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Could we learn the whole method adopted and successfully pursued by eminently wise and devoted Christian parents, the particulars would be exceedingly interesting and useful. But the whole cannot be learned. Even where extended biographies have been written, there is generally found very little detail, in narrating the system of domestic training and discipline adopted by the parents, when such a system, successful in its issue, unquestionably existed. In a few instances, we find something specific; in more, only the general declaration of parental fidelity. It is my design in this paper to glean out and bring together a few instances of faithfulness in the religious training of children, with some of the particulars and principles of the respective processes. Though many may have read in the original VOL. II. 33 biographies all the facts and cases I shall adduce, still it may be profitable to look at them again, detached and presented in one view. We may go back to the sacred record and the earliest time, and find in Abraham a noble example of fidelity and success, in domestic religious instruction. "For I know him," says Jehovah, "that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment." Here we have a divinely approved instance of the employment of solicitude, effort and authority in the religious training of children and dependents. The mother of Augustine presents an instructive case of perseverance in prayer for the conversion of a son. Augustine was an eminent Christian father who died at Hippo, in Africa, in A. D. 480. Until he was thirty years of age he was skeptical and immoral; yet his mother, the devoted Morrice, cherished an unshaken belief that he would become a Christian ; and this expectation gave ardor and importunity to her prayers in his behalf. "For nine years," he says, "while I was rolling in the filth of sin, often attempting to rise, and still sinking deeper, did she in vigorous hope, persist in incessant prayer. In connection with her prayers to God, she frequently and affectionately admonished him, and with weeping, entreated him to abandon his sins and devote himself to God. These tears made a deep impression on his heart. She went to a certain bishop in her agony, to get him to help her by his friendly counsels to her son. He put her off, and advised her to leave her son to his own course and the providence of God. But no she persisted in her request with floods of tears; whereupon the bishop, a little disturbed by her importunity, said, "Begone, good woman, it is not possible that the child of such tears should perish." Bishop Hall, who flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century, a man of strong intellect, and of eminent piety and usefulness, thus briefly describes the course and fidelity of his mother: "How often have I blessed the memory of those divine passages, which I have heard from her mouth! What day did she pass, without being much engaged in private devotion! Never have any lips read to me such feeling lectures • of piety." Almost every body has read some of the writings of Richard Baxter. They have doubtless been instrumental in conducting a great multitude of souls to the cross and to heaven. It was his father's faithful conversation with him respecting the life to come, in connection with his holy example in his family, and his meekness under reproach, that first awakened Baxter to serious consideration, and led him in early life to choose the service of God. The Rev. John Flavel died in 1601. His works still live, rich in thought, luminous in instruction, deep in the spirit of piety, and will long continue to live, to guide and bless the world. He says, "I bless God for a religious, tender father, who often poured out his soul to God for me; and this stock of prayers I esteem above the fairest inheritence on earth." The name of John Newton is precious to the memory of every Christian, so lovely was his character, so holy and useful his life. His pious mother devoted him, from his birth, to the ministry. He says, "She made it the chief business and pleasure of her life, to instruct me and bring me up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." In his narrative, he says again, "that his mother stored his memory with whole chapters, and smaller portions of Scripture catechisms, hymns, and poems, and often commended him with many prayers and tears to God." His mother died before he was seven years old. But these teachings, prayers and tears were not forgotten by the wicked and wayward young man; they were remembered, and at length employed by the Spirit to lead him back to God. Richard Cecil, who died in 1810, was an eminent and useful minister of the Gospel. In early life he was inclined to infidelity and profligacy. But he was the child of many tears, admonitions and prayers. He says, "I had a pious mother, who dropped things in my way. I never could rid myself of them." Again, he says, "My mother would talk to me, and weep as she talked. I flung out of the house with an oath, but wept too, when I got into the street." The teaching of her conduct confirmed the teaching of her lips, gave it authority and efficacy. He saw that his mother had something to sustain her, which he had not. "I shall never forget," he says, "standing by the bed of my sick mother. 'Are not you afraid to die?' I asked her: 'No.' 'No! Why does the uncertainty of another state give you no concern?' 'Because God has said to me,"Fear not: when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee: and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." The remembrance of this scene has often-times since drawn an ardent prayer from me, that I might die the death of the righteous." The mother conquered; her son became a Christian. |