them a constitutionally healthy and vigorous
physiology, along with a serene and happy frame of mind! Words are utterly
powerless in answer, and so is everything but a lifetime of consequent
happiness or misery! Learn and obey, then, the laws of life and health,
that you may both reap the rich reward yourself, and also shower down upon
your children after you, blessings many and most exalted. Avoid excesses of
all kinds, be temperate, take good care of the body and avoid exposures and
disease, and your children will be models of health and beauty.

21. THE RIGHT CONDITION.--The great practical inference is, that those
parents who desire intellectual and moral children, must love each other;
because, this love, besides perpetually calling forth and cultivating their
higher faculties, awakens them to the highest pitch of exalted action in
that climax, concentration, and consummation of love which propagates their
existing qualities, the mental endowment of offspring being proportionate
to the purity and intensity of parental love.

22. THE EFFECTS.--The children of affectionate parents receive existence
and constitution when love has rendered the mentality of their parents both
more elevated and more active than it is by nature, of course the children
of loving parents are both more intellectual and moral by nature than their
parents. Now, if these children and their companions also love one another,
this same law which renders the second generation better than the first,
will of course render the third still better than the second, and thus of
all succeeding generations.

23. ANIMAL IMPULSE.--You may preach and pray till doomsday--may send out
missionaries, may circulate tracts and Bibles, and multiply revivals and
all the means of grace, with little avail; because, as long as mankind go
on, as now, to propagate by animal impulse, so long must their offspring be
animal, sensual, devilish! But only induce parents cordially to love each
other, and you thereby render their children constitutionally talented and
virtuous. Oh! parents, by as much as you prefer the luxuries of concord to
the torments of discord, and children that are sweet dispositioned and
highly intellectual to those that are rough, wrathful, and depraved, be
entreated to "_love one another_."

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Too Many Children.

[Illustration: JUST HOME FROM SCHOOL.]

1. LESSENING PAUPERISM.--Many