will always retain these early
impressions.

6. It is not so hard if you begin early. The very flowers are object
lessons. The wonderful mystery of life is wrapped in one flower, with its
stamens, pistils and ovaries. Every child knows how an egg came in the
nest, and takes it as a matter of course; why not go one step farther with
them and teach the wonder, the beauty, the holiness that surrounds
maternity anywhere? Why, centuries ago the Romans honored, and taught their
boys to honor, the women in whose safety was bound up the future of their
existence as a nation! Why should we do less?

7. Your sons and mine, your daughters and mine, need to be wisely taught
and guarded just along these lines, if your sons and mine, your daughters
and mine, are to grow up into a pure, healthy, Christian manhood and
womanhood.

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{392} 8. [4]"How grand is the boy who has kept himself undefiled! His
complexion clear, his muscles firm, his movements vigorous, his manner
frank, his courage undaunted, his brain active, his will firm, his
self-control perfect, his body and mind unfolding day by day. His life
should be one song of praise and thanksgiving. If you want your boy to be
such a one, train him, my dear woman, _to-day_, and his _to-morrow_ will
take care of itself.

9. "Think you that good seed sown will bring forth bitter fruit? A thousand
times, No! As we sow, so shall we reap. Train your boys in morality,
temperance and virtue. Teach them to embrace good and shun evil. Teach them
the true from the false; the light from the dark. Teach them that when they
take a thing that is not their own, they commit a sin. Teach them that _sin
means disobedience of God's laws of every kind_.

10. "God made every organ of our body with the intention that it should
perform a certain work. If we wish to see, we use our eyes; if we want to
hear, our ears are called into use. In fact, nature teaches us the proper
use of _all our organs_. I say to you, mother, and oh, so earnestly: 'Go
teach your boy that which you may never be ashamed to do, about these
organs that make him _specially a boy_.'

11. "Teach him they are called _sexual organs_; that they are not impure,
but of special importance, and made by God for a definite purpose. Teach
him that there are impurities taken from the system in fluid form called
urine, and that it passes through the sexual organs, but that nature takes
care of that. Teach him that these organs