The Training of Children in Religion (Classic Reprint)

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Sometimes when a child thus nurtured grows into youth and comes at last into his inevitable independence, and his own true will appears, his parents are much surprised. Thus and thus he did when he could not help himself, but now he is revealed. The father and mother cannot understand how their son who was such a quiet and gentle lad at home, and whose marks for conduct were so good in the private school, can be have at college as if he had a devil. They are rather inclined to lay the blame upon the devil. But the probable reason for the difference is in the fact that the boy had only a dependent goodness. The obedi ence which he showed was of their impos ing, not of his own choosing. They con trolled him, but they did not educate him. They did not bring him up so that he freely and naturally and gladly preferred the good.

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