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the religious education of his is a concern of the utmost importance,  conscientious parent is disposed to. He admits the claim of the infant mind tender and careful cultivation. He himself as standing in a place of  responsibility, and to "train up his child  the way he should go," he feels it to be  imperious duty, which he cannot  without incurring a great degree of  Happy would it be for the rising, happy for parents themselves, and  the world at large, if these feelings  more generally acknowledged and  It is, however, too common to limit  provision we make for our children to  wants and conveniences of the present  Chiefly concerned about "what they  eat, or what they shall drink, and  withal they shall be clothed," we suffer  demands of the body to drown the cries  the immortal mind for its congenial