An ille plus præstat, qui inter cives jus dicit, quam qui docet juventutem quid sit Justitia, quid pietas, quid patientia; quam pretiosum bonum sit bona Conscientia ?

Quam paucos hodie reperias qui tam sint solliciti quomodo post se rectè et honestè vivant Filii, quam curant ut amplam illis hæreditatem relinquant; quâ post obitum ipsorum splendidi et otiosi deliciantur !

Plato said, he knew not in what a man should be more careful and diligent, than to make a good son.

Officium pii Patris familias est, Liberos et familiam educare ad pietatem, docereque quomodo opera Dei recte debeant considerare.

He that will train up children for God must begin early, before sensitive objects take too deep possession of their hearts, and custom increase the depravity of their nature. No means in the world doth more effectually tend to the happiness of souls than wise and holy education. This dealeth with sin before it bath taken the deepest root, and boweth nature while it is but a twig.-Baxter.

Children have souls to save, and their reason is given them to use for their Creator's service

and their own salvation. They can never begin to learn that too soon, which their whole lives must be employed in practising. Therefore, they that would not have children begin with Divinity, would have them serve the devil and the flesh.

[This is an assertion (sufficiently earnest in manner) of a truth which would have been better stated, by using instead of " Divinity," the terms, their duty to God and man: which of course would include as much of the divine attributes and dispensations as children (I mean those of tender age) may be found capable of rightly comprehending. Otherwise, their "reason" is not used for "their Creator's service and their salvation," but rather enslaved to a form of words, in which it may dwell through life; the man fancying that he has been instructed as a man, when in fact he has been taught rather as a parrot.—Ed.]

A certain writer says, concerning manual labour, and bringing up children to some useful employment:-It preserves the young from sloth, it fills up the vacancies of life, it prevents [much] temptation. It makes them useful in society, it furnishes a resource in case of reduction and distress. It is better to pursue the meanest occupation as a day labourer, than

to live in idleness, a mere cumberer of the ground. Parents! early accustom your children to exertion and difficulties: bring them up idly and delicately, and [unless God interpose his special grace] they are ruined [alike] for this world and the world to come!

Non omnis qui parcit amicus est, nec omnis qui verberat, Inimicus: Meliora sunt vulnera amici quam fraudulenta oscula Inimici. Ne putes te tunc amare filium tuum, quando ei non das Disciplinam; aut tunc amare vicinum tuum, quando eum non corrigis. Non est iste Amor sed Languor: ferveat amor ad emendandum et corrigendum.

Friendship.

Sicut Sol preces aut blandimenta non expectat ut oriatur; sed statim fulget et ab omnibus salutatur: sic tu nec plausus expecta nec strepitus vel laudes, ut benefacias. Sed sponte benefacias, et pariter ac Sol carus eris.

Quisquis ob leves causas amicus esse desierit, is (mihi crede) nunquam ex animo fuit Amicus.

Arbitror nullas mortalium Amicitias esse tam felices, ut non incidant aliquoties Nubecula. Atqui tales offensiunculæ frequenter Amoris integratio est.

Omnium societatum nulla præstantior est, nulla firmior, quam cum viri boni, moribus similes, sunt familiaritate conjuncti.

In legendis amicis dabimus operam ut quam minime vitiis inquinatos assumamus. Serpunt enim vitia, et in proximum quemque transiliunt et contactu nocent.

Habes amicos quia Amicus ipse es: diligis et diligeris.-Pliny.

Non satis est leviter admonere peccantem amicum, urgendus est. Insistendum est, ut vel improbitate vincas, si quid erit quod ad famam illius aut salutem pertineat.

Adulantes aversare perinde atque fallentes: utrique enim, cum eis fides habetur, injuriâ afficuint eos qui sibi crediderunt.

Non ex verbis, sed ex virtutibus homo probatur.

Aliquem dilectum Amicum pro amore. Dei disce relinquere: nec graviter feras, cum ab amico derelictus fueris; sciens quoniam oportet nos omnes tandem ab invicem separari.

The more of God and Heaven is in our friendship, the more holy, safe and sweet, and durable it will prove.-Baxter.