that the common cause of their delinquency was
found in bad parental training, in bad companionship, and in lack of
wholesome restraint from evil associations and influences. It was this
knowledge that led to the establishing of the House of Refuge nearly
three-quarters of a century ago."

17. BAD TRAINING.--Thus it is seen from one of the best authorities in the
United States that criminals are made either by the indifference or the
neglect of parents, or both, or by too much training without proper
judgment and knowledge. Give your children a good example, and never tell a
child to do something and then become indifferent as to whether they do it
or not. A child should never be told twice to do the same thing. Teach the
child in childhood obedience and never vary from that rule. Do it kindly
but firmly.

18. IF YOUR CHILDREN DO NOT OBEY OR RESPECT YOU in their childhood and
youth, how can you expect to govern them when older and shape their
character for future usefulness and good citizenship?

19. THE FUNDAMENTAL RULE.--Never tell a child twice to do the same thing.
Command the respect of your children, and there will be no question as to
obedience.

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Chastity and Purity of Character.

1. CHASTITY is the purest and brightest jewel in human character. Dr.
Pierce in his widely known _Medical Adviser_ says: For the full and perfect
development of mankind, both mental and physical, chastity is necessary.
The health demands abstinence from unlawful intercourse. Therefore children
should be instructed to avoid all impure works of fiction, which tend to
inflame the mind and excite the passions. Only in total abstinence from
illicit pleasures is there safety, morals, and health, while integrity,
peace and happiness are the conscious rewards of virtue. Impurity travels
downward with intemperance, obscenity and corrupting diseases, to
degradation and death. A dissolute, licentious, free-and-easy life is
filled with the dregs of human suffering, iniquity and despair. The
penalties which follow a violation of the law of chastity are found to be
severe and swiftly retributive.

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2. THE UNION of the sexes in holy Matrimony is a law of nature, finding
sanction in both morals and legislation. Even some of the lower animals
unite in this union for life and instinctively observe the law of conjugal
fidelity with a consistency which might put to blush other an