t not engage in such things, and then he will avoid being injured.
Your kind words of sympathy will relieve the pain by their influence upon
the heart. Your cold indifferent words make deeper wounds in the heart
than were made in the flesh.

Seek God in much earnest prayer to tender your affections, to refine your
nature, to make you very sensitive to the feelings of your child, and to
help you to love the tender "olive plants" round about thy fireside. Some
day there may be a vacant chair, and there can be no sweeter joy on earth
to your sorrowing heart than to know you did what you could to make the
little one happy and train its feet for the glory world.

Kind words are flowers of beauty rare;
Keep them blooming throughout the year.

Mental Training.

The mental, moral and spiritual training of children go hand in hand. We
shall speak of them under separate chapters, but the one has a great
influence upon the other. It is true, the intellectual faculties may be
cultivated to a high degree while the moral powers are unimproved, but the
individual is out of harmony with true manhood. The spiritual and moral
being may be in a fair state of health and the mental powers very much
dwarfed, but still he is not in perfect harmony with manhood as designed
by the creative mind. Without a blending of the intellectual, moral and
spiritual forces there can be no perfect character in the fullest sense.
We do not mean by this that man must be a philosopher or a scientist to be
a moral or spiritual man; but we mean for man to be a perfect character in
every respect and to glorify God in the whole realm of his being, he must
cultivate every talent God has given him. The created mental powers must
be improved by right study. In order to know and understand God we must
have a sound mind. A sound mind is helpful to the enjoyment of grace, and
grace is helpful to the enjoyment of a sound mind; so to enjoy existence
necessitates a soundness in every part.

It is through the mental powers that we acquaint our children with God:
"Faith cometh by hearing." Parents can not be too careful about the
impressions made in the mentality of their children; it may affect their
morality and spirituality in the whole of after life. Select such books
for them as will develop the mental faculties, something that contains
food for the brain. There are certain articles of diet that do not contain
sufficient nutrition for the development