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 be present subject by a learned and judicious author. 'Let me exhort you says he, to careful and conscientious in family government and instruction. How inexcusable those parents and masters, who suffer their children and servants to perish for lack knowledge? What unspeakable advantages do you enjoy, having all the force of cultural affection, as well as natural authority to give your instructions weight? How any have remembered, with pious gratitude through a whole life, the benefit they have received from family instruction and ample? I know I speak to many who are countable to God for this mercy; how shall you answer it then, if you do not give the me advantage to your own families? And how shall they answer to God think you, who have banished the worship of God from the families in which they found it? One would think the lifeless walls and furniture of our chambers might be awakening monitors.

'There is the greatest mutual influence between family and personal religion. Personal