standing of how to train properly. All the moral principles sustain a
close relation to each other; thus one moral principle influences another,
therefore the violation of one principle makes it easier to violate a
second, and the child is carried on until he can do wrong without any
reproval of conscience.

Training should begin very early in the life of a child. Never allow this
intuitive knowledge or the voice of conscience to be hushed by repeated
wrong doing. The child who does wrong should be told why it is he feels a
sense of guilt--God is displeased. Show him how one evil leads to another,
and what will be the awful end. Call to his mind the differences in his
feelings arising from wrong doing and right doing. With the one God is
displeased, with the other he is pleased. The way then to be happy in life
is to always do right.

You must be indefatigable in your efforts at training. Constant daily
training is needed. As one wrong act makes it easier to do a second wrong
act, so one right act makes it easier to do a second right act. It is
comparatively easy for the child to fall into bad habits. Training,
constant daily training is needed to keep the little one from evil ways.
Lead him into right action. By repeating a right action it becomes easy to
perform it. You must never think of becoming discouraged, although it
appears so natural for your child to do wrong and so difficult to get him
to do right. You must go on training, trusting in the promise, teaching,
reproving, correcting, punishing, ever looking upward for grace and
wisdom.

Be careful of your example. It exerts a powerful influence. At one time in
his life, the writer was quick in his actions and his words. He never
received such a reproving as when one day his little boy under a
provocation acted and spoke in the exact manner and tone of his papa. It
cut to the heart.

It may seem at times that the voice of conscience is almost stifled, but
you must hope on and labor zealously as in the command: "And thou shalt
teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when them
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up." Deut. 6:7.

Many parents seeing their young child doing or saying something wrong
often think it of not much consequence, because the child is young and the
wrong is very slight. You do not know the power of habit, and how one
wrong, howsoever slight, lead