I have known a mother promise a child forgiveness if it would speak the truth, and, after having obtained confession, she has broken her engagement.

A child, once treated in this manner, will naturally be guarded against a similar deception.
I have known others who would pretend not to punish the child for confession, but for first denying it, and afterwards confessing.

I think that children should not be punished, on any account, after having been promised forgiveness, truth being of too great importance to be thus trifled with; and we cannot wonder if it is lightly esteemed by children, after the example is set by their parents.
Having had several thousand children under my care, I have had favourable opportunities of observing the bias of the infant mind, and I must say, that I have not found them so inclined to evil and falsehood as I had previously imagined.
When morality is adverted to in this volume, let it never be forgotten, that by it is meant the pure and perfect morality of the sacred Scriptures.

From this source alone the great truths and precepts can be derived, for regulating the conscience and improving the heart.

The infant system, however, would aim to steer perfectly clear of the more remote theological opinions entertained by Christians of different denominations.