How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . its work of checking every tendency tovice. It has been observed that no fanlt is trifling ina child. We may all know by experience that no faultis trifling to a child. The first little sins which childrencommit appear to them as great in magnitude as themost outrageous crimes that disturb society; and theirfeeling of angnish in consequence of them is often farmore intense than that experienced by the most notori-ous criminals. If, then, these lit
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . its work of checking every tendency tovice. It has been observed that no fanlt is trifling ina child. We may all know by experience that no faultis trifling to a child. The first little sins which childrencommit appear to them as great in magnitude as themost outrageous crimes that disturb society; and theirfeeling of angnish in consequence of them is often farmore intense than that experienced by the most notori-ous criminals. If, then, these little sins are treated withindifference, and regarded according to the mischiefdone by them, and not according to the relation whichthey bear to the character, a blow is given to the con-science which may blunt and deaden it crimes are execrated and punished, althoughmerely resulting from the same principle, acting in thesame manner, which was unnoticed in childhood, be-cause then minute in its consequences. A childs con-science tells him that he is much more guilty when hesteals a gooseberry out of the garden against positive. Hon. SOLOMON FOOTE. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. PLATE XV Conscientiousness, 105 orders, and eats it hastily for fear of being seen, thanwhen, in the glee of his enthusiasm, he tries his newcarpenters tools upon the mahogany table in the draw-ing-room. We honor the mother who feels truly mostconcern for the first ofiense. The rebuke, appealing tothe reason only for the damage to the table, should bevery different to the sorrowing remonstrance, and per-haps punishment, for the theft. The tone of correctionshould always chime in with the voice of conscience. The moral sense is not active so early in some chil-dren as in others, and we must especially guard againstmaking matters of conscience of very trifling some parents so many things are wrong, accord-ing to the temper they are themselves in, or accordingto the caprice of the moment, an
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