the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto
babes. "

As surely as God speaks to your child, he will an-
swer ; that is his faith. It is pure and perfect and
simple, and identical in all essential points with the
faith of every human soul who has listened to God
alone, unbiased by the voice of man, who has dared
to be his interpreter.
The formation of our religious faith is the most
thrilling of all the important soul-changes through
which our beings pass ; but it would be well indeed
if all our opinions came to us in this unbiased way.
"What!" you say, "am I not to mold my child ac-
cording to my own ideas and preferences?" No;
certainly not. You must not expect your child to
accept your views for no better reason than because
they are yoiLrs. If he is educated properly, the time
will come when he must accept them if they stand
the test of truth ; if they do not, he never will. He
may try and cheat himself into the belief that he
does, but they will wage an eternal warfare with his
own convictions, or else float lightly upon the sur-
face of his mind, ^^'hile he never dives deep enough
to find a genuine idea of his own.
