With these, little children can have nothing to do, and institutions for their express benefit should receive the support of all.

What kind of religious doctrine and faith infants ought to be taught, I will not here determine, but leave it for consideration in a future chapter devoted more expressly to that subject.

It must be the wish of all true Christians that they should be taught the fundamental truths of the everlasting Gospel.

But it is much to be lamented that what are the fundamental truths of the gospel is so frequently a debatable point.

With such controversial topics infants have nothing to do, and to teach such matters would rather be sowing seeds for future scepticism than laying a solid basis for pure and undefiled religion.