Correlative Relation between Filial Obedience and Parental Authority.
Character and Extent of Filial Obedience. Neglect and Abuse of
Home-Government. Parental Indulgence and Despotism. The True Medium.
Address to Parents.


CHAPTER XIX.

HOME-DISCIPLINE.--Its Idea. Its Necessity. False Systems. Discipline from
the standpoint of Law without Love. Its Fruits. A Quaint Anecdote. The
Europeans. The Arabs. Discipline from the standpoint of Love without Law.
Examples. Eli. David. Its Fruits. True Christian Discipline. Chastisement.
A Model System. Abraham. His Children. When Discipline should be
Introduced. When it should be Administered. Importance of Parental
Co-operation. Favoritism. Relation of Command to Chastisement. The Kind of
Rein and Whip. When Corporeal Punishment should be Used. Dr. South. Dr.
Bell. Its Adaptation to the Real Wants of the Child. Fidelity to Threats
and Promises. Examination of Offenses. Never Chastise in Anger. Let your
Child know the Object of Discipline.


CHAPTER XX.

HOME-EXAMPLE.--Its Idea and Influence. The Child is the Moral Reproduction
of the Parent. Solomon. Paul. Shakspeare. Dr. Young. Its Necessity proven
from its Relation to Precept--William Jay; from its Adaptation to the
Capacity and Imitative Disposition of the Child. Duty of Parents to show a
Model Example to the Child. Archbishop Tillotson. Motives to this Duty.
Obstacles to the Efficacy of good Home-Example. Unequal Marriages. Jacob's
Marriage. Zacharias and Elizabeth.