignity of womanhood. You get this dignity from
Jesus Christ, who was born of a woman, and who said, "Whosoever shall
do the Will of