must be Religious. Necessity of this. St. Pierre. The Mother as Teacher.
Objections Considered. Encouragement to Home-Training. Dr. Doddridge. A
Pious Minister. Dr. Dwight. Young Edwards. Polycarp. Timothy. John
Randolph. J.Q. Adams. Daniel. The Power of Home-Training in Religion.

_Section II.: The Neglect and Abuse of Home-Education._--Popular Prejudices
Exposed. Dr. Johnson. Edmund Burke. Miss Sedgwick. Everett. Robert Hall.
Fruits of a Neglected Education. Law of the Icelanders. Parents are
Responsible. Crates. Pleasure of Teaching the Young. Thompson. Abuse of it.
Fashionable Boarding-Schools. A Hopeful Young Lady. How to Ruin a Son.
Duty of Parents inferred. Books. Bartholin. Home-Training not isolated from
Church-Training. Must be Churchly.


CHAPTER XVII.

FAMILY HABITS.--Their Importance. Their Idea. Different Kinds. Their
Formation. Tobacco and Liquor. Evil and Good Habits. Family Prayer.
Omission of Duty. Their Influence. Rev. C.C. Colton. A Criminal in India.
Habit as the Interpreter of Character. Its Reproductive Power. We are
Responsible for our Habits. Christian Habits. Habit of Industry.
Rutherford. Habits of Perseverance and Contentment.


CHAPTER XVIII.

HOME-GOVERNMENT.--Home is a Little Commonwealth. Includes the Legal
Principle. Relation of Parents to Children. Principle of Home-Government.
Parental Authority Threefold. Schlegel. Old Roman Law. A Divine,
Inalienable Right. Extent of Parental Authority. False View of it.