Thus, humility by the lily, patience by the spider, affection by the dove, love to parents by the stork,--all might be rendered teachers, and in a way never to be forgotten.

And that this mode of teaching is the best, we have the example of Christ himself, who almost invariably enforced his instructions by an allusion to some created thing.

What, for instance, was so likely to teach men dependence upon God as a reference to the 'ravens and the lilies,' which without the aid of reason had their wants cared for?
And in the same way with children--what is so likely to teach them their duties, as a reference to the varied things in nature with whose uses and habits they are well acquainted?
God should be the object upon which the child's thoughts are taught to dwell--for the minds even of children turn to the beautiful, and the beautiful is the Divine.

All thoughts and actions should be raised to this standard; and the child would raise above the feelings of self-gratification and vanity, and the panting for applause, to the favor and love of God.

Thus should religion be the great and the first thing taught; and a mother should be careful that neither in her own actions, nor in the motives she holds out to her children, should there be any thing inimical or contrary to religion.
And by this course the best and happiest results may be expected to follow.