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. Sensible objects attract and absorb our attention, while the invisible, though infinitely nobler part, is denied its just regard. A conduct certainly very preposterous. We reverse the order of things. We make that a primary which ought to be a secondary consideration, and teach our children, by our own example, to contradict that excellent rule of christianity, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness."

The evil of neglecting the reasonable demands of external nature, strikes us with peculiar force. We view it with dread, and we labour with timely care to prevent it. This is well; and this we ought to do, without leaving the other undone. Great, great, is the evil to be dreaded  our children from the neglect of their  instruction. It is an evil which be immediately observed, which spreads  through life, and which  eternal consequences.

The immediate evil resulting from a of religious instruction is observable,  only in the child's extreme ignorance  whatever is morally good, but in the  habits which he inevitably. That the human mind, as soon as begins to act, discovers a bias to evil,, I think, will not allow us to