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Training of Children; Or, How to Make the Children Into Saints and Soldiers of Jesus Christ, by the General of the Salvation Army [w. Booth].
Training of Children Or How to Make the Children Into Saints and Soldiers of Jesus Christ by the General of the Salvation Army - w. Booth Author:William Booth General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VIII. FAMILY GOVERNMENT. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. -- Joah. xxiv. 15. 1. What is a further condition of the successful training of children ? A wise and godly family government. 2. Is family government an important matter ? Yes, most important. If the good government of a nation is essential to the welfare of the people -- if their happiness physically, socially, and politically, and -- we were going to say -- religiously, to some extent, rises and falls with the character of its government (which it most certainly does), how much more intimately must every interest of children, earthly and heavenly, depend upon the good government of the home in which they live ? 3. Will you name some of the characteristics of a wise and godly family government ? (1.) Firmness is essential to a good family government. Indeed, government of any sort without it is an impossibility ; and children, as well as everybody in the home, if things are to go with any degree of smoothness, regularity, and order, must be made to feel that there is a strong directing will at the head of affairs. Children are usually full of life, vigour, and spirit, and must in their first years be made to do things, not only because they are right, or because they ought to do them, but because they MUST. Children, during the early part of their lives, are little better than mere animals ; influenced by their instincts and feelings, rather than by their reason. So to manage them easily -- indeed to manage them at all, they must thoroughly know and understand that they are " under authority." A good family gove...« less