ed by the Holy Spirit to kneel at her
bedside and pray when unobserved.

Who is the reader that can not remember instances in his early life when
he felt the influence of some good spirit and had thoughts of God? Had he
in those tender childhood days been rightly instructed he could have been
led into the beautiful walks of a Christian life. We remember a child of
less than ten years of age, who, hearing his father using bad language,
fell upon his knees and clasping his arms around his father told him of
his sin and besought him to pray for forgiveness.

A lady writer in one of her excellent works ("Mothers' Counsel to Their
Sons"), records the instance of a little girl of four and a half years who
felt the guilt of sin, and by her Christian mother was led to Jesus, and
there she was blessed by him, even to the witnessing of his Spirit that
her sins were gone and she was his child. The child was at one time moved
to plead with an unsaved relative to come to Jesus. She lived triumphant
in the sweetness of redeeming grace until the age of fifteen, when her
mission on earth was ended and she went to her home in heaven. Oh, how
glorious! What if that mother, when this child came expressing her sense
of guilt, had not instructed her in the ways of salvation? In all
probability it would have resulted in a lost soul.

When our children are brought into a Christian experience the victory is
only partly won; life lies before them with its temptations. Many are the
allurements to turn those young feet into worldly paths. We have witnessed
the bright, happy conversion of many children. We have seen their
countenances beaming with the light and joy of Christian love and heard
their voices ring with spiritual praise, only to soon yield to the
influence of the world and lose that sincere devotion to God. This is not
the inevitable course, thank God, but it is the course of many. To teach
our children the fear of God and enable them to retain in their hearts a
deep reverence and devotion to him has been a subject of much prayer with
us. We find the Christian life is a warfare. There are temptations to be
resisted, there are watchings and prayings, there must be a constant
looking upward to God for his aid and direction.

One trouble with many parents has been that as soon as their children were
converted they seemed to think the battle was over and the victory was
won, when really the battle was only begun. The first thing necessar